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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 57 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 107 120 160
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.99% 4.25% 7.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.57% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 75 76 100
10th Percentile £51,550 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,563 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,750
North West median annual salary £70,000 £63,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.69%

All Process and 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 2,223 2,627 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 82.95% 93.02% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 1,236 1,601
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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
Bury - 2 £52,500 -
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 4 (3.74%) Apache
1 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 65 (60.75%) AWS
2 61 (57.01%) Azure
3 23 (21.50%) GCP
4 18 (16.82%) SaaS
5 12 (11.21%) Serverless
6 10 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (8.41%) IaaS
7 9 (8.41%) PaaS
8 8 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.67%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.74%) GitHub
13 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) AMQP
1 3 (2.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.93%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.84%) NoSQL
2 24 (22.43%) MongoDB
3 19 (17.76%) SQL Server
4 11 (10.28%) MySQL
5 8 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.67%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.74%) Big Data
8 3 (2.80%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.61%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) JIRA
4 3 (2.80%) JUnit
5 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.87%) Gatling
5 2 (1.87%) JMeter
5 2 (1.87%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 5 (4.67%) Retail
4 3 (2.80%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.87%) Back Office
5 2 (1.87%) Billing
5 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.87%) Marketing
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.93%) Law
6 1 (0.93%) Legal
6 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (35.51%) Developer
2 36 (33.64%) Senior
3 28 (26.17%) Software Engineer
4 22 (20.56%) Lead
5 19 (17.76%) .NET Developer
6 18 (16.82%) Architect
7 16 (14.95%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (13.08%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.21%) Lead Developer
9 12 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (10.28%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (8.41%) Java Developer
12 6 (5.61%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.61%) Lead .NET Developer
12 6 (5.61%) Senior Architect
12 6 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (4.67%) AWS Architect
13 5 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
13 5 (4.67%) AWS Solution Architect
13 5 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (47.66%) .NET
2 22 (20.56%) Spring
2 22 (20.56%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.63%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.76%) .NET Core
4 19 (17.76%) React
5 17 (15.89%) RESTful
6 14 (13.08%) Kafka
6 14 (13.08%) REST
7 11 (10.28%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (9.35%) .NET Framework
8 10 (9.35%) CSS
8 10 (9.35%) HTML
9 8 (7.48%) Hibernate
10 7 (6.54%) Node.js
10 7 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (5.61%) gRPC
12 5 (4.67%) Akka
12 5 (4.67%) Akka.NET
12 5 (4.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.71%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.23%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (8.41%) Greenfield Project
4 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.48%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.61%) Clustering
6 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) IoT
10 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) CentOS
2 3 (2.80%) Debian
2 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.80%) Windows
3 2 (1.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (60.75%) CI/CD
2 59 (55.14%) Agile
3 50 (46.73%) Containerisation
3 50 (46.73%) Software Engineering
4 45 (42.06%) DevOps
5 27 (25.23%) Clean Code
6 26 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (23.36%) Mentoring
8 24 (22.43%) Roadmaps
9 23 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.63%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (17.76%) Design Patterns
12 19 (17.76%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (17.76%) Scrum
13 18 (16.82%) TDD
14 15 (14.02%) Event-Driven
14 15 (14.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (13.08%) Unit Testing
16 13 (12.15%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (50.47%) C#
2 33 (30.84%) Java
3 27 (25.23%) SQL
4 23 (21.50%) JavaScript
5 18 (16.82%) Python
6 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.80%) Erlang
8 2 (1.87%) Go
8 2 (1.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.93%) R
9 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (5.61%) AWS Certification
1 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (3.74%) Azure Certification
2 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.93%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) MBA
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) GDPR
2 4 (3.74%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.74%) NIST
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (37.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.87%) vSphere
3 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (37.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.76%) Terraform
3 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 5 (4.67%) Puppet
5 2 (1.87%) Grafana
5 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.87%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) BiZZdesign
2 7 (6.54%) Google
3 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.80%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.87%) Pega
4 2 (1.87%) VMware
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.93%) WSO2