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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 41 57
Rank change year-on-year -32 +16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 105 133 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.01% 6.37% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 6.68% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 72 104 174
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,938 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,374 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,757
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,750 £100,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 3,802 1,991 4,243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.86% 95.40% 86.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 1,263 3,398
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £53,200 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% +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 29 April 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 62 (59.05%) AWS
2 53 (50.48%) Azure
3 14 (13.33%) Serverless
4 13 (12.38%) Azure AKS
5 12 (11.43%) SaaS
6 11 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (10.48%) GCP
7 10 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.76%) IaaS
9 5 (4.76%) PaaS
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) AMQP
2 3 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.52%) MySQL
2 10 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.81%) Big Data
5 4 (3.81%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.86%) GIS
6 3 (2.86%) QGIS
6 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Git
2 8 (7.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 6 (5.71%) GitLab
5 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
6 2 (1.90%) Vite
7 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.81%) Advertising
4 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.81%) Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Retail
6 2 (1.90%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Billing
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 33 (31.43%) Senior
3 25 (23.81%) Developer
4 14 (13.33%) Lead
5 13 (12.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.48%) Architect
7 10 (9.52%) .NET Software Engineer
7 10 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (8.57%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.71%) C# Developer
11 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.71%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (41.90%) .NET
2 31 (29.52%) React
3 29 (27.62%) Spring
4 28 (26.67%) Spring Boot
5 25 (23.81%) RESTful
6 23 (21.90%) Node.js
7 19 (18.10%) AngularJS
7 19 (18.10%) REST
8 13 (12.38%) .NET Framework
9 11 (10.48%) CSS
9 11 (10.48%) HTML
10 10 (9.52%) .NET Core
11 7 (6.67%) gRPC
11 7 (6.67%) Vue
11 7 (6.67%) Web Services
12 6 (5.71%) OAuth
12 6 (5.71%) OAuth2
13 5 (4.76%) AWS CDK
14 4 (3.81%) Material-UI
14 4 (3.81%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 37 (35.24%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.62%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.71%) Mobile App
7 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.95%) IoT
10 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) CentOS
2 4 (3.81%) Debian
2 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (63.81%) CI/CD
2 62 (59.05%) Agile
3 56 (53.33%) Software Engineering
4 38 (36.19%) DevOps
5 36 (34.29%) Containerisation
6 33 (31.43%) TDD
7 31 (29.52%) Scrum
8 30 (28.57%) Event-Driven
8 30 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (23.81%) Design Patterns
10 23 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (20.95%) Clean Code
11 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (17.14%) Mentoring
14 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (14.29%) AI
16 14 (13.33%) Open Source
16 14 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (13.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.05%) C#
2 39 (37.14%) Java
3 27 (25.71%) JavaScript
3 27 (25.71%) SQL
4 18 (17.14%) Python
5 17 (16.19%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.62%) Go
7 6 (5.71%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Degree
5 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.95%) MBA
5 1 (0.95%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) QA
System Software
1 25 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 23 (21.90%) Terraform
3 10 (9.52%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Puppet
5 3 (2.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.81%) Google
2 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.81%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.86%) Pega
4 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.90%) WSO2
5 1 (0.95%) Databricks