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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 104 135 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.68% 6.01% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 6.27% 5.95%
Number of salaries quoted 72 103 182
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,250 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -

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 2,887 2,152 3,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.50% 95.86% 88.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,888 1,230 3,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,704 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 9 March 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 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (1.92%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) AWS
2 52 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (13.46%) GCP
3 14 (13.46%) SaaS
4 13 (12.50%) Serverless
5 12 (11.54%) Azure AKS
6 11 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.69%) IaaS
7 8 (7.69%) PaaS
8 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.96%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) AMQP
2 3 (2.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.81%) NoSQL
2 16 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.58%) MySQL
4 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.81%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.85%) Big Data
7 4 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (3.85%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.92%) GIS
9 2 (1.92%) QGIS
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.96%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.81%) JIRA
4 4 (3.85%) GitLab
5 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.88%) JUnit
General
1 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Finance
3 4 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.88%) Billing
4 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.92%) Advertising
5 2 (1.92%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.65%) Senior
2 34 (32.69%) Software Engineer
3 30 (28.85%) Developer
4 16 (15.38%) Lead
5 12 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 12 (11.54%) Architect
5 12 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (8.65%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (43.27%) .NET
2 29 (27.88%) Spring
3 28 (26.92%) Spring Boot
4 20 (19.23%) React
4 20 (19.23%) RESTful
5 19 (18.27%) REST
6 17 (16.35%) AngularJS
7 15 (14.42%) .NET Core
8 14 (13.46%) Node.js
9 12 (11.54%) .NET Framework
10 10 (9.62%) CSS
10 10 (9.62%) HTML
11 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET Web API
11 9 (8.65%) Kafka
12 7 (6.73%) gRPC
12 7 (6.73%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (4.81%) Akka.NET
14 5 (4.81%) OAuth
14 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 33 (31.73%) Cloud Native
2 24 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.62%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.88%) Clustering
8 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.96%) IoT
10 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) CentOS
2 4 (3.85%) Debian
2 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.92%) VMS
3 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.58%) CI/CD
2 58 (55.77%) Agile
3 53 (50.96%) Software Engineering
4 42 (40.38%) Containerisation
5 34 (32.69%) DevOps
6 31 (29.81%) Scrum
7 27 (25.96%) TDD
8 25 (24.04%) Clean Code
8 25 (24.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.23%) Design Patterns
11 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (18.27%) Event-Driven
12 18 (17.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 18 (17.31%) Mentoring
13 15 (14.42%) Open Source
13 15 (14.42%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (14.42%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.38%) C#
2 39 (37.50%) Java
3 25 (24.04%) JavaScript
3 25 (24.04%) SQL
4 15 (14.42%) Python
5 11 (10.58%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.77%) Go
7 5 (4.81%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.88%) Erlang
9 2 (1.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Degree
4 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.96%) MBA
4 1 (0.96%) PhD
System Software
1 23 (22.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.19%) Terraform
3 13 (12.50%) Ansible
4 4 (3.85%) Puppet
5 3 (2.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.85%) Google
2 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.85%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.92%) Pega
3 2 (1.92%) VMware
4 1 (0.96%) Databricks
4 1 (0.96%) WSO2