Microservices Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 71 60
Rank change year-on-year -14 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 9 23 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.72% 2.12% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 2.41% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 21
10th Percentile £53,800 £56,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £132,500 £78,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £143,000 £85,800 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,143 955 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 91.59% 87.86% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 468 385 542
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -3.63%
75th Percentile £63,188 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,650 £85,480 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +2 5 £70,000 - 3
Bletchley +4 1 - - 1
Buckingham - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - - 1
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (55.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
2 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
2 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 4 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) MSBuild
General
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering Director
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Kafka
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
2 4 (44.44%) JPA
2 4 (44.44%) React
2 4 (44.44%) Redux
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (11.11%) GraalVM
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) Quarkus
3 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 4 (44.44%) Clean Code
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Front End Development
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (44.44%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
5 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Solace
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle