Microservices Jobs in Manchester

Microservices
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 61 44
Rank change year-on-year +37 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 242 200 271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.80% 3.42% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.54% 4.09% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 90 149 158
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,100 £100,000 £95,000
North West median annual salary £67,037 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.26% -3.85% +12.07%

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 2,297 4,888 4,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 93.00% 83.56% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 3,477 2,516
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,159 £57,905
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% -8.20% +5.28%
75th Percentile £73,563 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,550 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Manchester.

Salary trend for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +2 11 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Stockport +17 9 - - 5
Oldham - 9 - - 1
Sale - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - - 9
Bury +9 7 £52,500 -16.00% 11
Cheadle - 6 - - 1
Heywood - 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Salford +19 3 - -
Bolton -9 3 - - 12
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 21 (8.68%) Confluence
2 3 (1.24%) Apache
2 3 (1.24%) GemFire
2 3 (1.24%) IIS
3 2 (0.83%) CMS
3 2 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 195 (80.58%) AWS
2 160 (66.12%) Azure
3 118 (48.76%) GCP
4 14 (5.79%) Serverless
5 11 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (4.55%) GitHub
6 7 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.07%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (2.07%) CloudFront
8 4 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.65%) SaaS
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.24%) Apigee
9 3 (1.24%) Firebase
9 3 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (20.66%) SQL Server
2 41 (16.94%) NoSQL
3 40 (16.53%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.31%) MySQL
6 6 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.24%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.24%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (1.24%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.24%) Redis
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.83%) Big Data
10 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.41%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 45 (18.60%) GitLab
2 43 (17.77%) JIRA
3 36 (14.88%) SonarQube
4 35 (14.46%) Cucumber
4 35 (14.46%) Selenium
5 30 (12.40%) Maven
5 30 (12.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 27 (11.16%) Bitbucket
7 22 (9.09%) Git
8 16 (6.61%) Jenkins
9 7 (2.89%) JUnit
10 5 (2.07%) Jasmine
10 5 (2.07%) JMeter
10 5 (2.07%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.83%) Gatling
General
1 109 (45.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 64 (26.45%) Finance
3 41 (16.94%) Banking
4 33 (13.64%) Retail
5 25 (10.33%) Social Skills
6 18 (7.44%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (7.44%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.89%) Back Office
8 3 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.24%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.41%) Cantonese Language
10 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.41%) Online Betting
10 1 (0.41%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 140 (57.85%) Software Engineer
2 118 (48.76%) Senior
3 90 (37.19%) Senior Software Engineer
4 32 (13.22%) Developer
5 29 (11.98%) Lead
6 19 (7.85%) .NET Developer
7 17 (7.02%) Architect
8 13 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.96%) Java Engineer
9 12 (4.96%) Senior Architect
10 11 (4.55%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
11 10 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.13%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (4.13%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.13%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.13%) Technical Leader
11 10 (4.13%) TOGAF Architect
12 9 (3.72%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (45.87%) .NET
2 94 (38.84%) Node.js
3 60 (24.79%) Kafka
4 59 (24.38%) Spring
5 49 (20.25%) Spring Boot
6 45 (18.60%) React
7 43 (17.77%) CSS
7 43 (17.77%) HTML
8 33 (13.64%) RESTful
9 27 (11.16%) JPA
9 27 (11.16%) Redux
9 27 (11.16%) REST
10 26 (10.74%) Sass
11 24 (9.92%) HTML5
12 19 (7.85%) CSS3
13 18 (7.44%) Jest
14 17 (7.02%) .NET Core
15 16 (6.61%) Hibernate
16 14 (5.79%) AngularJS
17 13 (5.37%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 83 (34.30%) Cyberattack
2 82 (33.88%) Linux Command Line
2 82 (33.88%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (17.36%) Product Ownership
4 27 (11.16%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (10.33%) Cloud Native
6 19 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.89%) Wiki
10 6 (2.48%) Clustering
11 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.24%) Derivative
13 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
13 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
14 2 (0.83%) Equities
14 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (38.02%) Linux
2 6 (2.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (74.79%) Agile
2 173 (71.49%) Software Engineering
3 118 (48.76%) Mentoring
4 114 (47.11%) User Experience
5 94 (38.84%) Scrum
6 92 (38.02%) DevOps
7 89 (36.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 87 (35.95%) CI/CD
9 86 (35.54%) Cloud Security
10 83 (34.30%) Data Engineering
10 83 (34.30%) Machine Learning
11 63 (26.03%) Containerisation
12 51 (21.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (18.18%) SDLC
13 44 (18.18%) Test Automation
14 41 (16.94%) Roadmaps
15 39 (16.12%) Performance Optimisation
15 39 (16.12%) TDD
16 38 (15.70%) Front End Development
17 35 (14.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 171 (70.66%) Java
2 139 (57.44%) JavaScript
3 110 (45.45%) Python
4 90 (37.19%) Go
5 83 (34.30%) C++
6 82 (33.88%) Rust
7 54 (22.31%) SQL
8 42 (17.36%) TypeScript
9 40 (16.53%) C#
10 6 (2.48%) PHP
11 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 94 (38.84%) AWS Certification
2 92 (38.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 85 (35.12%) Security Cleared
4 82 (33.88%) AWS Certified Developer
4 82 (33.88%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.31%) Degree
7 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.22%) QA
2 22 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 14 (5.79%) GDPR
3 14 (5.79%) HIPAA
4 10 (4.13%) NIST
5 4 (1.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (34.71%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (34.30%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.74%) Terraform
3 6 (2.48%) Grafana
4 3 (1.24%) Istio
5 2 (0.83%) Kibana
5 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (12.40%) Solace
2 17 (7.02%) Google
3 4 (1.65%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle
4 3 (1.24%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.83%) Ping Identity
5 2 (0.83%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow