Microservices Job Trends in Leeds

Microservices
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +36
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 81 57 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.09% 5.50% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 6.23% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 50 42 70
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £53,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -27.79% +22.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,592 £96,539
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £60,603 £79,632
% change year-on-year +23.76% -23.90% +6.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,065 915 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 80.08% 88.24% 93.42%
Number of salaries quoted 699 519 896
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,052 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% +1.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -6.25% +1.82%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Leeds

Microservices
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Leeds over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Leeds

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (12.35%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 76 (93.83%) AWS
2 61 (75.31%) Serverless
3 53 (65.43%) Azure
4 34 (41.98%) Amazon S3
5 23 (28.40%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (24.69%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (23.46%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (20.99%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (20.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (20.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 13 (16.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (16.05%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (16.05%) GitHub
9 13 (16.05%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (12.35%) SaaS
11 8 (9.88%) GCP
12 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.94%) Apigee
13 1 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (34.57%) DynamoDB
2 27 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (23.46%) NoSQL
4 12 (14.81%) Relational Database
5 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.41%) MySQL
7 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.47%) Big Data
8 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (28.40%) Git
2 14 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.94%) GitLab
3 4 (4.94%) Maven
3 4 (4.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.23%) JUnit
4 1 (1.23%) Mockito
General
1 36 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
2 5 (6.17%) Retail
3 4 (4.94%) Marketing
4 3 (3.70%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (44.44%) Developer
2 27 (33.33%) Architect
3 14 (17.28%) Applications Architect
4 13 (16.05%) Senior
5 12 (14.81%) .NET Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Lead
6 11 (13.58%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.58%) Software Architect
7 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.17%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Python Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Python Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Software Developer
10 4 (4.94%) SaaS Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Serverless Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (46.91%) React
2 22 (27.16%) RESTful
3 21 (25.93%) Node.js
4 19 (23.46%) REST
5 18 (22.22%) .NET
6 17 (20.99%) Spring
7 16 (19.75%) Spring Boot
8 13 (16.05%) .NET Core
8 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET
8 13 (16.05%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (16.05%) AWS CDK
8 13 (16.05%) Blazor
9 11 (13.58%) Kafka
10 10 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (11.11%) Web Services
12 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
13 7 (8.64%) Mustache
14 4 (4.94%) Gherkin
14 4 (4.94%) Jest
15 3 (3.70%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (25.93%) Cloud Native
3 20 (24.69%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.94%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.23%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (54.32%) Agile
2 42 (51.85%) Mentoring
3 41 (50.62%) CI/CD
4 37 (45.68%) Application Security
5 33 (40.74%) DevOps
6 32 (39.51%) Architectural Patterns
7 26 (32.10%) Enterprise Architecture
7 26 (32.10%) Migration
8 25 (30.86%) Computer Science
8 25 (30.86%) Data Modelling
9 24 (29.63%) EAI
9 24 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 24 (29.63%) TOGAF
10 21 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 19 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (23.46%) Software Engineering
12 18 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 14 (17.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) JavaScript
2 45 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 44 (54.32%) Java
4 32 (39.51%) Python
5 31 (38.27%) C#
6 20 (24.69%) SQL
7 4 (4.94%) Bash
7 4 (4.94%) Groovy
8 2 (2.47%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (43.21%) AWS Certification
2 25 (30.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (30.86%) Degree
3 24 (29.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 24 (29.63%) Azure Certification
3 24 (29.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (29.63%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (13.58%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) QA
System Software
1 37 (45.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (34.57%) Terraform
2 14 (17.28%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Ansible
3 4 (4.94%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.70%) Pega
2 3 (3.70%) WSO2
3 2 (2.47%) Google