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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 22 55
Rank change year-on-year -36 +33 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 134 241 217
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.20% 10.60% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 11.12% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 105 91 171
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,326 £61,274 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £105,500 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +14.17% -2.68%

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 4,355 2,167 4,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.60% 95.34% 82.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,441 1,224 3,644
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,825 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,350 £80,831
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +1 6 £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 (3.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.24%) Apache
2 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.24%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.49%) nginx
3 2 (1.49%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 90 (67.16%) AWS
2 42 (31.34%) Azure
3 19 (14.18%) Serverless
4 12 (8.96%) GitHub
5 11 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.72%) Azure AKS
6 9 (6.72%) GCP
6 9 (6.72%) SaaS
7 8 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (5.22%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.99%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.49%) npm
11 2 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) AMQP
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.42%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (8.21%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.22%) MySQL
4 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.24%) Big Data
5 3 (2.24%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.24%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.24%) GIS
5 3 (2.24%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.24%) QGIS
6 2 (1.49%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.75%) Power BI
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (14.93%) Git
2 14 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 13 (9.70%) GitLab
4 7 (5.22%) JUnit
5 6 (4.48%) Spock
6 5 (3.73%) JIRA
7 4 (2.99%) Vite
8 2 (1.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
General
1 25 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.93%) Finance
3 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.97%) Marketing
5 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Advertising
7 3 (2.24%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.24%) Banking
7 3 (2.24%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Billing
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (35.82%) Software Engineer
2 40 (29.85%) Senior
3 33 (24.63%) Developer
4 21 (15.67%) Lead
5 19 (14.18%) Senior Software Engineer
6 18 (13.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (12.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) Java Developer
9 12 (8.96%) Java Engineer
10 11 (8.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (8.21%) Senior Java Engineer
11 10 (7.46%) Architect
12 9 (6.72%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (5.97%) .NET Software Engineer
13 8 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (5.97%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.97%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (5.22%) Applications Engineer
14 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (32.84%) React
2 43 (32.09%) .NET
2 43 (32.09%) Spring
3 36 (26.87%) Node.js
3 36 (26.87%) Spring Boot
4 29 (21.64%) AngularJS
5 21 (15.67%) RESTful
6 18 (13.43%) REST
7 17 (12.69%) Vue
8 11 (8.21%) CSS
8 11 (8.21%) HTML
9 10 (7.46%) FastAPI
10 8 (5.97%) .NET Framework
11 6 (4.48%) Flask
11 6 (4.48%) Kafka
11 6 (4.48%) LangChain
11 6 (4.48%) OAuth
11 6 (4.48%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.73%) AWS CDK
12 5 (3.73%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.57%) Cloud Native
2 36 (26.87%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.70%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.97%) Mobile App
5 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.48%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (4.48%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.49%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.75%) PMI
10 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.22%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) CentOS
2 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.24%) Debian
3 3 (2.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (63.43%) CI/CD
2 65 (48.51%) Software Engineering
3 64 (47.76%) Agile
4 61 (45.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (41.04%) DevOps
6 38 (28.36%) AI
7 37 (27.61%) Event-Driven
8 36 (26.87%) TDD
9 33 (24.63%) Scrum
10 31 (23.13%) Containerisation
11 29 (21.64%) Test Automation
12 26 (19.40%) Clean Code
12 26 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (19.40%) Mentoring
13 25 (18.66%) Observability
14 24 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (16.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (14.18%) Decision-Making
16 19 (14.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 18 (13.43%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 57 (42.54%) Java
2 40 (29.85%) JavaScript
3 37 (27.61%) Python
4 35 (26.12%) C#
5 31 (23.13%) SQL
5 31 (23.13%) TypeScript
6 10 (7.46%) Go
7 6 (4.48%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.48%) PHP
8 4 (2.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.72%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) Degree
5 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) MBA
6 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.73%) QA
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.64%) Terraform
3 9 (6.72%) Ansible
4 3 (2.24%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (4.48%) Adobe
1 6 (4.48%) AppDynamics
1 6 (4.48%) Splunk
2 5 (3.73%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle
4 3 (2.24%) Google
4 3 (2.24%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.24%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.49%) Pega
5 2 (1.49%) WSO2