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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 67 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 8 32 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.66% 3.29% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 3.56% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 13
10th Percentile £56,700 £57,125 £50,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,900 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.59% +32.64% -16.67%
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,800 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,250 - £75,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -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 1,015 900 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 83.61% 92.50% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 593 431 515
10th Percentile £30,050 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £81,700
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -11 7 £65,000 -24.24% 11
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering Director
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (37.50%) React
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
5 1 (12.50%) JWT
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (37.50%) N-Tier
4 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) MVC
3 4 (50.00%) OO
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven
4 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) OOP
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) API Development
5 2 (25.00%) Community of Practice
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle