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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 64 45
Rank change year-on-year +41 -19 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 223 129 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.35% 3.18% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 3.86% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 76 72 123
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,813 £80,021
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,975 £87,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £61,206 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.37% -5.84% +8.33%

All Process and 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 2,133 3,343 2,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.47% 82.46% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,812 2,119
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,997 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,463 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 14 September 2025.

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 14 September 2025. 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
Altrincham -1 11 £55,000 - 1
Stockport +12 9 - -
Oldham - 9 - -
Sale - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - -
Bury +2 7 £52,500 -12.50%
Cheadle - 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Bolton +2 3 - - 1
Salford - 3 - - 1
Wigan - 3 - -
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.73%) Confluence
2 3 (1.35%) IIS
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 197 (88.34%) AWS
2 161 (72.20%) Azure
3 119 (53.36%) GCP
4 11 (4.93%) GitHub
5 10 (4.48%) Serverless
6 9 (4.04%) SaaS
7 7 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.35%) Apigee
10 3 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.35%) CloudFront
10 3 (1.35%) Firebase
10 3 (1.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.35%) IaaS
10 3 (1.35%) PaaS
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.87%) SQL Server
2 45 (20.18%) NoSQL
3 33 (14.80%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.69%) MySQL
6 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.45%) Big Data
8 1 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.45%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (17.04%) GitLab
1 38 (17.04%) JIRA
2 35 (15.70%) Cucumber
2 35 (15.70%) Selenium
3 30 (13.45%) Maven
3 30 (13.45%) SonarQube
3 30 (13.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 27 (12.11%) Bitbucket
5 16 (7.17%) Git
6 8 (3.59%) JUnit
7 7 (3.14%) Jenkins
8 5 (2.24%) JMeter
9 3 (1.35%) Jasmine
9 3 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.90%) Gatling
11 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 110 (49.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (21.08%) Finance
3 33 (14.80%) Retail
4 31 (13.90%) Banking
5 18 (8.07%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (8.07%) Investment Banking
6 14 (6.28%) Social Skills
7 7 (3.14%) Back Office
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Marketing
9 1 (0.45%) Billing
9 1 (0.45%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Law
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 141 (63.23%) Software Engineer
2 124 (55.61%) Senior
3 97 (43.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (15.25%) Developer
5 23 (10.31%) Lead
6 20 (8.97%) .NET Developer
7 19 (8.52%) Architect
8 16 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (6.28%) Senior Architect
10 13 (5.83%) AWS Architect
10 13 (5.83%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (5.83%) AWS Solution Architect
10 13 (5.83%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.38%) DevOps Architect
11 12 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (5.38%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 12 (5.38%) TOGAF Architect
12 9 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (4.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (54.26%) .NET
2 86 (38.57%) Node.js
3 52 (23.32%) Spring
4 51 (22.87%) Spring Boot
5 49 (21.97%) Kafka
6 47 (21.08%) React
7 41 (18.39%) CSS
7 41 (18.39%) HTML
8 36 (16.14%) RESTful
9 30 (13.45%) REST
10 27 (12.11%) JPA
10 27 (12.11%) Redux
11 24 (10.76%) Sass
12 21 (9.42%) HTML5
13 19 (8.52%) AngularJS
14 18 (8.07%) CSS3
14 18 (8.07%) Jest
15 17 (7.62%) .NET Core
15 17 (7.62%) Hibernate
16 15 (6.73%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 82 (36.77%) Cyberattack
1 82 (36.77%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (36.77%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (18.39%) Product Ownership
3 32 (14.35%) Cloud Native
4 27 (12.11%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.38%) Management Information System
7 11 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (4.04%) Clustering
9 6 (2.69%) Wiki
10 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
13 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
13 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.45%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 91 (40.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (77.13%) Agile
2 163 (73.09%) Software Engineering
3 119 (53.36%) Mentoring
4 110 (49.33%) User Experience
5 91 (40.81%) Scrum
6 89 (39.91%) CI/CD
7 84 (37.67%) Cloud Security
7 84 (37.67%) Machine Learning
8 83 (37.22%) Data Engineering
8 83 (37.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 80 (35.87%) DevOps
10 71 (31.84%) Containerisation
11 49 (21.97%) Full-Stack Development
12 44 (19.73%) Roadmaps
13 41 (18.39%) Performance Optimisation
14 40 (17.94%) Test Automation
15 38 (17.04%) SDLC
16 36 (16.14%) Front End Development
17 33 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (13.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 153 (68.61%) Java
2 136 (60.99%) JavaScript
3 107 (47.98%) Python
4 87 (39.01%) Go
5 83 (37.22%) C++
6 82 (36.77%) Rust
7 58 (26.01%) SQL
8 52 (23.32%) C#
9 36 (16.14%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.35%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) Bash
12 1 (0.45%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (43.05%) AWS Certification
2 94 (42.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 84 (37.67%) Security Cleared
4 83 (37.22%) DV Cleared
5 82 (36.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 12 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.80%) QA
2 20 (8.97%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.28%) GDPR
4 12 (5.38%) HIPAA
4 12 (5.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 80 (35.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 72 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.97%) Terraform
3 3 (1.35%) Ansible
3 3 (1.35%) Grafana
3 3 (1.35%) Istio
4 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.90%) Puppet
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (12.11%) Solace
2 13 (5.83%) Google
3 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.35%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.45%) Ping Identity