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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 22 58
Rank change year-on-year -45 +36 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 110 241 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.04% 10.84% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 11.34% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 78 104 171
10th Percentile £50,875 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,188 £87,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £94,875 £96,750 £100,000
North West median annual salary £70,932 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.16% +11.54% -3.70%

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 3,880 2,126 4,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.80% 95.59% 85.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,812 1,267 3,417
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,938 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.12% -4.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,000 £82,500
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 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Manchester

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 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.73%) Apache
2 3 (2.73%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 64 (58.18%) AWS
2 48 (43.64%) Azure
3 13 (11.82%) Serverless
4 12 (10.91%) Azure AKS
5 11 (10.00%) GCP
6 10 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (9.09%) SaaS
7 6 (5.45%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.55%) GitHub
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (3.64%) IaaS
9 4 (3.64%) PaaS
10 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) AMQP
1 3 (2.73%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.27%) MySQL
4 7 (6.36%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.64%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.73%) Big Data
7 3 (2.73%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.73%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.73%) GIS
7 3 (2.73%) QGIS
7 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Git
2 10 (9.09%) GitLab
2 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.36%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) JUnit
4 4 (3.64%) Spock
5 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.82%) Maven
6 2 (1.82%) Vite
7 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
General
1 23 (20.91%) Finance
2 19 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Advertising
5 4 (3.64%) Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.82%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Billing
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Software Engineer
2 35 (31.82%) Senior
3 30 (27.27%) Developer
4 15 (13.64%) Java Developer
5 14 (12.73%) Senior Software Engineer
6 13 (11.82%) Lead
7 11 (10.00%) Architect
7 11 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (9.09%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.18%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (7.27%) Java Engineer
10 8 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (6.36%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (6.36%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) .NET Developer
12 6 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (35.45%) .NET
2 38 (34.55%) Spring
3 33 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 30 (27.27%) React
5 25 (22.73%) Node.js
5 25 (22.73%) RESTful
6 23 (20.91%) AngularJS
7 19 (17.27%) REST
8 12 (10.91%) CSS
8 12 (10.91%) HTML
9 10 (9.09%) .NET Framework
10 8 (7.27%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.45%) gRPC
11 6 (5.45%) Kafka
11 6 (5.45%) OAuth
11 6 (5.45%) OAuth2
11 6 (5.45%) Vue
12 5 (4.55%) AWS CDK
12 5 (4.55%) Web Services
13 4 (3.64%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 26 (23.64%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (12.73%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.45%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.64%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.91%) IoT
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) CentOS
2 3 (2.73%) Debian
2 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (61.82%) CI/CD
2 63 (57.27%) Agile
3 51 (46.36%) Software Engineering
4 42 (38.18%) DevOps
5 41 (37.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 33 (30.00%) Scrum
7 32 (29.09%) Containerisation
7 32 (29.09%) TDD
8 28 (25.45%) Event-Driven
9 22 (20.00%) AI
9 22 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (19.09%) Design Patterns
10 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (18.18%) Clean Code
11 20 (18.18%) Test Automation
12 19 (17.27%) Mentoring
13 16 (14.55%) Code Quality
13 16 (14.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (12.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.45%) Java
2 36 (32.73%) C#
3 32 (29.09%) JavaScript
4 25 (22.73%) SQL
5 21 (19.09%) Python
6 19 (17.27%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.18%) Go
8 6 (5.45%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.64%) Groovy
10 3 (2.73%) PHP
11 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.91%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.91%) MBA
5 1 (0.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.73%) QA
System Software
1 26 (23.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.82%) Terraform
3 10 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (2.73%) Puppet
4 3 (2.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (3.64%) AppDynamics
1 4 (3.64%) BiZZdesign
1 4 (3.64%) Splunk
2 3 (2.73%) Google
2 3 (2.73%) Pega
2 3 (2.73%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.73%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.82%) Adobe
3 2 (1.82%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle
3 2 (1.82%) WSO2