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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 74 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,689 2,893 4,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.49% 3.27% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.88% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 896 2,454 3,009
10th Percentile £50,625 £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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
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 £98,695 £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 28 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 28 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 -4 584 £85,000 +3.03% 1,120
North of England +8 542 £71,991 +17.62% 1,362
North West +35 451 £67,037 +3.13% 657
South East -32 263 £67,500 +12.50% 1,677
Midlands -26 153 £67,500 +12.50% 1,082
South West +12 109 £68,525 +13.73% 671
West Midlands -10 87 £70,000 +7.69% 570
Yorkshire -33 82 £73,685 +20.39% 547
East Midlands +8 66 £65,000 +18.18% 442
East of England -34 49 £62,500 -3.85% 820
North East -14 9 £72,000 +17.64% 160
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 (9.53%) Confluence
2 23 (1.36%) Jupyter
3 22 (1.30%) CMS
4 21 (1.24%) Apache
5 18 (1.07%) JBoss
6 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
7 10 (0.59%) 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 (0.30%) Appian
10 5 (0.30%) 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%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 992 (58.73%) AWS
2 874 (51.75%) Azure
3 488 (28.89%) GCP
4 199 (11.78%) Serverless
5 103 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
6 94 (5.57%) SaaS
7 89 (5.27%) AWS Lambda
8 73 (4.32%) GitHub
9 66 (3.91%) Amazon S3
10 61 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 57 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
14 48 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 43 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
16 38 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 37 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 29 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
18 29 (1.72%) SonarCloud
19 26 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.24%) HTTP
2 18 (1.07%) Network Security
3 14 (0.83%) Firewall
4 8 (0.47%) Internet
5 7 (0.41%) DNS
6 4 (0.24%) SD-WAN
6 4 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.24%) WAN
7 3 (0.18%) DAB
8 2 (0.12%) Broadband
8 2 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.12%) SSH
8 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.059%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.059%) 5G
9 1 (0.059%) AMQP
9 1 (0.059%) MQTT
9 1 (0.059%) NAS
9 1 (0.059%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.059%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (17.29%) SQL Server
2 186 (11.01%) NoSQL
3 159 (9.41%) MongoDB
4 157 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
5 96 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 76 (4.50%) MySQL
7 66 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 58 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 56 (3.32%) Big Data
10 37 (2.19%) Redis
11 35 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 34 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
13 29 (1.72%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 22 (1.30%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (0.47%) Tableau
17 7 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
17 7 (0.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 277 (16.40%) JIRA
2 271 (16.04%) GitLab
3 236 (13.97%) SonarQube
4 235 (13.91%) Maven
5 224 (13.26%) Selenium
6 222 (13.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 221 (13.08%) Cucumber
8 214 (12.67%) Git
9 208 (12.31%) Bitbucket
10 152 (9.00%) Jenkins
11 85 (5.03%) JUnit
12 48 (2.84%) Mockito
13 41 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
14 37 (2.19%) Visual Studio
15 30 (1.78%) MSBuild
16 29 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
17 27 (1.60%) Cypress.io
18 25 (1.48%) JMeter
19 21 (1.24%) Jasmine
19 21 (1.24%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 572 (33.87%) Finance
2 470 (27.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 404 (23.92%) Banking
4 381 (22.56%) Social Skills
5 157 (9.30%) Retail
6 127 (7.52%) Law
7 109 (6.45%) Investment Banking
8 93 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
9 90 (5.33%) Corporate Banking
10 75 (4.44%) Public Sector
11 43 (2.55%) Marketing
12 38 (2.25%) Games
13 36 (2.13%) Financial Institution
14 20 (1.18%) Front Office
15 18 (1.07%) Back Office
16 15 (0.89%) Advertising
17 13 (0.77%) Dutch Language
17 13 (0.77%) French Language
18 12 (0.71%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 626 (37.06%) Software Engineer
2 468 (27.71%) Senior
3 416 (24.63%) Developer
4 256 (15.16%) Senior Software Engineer
5 246 (14.56%) Lead
6 228 (13.50%) Architect
7 119 (7.05%) Java Developer
8 114 (6.75%) Java Engineer
9 112 (6.63%) Senior Developer
10 108 (6.39%) Solutions Architect
11 99 (5.86%) .NET Developer
12 79 (4.68%) Java Software Engineer
13 65 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
14 55 (3.26%) C# Developer
15 50 (2.96%) Lead Developer
16 40 (2.37%) Senior Architect
16 40 (2.37%) Technical Architect
17 32 (1.89%) C# .NET Developer
18 30 (1.78%) Technical Leader
19 28 (1.66%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (29.13%) React
2 452 (26.76%) .NET
3 430 (25.46%) Spring
4 414 (24.51%) Kafka
5 412 (24.39%) Spring Boot
6 352 (20.84%) REST
7 330 (19.54%) Node.js
8 325 (19.24%) RESTful
9 320 (18.95%) HTML
10 296 (17.53%) CSS
11 234 (13.85%) JPA
12 205 (12.14%) Redux
13 200 (11.84%) AngularJS
14 188 (11.13%) Hibernate
15 128 (7.58%) HTML5
16 116 (6.87%) Jest
17 110 (6.51%) CSS3
18 107 (6.34%) .NET Core
18 107 (6.34%) Web Services
19 98 (5.80%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 314 (18.59%) Product Ownership
2 276 (16.34%) Enterprise Software
3 203 (12.02%) Cyberattack
4 187 (11.07%) Self-Motivation
5 186 (11.01%) Cloud Native
6 182 (10.78%) Linux Command Line
7 121 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (3.55%) Management Information System
9 58 (3.43%) Algorithms
10 49 (2.90%) Public Cloud
11 36 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (1.66%) Mobile App
13 26 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.18%) IoT
15 18 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
16 17 (1.01%) Blockchain
17 16 (0.95%) Private Cloud
17 16 (0.95%) Reinsurance
18 13 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 255 (15.10%) Linux
2 24 (1.42%) Windows
3 22 (1.30%) 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 1,047 (61.99%) Agile
2 847 (50.15%) Software Engineering
3 737 (43.64%) DevOps
4 706 (41.80%) CI/CD
5 532 (31.50%) Containerisation
6 502 (29.72%) Mentoring
7 406 (24.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 387 (22.91%) Test Automation
9 366 (21.67%) TDD
10 340 (20.13%) Scrum
11 334 (19.78%) User Experience
12 323 (19.12%) SDLC
13 263 (15.57%) Performance Optimisation
14 260 (15.39%) Front End Development
15 238 (14.09%) Machine Learning
15 238 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
16 235 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 223 (13.20%) Event-Driven
18 219 (12.97%) Cloud Security
19 207 (12.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 905 (53.58%) Java
2 692 (40.97%) JavaScript
3 518 (30.67%) SQL
4 452 (26.76%) Python
5 295 (17.47%) C#
6 272 (16.10%) TypeScript
7 258 (15.28%) Go
8 191 (11.31%) C++
9 189 (11.19%) Rust
10 42 (2.49%) PHP
11 30 (1.78%) PowerShell
12 23 (1.36%) C
13 22 (1.30%) Apex Code
14 21 (1.24%) Bash
15 19 (1.12%) Shell Script
16 18 (1.07%) Kotlin
17 13 (0.77%) Ruby
18 10 (0.59%) Scala
19 8 (0.47%) Groovy
19 8 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 301 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 243 (14.39%) Degree
3 229 (13.56%) AWS Certification
4 220 (13.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 210 (12.43%) DV Cleared
6 180 (10.66%) AWS Certified Developer
7 120 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 79 (4.68%) SC Cleared
9 49 (2.90%) Master's Degree
10 37 (2.19%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.89%) 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 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.24%) PhD
17 3 (0.18%) OCP
17 3 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (15.69%) QA
2 110 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 79 (4.68%) GDPR
4 37 (2.19%) HIPAA
5 25 (1.48%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.07%) SOC 2
7 17 (1.01%) SLA
8 10 (0.59%) NIST
9 9 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.36%) 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
1 696 (41.21%) Docker
2 31 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.36%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 672 (39.79%) Kubernetes
2 161 (9.53%) Terraform
3 70 (4.14%) Prometheus
4 67 (3.97%) Grafana
5 49 (2.90%) Ansible
6 19 (1.12%) Kibana
7 17 (1.01%) Istio
8 16 (0.95%) Argo
9 13 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.41%) Puppet
11 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.18%) Consul
12 3 (0.18%) Mesos
13 2 (0.12%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.12%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.12%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.12%) Packer
14 1 (0.059%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.059%) Nessus
Vendors
1 205 (12.14%) Solace
2 141 (8.35%) Microsoft
3 71 (4.20%) Google
4 39 (2.31%) Oracle
5 32 (1.89%) IBM
6 25 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 23 (1.36%) Dynatrace
7 23 (1.36%) Splunk
8 21 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 20 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 13 (0.77%) 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