Microservices Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microservices
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 59 70
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 12 18 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.85% 2.84% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.07% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 20
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +21.62% -5.53%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,875 £61,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £87,500 £77,850
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 489 587 868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.46% 92.73% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 345 241 539
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,688
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,250 £77,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +2.94%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Microservices
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Gloucestershire

Microservices
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Cheltenham +10 8 £63,750 +6.25% 9
Gloucester +10 3 - - 11
Microservices
South West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Serverless
3 7 (58.33%) Amazon S3
3 7 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Games
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) React
2 6 (50.00%) Spring
2 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (25.00%) JSF
3 3 (25.00%) PrimeFaces
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (8.33%) Blazor
5 1 (8.33%) Jest
5 1 (8.33%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (8.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
4 7 (58.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (50.00%) Coaching
6 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
7 4 (33.33%) AI
7 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
7 4 (33.33%) User Experience
8 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (25.00%) Scrum
8 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Engineering
9 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 1 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle