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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 61 42
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 217 134 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 9.29% 3.46% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.45% 4.08% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 73 73 129
10th Percentile £53,750 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £94,250 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +12.50%

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 2,076 3,283 2,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 84.74% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,555 1,995
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,250 £43,800
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 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
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 15 October 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 15 October 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
Stockport +11 9 - -
Altrincham +2 9 - -
Oldham - 9 - -
Sale - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 8 - -
Bury +1 7 £52,500 -12.50%
Cheadle - 6 - -
Heywood - 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Dukinfield - 5 - -
Bolton +6 3 - - 2
Salford - 3 - - 1
Wigan - 3 - -
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 15 (6.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 192 (88.48%) AWS
2 160 (73.73%) Azure
3 116 (53.46%) GCP
4 10 (4.61%) GitHub
4 10 (4.61%) Serverless
5 9 (4.15%) SaaS
6 6 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.84%) IaaS
7 4 (1.84%) PaaS
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.38%) CloudFront
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.92%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.46%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (23.96%) SQL Server
2 34 (15.67%) MongoDB
2 34 (15.67%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.23%) MySQL
5 4 (1.84%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.46%) Big Data
7 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.46%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (16.59%) GitLab
2 35 (16.13%) Cucumber
2 35 (16.13%) JIRA
2 35 (16.13%) Selenium
3 27 (12.44%) Bitbucket
3 27 (12.44%) Maven
3 27 (12.44%) SonarQube
3 27 (12.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (4.15%) Git
5 5 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.38%) Jasmine
6 3 (1.38%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (0.92%) Gatling
7 2 (0.92%) JMeter
7 2 (0.92%) JUnit
8 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 110 (50.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (19.35%) Finance
3 30 (13.82%) Retail
4 28 (12.90%) Banking
5 18 (8.29%) Corporate Banking
5 18 (8.29%) Investment Banking
6 16 (7.37%) Social Skills
7 5 (2.30%) Back Office
8 2 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Billing
8 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 135 (62.21%) Software Engineer
2 121 (55.76%) Senior
3 93 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (17.97%) Developer
5 22 (10.14%) .NET Developer
5 22 (10.14%) Lead
6 17 (7.83%) Architect
7 15 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.99%) Lead Developer
9 12 (5.53%) Senior Architect
9 12 (5.53%) Senior Developer
10 11 (5.07%) AWS Architect
10 11 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (5.07%) AWS Solution Architect
10 11 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.61%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (4.61%) Lead .NET Developer
11 10 (4.61%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (4.61%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.61%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (56.22%) .NET
2 86 (39.63%) Node.js
3 52 (23.96%) Spring
4 51 (23.50%) Spring Boot
5 47 (21.66%) Kafka
6 44 (20.28%) React
7 35 (16.13%) CSS
7 35 (16.13%) HTML
8 29 (13.36%) RESTful
9 28 (12.90%) REST
10 27 (12.44%) JPA
10 27 (12.44%) Redux
11 21 (9.68%) HTML5
11 21 (9.68%) Sass
12 18 (8.29%) AngularJS
12 18 (8.29%) CSS3
12 18 (8.29%) Jest
13 17 (7.83%) Hibernate
14 16 (7.37%) .NET Core
15 12 (5.53%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 82 (37.79%) Cyberattack
1 82 (37.79%) Linux Command Line
1 82 (37.79%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (16.13%) Product Ownership
3 30 (13.82%) Cloud Native
4 28 (12.90%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.61%) Clustering
7 10 (4.61%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.76%) Wiki
9 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.46%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 89 (41.01%) Linux
2 2 (0.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (75.12%) Agile
2 157 (72.35%) Software Engineering
3 120 (55.30%) Mentoring
4 108 (49.77%) User Experience
5 95 (43.78%) Scrum
6 87 (40.09%) CI/CD
7 85 (39.17%) Cloud Security
8 83 (38.25%) Data Engineering
8 83 (38.25%) Machine Learning
8 83 (38.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 74 (34.10%) DevOps
10 73 (33.64%) Containerisation
11 46 (21.20%) Performance Optimisation
12 44 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
13 40 (18.43%) Roadmaps
14 38 (17.51%) Test Automation
15 37 (17.05%) SDLC
16 36 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (16.13%) Front End Development
18 30 (13.82%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 150 (69.12%) Java
2 126 (58.06%) JavaScript
3 100 (46.08%) Python
4 84 (38.71%) Go
5 83 (38.25%) C++
6 82 (37.79%) Rust
7 51 (23.50%) C#
8 50 (23.04%) SQL
9 30 (13.82%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.38%) Erlang
10 3 (1.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Bash
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (43.32%) AWS Certification
2 92 (42.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 84 (38.71%) Security Cleared
4 83 (38.25%) DV Cleared
5 82 (37.79%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.29%) QA
2 18 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.53%) GDPR
4 10 (4.61%) HIPAA
4 10 (4.61%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 72 (33.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) HDFS
2 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (30.88%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.37%) Terraform
3 6 (2.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.92%) Grafana
4 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (12.44%) Solace
2 11 (5.07%) Google
3 4 (1.84%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.46%) Pega
4 1 (0.46%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.46%) VMware
4 1 (0.46%) WSO2