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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 106 133 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.82% 5.76% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 6.02% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 75 99 174
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £56,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +5.45% +5.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +7.69% -

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 2,827 2,208 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.17% 95.63% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,157 2,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 4 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Manchester

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 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 58 (54.72%) AWS
2 53 (50.00%) Azure
3 15 (14.15%) GCP
4 14 (13.21%) SaaS
5 12 (11.32%) Azure AKS
6 11 (10.38%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (10.38%) Serverless
7 8 (7.55%) IaaS
7 8 (7.55%) PaaS
8 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
14 1 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) AMQP
1 4 (3.77%) HTTP
2 1 (0.94%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.19%) NoSQL
2 17 (16.04%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.38%) MySQL
4 10 (9.43%) SQL Server
5 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.77%) Big Data
7 4 (3.77%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (3.77%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Git
2 6 (5.66%) JIRA
3 4 (3.77%) GitLab
3 4 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.77%) JUnit
4 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 4 (3.77%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.77%) Banking
4 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.83%) Billing
5 2 (1.89%) Advertising
5 2 (1.89%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (35.85%) Senior
2 34 (32.08%) Software Engineer
3 30 (28.30%) Developer
4 16 (15.09%) Lead
5 14 (13.21%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (11.32%) .NET Developer
6 12 (11.32%) Architect
6 12 (11.32%) Java Developer
7 11 (10.38%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (8.49%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) Lead Developer
11 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.60%) Lead Software Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (5.66%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (42.45%) .NET
2 30 (28.30%) Spring
3 29 (27.36%) Spring Boot
4 22 (20.75%) React
5 21 (19.81%) RESTful
6 20 (18.87%) AngularJS
6 20 (18.87%) REST
7 15 (14.15%) .NET Core
8 12 (11.32%) .NET Framework
8 12 (11.32%) Node.js
9 11 (10.38%) CSS
9 11 (10.38%) HTML
9 11 (10.38%) Kafka
10 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET Web API
11 8 (7.55%) gRPC
12 7 (6.60%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (4.72%) Akka
14 5 (4.72%) Akka.NET
14 5 (4.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.08%) Cloud Native
2 26 (24.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.55%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.72%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.83%) Clustering
7 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.94%) IoT
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) CentOS
2 4 (3.77%) Debian
2 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.89%) VMS
3 2 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.32%) CI/CD
2 59 (55.66%) Agile
3 54 (50.94%) Software Engineering
4 46 (43.40%) Containerisation
5 37 (34.91%) DevOps
6 30 (28.30%) Scrum
7 28 (26.42%) TDD
8 26 (24.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (23.58%) Clean Code
10 23 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (19.81%) Mentoring
12 19 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (17.92%) Event-Driven
13 18 (16.98%) Design Patterns
13 18 (16.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 16 (15.09%) SDLC
14 16 (15.09%) Unit Testing
15 15 (14.15%) Performance Optimisation
15 15 (14.15%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) C#
2 39 (36.79%) Java
3 25 (23.58%) SQL
4 24 (22.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.26%) Python
6 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.66%) Go
8 5 (4.72%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.83%) Erlang
10 2 (1.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.94%) Degree
4 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.94%) MBA
4 1 (0.94%) PhD
System Software
1 24 (22.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (33.96%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.92%) Terraform
3 13 (12.26%) Ansible
4 4 (3.77%) Puppet
5 3 (2.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.77%) Google
2 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.77%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.89%) Pega
3 2 (1.89%) VMware
4 1 (0.94%) Databricks
4 1 (0.94%) WSO2