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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 57 32
Rank change year-on-year +13 -25 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 135 180
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.53% 3.75% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 4.34% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 76 78 120
10th Percentile £53,125 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -13.93% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,625 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 2,043 3,112 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.84% 86.52% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 1,427 1,793
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,850 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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% 4
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 (2.75%) Apache
1 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 75 (68.81%) AWS
2 58 (53.21%) Azure
3 25 (22.94%) GCP
4 14 (12.84%) SaaS
5 12 (11.01%) Serverless
6 7 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.42%) GitHub
7 6 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.50%) IaaS
7 6 (5.50%) PaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.92%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) AMQP
2 1 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.28%) NoSQL
2 25 (22.94%) MongoDB
3 20 (18.35%) SQL Server
4 10 (9.17%) MySQL
5 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.75%) Big Data
7 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.92%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) Git
2 7 (6.42%) GitLab
3 6 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.59%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.59%) Selenium
5 4 (3.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.83%) Gatling
6 2 (1.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.92%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.93%) Finance
3 8 (7.34%) Retail
4 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.83%) Back Office
4 2 (1.83%) Billing
4 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Marketing
5 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.92%) Digital Health
5 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.92%) Law
5 1 (0.92%) Legal
5 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (34.86%) Developer
2 34 (31.19%) Senior
3 31 (28.44%) Software Engineer
4 24 (22.02%) Lead
5 18 (16.51%) .NET Developer
6 17 (15.60%) Architect
7 15 (13.76%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (11.93%) Lead Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (9.17%) Senior Developer
11 9 (8.26%) Java Developer
11 9 (8.26%) Senior Architect
11 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (7.34%) AWS Architect
12 8 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (7.34%) AWS Solution Architect
12 8 (7.34%) Lead .NET Developer
12 8 (7.34%) Senior .NET Developer
13 7 (6.42%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (6.42%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.04%) .NET
2 24 (22.02%) Spring
2 24 (22.02%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.27%) React
4 18 (16.51%) AngularJS
5 16 (14.68%) .NET Core
6 14 (12.84%) Kafka
7 12 (11.01%) RESTful
8 11 (10.09%) REST
9 9 (8.26%) .NET Framework
9 9 (8.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (8.26%) Hibernate
10 8 (7.34%) CSS
10 8 (7.34%) HTML
11 7 (6.42%) Blazor
11 7 (6.42%) Node.js
12 6 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (5.50%) Vue
13 5 (4.59%) Akka
13 5 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (22.02%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.01%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (7.34%) Clustering
4 8 (7.34%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.50%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.75%) Wiki
8 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) CentOS
3 2 (1.83%) Debian
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.63%) CI/CD
2 56 (51.38%) Agile
3 54 (49.54%) Software Engineering
4 50 (45.87%) Containerisation
5 47 (43.12%) DevOps
6 32 (29.36%) Roadmaps
7 28 (25.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (24.77%) Clean Code
9 25 (22.94%) Mentoring
10 23 (21.10%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (19.27%) TDD
12 20 (18.35%) Event-Driven
12 20 (18.35%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (13.76%) Scrum
16 14 (12.84%) Design Patterns
16 14 (12.84%) Enterprise Architecture
16 14 (12.84%) Performance Engineering
17 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.46%) C#
2 36 (33.03%) Java
3 27 (24.77%) SQL
4 21 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.60%) Python
6 10 (9.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.75%) Erlang
7 3 (2.75%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
8 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) AWS Certification
2 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (6.42%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) GDPR
2 7 (6.42%) HIPAA
2 7 (6.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 46 (42.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.83%) vSphere
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (40.37%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.51%) Terraform
3 10 (9.17%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Google
2 6 (5.50%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.83%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.92%) Pega
4 1 (0.92%) WSO2