Microservices Job Trends in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 63 79
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,469 1,747 2,906
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 4.42% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 4.77% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 878 2,442
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,063 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -18.37%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -14.23%

All Process & 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 60,527 36,659 77,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42,554 19,995 56,288
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,290
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in England

Microservices
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 2026. 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 -8 709 £85,000 +1.80% 163
North of England -49 330 £69,310 -4.40% 91
South East -27 204 £67,500 -3.57% 87
North West -52 177 £75,000 +3.45% 60
Yorkshire -26 84 £65,000 -11.79% 18
Midlands -73 83 £67,500 - 22
South West -85 71 £52,500 -23.39% 51
North East +9 69 £65,000 -6.50% 14
West Midlands -50 58 £78,750 +12.50% 15
East of England -26 43 £60,100 +0.17% 13
East Midlands -57 24 £65,000 +4.00% 7
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 25 (1.70%) Apache Spark
2 13 (0.88%) CMS
2 13 (0.88%) Confluence
2 13 (0.88%) IIS
3 12 (0.82%) Apache
4 10 (0.68%) JBoss
5 8 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.41%) WordPress
7 5 (0.34%) Drupal
8 4 (0.27%) Camunda
8 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Liferay
10 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 764 (52.01%) AWS
2 634 (43.16%) Azure
3 273 (18.58%) GCP
4 193 (13.14%) Serverless
5 144 (9.80%) SaaS
6 139 (9.46%) GitHub
7 121 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
9 76 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 76 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (4.70%) Amazon S3
11 65 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 51 (3.47%) GitHub Copilot
13 50 (3.40%) Azure AKS
14 41 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (2.72%) Datadog
16 38 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 38 (2.59%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.88%) Broadband
2 23 (1.57%) Network Security
3 11 (0.75%) DNS
3 11 (0.75%) MQTT
4 10 (0.68%) DMARC
5 9 (0.61%) Internet
6 8 (0.54%) VPN
7 7 (0.48%) DHCP
8 6 (0.41%) AMQP
8 6 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.41%) Firewall
8 6 (0.41%) Hyperconnected
9 5 (0.34%) HTTP
9 5 (0.34%) LTE
9 5 (0.34%) RFID
10 4 (0.27%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.068%) Modbus
11 1 (0.068%) PSTN
11 1 (0.068%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (13.07%) MongoDB
2 183 (12.46%) NoSQL
3 143 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
5 87 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 86 (5.85%) MySQL
7 77 (5.24%) Relational Database
8 63 (4.29%) SQL Server
9 44 (3.00%) DynamoDB
10 42 (2.86%) Redis
11 36 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.91%) Big Data
13 24 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.63%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.82%) Pinecone
15 7 (0.48%) Db2
16 6 (0.41%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
17 5 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
17 5 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 170 (11.57%) Git
2 148 (10.07%) GitLab
3 114 (7.76%) Jenkins
4 48 (3.27%) TeamCity
5 42 (2.86%) JUnit
6 37 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 33 (2.25%) JIRA
8 29 (1.97%) Claude Code
8 29 (1.97%) Mockito
9 27 (1.84%) Maven
10 26 (1.77%) CircleCI
11 17 (1.16%) Vite
12 15 (1.02%) JMeter
12 15 (1.02%) Selenium
13 14 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.75%) Postman
15 9 (0.61%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.61%) Spock
16 8 (0.54%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 403 (27.43%) Finance
2 278 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 140 (9.53%) Banking
4 123 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.65%) Retail
6 81 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
7 75 (5.11%) Law
8 68 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 46 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 38 (2.59%) Back Office
11 26 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (1.63%) Marketing
12 24 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 17 (1.16%) Advertising
13 17 (1.16%) Billing
14 14 (0.95%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.75%) Games
16 10 (0.68%) Front Office
16 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 488 (33.22%) Developer
2 366 (24.91%) Senior
3 311 (21.17%) Software Engineer
4 209 (14.23%) Architect
5 202 (13.75%) Lead
6 125 (8.51%) .NET Developer
7 124 (8.44%) Java Developer
8 118 (8.03%) Java Engineer
9 109 (7.42%) Full-Stack Developer
10 108 (7.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 104 (7.08%) Senior Developer
12 78 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
13 76 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 69 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
15 55 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 54 (3.68%) Lead Developer
17 51 (3.47%) Senior Java Engineer
18 50 (3.40%) Software Developer
19 47 (3.20%) Java Software Engineer
20 41 (2.79%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (24.17%) .NET
2 301 (20.49%) React
3 264 (17.97%) Node.js
4 258 (17.56%) Spring
5 231 (15.72%) Spring Boot
6 230 (15.66%) RESTful
7 200 (13.61%) REST
8 186 (12.66%) Kafka
9 146 (9.94%) AngularJS
10 136 (9.26%) ASP.NET
11 132 (8.99%) Vue
12 131 (8.92%) .NET Core
13 110 (7.49%) ASP.NET Core
14 78 (5.31%) gRPC
15 76 (5.17%) HTML
16 69 (4.70%) CSS
17 66 (4.49%) .NET Framework
18 61 (4.15%) ASP.NET Web API
18 61 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
19 58 (3.95%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 417 (28.39%) Cloud Native
2 264 (17.97%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 67 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.06%) Over-the-Top Content
9 33 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.11%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.04%) Public Cloud
12 27 (1.84%) Onboarding
13 23 (1.57%) AI Agents
13 23 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.50%) PKI
15 21 (1.43%) e-Learning
15 21 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
16 19 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
17 18 (1.23%) Blockchain
17 18 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.06%) Linux
2 39 (2.65%) Windows
3 20 (1.36%) Unix
4 7 (0.48%) CentOS
4 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.34%) Debian
5 5 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.068%) Android
7 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.068%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 737 (50.17%) CI/CD
2 604 (41.12%) Agile
3 534 (36.35%) Software Engineering
4 528 (35.94%) DevOps
5 373 (25.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 365 (24.85%) Containerisation
7 334 (22.74%) Mentoring
8 308 (20.97%) Test Automation
9 283 (19.26%) Event-Driven
10 280 (19.06%) AI
11 275 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 272 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 246 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
14 187 (12.73%) Scrum
15 183 (12.46%) TDD
16 176 (11.98%) Coaching
17 171 (11.64%) Clean Code
17 171 (11.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 170 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
19 153 (10.42%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 492 (33.49%) Java
2 379 (25.80%) Python
3 357 (24.30%) SQL
4 342 (23.28%) C#
5 295 (20.08%) JavaScript
6 252 (17.15%) TypeScript
7 113 (7.69%) Go
8 49 (3.34%) Scala
9 44 (3.00%) PHP
10 41 (2.79%) Bash
11 39 (2.65%) C++
12 27 (1.84%) C
13 23 (1.57%) Rust
14 22 (1.50%) PowerShell
15 19 (1.29%) PL/SQL
16 17 (1.16%) Bicep
17 15 (1.02%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.82%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.75%) Groovy
20 5 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 172 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 152 (10.35%) Degree
3 120 (8.17%) SC Cleared
4 82 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.88%) AWS Certification
6 30 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (1.84%) CISSP
9 25 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 16 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.95%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.82%) CISM
14 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.54%) PhD
16 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.34%) GIAC
16 5 (0.34%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.74%) QA
2 47 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.52%) GDPR
4 32 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.70%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.63%) NIST
7 22 (1.50%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.88%) GRC
9 12 (0.82%) NCSC
10 11 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.75%) WCAG
11 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.068%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.068%) SEPA
System Software
1 422 (28.73%) Docker
2 15 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) Firmware
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 454 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 282 (19.20%) Terraform
3 85 (5.79%) Ansible
4 73 (4.97%) Grafana
5 46 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.57%) Kibana
7 20 (1.36%) Argo
8 13 (0.88%) Cilium
8 13 (0.88%) Puppet
9 12 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.27%) Packer
11 4 (0.27%) Podman
12 2 (0.14%) Istio
12 2 (0.14%) MIIS
12 2 (0.14%) Nagios
12 2 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 190 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 61 (4.15%) Google
3 46 (3.13%) Oracle
4 45 (3.06%) Typelevel
5 26 (1.77%) OpenAI
6 23 (1.57%) Splunk
7 19 (1.29%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.23%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.88%) IBM
9 13 (0.88%) Red Hat
10 11 (0.75%) SendGrid
11 10 (0.68%) Adobe
12 9 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
12 9 (0.61%) Guidewire
12 9 (0.61%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.61%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.54%) Databricks
14 7 (0.48%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.41%) F5
15 6 (0.41%) Okta