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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 -26 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,779 2,943 4,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.59% 3.02% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.69% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 903 2,462 2,793
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £58,500 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -18.24% +6.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,759 £97,290
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.97% +0.74%

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 45,951 79,833 77,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 92.63% 82.02% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 23,393 56,879 47,624
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £34,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +7 680 £82,500 - 2,285
North of England +6 541 £71,991 +17.62% 732
North West +40 454 £67,037 +6.41% 442
South East -38 248 £70,000 +16.67% 760
Midlands +14 161 £67,500 +12.50% 360
South West +11 111 £70,258 +17.10% 286
West Midlands -4 93 £70,000 +7.69% 217
Yorkshire -45 79 £73,685 +20.39% 239
East Midlands +24 68 £65,000 +18.18% 141
East of England -29 49 £61,250 -5.77% 248
North East -17 8 £63,500 +3.75% 52
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
1 159 (8.94%) Confluence
2 23 (1.29%) Apache
2 23 (1.29%) CMS
2 23 (1.29%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.01%) JBoss
4 14 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
6 12 (0.67%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.39%) Headless CMS
7 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.28%) Appian
8 5 (0.28%) IIS
9 4 (0.22%) GemFire
9 4 (0.22%) SAS
10 3 (0.17%) Drupal
10 3 (0.17%) Mule
10 3 (0.17%) nginx
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
10 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (0.56%) Maya
2 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.056%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.056%) Moqups
5 1 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Eikon
3 2 (0.11%) Endur
3 2 (0.11%) RMDS
3 2 (0.11%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.056%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,032 (58.01%) AWS
2 918 (51.60%) Azure
3 514 (28.89%) GCP
4 188 (10.57%) Serverless
5 102 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
6 92 (5.17%) SaaS
7 80 (4.50%) GitHub
8 77 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
9 71 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
10 67 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 65 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
13 49 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 39 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
18 28 (1.57%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.07%) Network Security
2 18 (1.01%) Firewall
3 17 (0.96%) HTTP
4 8 (0.45%) DNS
4 8 (0.45%) Internet
5 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.28%) WAN
7 2 (0.11%) Broadband
7 2 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.11%) SSH
7 2 (0.11%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.056%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.056%) AMQP
8 1 (0.056%) BGP
8 1 (0.056%) DAB
8 1 (0.056%) NAS
8 1 (0.056%) SAN
8 1 (0.056%) SSL
8 1 (0.056%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 308 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 205 (11.52%) NoSQL
3 169 (9.50%) MongoDB
4 164 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
5 110 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 78 (4.38%) MySQL
7 67 (3.77%) Big Data
8 63 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
9 62 (3.49%) DynamoDB
10 44 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 44 (2.47%) Redis
11 39 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (1.97%) RDBMS
13 27 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (1.35%) Data Lake
15 18 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.62%) Oracle Database
17 9 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
18 8 (0.45%) Tableau
19 7 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 277 (15.57%) GitLab
1 277 (15.57%) JIRA
2 240 (13.49%) Maven
2 240 (13.49%) SonarQube
3 230 (12.93%) Git
4 224 (12.59%) Cucumber
5 223 (12.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 222 (12.48%) Selenium
7 209 (11.75%) Bitbucket
8 149 (8.38%) Jenkins
9 85 (4.78%) JUnit
10 50 (2.81%) Mockito
11 41 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
12 37 (2.08%) Visual Studio
13 30 (1.69%) MSBuild
14 29 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
15 26 (1.46%) JMeter
16 24 (1.35%) Cypress.io
17 21 (1.18%) CircleCI
18 17 (0.96%) Postman
General
1 658 (36.99%) Finance
2 541 (30.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 460 (25.86%) Banking
4 397 (22.32%) Social Skills
5 192 (10.79%) Law
6 156 (8.77%) Retail
7 115 (6.46%) Investment Banking
8 90 (5.06%) Corporate Banking
9 89 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
10 80 (4.50%) Public Sector
11 65 (3.65%) Marketing
12 41 (2.30%) Financial Institution
13 34 (1.91%) Games
14 31 (1.74%) Front Office
15 19 (1.07%) Back Office
16 17 (0.96%) Advertising
17 14 (0.79%) Legal
18 13 (0.73%) Dutch Language
18 13 (0.73%) French Language
19 12 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 689 (38.73%) Software Engineer
2 486 (27.32%) Senior
3 448 (25.18%) Developer
4 272 (15.29%) Lead
5 267 (15.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 221 (12.42%) Architect
7 135 (7.59%) Java Engineer
8 127 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 112 (6.30%) .NET Developer
10 110 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
11 104 (5.85%) Senior Developer
12 102 (5.73%) Java Software Engineer
13 68 (3.82%) C# Developer
14 64 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
15 55 (3.09%) Lead Developer
16 52 (2.92%) Lead Software Engineer
17 46 (2.59%) Senior Architect
18 39 (2.19%) C# .NET Developer
18 39 (2.19%) Technical Architect
19 34 (1.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 482 (27.09%) .NET
2 472 (26.53%) Spring
3 464 (26.08%) React
4 448 (25.18%) Kafka
5 446 (25.07%) Spring Boot
6 371 (20.85%) REST
7 370 (20.80%) RESTful
8 338 (19.00%) HTML
9 322 (18.10%) Node.js
10 306 (17.20%) CSS
11 237 (13.32%) JPA
12 206 (11.58%) Redux
13 197 (11.07%) Hibernate
14 192 (10.79%) AngularJS
15 135 (7.59%) HTML5
16 127 (7.14%) .NET Core
17 117 (6.58%) Web Services
18 115 (6.46%) Jest
19 113 (6.35%) CSS3
20 100 (5.62%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 320 (17.99%) Product Ownership
2 276 (15.51%) Enterprise Software
3 253 (14.22%) Cloud Native
4 203 (11.41%) Cyberattack
5 192 (10.79%) Self-Motivation
6 182 (10.23%) Linux Command Line
7 153 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
8 69 (3.88%) Management Information System
9 65 (3.65%) Algorithms
10 59 (3.32%) Public Cloud
11 45 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
12 38 (2.14%) Mobile App
13 30 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
15 21 (1.18%) Derivative
15 21 (1.18%) IoT
15 21 (1.18%) Onboarding
15 21 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.07%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 255 (14.33%) Linux
2 32 (1.80%) Windows
3 23 (1.29%) Unix
4 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.39%) Android
6 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.11%) zOS
9 1 (0.056%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (61.21%) Agile
2 908 (51.04%) Software Engineering
3 772 (43.40%) CI/CD
4 750 (42.16%) DevOps
5 543 (30.52%) Containerisation
6 502 (28.22%) Mentoring
7 404 (22.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 400 (22.48%) Test Automation
9 381 (21.42%) TDD
10 359 (20.18%) SDLC
11 337 (18.94%) Scrum
12 335 (18.83%) User Experience
13 269 (15.12%) Performance Optimisation
14 264 (14.84%) Front End Development
15 263 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
16 260 (14.61%) Machine Learning
17 245 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 226 (12.70%) Event-Driven
19 218 (12.25%) Cloud Security
20 210 (11.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 974 (54.75%) Java
2 704 (39.57%) JavaScript
3 535 (30.07%) SQL
4 466 (26.19%) Python
5 333 (18.72%) C#
6 271 (15.23%) Go
7 261 (14.67%) TypeScript
8 192 (10.79%) Rust
9 189 (10.62%) C++
10 46 (2.59%) PHP
11 44 (2.47%) Kotlin
12 34 (1.91%) PowerShell
13 27 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 22 (1.24%) Apex Code
15 21 (1.18%) Bash
16 20 (1.12%) Scala
17 17 (0.96%) C
18 12 (0.67%) Groovy
19 10 (0.56%) Ruby
20 9 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 309 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 236 (13.27%) AWS Certification
3 231 (12.98%) Degree
4 222 (12.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 209 (11.75%) DV Cleared
6 179 (10.06%) AWS Certified Developer
7 110 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 86 (4.83%) SC Cleared
9 53 (2.98%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.30%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.84%) HND
11 15 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 8 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.22%) CISM
15 4 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (15.23%) QA
2 112 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 78 (4.38%) GDPR
4 38 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.35%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.96%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.73%) NIST
7 13 (0.73%) SLA
8 9 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.34%) CDISC
10 4 (0.22%) Basel II
10 4 (0.22%) Basel III
10 4 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.22%) IFRS
10 4 (0.22%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.22%) WCAG
11 3 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.056%) NCSC
System Software
1 723 (40.64%) Docker
2 32 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Postfix
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.17%) vSphere
7 2 (0.11%) HDFS
7 2 (0.11%) KVM
7 2 (0.11%) Xen
8 1 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.056%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 733 (41.20%) Kubernetes
2 163 (9.16%) Terraform
3 76 (4.27%) Prometheus
4 71 (3.99%) Grafana
5 50 (2.81%) Ansible
6 22 (1.24%) Kibana
7 20 (1.12%) Argo
8 16 (0.90%) Istio
9 12 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.45%) Mesos
12 6 (0.34%) Puppet
13 2 (0.11%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.11%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.11%) Consul
13 2 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.11%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.11%) Packer
14 1 (0.056%) Check_MK
14 1 (0.056%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 205 (11.52%) Solace
2 152 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 75 (4.22%) Google
4 47 (2.64%) Oracle
5 29 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 28 (1.57%) Splunk
7 26 (1.46%) IBM
8 21 (1.18%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 18 (1.01%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.73%) Guidewire
11 12 (0.67%) YouTube
12 11 (0.62%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.51%) Bloomberg
13 9 (0.51%) Cisco
13 9 (0.51%) Databricks
13 9 (0.51%) Facebook
13 9 (0.51%) New Relic
13 9 (0.51%) SAP
14 8 (0.45%) Trayport