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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 22 64
Rank change year-on-year -54 +42 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 147 221 135
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.92% 9.31% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 10.42% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 99 77 72
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £42,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £95,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +12.00% -4.36%

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 5,833 2,121 3,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.22% 89.31% 83.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,385 1,189 1,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,900
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 - 1
Stockport -9 2 £70,000 - 1
Wigan 0 1 - - 3
Altrincham -2 1 - - 6
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%) CMS
3 2 (1.36%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 95 (64.63%) AWS
2 29 (19.73%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) GitHub
3 21 (14.29%) Serverless
4 16 (10.88%) SaaS
5 13 (8.84%) GCP
6 12 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.40%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.72%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.36%) LangSmith
12 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 10 (6.80%) MongoDB
1 10 (6.80%) Relational Database
2 8 (5.44%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.08%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.40%) Redis
6 4 (2.72%) Chroma
6 4 (2.72%) MySQL
6 4 (2.72%) Pinecone
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%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.36%) Parquet
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (19.05%) Git
2 27 (18.37%) GitLab
3 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.84%) JUnit
4 13 (8.84%) Spock
5 7 (4.76%) Maven
6 5 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.72%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.72%) Vite
8 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.33%) Finance
3 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.12%) Marketing
6 7 (4.76%) Publishing
7 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.36%) iGaming
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Senior
1 41 (27.89%) Software Engineer
2 35 (23.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 29 (19.73%) Developer
4 27 (18.37%) Lead
5 20 (13.61%) Architect
5 20 (13.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Java Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Technical Leader
8 11 (7.48%) Technical Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Cloud Architect
10 8 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (5.44%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (34.01%) React
2 47 (31.97%) Spring
3 42 (28.57%) Node.js
4 33 (22.45%) AngularJS
5 30 (20.41%) Spring Boot
6 29 (19.73%) .NET
7 23 (15.65%) Terraform
8 22 (14.97%) Kafka
9 16 (10.88%) REST
10 15 (10.20%) Vue
11 12 (8.16%) FastAPI
12 9 (6.12%) LangChain
12 9 (6.12%) RESTful
13 8 (5.44%) CSS
14 7 (4.76%) HTML
15 6 (4.08%) CrewAI
15 6 (4.08%) Express.js
15 6 (4.08%) Flask
15 6 (4.08%) LangGraph
16 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 58 (39.46%) Cloud Native
2 38 (25.85%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.84%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.76%) AI Agents
5 7 (4.76%) Media Streaming
5 7 (4.76%) Podcast
6 5 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.36%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Blog
8 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.68%) PMI
8 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.84%) Linux
2 8 (5.44%) CentOS
2 8 (5.44%) 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
1 100 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 75 (51.02%) DevOps
3 72 (48.98%) Software Engineering
4 71 (48.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (42.86%) AI
6 62 (42.18%) Agile
7 44 (29.93%) Observability
8 41 (27.89%) Mentoring
9 39 (26.53%) Test Automation
10 36 (24.49%) Containerisation
10 36 (24.49%) Event-Driven
11 32 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (20.41%) Code Quality
13 29 (19.73%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (14.29%) TDD
17 20 (13.61%) Clean Code
17 20 (13.61%) Front End Development
17 20 (13.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (45.58%) Java
2 56 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 46 (31.29%) JavaScript
4 40 (27.21%) Python
5 24 (16.33%) SQL
6 21 (14.29%) C#
7 9 (6.12%) Go
8 8 (5.44%) Groovy
9 4 (2.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.36%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.56%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.80%) Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) MBA
6 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 51 (34.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (31.29%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) 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
2 9 (6.12%) OpenAI
3 6 (4.08%) Mistral
3 6 (4.08%) Oracle
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.04%) Google
5 3 (2.04%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.04%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.68%) YouTube