Microservices Job Trends in Manchester

Microservices
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 21 57
Rank change year-on-year -36 +36 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 132 242 222
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.16% 10.65% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 11.18% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 104 92 176
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,326 £61,285 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,688 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,875 £104,900 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +15.08% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,382 2,164 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.81% 95.25% 82.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,461 1,226 3,670
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,250 £80,492
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Manchester

Microservices
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cheadle 0 6 £63,750 -
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (3.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.27%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.52%) Apache
3 2 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.52%) nginx
3 2 (1.52%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 89 (67.42%) AWS
2 40 (30.30%) Azure
3 18 (13.64%) Serverless
4 12 (9.09%) GitHub
5 10 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.82%) SaaS
7 8 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 8 (6.06%) GCP
8 7 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.52%) npm
12 2 (1.52%) Vercel
12 2 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.52%) AMQP
2 1 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.30%) MySQL
4 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.27%) GIS
5 3 (2.27%) QGIS
6 2 (1.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.52%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.52%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (15.15%) Git
2 14 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.85%) GitLab
4 7 (5.30%) JUnit
5 6 (4.55%) Spock
6 5 (3.79%) JIRA
7 4 (3.03%) Vite
8 2 (1.52%) Maven
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
General
1 25 (18.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.15%) Finance
3 10 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.06%) Marketing
5 5 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Advertising
7 3 (2.27%) Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Retail
8 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.52%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Billing
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (34.85%) Software Engineer
2 39 (29.55%) Senior
3 33 (25.00%) Developer
4 21 (15.91%) Lead
5 18 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (12.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (9.85%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.09%) Java Engineer
9 11 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (7.58%) Architect
11 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.82%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (5.30%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (5.30%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (5.30%) Senior Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (32.58%) React
2 42 (31.82%) .NET
2 42 (31.82%) Spring
3 35 (26.52%) Node.js
3 35 (26.52%) Spring Boot
4 28 (21.21%) AngularJS
5 20 (15.15%) RESTful
6 17 (12.88%) REST
6 17 (12.88%) Vue
7 11 (8.33%) CSS
7 11 (8.33%) HTML
8 10 (7.58%) FastAPI
9 7 (5.30%) .NET Framework
10 6 (4.55%) Flask
10 6 (4.55%) Kafka
10 6 (4.55%) LangChain
10 6 (4.55%) OAuth
10 6 (4.55%) OAuth2
11 5 (3.79%) AWS CDK
11 5 (3.79%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (35.61%) Cloud Native
2 36 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.06%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.30%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (4.55%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.03%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.52%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.76%) PMI
10 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.55%) Linux
2 3 (2.27%) CentOS
2 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.52%) Debian
3 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 63 (47.73%) Software Engineering
3 62 (46.97%) Agile
4 61 (46.21%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (40.91%) DevOps
6 38 (28.79%) AI
7 37 (28.03%) Event-Driven
8 36 (27.27%) TDD
9 31 (23.48%) Scrum
10 29 (21.97%) Containerisation
10 29 (21.97%) Test Automation
11 26 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (19.70%) Mentoring
12 25 (18.94%) Clean Code
12 25 (18.94%) Observability
13 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (14.39%) Decision-Making
15 19 (14.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 18 (13.64%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 56 (42.42%) Java
2 39 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 36 (27.27%) Python
4 34 (25.76%) C#
5 31 (23.48%) TypeScript
6 30 (22.73%) SQL
7 10 (7.58%) Go
8 6 (4.55%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.55%) PHP
9 4 (3.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) MBA
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (21.97%) Kubernetes
2 28 (21.21%) Terraform
3 8 (6.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.52%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (4.55%) Adobe
1 6 (4.55%) AppDynamics
1 6 (4.55%) Splunk
2 5 (3.79%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (1.52%) Google
4 2 (1.52%) Pega
4 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.52%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.52%) WSO2