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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 22 54
Rank change year-on-year -49 +32 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 124 240 205
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.09% 11.01% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 11.49% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 94 94 168
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,326 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +14.79% -4.81%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,438 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,900 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 4,291 2,088 4,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.18% 95.82% 84.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,173 1,178 3,484
10th Percentile £32,875 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,875 £81,250
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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -4 2 £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 (4.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.42%) Apache
3 3 (2.42%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 77 (62.10%) AWS
2 42 (33.87%) Azure
3 16 (12.90%) Serverless
4 10 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (8.06%) Azure AKS
4 10 (8.06%) GitHub
5 9 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (7.26%) GCP
5 9 (7.26%) SaaS
6 6 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.03%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.03%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (4.03%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.61%) IaaS
9 2 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.42%) AMQP
2 2 (1.61%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.94%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.65%) MySQL
3 7 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.42%) Big Data
6 3 (2.42%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.42%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.42%) GIS
6 3 (2.42%) QGIS
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.81%) Power BI
8 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (16.13%) Git
2 12 (9.68%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.06%) GitLab
4 6 (4.84%) JIRA
4 6 (4.84%) JUnit
5 4 (3.23%) Spock
6 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.61%) Maven
6 2 (1.61%) Vite
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
General
1 27 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.55%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Marketing
5 5 (4.03%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Advertising
6 4 (3.23%) Banking
7 3 (2.42%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.42%) Retail
8 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Billing
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (35.48%) Software Engineer
2 38 (30.65%) Senior
3 31 (25.00%) Developer
4 18 (14.52%) Lead
4 18 (14.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (10.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (10.48%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.68%) Architect
8 11 (8.87%) Java Engineer
9 10 (8.06%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (7.26%) Senior Developer
11 8 (6.45%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (6.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Applications Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (4.84%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.06%) Spring
2 39 (31.45%) .NET
3 36 (29.03%) Spring Boot
4 34 (27.42%) React
5 33 (26.61%) Node.js
6 25 (20.16%) AngularJS
7 24 (19.35%) RESTful
8 19 (15.32%) REST
9 13 (10.48%) CSS
9 13 (10.48%) HTML
10 12 (9.68%) Vue
11 8 (6.45%) .NET Framework
12 7 (5.65%) Kafka
13 6 (4.84%) .NET Core
13 6 (4.84%) OAuth
13 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
14 5 (4.03%) AWS CDK
14 5 (4.03%) gRPC
15 4 (3.23%) Backbone.js
15 4 (3.23%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 28 (22.58%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.48%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (5.65%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.65%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.03%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (3.23%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.61%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.81%) IoT
10 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.81%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.23%) CentOS
2 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Debian
3 3 (2.42%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.48%) CI/CD
2 63 (50.81%) Agile
3 56 (45.16%) Software Engineering
4 52 (41.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (37.10%) DevOps
6 35 (28.23%) TDD
7 32 (25.81%) Event-Driven
7 32 (25.81%) Scrum
8 29 (23.39%) AI
8 29 (23.39%) Containerisation
9 26 (20.97%) Test Automation
10 24 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (17.74%) Mentoring
11 22 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (16.94%) Clean Code
13 18 (14.52%) API Design
13 18 (14.52%) Code Quality
13 18 (14.52%) Design Patterns
13 18 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (13.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (45.16%) Java
2 36 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 33 (26.61%) C#
4 30 (24.19%) Python
5 29 (23.39%) SQL
6 22 (17.74%) TypeScript
7 10 (8.06%) Go
8 6 (4.84%) Kotlin
9 5 (4.03%) PHP
10 4 (3.23%) Groovy
11 1 (0.81%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.03%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.42%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) MBA
5 1 (0.81%) PhD
5 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.03%) QA
System Software
1 25 (20.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 26 (20.97%) Terraform
3 10 (8.06%) Ansible
4 3 (2.42%) Puppet
5 2 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (4.03%) Adobe
2 4 (3.23%) AppDynamics
2 4 (3.23%) Oracle
2 4 (3.23%) Splunk
3 3 (2.42%) Google
3 3 (2.42%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.42%) Pega
3 3 (2.42%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.42%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (1.61%) WSO2