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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -23 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 105 137 224
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.66% 6.19% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 6.45% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 71 105 181
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,946 2,123 3,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.58% 95.85% 88.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 1,230 3,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,719 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,875 £76,250 £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 12 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 2 (1.90%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) AWS
2 53 (50.48%) Azure
3 14 (13.33%) GCP
3 14 (13.33%) Serverless
4 13 (12.38%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.38%) SaaS
5 12 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.71%) IaaS
8 6 (5.71%) PaaS
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.95%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) AMQP
2 3 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.52%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.48%) MySQL
3 11 (10.48%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.76%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.81%) Big Data
6 4 (3.81%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.90%) GIS
8 2 (1.90%) QGIS
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Git
2 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.76%) JIRA
4 4 (3.81%) GitLab
5 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 21 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.81%) Banking
4 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.90%) Advertising
5 2 (1.90%) Billing
5 2 (1.90%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Senior
2 34 (32.38%) Software Engineer
3 31 (29.52%) Developer
4 17 (16.19%) Lead
5 13 (12.38%) Java Developer
6 12 (11.43%) .NET Developer
6 12 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (10.48%) Architect
7 11 (10.48%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.52%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.76%) .NET
2 29 (27.62%) Spring
3 28 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 23 (21.90%) React
5 21 (20.00%) RESTful
6 20 (19.05%) REST
7 18 (17.14%) AngularJS
8 17 (16.19%) Node.js
9 15 (14.29%) .NET Core
10 13 (12.38%) .NET Framework
11 10 (9.52%) CSS
11 10 (9.52%) HTML
12 9 (8.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (7.62%) Kafka
14 7 (6.67%) gRPC
14 7 (6.67%) Hibernate
15 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (4.76%) Akka
16 5 (4.76%) OAuth
16 5 (4.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.29%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.38%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.62%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (7.62%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.76%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.90%) Clustering
9 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
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 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) CentOS
2 4 (3.81%) Debian
2 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.90%) VMS
3 2 (1.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (63.81%) CI/CD
2 60 (57.14%) Agile
3 51 (48.57%) Software Engineering
4 43 (40.95%) Containerisation
5 39 (37.14%) DevOps
6 34 (32.38%) Scrum
7 28 (26.67%) TDD
8 26 (24.76%) Clean Code
8 26 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (20.95%) Design Patterns
11 21 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 20 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (18.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (17.14%) Mentoring
15 15 (14.29%) Open Source
15 15 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
16 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.90%) C#
2 39 (37.14%) Java
3 26 (24.76%) JavaScript
3 26 (24.76%) SQL
4 15 (14.29%) Python
5 11 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.71%) Go
7 5 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.86%) Erlang
9 2 (1.90%) PHP
10 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) Degree
4 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.95%) MBA
4 1 (0.95%) PhD
System Software
1 25 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (36.19%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.95%) Terraform
3 14 (13.33%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Puppet
5 3 (2.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) 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%) VMware
4 2 (1.90%) WSO2
5 1 (0.95%) Databricks