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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 60 56
Rank change year-on-year +39 -4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 232 206 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.40% 3.98% 6.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.92% 4.60% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 107 171 168
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,759 £81,563
90th Percentile £98,300 £100,000 £95,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £66,728
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.59% +15.05%

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 2,124 4,475 4,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.20% 86.37% 96.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 3,415 2,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,857 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +6 10 £55,000 +10.00% 10
Stockport +15 8 - - 3
Oldham - 8 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 7 - - 6
Cheadle - 6 - - 4
Heywood - 6 - -
Bury +7 5 - - 6
Sale - 5 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Bolton -14 3 £47,500 - 9
Dukinfield - 3 - -
Salford +13 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
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 19 (8.19%) Confluence
2 3 (1.29%) Apache
2 3 (1.29%) GemFire
2 3 (1.29%) IIS
3 2 (0.86%) CMS
3 2 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 171 (73.71%) AWS
2 144 (62.07%) Azure
3 112 (48.28%) GCP
4 15 (6.47%) Serverless
5 13 (5.60%) SaaS
6 10 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.16%) GitHub
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.72%) CloudFront
10 4 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.29%) Apigee
11 3 (1.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.95%) MongoDB
2 35 (15.09%) SQL Server
3 33 (14.22%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.88%) MySQL
5 8 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.59%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.16%) Redis
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.29%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.29%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.29%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (1.29%) Metadata
8 3 (1.29%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.86%) Big Data
10 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.43%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 31 (13.36%) JIRA
1 31 (13.36%) SonarQube
2 30 (12.93%) GitLab
3 23 (9.91%) Git
4 21 (9.05%) Maven
4 21 (9.05%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (7.76%) Bitbucket
5 18 (7.76%) Cucumber
5 18 (7.76%) Selenium
6 15 (6.47%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.59%) JUnit
8 4 (1.72%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
9 3 (1.29%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Storybook
General
1 95 (40.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 56 (24.14%) Finance
3 37 (15.95%) Banking
4 32 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 22 (9.48%) Retail
6 11 (4.74%) Law
7 9 (3.88%) Corporate Banking
7 9 (3.88%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.16%) Back Office
9 3 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.29%) Games
9 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (0.86%) Front Office
10 2 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.86%) Marketing
10 2 (0.86%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.43%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 125 (53.88%) Software Engineer
2 103 (44.40%) Senior
3 84 (36.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 37 (15.95%) Lead
5 28 (12.07%) Developer
6 17 (7.33%) .NET Developer
7 16 (6.90%) Architect
8 12 (5.17%) Technical Leader
9 8 (3.45%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.02%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (3.02%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (2.59%) Senior Architect
12 5 (2.16%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.16%) Engineering Manager
13 4 (1.72%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (47.41%) .NET
2 102 (43.97%) Node.js
3 44 (18.97%) Spring
4 43 (18.53%) React
5 42 (18.10%) Kafka
6 32 (13.79%) CSS
6 32 (13.79%) HTML
7 31 (13.36%) Spring Boot
8 25 (10.78%) RESTful
9 20 (8.62%) Redux
10 19 (8.19%) .NET Core
11 18 (7.76%) JPA
12 17 (7.33%) REST
13 16 (6.90%) Sass
14 15 (6.47%) Hibernate
14 15 (6.47%) HTML5
15 13 (5.60%) AngularJS
16 11 (4.74%) CSS3
17 9 (3.88%) Jest
18 8 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 78 (33.62%) Cyberattack
2 77 (33.19%) Linux Command Line
2 77 (33.19%) Self-Motivation
3 34 (14.66%) Product Ownership
4 22 (9.48%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (7.76%) Cloud Native
6 15 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.16%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.72%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.29%) Derivative
10 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.29%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 84 (36.21%) Linux
2 6 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (72.41%) Agile
2 164 (70.69%) Software Engineering
3 117 (50.43%) Mentoring
4 102 (43.97%) Scrum
5 100 (43.10%) User Experience
6 86 (37.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 81 (34.91%) Cloud Security
8 80 (34.48%) DevOps
8 80 (34.48%) Machine Learning
9 78 (33.62%) Data Engineering
10 65 (28.02%) CI/CD
11 43 (18.53%) Containerisation
12 40 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
13 39 (16.81%) TDD
14 37 (15.95%) SDLC
15 36 (15.52%) Roadmaps
16 30 (12.93%) Event-Driven
17 28 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
17 28 (12.07%) Test Automation
18 26 (11.21%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 145 (62.50%) Java
2 128 (55.17%) JavaScript
3 106 (45.69%) Python
4 86 (37.07%) Go
5 77 (33.19%) C++
5 77 (33.19%) Rust
6 38 (16.38%) SQL
6 38 (16.38%) TypeScript
7 33 (14.22%) C#
8 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.72%) PHP
10 3 (1.29%) Bash
11 1 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 81 (34.91%) AWS Certification
2 81 (34.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 77 (33.19%) AWS Certified Developer
3 77 (33.19%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.74%) Degree
5 9 (3.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.48%) QA
2 14 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.45%) GDPR
3 8 (3.45%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.72%) NIST
4 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 66 (28.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (29.74%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.07%) Terraform
3 8 (3.45%) Grafana
4 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.29%) Istio
5 3 (1.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (9.05%) Solace
2 15 (6.47%) Google
3 5 (2.16%) Oracle
4 3 (1.29%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.29%) Ping Identity
4 3 (1.29%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.86%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.43%) New Relic
6 1 (0.43%) Revolut
6 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow