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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 22 58
Rank change year-on-year -38 +36 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 145 241 195
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.28% 9.93% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 10.61% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 110 90 149
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year 0.00% +16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £96,563 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,100 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -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 4,640 2,271 4,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.06% 93.57% 83.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,675 1,314 3,479
10th Percentile £32,925 £29,825 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.46% -8.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,400
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.08% +1.78% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +1 6 £63,750 -
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 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.07%) Apache
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.07%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.38%) nginx
3 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 94 (64.83%) AWS
2 42 (28.97%) Azure
3 21 (14.48%) Serverless
4 15 (10.34%) GitHub
5 13 (8.97%) SaaS
6 11 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.59%) GCP
7 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.52%) Azure AKS
9 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.76%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (1.38%) LangSmith
13 2 (1.38%) npm
13 2 (1.38%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) AMQP
2 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.59%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.52%) MySQL
4 6 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.07%) Big Data
5 3 (2.07%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.07%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.07%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.07%) GIS
5 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.07%) QGIS
5 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.38%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.38%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.69%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (15.86%) Git
2 17 (11.72%) GitLab
3 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.52%) JUnit
4 8 (5.52%) Spock
5 4 (2.76%) JIRA
5 4 (2.76%) Vite
6 3 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.07%) Maven
7 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.69%) Mocha
General
1 30 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Finance
3 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.21%) Marketing
5 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.76%) Advertising
7 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.07%) Banking
7 3 (2.07%) Retail
8 2 (1.38%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.38%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Billing
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (33.10%) Software Engineer
2 38 (26.21%) Senior
3 32 (22.07%) Developer
4 24 (16.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 24 (16.55%) Lead
5 18 (12.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (11.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (8.97%) Architect
7 13 (8.97%) Java Developer
7 13 (8.97%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (8.28%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (6.90%) Java Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (33.10%) React
2 43 (29.66%) .NET
3 42 (28.97%) Node.js
3 42 (28.97%) Spring
4 34 (23.45%) AngularJS
5 33 (22.76%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.79%) RESTful
6 20 (13.79%) Vue
7 16 (11.03%) REST
8 10 (6.90%) CSS
8 10 (6.90%) FastAPI
8 10 (6.90%) HTML
9 8 (5.52%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.83%) Kafka
10 7 (4.83%) LangChain
11 6 (4.14%) Flask
12 5 (3.45%) AWS CDK
12 5 (3.45%) Express.js
12 5 (3.45%) OAuth
12 5 (3.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (36.55%) Cloud Native
2 38 (26.21%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.59%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.52%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (5.52%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.14%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.45%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.38%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.69%) PMI
10 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) CentOS
2 6 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.07%) Debian
3 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (62.76%) CI/CD
2 68 (46.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 68 (46.90%) Software Engineering
3 65 (44.83%) Agile
4 64 (44.14%) DevOps
5 46 (31.72%) AI
6 38 (26.21%) Event-Driven
7 34 (23.45%) TDD
8 33 (22.76%) Scrum
9 32 (22.07%) Test Automation
10 31 (21.38%) Containerisation
11 28 (19.31%) Observability
12 27 (18.62%) Clean Code
13 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (17.24%) Mentoring
15 24 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (13.79%) API Design
16 20 (13.79%) Decision-Making
16 20 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.07%) Java
2 46 (31.72%) JavaScript
3 41 (28.28%) Python
4 38 (26.21%) TypeScript
5 33 (22.76%) C#
6 31 (21.38%) SQL
7 11 (7.59%) Go
8 6 (4.14%) PHP
9 5 (3.45%) Groovy
10 4 (2.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) Degree
3 8 (5.52%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.07%) MBA
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) QA
2 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (23.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (23.45%) Kubernetes
2 29 (20.00%) Terraform
3 11 (7.59%) Ansible
4 3 (2.07%) Puppet
5 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (5.52%) Adobe
1 8 (5.52%) AppDynamics
1 8 (5.52%) Splunk
2 7 (4.83%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.76%) Oracle
4 3 (2.07%) Google
4 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.07%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.38%) Pega
5 2 (1.38%) WSO2