Microservices Jobs in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -2 -23 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,700 2,912 4,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.50% 3.28% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.89% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 903 2,459 2,976
10th Percentile £50,250 £43,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,650 74,784 82,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.04% 84.16% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,641 54,521 49,313
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,334
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in England.

Salary trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
London -3 589 £85,000 +3.03% 1,005
North of England +7 543 £71,991 +17.62% 1,326
North West +32 453 £67,037 +3.13% 646
South East -29 264 £68,750 +14.58% 1,667
Midlands -21 153 £67,500 +12.50% 1,073
South West +9 110 £68,525 +14.21% 667
West Midlands -16 87 £70,000 +7.69% 571
Yorkshire -35 81 £73,685 +20.39% 530
East Midlands +2 66 £65,000 +18.18% 432
East of England -37 50 £62,500 -3.85% 811
North East -17 9 £72,000 +17.64% 151
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 161 (9.47%) Confluence
2 23 (1.35%) Jupyter
3 22 (1.29%) Apache
3 22 (1.29%) CMS
4 18 (1.06%) JBoss
5 13 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
6 11 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.53%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.29%) Appian
10 5 (0.29%) SAS
11 4 (0.24%) GemFire
12 3 (0.18%) Drupal
12 3 (0.18%) Mule
12 3 (0.18%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.65%) Maya
2 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.059%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.059%) Moqups
5 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (0.12%) Eikon
2 2 (0.12%) Endur
2 2 (0.12%) RMDS
2 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.059%) Shopify
3 1 (0.059%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 999 (58.76%) AWS
2 882 (51.88%) Azure
3 495 (29.12%) GCP
4 201 (11.82%) Serverless
5 105 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (5.47%) SaaS
7 88 (5.18%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (4.35%) GitHub
9 66 (3.88%) Amazon S3
10 61 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (2.59%) Azure Service Bus
16 39 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (2.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
18 30 (1.76%) SonarCloud
19 27 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.24%) HTTP
2 18 (1.06%) Network Security
3 14 (0.82%) Firewall
4 8 (0.47%) Internet
5 7 (0.41%) DNS
6 5 (0.29%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.18%) DAB
9 2 (0.12%) Broadband
9 2 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.12%) SSH
9 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.059%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.059%) 5G
10 1 (0.059%) AMQP
10 1 (0.059%) MQTT
10 1 (0.059%) NAS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.059%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 189 (11.12%) NoSQL
3 159 (9.35%) MongoDB
4 158 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 78 (4.59%) MySQL
7 66 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 60 (3.53%) Elasticsearch
9 56 (3.29%) Big Data
10 38 (2.24%) Redis
11 35 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 22 (1.29%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
17 8 (0.47%) Tableau
18 7 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
18 7 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 278 (16.35%) JIRA
2 271 (15.94%) GitLab
3 236 (13.88%) SonarQube
4 235 (13.82%) Maven
5 224 (13.18%) Selenium
6 222 (13.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 221 (13.00%) Cucumber
8 219 (12.88%) Git
9 208 (12.24%) Bitbucket
10 152 (8.94%) Jenkins
11 85 (5.00%) JUnit
12 49 (2.88%) Mockito
13 42 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
14 38 (2.24%) Visual Studio
15 31 (1.82%) MSBuild
16 30 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
17 27 (1.59%) Cypress.io
18 25 (1.47%) JMeter
19 21 (1.24%) Jasmine
19 21 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 579 (34.06%) Finance
2 472 (27.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 410 (24.12%) Banking
4 380 (22.35%) Social Skills
5 158 (9.29%) Retail
6 131 (7.71%) Law
7 109 (6.41%) Investment Banking
8 94 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (5.29%) Corporate Banking
10 75 (4.41%) Public Sector
11 41 (2.41%) Marketing
12 38 (2.24%) Games
13 36 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 21 (1.24%) Front Office
15 18 (1.06%) Back Office
16 15 (0.88%) Advertising
17 13 (0.76%) Dutch Language
17 13 (0.76%) French Language
18 12 (0.71%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 628 (36.94%) Software Engineer
2 471 (27.71%) Senior
3 421 (24.76%) Developer
4 256 (15.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 247 (14.53%) Lead
6 230 (13.53%) Architect
7 121 (7.12%) Java Developer
8 115 (6.76%) Senior Developer
9 114 (6.71%) Java Engineer
10 109 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (5.82%) .NET Developer
12 80 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
13 65 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 57 (3.35%) C# Developer
15 50 (2.94%) Lead Developer
16 41 (2.41%) Senior Architect
16 41 (2.41%) Technical Architect
17 32 (1.88%) C# .NET Developer
18 30 (1.76%) Technical Leader
19 28 (1.65%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 488 (28.71%) React
2 456 (26.82%) .NET
3 432 (25.41%) Spring
4 422 (24.82%) Kafka
5 417 (24.53%) Spring Boot
6 359 (21.12%) REST
7 330 (19.41%) RESTful
8 329 (19.35%) Node.js
9 325 (19.12%) HTML
10 301 (17.71%) CSS
11 235 (13.82%) JPA
12 205 (12.06%) Redux
13 196 (11.53%) AngularJS
14 189 (11.12%) Hibernate
15 129 (7.59%) HTML5
16 116 (6.82%) Jest
17 111 (6.53%) CSS3
18 110 (6.47%) .NET Core
19 108 (6.35%) Web Services
20 98 (5.76%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 314 (18.47%) Product Ownership
2 276 (16.24%) Enterprise Software
3 203 (11.94%) Cyberattack
4 192 (11.29%) Cloud Native
5 187 (11.00%) Self-Motivation
6 182 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
7 124 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
8 61 (3.59%) Management Information System
9 57 (3.35%) Algorithms
10 50 (2.94%) Public Cloud
11 37 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.88%) Mobile App
13 28 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.41%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.24%) IoT
16 19 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
17 17 (1.00%) Blockchain
17 17 (1.00%) Reinsurance
18 16 (0.94%) Private Cloud
19 13 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 255 (15.00%) Linux
2 24 (1.41%) Windows
3 22 (1.29%) Unix
4 9 (0.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (0.47%) Android
6 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.12%) zOS
9 1 (0.059%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,057 (62.18%) Agile
2 852 (50.12%) Software Engineering
3 747 (43.94%) DevOps
4 715 (42.06%) CI/CD
5 539 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 505 (29.71%) Mentoring
7 407 (23.94%) Full-Stack Development
8 390 (22.94%) Test Automation
9 368 (21.65%) TDD
10 341 (20.06%) Scrum
11 333 (19.59%) User Experience
12 326 (19.18%) SDLC
13 266 (15.65%) Performance Optimisation
14 262 (15.41%) Front End Development
15 242 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
16 240 (14.12%) Machine Learning
17 236 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
18 225 (13.24%) Event-Driven
19 220 (12.94%) Cloud Security
20 209 (12.29%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 912 (53.65%) Java
2 695 (40.88%) JavaScript
3 523 (30.76%) SQL
4 456 (26.82%) Python
5 301 (17.71%) C#
6 270 (15.88%) TypeScript
7 260 (15.29%) Go
8 190 (11.18%) C++
9 188 (11.06%) Rust
10 43 (2.53%) PHP
11 31 (1.82%) PowerShell
12 22 (1.29%) Apex Code
12 22 (1.29%) C
13 21 (1.24%) Bash
14 19 (1.12%) Shell Script
15 17 (1.00%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.71%) Ruby
17 9 (0.53%) Scala
18 8 (0.47%) Groovy
18 8 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 301 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 244 (14.35%) Degree
3 230 (13.53%) AWS Certification
4 221 (13.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 210 (12.35%) DV Cleared
6 180 (10.59%) AWS Certified Developer
7 121 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (4.65%) SC Cleared
9 50 (2.94%) Master's Degree
10 38 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.88%) HND
13 10 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.47%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) PhD
17 3 (0.18%) OCP
17 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (15.53%) QA
2 110 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 82 (4.82%) GDPR
4 38 (2.24%) HIPAA
5 25 (1.47%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 17 (1.00%) SLA
8 11 (0.65%) NIST
9 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.35%) CDISC
11 4 (0.24%) Basel II
11 4 (0.24%) Basel III
11 4 (0.24%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.24%) IFRS
11 4 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.24%) WCAG
12 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.059%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.059%) NCSC
System Software
1 703 (41.35%) Docker
2 31 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.24%) Postfix
6 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.18%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) KVM
7 2 (0.12%) Xen
8 1 (0.059%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.059%) Firmware
8 1 (0.059%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 680 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 161 (9.47%) Terraform
3 70 (4.12%) Prometheus
4 67 (3.94%) Grafana
5 49 (2.88%) Ansible
6 19 (1.12%) Kibana
7 17 (1.00%) Istio
8 16 (0.94%) Argo
9 13 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.41%) Puppet
11 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.24%) Mesos
13 3 (0.18%) Consul
14 2 (0.12%) CA Endevor
14 2 (0.12%) CFEngine
14 2 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.12%) Packer
15 1 (0.059%) Check_MK
15 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 205 (12.06%) Solace
2 142 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 75 (4.41%) Google
4 41 (2.41%) Oracle
5 32 (1.88%) IBM
6 26 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.35%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.35%) Splunk
8 21 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 20 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.76%) Databricks
11 11 (0.65%) New Relic
11 11 (0.65%) Ping Identity
11 11 (0.65%) YouTube
12 9 (0.53%) Cisco
12 9 (0.53%) SAP
13 8 (0.47%) Bloomberg
13 8 (0.47%) Facebook
13 8 (0.47%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.41%) Guidewire