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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 73 50
Rank change year-on-year -4 -23 -19
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,721 2,919 5,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.50% 3.40% 5.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.98% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 945 2,485 3,134
10th Percentile £48,897 £43,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% -18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £97,447
90th Percentile £114,700 £105,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.18% -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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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 -4 579 £85,000 +3.03% 845
North of England +8 552 £71,991 +15.19% 272
North West +29 451 £67,500 +3.85% 169
South East -18 283 £67,500 +12.50% 363
Midlands -20 157 £65,000 +8.33% 120
South West +1 108 £68,525 +13.26% 90
Yorkshire -21 89 £72,500 +18.45% 77
West Midlands -22 87 £70,000 +7.69% 67
East Midlands +3 70 £62,500 +13.64% 49
East of England -32 53 £57,500 -11.54% 62
North East -15 12 £55,000 -10.14% 29
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
1 155 (9.01%) Confluence
2 23 (1.34%) Jupyter
3 21 (1.22%) CMS
4 18 (1.05%) Apache
4 18 (1.05%) JBoss
5 13 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.46%) SAS
8 7 (0.41%) Headless CMS
9 6 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.23%) Drupal
10 4 (0.23%) GemFire
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) Mule
11 3 (0.17%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (0.64%) Maya
2 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.058%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.058%) Moqups
5 1 (0.058%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.12%) Eikon
3 2 (0.12%) Endur
3 2 (0.12%) RMDS
3 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.058%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 993 (57.70%) AWS
2 890 (51.71%) Azure
3 494 (28.70%) GCP
4 203 (11.80%) Serverless
5 112 (6.51%) SaaS
6 107 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (3.66%) GitHub
9 60 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
10 57 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 54 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (3.14%) Amazon S3
12 53 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 52 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
14 48 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 33 (1.92%) SonarCloud
17 32 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 29 (1.69%) PaaS
19 27 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.39%) HTTP
2 19 (1.10%) Network Security
3 11 (0.64%) Firewall
4 9 (0.52%) Internet
5 6 (0.35%) DNS
6 4 (0.23%) DAB
6 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.17%) Broadband
7 3 (0.17%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.17%) WAN
8 2 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.12%) SSH
8 2 (0.12%) VPN
8 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.058%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.058%) AMQP
9 1 (0.058%) BGP
9 1 (0.058%) NAS
9 1 (0.058%) SAN
9 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (16.68%) SQL Server
2 198 (11.50%) NoSQL
3 159 (9.24%) MongoDB
4 157 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (5.35%) Relational Database
6 80 (4.65%) MySQL
7 73 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
8 61 (3.54%) DynamoDB
9 57 (3.31%) Big Data
10 42 (2.44%) Redis
11 38 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 26 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
12 26 (1.51%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.34%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
14 15 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.46%) Tableau
16 7 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (0.41%) NonStop SQL
17 6 (0.35%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 272 (15.80%) JIRA
2 271 (15.75%) GitLab
3 234 (13.60%) SonarQube
4 233 (13.54%) Maven
5 223 (12.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 221 (12.84%) Git
7 217 (12.61%) Selenium
8 216 (12.55%) Cucumber
9 207 (12.03%) Bitbucket
10 158 (9.18%) Jenkins
11 83 (4.82%) JUnit
12 49 (2.85%) Octopus Deploy
13 46 (2.67%) Mockito
14 42 (2.44%) Visual Studio
15 35 (2.03%) MSBuild
16 33 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (1.45%) JMeter
18 24 (1.39%) Cypress.io
18 24 (1.39%) Jasmine
18 24 (1.39%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 549 (31.90%) Finance
2 449 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 392 (22.78%) Banking
4 389 (22.60%) Social Skills
5 164 (9.53%) Retail
6 109 (6.33%) Investment Banking
7 104 (6.04%) Law
8 90 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (5.23%) Corporate Banking
9 68 (3.95%) Public Sector
10 43 (2.50%) Marketing
11 40 (2.32%) Games
12 38 (2.21%) Financial Institution
13 17 (0.99%) Front Office
14 16 (0.93%) Advertising
14 16 (0.93%) Back Office
15 13 (0.76%) Dutch Language
15 13 (0.76%) French Language
15 13 (0.76%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 610 (35.44%) Software Engineer
2 479 (27.83%) Senior
3 425 (24.69%) Developer
4 256 (14.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 248 (14.41%) Architect
6 246 (14.29%) Lead
7 119 (6.91%) Java Developer
8 117 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 116 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
10 98 (5.69%) .NET Developer
10 98 (5.69%) Java Engineer
11 69 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 63 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
13 55 (3.20%) C# Developer
14 46 (2.67%) Technical Architect
15 43 (2.50%) Lead Developer
16 41 (2.38%) Senior Architect
17 33 (1.92%) Technical Leader
18 31 (1.80%) C# .NET Developer
19 30 (1.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 511 (29.69%) React
2 472 (27.43%) .NET
3 413 (24.00%) Spring
4 403 (23.42%) Spring Boot
5 394 (22.89%) Kafka
6 358 (20.80%) REST
7 339 (19.70%) Node.js
8 335 (19.47%) HTML
9 316 (18.36%) RESTful
10 313 (18.19%) CSS
11 232 (13.48%) JPA
12 216 (12.55%) AngularJS
13 209 (12.14%) Redux
14 187 (10.87%) Hibernate
15 134 (7.79%) HTML5
16 121 (7.03%) .NET Core
17 116 (6.74%) CSS3
18 114 (6.62%) Jest
19 104 (6.04%) Web Services
20 100 (5.81%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 318 (18.48%) Product Ownership
2 281 (16.33%) Enterprise Software
3 203 (11.80%) Cyberattack
4 184 (10.69%) Self-Motivation
5 182 (10.58%) Linux Command Line
6 165 (9.59%) Cloud Native
7 117 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
8 61 (3.54%) Management Information System
9 60 (3.49%) Algorithms
10 45 (2.61%) Public Cloud
11 34 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 25 (1.45%) IoT
15 22 (1.28%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.99%) Reinsurance
17 16 (0.93%) Blockchain
17 16 (0.93%) Private Cloud
18 14 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
18 14 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 258 (14.99%) Linux
2 24 (1.39%) Unix
3 21 (1.22%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Android
5 7 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.12%) zOS
8 1 (0.058%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,059 (61.53%) Agile
2 838 (48.69%) Software Engineering
3 747 (43.40%) DevOps
4 692 (40.21%) CI/CD
5 534 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 519 (30.16%) Mentoring
7 421 (24.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 374 (21.73%) Test Automation
9 365 (21.21%) TDD
10 342 (19.87%) Scrum
11 329 (19.12%) User Experience
12 305 (17.72%) SDLC
13 264 (15.34%) Performance Optimisation
14 263 (15.28%) Front End Development
15 249 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
16 240 (13.95%) Machine Learning
17 237 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
18 227 (13.19%) Event-Driven
19 219 (12.73%) Cloud Security
20 202 (11.74%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 880 (51.13%) Java
2 711 (41.31%) JavaScript
3 533 (30.97%) SQL
4 453 (26.32%) Python
5 316 (18.36%) C#
6 284 (16.50%) TypeScript
7 253 (14.70%) Go
8 195 (11.33%) C++
9 193 (11.21%) Rust
10 47 (2.73%) PHP
11 32 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 27 (1.57%) C
13 25 (1.45%) Bash
14 22 (1.28%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.16%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.93%) Ruby
17 12 (0.70%) R
18 11 (0.64%) Bicep
19 10 (0.58%) Perl
20 8 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 298 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 253 (14.70%) Degree
3 229 (13.31%) AWS Certification
4 219 (12.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 205 (11.91%) DV Cleared
6 180 (10.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 124 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (4.65%) SC Cleared
9 49 (2.85%) Master's Degree
10 35 (2.03%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.87%) HND
13 10 (0.58%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.46%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
16 4 (0.23%) PhD
17 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
17 3 (0.17%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (15.63%) QA
2 114 (6.62%) Accessibility
3 86 (5.00%) GDPR
4 36 (2.09%) HIPAA
5 27 (1.57%) Data Quality
6 17 (0.99%) SLA
6 17 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 10 (0.58%) NIST
8 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.41%) Basel II
9 7 (0.41%) Basel III
9 7 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
9 7 (0.41%) IFRS
9 7 (0.41%) IFRS 9
9 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.35%) CDISC
11 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
12 2 (0.12%) NCSC
13 1 (0.058%) GRC
System Software
1 719 (41.78%) Docker
2 31 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.23%) Postfix
5 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) vSphere
6 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) KVM
6 2 (0.12%) Xen
7 1 (0.058%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.058%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 680 (39.51%) Kubernetes
2 165 (9.59%) Terraform
3 68 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 63 (3.66%) Grafana
5 47 (2.73%) Ansible
6 19 (1.10%) Istio
7 18 (1.05%) Kibana
8 17 (0.99%) Argo
9 12 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.41%) Puppet
11 5 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.17%) Consul
13 2 (0.12%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.12%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.12%) MIIS
13 2 (0.12%) Packer
14 1 (0.058%) Check_MK
14 1 (0.058%) logstash
14 1 (0.058%) Nessus
Vendors
1 205 (11.91%) Solace
2 139 (8.08%) Microsoft
3 76 (4.42%) Google
4 41 (2.38%) Oracle
5 36 (2.09%) IBM
6 26 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 25 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.28%) Splunk
9 21 (1.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 16 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 14 (0.81%) Databricks
12 11 (0.64%) Ping Identity
12 11 (0.64%) SAP
12 11 (0.64%) YouTube
13 10 (0.58%) Cisco
13 10 (0.58%) New Relic
14 8 (0.46%) Bloomberg
14 8 (0.46%) Facebook
15 7 (0.41%) Apple
16 6 (0.35%) OpenAI