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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 46 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 -12 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 102 133 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.11% 5.22% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 5.50% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 70 89 177
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

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 2,532 2,416 3,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 77.12% 94.75% 89.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,177 2,676
10th Percentile £28,350 £33,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,900 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 7 February 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 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (57.84%) AWS
2 55 (53.92%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) GCP
4 15 (14.71%) SaaS
5 11 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (10.78%) Serverless
6 10 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.82%) Azure AKS
7 9 (8.82%) IaaS
7 9 (8.82%) PaaS
8 7 (6.86%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (0.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) AMQP
1 4 (3.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.98%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.45%) NoSQL
2 17 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.80%) MySQL
3 10 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 5 (4.90%) Big Data
7 4 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (4.90%) JIRA
3 4 (3.92%) GitLab
3 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.92%) JUnit
4 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.96%) Banking
4 2 (1.96%) Billing
4 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Advertising
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) Senior
2 32 (31.37%) Software Engineer
3 29 (28.43%) Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (14.71%) Lead
6 13 (12.75%) Architect
7 12 (11.76%) .NET Developer
8 11 (10.78%) Java Developer
8 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
8 11 (10.78%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.84%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 5 (4.90%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (43.14%) .NET
2 29 (28.43%) Spring
3 28 (27.45%) Spring Boot
4 23 (22.55%) React
5 22 (21.57%) AngularJS
6 19 (18.63%) REST
7 17 (16.67%) RESTful
8 16 (15.69%) .NET Core
9 12 (11.76%) Kafka
10 11 (10.78%) Node.js
11 10 (9.80%) CSS
11 10 (9.80%) HTML
12 9 (8.82%) .NET Framework
12 9 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (7.84%) gRPC
13 8 (7.84%) Hibernate
14 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.90%) Akka
15 5 (4.90%) Akka.NET
15 5 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 27 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.94%) Clustering
9 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.98%) IoT
10 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.80%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) CentOS
2 4 (3.92%) Debian
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.96%) VMS
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 55 (53.92%) Agile
3 53 (51.96%) Software Engineering
4 48 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 37 (36.27%) DevOps
6 27 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 26 (25.49%) TDD
8 24 (23.53%) Scrum
9 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (21.57%) Clean Code
10 22 (21.57%) Mentoring
11 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (18.63%) Design Patterns
13 18 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (17.65%) Unit Testing
14 16 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (13.73%) Event-Driven
16 13 (12.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (12.75%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (43.14%) C#
2 37 (36.27%) Java
3 23 (22.55%) JavaScript
4 21 (20.59%) SQL
5 11 (10.78%) Python
5 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.90%) Go
7 3 (2.94%) Erlang
7 3 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.98%) R
8 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) MBA
4 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) GDPR
1 2 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 28 (27.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.96%) vSphere
3 1 (0.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.59%) Terraform
3 15 (14.71%) Ansible
4 6 (5.88%) Puppet
5 3 (2.94%) Rancher
6 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.92%) Google
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.96%) Pega
3 2 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (0.98%) Databricks
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.98%) WSO2