Microservices Job Trends in Birmingham

Microservices
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 68 97
Rank change year-on-year -10 +29 -42
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 40 32 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.22% 2.57% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.81% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 29 35
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £54,250
25th Percentile £70,567 £61,250 £56,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +10.75% +9.11%
75th Percentile £93,634 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £145,000 £105,000 £182,500
West Midlands median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +7.69% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,427 1,137 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 74.06% 91.25% 75.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,907 776 1,440
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,147
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -0.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Microservices
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) AWS
2 23 (57.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) SaaS
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Google Ads
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Advertising
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (7.50%) iPaaS
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) JUnit
1 12 (30.00%) Maven
1 12 (30.00%) Mockito
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Advertising
5 4 (10.00%) Games
5 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (10.00%) Marketing
6 3 (7.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (50.00%) Lead
2 13 (32.50%) Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Architect
4 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Senior
5 5 (12.50%) Lead Architect
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (10.00%) Team Leader
7 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) PHP Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) React
1 13 (32.50%) Spring
2 9 (22.50%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) RESTful
4 5 (12.50%) .NET
5 4 (10.00%) Node.js
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (5.00%) Blazor
7 2 (5.00%) Middleware
7 2 (5.00%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.50%) HTML
8 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (5.00%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 25 (62.50%) Agile
3 21 (52.50%) Mentoring
4 17 (42.50%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (40.00%) Event-Driven
6 15 (37.50%) TDD
7 14 (35.00%) AI
8 13 (32.50%) Scrum
9 10 (25.00%) LLM
9 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
10 9 (22.50%) Coaching
10 9 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 9 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (22.50%) Technical Architecture
11 8 (20.00%) Analytics
11 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 8 (20.00%) Presales
11 8 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (45.00%) Java
3 17 (42.50%) JavaScript
4 12 (30.00%) PL/SQL
5 9 (22.50%) Bash
6 4 (10.00%) Go
7 3 (7.50%) PHP
7 3 (7.50%) Python
7 3 (7.50%) Rust
8 2 (5.00%) C#
8 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) GxP
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Facebook
2 4 (10.00%) Google
2 4 (10.00%) Instagram
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) TikTok
3 2 (5.00%) OpenAI