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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 28 72
Rank change year-on-year -30 +44 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 146 233 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.26% 9.34% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 10.10% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 112 83 121
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,778 £95,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% +10.40% -3.85%

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 4,742 2,307 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.50% 92.46% 82.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,752 1,328 2,990
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £79,813 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,925 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 22 July 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 22 July 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 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.05%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.37%) Apache
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.37%) nginx
3 2 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.01%) AWS
2 36 (24.66%) Azure
3 19 (13.01%) Serverless
4 17 (11.64%) SaaS
5 16 (10.96%) GitHub
6 9 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.16%) GCP
7 8 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.42%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.37%) LangSmith
12 2 (1.37%) npm
12 2 (1.37%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.53%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.11%) MySQL
4 6 (4.11%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.74%) Redis
7 3 (2.05%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.05%) GIS
7 3 (2.05%) QGIS
8 2 (1.37%) Big Data
8 2 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (15.07%) Git
2 17 (11.64%) GitLab
3 16 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.16%) JUnit
4 9 (6.16%) Spock
5 4 (2.74%) JIRA
5 4 (2.74%) Vite
6 3 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.05%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 30 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.07%) Finance
3 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.16%) Marketing
6 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Advertising
8 3 (2.05%) Banking
8 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (29.45%) Software Engineer
2 35 (23.97%) Senior
3 30 (20.55%) Developer
4 29 (19.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 29 (19.86%) Lead
5 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (11.64%) Architect
7 13 (8.90%) Principal Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (8.22%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (7.53%) Technical Leader
10 10 (6.85%) Java Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.16%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 8 (5.48%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.14%) React
2 43 (29.45%) Node.js
3 40 (27.40%) .NET
3 40 (27.40%) Spring
4 34 (23.29%) AngularJS
5 31 (21.23%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.70%) Vue
7 17 (11.64%) RESTful
8 12 (8.22%) REST
9 10 (6.85%) CSS
9 10 (6.85%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.85%) HTML
10 8 (5.48%) Kafka
11 7 (4.79%) LangChain
12 6 (4.11%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.11%) Flask
13 5 (3.42%) Express.js
13 5 (3.42%) OAuth
13 5 (3.42%) OAuth2
14 4 (2.74%) Backbone.js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.67%) Cloud Native
2 38 (26.03%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.16%) Marketing Technology
3 9 (6.16%) Private Cloud
4 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.79%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.42%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.37%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.48%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) CentOS
2 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.37%) Debian
3 2 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 71 (48.63%) Full-Stack Development
3 67 (45.89%) DevOps
4 64 (43.84%) Software Engineering
5 57 (39.04%) Agile
6 48 (32.88%) AI
7 38 (26.03%) Event-Driven
8 32 (21.92%) TDD
8 32 (21.92%) Test Automation
9 30 (20.55%) Containerisation
10 29 (19.86%) Observability
10 29 (19.86%) Scrum
11 28 (19.18%) Mentoring
12 26 (17.81%) Clean Code
12 26 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (15.07%) Code Quality
13 22 (15.07%) Decision-Making
14 21 (14.38%) API Design
14 21 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 59 (40.41%) Java
2 46 (31.51%) JavaScript
3 40 (27.40%) Python
3 40 (27.40%) TypeScript
4 29 (19.86%) C#
5 28 (19.18%) SQL
6 9 (6.16%) Go
7 6 (4.11%) PHP
8 5 (3.42%) Groovy
9 4 (2.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.16%) Degree
5 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.74%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (23.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (21.23%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.12%) Terraform
3 10 (6.85%) Ansible
4 2 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (6.16%) Adobe
1 9 (6.16%) AppDynamics
1 9 (6.16%) Splunk
2 7 (4.79%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 2 (1.37%) Google
4 2 (1.37%) Pega
4 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.37%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.37%) WSO2