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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 23 68
Rank change year-on-year -50 +45 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 147 222 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.00% 9.25% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 10.33% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 102 77 72
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +16.18% -10.74%
75th Percentile £99,375 £83,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £84,000
North West median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +10.71% +14.37% -5.84%

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 5,554 2,150 3,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.65% 89.55% 82.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,277 1,230 1,842
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,025
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,325 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 0 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -6 2 £70,000 -
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 (3.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.04%) Apache
2 3 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) nginx
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 95 (64.63%) AWS
2 32 (21.77%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) Serverless
4 18 (12.24%) GitHub
4 18 (12.24%) SaaS
5 14 (9.52%) GCP
6 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.40%) OpenShift
11 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.36%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (1.36%) LangSmith
13 2 (1.36%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.04%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.16%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.80%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.08%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.40%) MySQL
6 5 (3.40%) Redis
7 3 (2.04%) Big Data
7 3 (2.04%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.36%) Chroma
8 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.36%) Parquet
8 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 29 (19.73%) Git
2 24 (16.33%) GitLab
3 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.84%) JUnit
4 13 (8.84%) Spock
5 7 (4.76%) Maven
6 4 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.72%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.72%) Vite
7 2 (1.36%) JIRA
8 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 34 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Finance
3 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.12%) Marketing
6 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.36%) Advertising
8 2 (1.36%) iGaming
8 2 (1.36%) Publishing
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.17%) Senior
1 37 (25.17%) Software Engineer
2 34 (23.13%) Developer
2 34 (23.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 27 (18.37%) Lead
4 20 (13.61%) Architect
5 16 (10.88%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.48%) Java Engineer
7 11 (7.48%) Technical Leader
8 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Technical Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.29%) React
1 46 (31.29%) Spring
2 44 (29.93%) Node.js
3 38 (25.85%) AngularJS
4 33 (22.45%) .NET
5 32 (21.77%) Spring Boot
6 25 (17.01%) Terraform
7 18 (12.24%) Vue
8 17 (11.56%) REST
9 14 (9.52%) Kafka
10 11 (7.48%) RESTful
11 10 (6.80%) FastAPI
12 9 (6.12%) CSS
13 8 (5.44%) HTML
14 7 (4.76%) LangChain
15 6 (4.08%) Express.js
15 6 (4.08%) Flask
16 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
17 4 (2.72%) Backbone.js
17 4 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 42 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.84%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (5.44%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.40%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.36%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.36%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.36%) Podcast
10 1 (0.68%) Blog
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.68%) PMI
10 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Linux
2 7 (4.76%) CentOS
2 7 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.72%) VMS
4 3 (2.04%) Debian
4 3 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.34%) DevOps
3 73 (49.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 66 (44.90%) Software Engineering
5 60 (40.82%) Agile
6 58 (39.46%) AI
7 39 (26.53%) Test Automation
8 36 (24.49%) Observability
9 35 (23.81%) Mentoring
10 34 (23.13%) Event-Driven
11 31 (21.09%) Containerisation
12 30 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (18.37%) Code Quality
13 27 (18.37%) TDD
14 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (17.01%) Scrum
15 23 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (14.97%) Clean Code
16 22 (14.97%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Java
2 51 (34.69%) JavaScript
3 47 (31.97%) TypeScript
4 38 (25.85%) Python
5 26 (17.69%) SQL
6 24 (16.33%) C#
7 9 (6.12%) Go
8 8 (5.44%) Groovy
9 4 (2.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.36%) C++
10 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.48%) Degree
5 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.72%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) QA
2 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (32.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (25.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.16%) Ansible
3 3 (2.04%) Puppet
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.84%) AppDynamics
1 13 (8.84%) Splunk
2 9 (6.12%) Adobe
3 7 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.08%) Oracle
5 4 (2.72%) Mistral
6 3 (2.04%) Google
6 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.04%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.36%) Pega
7 2 (1.36%) WSO2
8 1 (0.68%) YouTube