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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 24 67
Rank change year-on-year -31 +43 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 146 241 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.31% 9.73% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 10.45% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 111 90 142
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,100 £99,750
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -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 4,639 2,306 4,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.30% 93.13% 83.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,678 1,330 3,382
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,975 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,159
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.46% -8.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 10 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 10 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 0 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 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.05%) Apache
2 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.05%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.37%) nginx
3 2 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.07%) AWS
2 39 (26.71%) Azure
3 21 (14.38%) Serverless
4 15 (10.27%) GitHub
5 14 (9.59%) SaaS
6 11 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.53%) GCP
7 9 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.48%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (4.79%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.74%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.37%) Datadog
12 2 (1.37%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.53%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.48%) MySQL
4 6 (4.11%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.11%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.05%) Big Data
6 3 (2.05%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.05%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.05%) GIS
6 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.05%) QGIS
6 3 (2.05%) Redis
7 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (15.75%) Git
2 17 (11.64%) GitLab
3 16 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.48%) JUnit
4 8 (5.48%) Spock
5 4 (2.74%) JIRA
5 4 (2.74%) Vite
6 3 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.05%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 30 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.75%) Finance
3 12 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.16%) Marketing
5 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.74%) Advertising
7 3 (2.05%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.05%) Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.37%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (31.51%) Software Engineer
2 36 (24.66%) Senior
3 31 (21.23%) Developer
4 26 (17.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 25 (17.12%) Lead
6 18 (12.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.27%) Architect
8 14 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Java Developer
9 13 (8.90%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (8.22%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (6.85%) Java Engineer
13 9 (6.16%) Senior Developer
13 9 (6.16%) Senior Java Engineer
14 8 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 8 (5.48%) Technical Leader
15 7 (4.79%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 7 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.51%) React
2 44 (30.14%) Node.js
3 42 (28.77%) Spring
4 40 (27.40%) .NET
5 33 (22.60%) AngularJS
5 33 (22.60%) Spring Boot
6 20 (13.70%) Vue
7 19 (13.01%) RESTful
8 16 (10.96%) REST
9 10 (6.85%) CSS
9 10 (6.85%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.85%) HTML
10 7 (4.79%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.79%) Kafka
10 7 (4.79%) LangChain
11 6 (4.11%) Flask
12 5 (3.42%) Express.js
12 5 (3.42%) Next.js
12 5 (3.42%) OAuth
12 5 (3.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.67%) Cloud Native
2 37 (25.34%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.48%) Marketing Technology
4 8 (5.48%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.79%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
7 5 (3.42%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.37%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.68%) PMI
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) CentOS
2 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.05%) Debian
3 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (63.01%) CI/CD
2 68 (46.58%) Full-Stack Development
3 65 (44.52%) Software Engineering
4 64 (43.84%) DevOps
5 62 (42.47%) Agile
6 46 (31.51%) AI
7 38 (26.03%) Event-Driven
8 33 (22.60%) TDD
9 32 (21.92%) Scrum
9 32 (21.92%) Test Automation
10 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
11 28 (19.18%) Observability
12 27 (18.49%) Clean Code
13 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (16.44%) Mentoring
16 21 (14.38%) Decision-Making
17 20 (13.70%) API Design
17 20 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (41.78%) Java
2 47 (32.19%) JavaScript
3 41 (28.08%) Python
4 40 (27.40%) TypeScript
5 30 (20.55%) C#
5 30 (20.55%) SQL
6 11 (7.53%) Go
7 6 (4.11%) PHP
8 5 (3.42%) Groovy
9 4 (2.74%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (11.64%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.48%) Degree
5 7 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.05%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.79%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (23.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.86%) Terraform
3 11 (7.53%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (5.48%) Adobe
1 8 (5.48%) AppDynamics
1 8 (5.48%) Splunk
2 7 (4.79%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.74%) Oracle
4 3 (2.05%) Google
4 3 (2.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.05%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.37%) Pega
5 2 (1.37%) WSO2