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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 27 73
Rank change year-on-year -26 +46 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 149 233 175
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.33% 9.39% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 10.13% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 115 83 131
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +18.45% -9.32%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,778 £97,500
North West median annual salary £75,000 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% +10.40% -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 4,698 2,299 4,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.39% 92.66% 82.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 1,325 3,173
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £78,957 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,300 £87,650 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 18 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 18 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 (3.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.01%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.34%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.34%) nginx
3 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 94 (63.09%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 20 (13.42%) Serverless
4 17 (11.41%) SaaS
5 15 (10.07%) GitHub
6 10 (6.71%) GCP
7 9 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (4.03%) Azure AKS
11 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.01%) Anthropic Claude
14 2 (1.34%) Amazon EventBridge
14 2 (1.34%) LangSmith
14 2 (1.34%) npm
14 2 (1.34%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) AMQP
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.08%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.38%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.03%) MySQL
4 6 (4.03%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.68%) Redis
7 3 (2.01%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.01%) GIS
7 3 (2.01%) QGIS
8 2 (1.34%) Big Data
8 2 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.34%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (14.77%) Git
2 17 (11.41%) GitLab
3 16 (10.74%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.04%) JUnit
4 9 (6.04%) Spock
5 4 (2.68%) JIRA
5 4 (2.68%) Vite
6 3 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.01%) Maven
7 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.67%) Mocha
General
1 30 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.44%) Finance
3 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.04%) Marketing
6 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.68%) Advertising
8 3 (2.01%) Banking
8 3 (2.01%) Retail
9 2 (1.34%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.34%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Billing
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 45 (30.20%) Software Engineer
2 37 (24.83%) Senior
3 31 (20.81%) Developer
4 29 (19.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 29 (19.46%) Lead
5 18 (12.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 17 (11.41%) Architect
7 14 (9.40%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.72%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (8.72%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (7.38%) Technical Leader
10 10 (6.71%) Java Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.04%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.04%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (5.37%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.20%) Node.js
1 45 (30.20%) React
2 41 (27.52%) .NET
2 41 (27.52%) Spring
3 34 (22.82%) AngularJS
4 32 (21.48%) Spring Boot
5 20 (13.42%) Vue
6 18 (12.08%) RESTful
7 13 (8.72%) REST
8 10 (6.71%) CSS
8 10 (6.71%) FastAPI
8 10 (6.71%) HTML
9 8 (5.37%) Kafka
10 7 (4.70%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.70%) LangChain
11 6 (4.03%) Flask
12 5 (3.36%) Express.js
12 5 (3.36%) Next.js
12 5 (3.36%) OAuth
12 5 (3.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (37.58%) Cloud Native
2 39 (26.17%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.04%) Marketing Technology
3 9 (6.04%) Private Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.34%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.37%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) CentOS
2 5 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.34%) Debian
3 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (63.76%) CI/CD
2 71 (47.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (45.64%) DevOps
4 65 (43.62%) Software Engineering
5 60 (40.27%) Agile
6 48 (32.21%) AI
7 39 (26.17%) Event-Driven
8 32 (21.48%) TDD
8 32 (21.48%) Test Automation
9 31 (20.81%) Containerisation
9 31 (20.81%) Scrum
10 29 (19.46%) Observability
11 28 (18.79%) Clean Code
12 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (18.12%) Mentoring
12 27 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.44%) Decision-Making
14 22 (14.77%) Code Quality
14 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (14.09%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 60 (40.27%) Java
2 48 (32.21%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.19%) TypeScript
4 40 (26.85%) Python
5 30 (20.13%) C#
6 29 (19.46%) SQL
7 9 (6.04%) Go
8 6 (4.03%) PHP
9 5 (3.36%) Groovy
10 4 (2.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.38%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.04%) Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.68%) MBA
7 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.70%) QA
2 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (23.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (21.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (17.45%) Terraform
3 10 (6.71%) Ansible
4 2 (1.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (6.04%) Adobe
1 9 (6.04%) AppDynamics
1 9 (6.04%) Splunk
2 7 (4.70%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle
4 2 (1.34%) Google
4 2 (1.34%) Pega
4 2 (1.34%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.34%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.34%) WSO2