Microservices Job Trends in Cambridge

Microservices
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 7 23 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 1.39% 4.93% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 5.69% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile £55,375 £45,155 -
25th Percentile £55,750 £60,338 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,050 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -3.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £79,375 £82,188
90th Percentile £84,375 £81,000 £85,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £77,500 £65,675 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.01% -2.70% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 404 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.32% 86.51% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 276 196 287
10th Percentile £29,500 £38,750 £28,551
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,313 £78,750 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Microservices
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Cambridge over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Cambridge

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Publishing
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Development Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Development Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Development Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Software Development Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Software Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Jest
3 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 1 (14.29%) Micronaut
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (28.57%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (57.14%) Event-Driven
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Istio
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform