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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 23 55
Rank change year-on-year -49 +32 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 112 244 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.97% 10.78% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 11.28% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 81 102 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +13.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,250 £100,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -0.76%

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 4,061 2,164 4,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.61% 95.63% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,973 1,276 3,442
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,125 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,250 £40,030 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
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 20 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 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.68%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 65 (58.04%) AWS
2 46 (41.07%) Azure
3 14 (12.50%) Serverless
4 11 (9.82%) Azure AKS
4 11 (9.82%) GCP
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (8.04%) SaaS
7 6 (5.36%) GitHub
7 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.68%) IaaS
10 3 (2.68%) PaaS
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) AMQP
1 3 (2.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (20.54%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.14%) MySQL
4 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.68%) Big Data
7 3 (2.68%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.68%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.68%) GIS
7 3 (2.68%) QGIS
7 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) Git
2 11 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.93%) GitLab
4 7 (6.25%) JIRA
4 7 (6.25%) JUnit
5 4 (3.57%) Spock
6 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.79%) Maven
7 2 (1.79%) Vite
8 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
General
1 23 (20.54%) Finance
2 20 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Advertising
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
6 3 (2.68%) Retail
7 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Billing
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Software Engineer
2 36 (32.14%) Senior
3 31 (27.68%) Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Java Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Lead
4 15 (13.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (9.82%) Architect
6 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.04%) Java Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.36%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (35.71%) Spring
2 38 (33.93%) .NET
3 35 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 30 (26.79%) React
5 27 (24.11%) Node.js
6 25 (22.32%) RESTful
7 24 (21.43%) AngularJS
8 19 (16.96%) REST
9 14 (12.50%) CSS
9 14 (12.50%) HTML
10 9 (8.04%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.25%) .NET Core
11 7 (6.25%) Kafka
12 6 (5.36%) gRPC
12 6 (5.36%) OAuth
12 6 (5.36%) OAuth2
12 6 (5.36%) Vue
13 5 (4.46%) AWS CDK
13 5 (4.46%) Web Services
14 4 (3.57%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (23.21%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.04%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.68%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.89%) IoT
10 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) CentOS
2 3 (2.68%) Debian
2 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 64 (57.14%) Agile
3 50 (44.64%) Software Engineering
4 45 (40.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (36.61%) DevOps
6 34 (30.36%) TDD
7 33 (29.46%) Scrum
8 31 (27.68%) Containerisation
9 28 (25.00%) Event-Driven
10 23 (20.54%) AI
10 23 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (18.75%) Mentoring
12 21 (18.75%) Test Automation
13 20 (17.86%) Design Patterns
14 19 (16.96%) Clean Code
15 16 (14.29%) Code Quality
15 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
16 15 (13.39%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) Java
2 35 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 34 (30.36%) C#
4 26 (23.21%) SQL
5 25 (22.32%) Python
6 19 (16.96%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.04%) Go
8 6 (5.36%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.57%) Groovy
9 4 (3.57%) PHP
10 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) MBA
5 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) QA
System Software
1 25 (22.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 25 (22.32%) Terraform
3 10 (8.93%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Puppet
4 3 (2.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (3.57%) AppDynamics
1 4 (3.57%) Splunk
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe
2 3 (2.68%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (2.68%) Google
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle
2 3 (2.68%) Pega
2 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.68%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.79%) WSO2