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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 63 31
Rank change year-on-year +19 -32 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 110 129 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.77% 3.73% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.67% 4.20% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 76 79 117
10th Percentile £52,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -11.44% +8.58%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,625 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%

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 1,939 3,070 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.08% 88.73% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 1,429 1,743
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,400 £33,550
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +6.37%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +3.54%

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 1 December 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 1 December 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
Bury -3 2 £52,500 -12.50%
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 3 (2.73%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 72 (65.45%) AWS
2 59 (53.64%) Azure
3 25 (22.73%) GCP
4 15 (13.64%) SaaS
5 13 (11.82%) Serverless
6 8 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.36%) IaaS
7 7 (6.36%) PaaS
8 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.64%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.64%) GitHub
11 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.73%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.91%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) HTTP
2 2 (1.82%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.09%) NoSQL
2 24 (21.82%) MongoDB
3 20 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 11 (10.00%) MySQL
5 7 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.73%) Big Data
8 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.91%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Git
2 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.55%) GitLab
4 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) JUnit
5 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.82%) Gatling
5 2 (1.82%) JMeter
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.91%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.91%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.73%) Finance
3 8 (7.27%) Retail
4 2 (1.82%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.82%) Back Office
4 2 (1.82%) Billing
4 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (0.91%) Digital Health
5 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.91%) Law
5 1 (0.91%) Legal
5 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (36.36%) Developer
2 35 (31.82%) Senior
3 29 (26.36%) Software Engineer
4 23 (20.91%) Lead
5 18 (16.36%) .NET Developer
6 17 (15.45%) Architect
7 15 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (10.91%) Lead Developer
8 12 (10.91%) Senior Developer
8 12 (10.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (10.00%) Java Developer
10 9 (8.18%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (7.27%) Senior Architect
11 8 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (6.36%) AWS Architect
12 7 (6.36%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (6.36%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (6.36%) Lead .NET Developer
13 6 (5.45%) DevOps Architect
13 6 (5.45%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (43.64%) .NET
2 24 (21.82%) Spring
2 24 (21.82%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.09%) AngularJS
3 21 (19.09%) React
4 17 (15.45%) .NET Core
5 16 (14.55%) RESTful
6 14 (12.73%) REST
7 13 (11.82%) Kafka
8 11 (10.00%) CSS
8 11 (10.00%) HTML
9 10 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
10 9 (8.18%) .NET Framework
10 9 (8.18%) Hibernate
11 8 (7.27%) Node.js
12 6 (5.45%) Blazor
12 6 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (5.45%) Vue
13 5 (4.55%) Akka.NET
13 5 (4.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.64%) Cloud Native
2 26 (23.64%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.36%) Clustering
5 7 (6.36%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (5.45%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.91%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.82%) CentOS
3 2 (1.82%) Debian
3 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 56 (50.91%) Agile
3 51 (46.36%) Software Engineering
4 49 (44.55%) Containerisation
5 46 (41.82%) DevOps
6 29 (26.36%) Roadmaps
7 27 (24.55%) Clean Code
7 27 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (21.82%) Mentoring
9 21 (19.09%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
11 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (16.36%) TDD
13 17 (15.45%) Event-Driven
13 17 (15.45%) Scrum
14 16 (14.55%) Design Patterns
15 14 (12.73%) Enterprise Architecture
15 14 (12.73%) Unit Testing
16 13 (11.82%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.09%) C#
2 36 (32.73%) Java
3 26 (23.64%) SQL
4 25 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.45%) Python
6 12 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.73%) Erlang
7 3 (2.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.91%) Bash
8 1 (0.91%) Go
8 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (7.27%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (5.45%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.27%) GDPR
2 6 (5.45%) HIPAA
2 6 (5.45%) NIST
3 4 (3.64%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (39.09%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.82%) vSphere
3 1 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 41 (37.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.27%) Terraform
3 12 (10.91%) Ansible
4 4 (3.64%) Puppet
5 2 (1.82%) Grafana
5 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.91%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (8.18%) Google
2 7 (6.36%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.82%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.82%) VMware
4 1 (0.91%) Databricks
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.91%) Pega
4 1 (0.91%) WSO2