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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 104 134 216
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.88% 5.57% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 5.85% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 72 97 173
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +5.77% -

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 2,722 2,289 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.44% 95.22% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 1,168 2,724
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,950 £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 25 February 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 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.73%) AWS
2 53 (50.96%) Azure
3 16 (15.38%) GCP
4 15 (14.42%) SaaS
5 11 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (10.58%) Serverless
6 10 (9.62%) Azure AKS
7 9 (8.65%) IaaS
7 9 (8.65%) PaaS
8 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.92%) AWS Step Functions
14 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) AMQP
1 4 (3.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.96%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.88%) NoSQL
2 17 (16.35%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.62%) MySQL
3 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.81%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.85%) Big Data
6 4 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.96%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (18.27%) Git
2 5 (4.81%) JIRA
3 4 (3.85%) GitLab
3 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.85%) JUnit
4 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Finance
3 4 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.85%) Banking
4 3 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.88%) Billing
5 2 (1.92%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.92%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Advertising
6 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) Senior
2 31 (29.81%) Software Engineer
3 29 (27.88%) Developer
4 14 (13.46%) Lead
4 14 (13.46%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Architect
6 12 (11.54%) .NET Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Java Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.58%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Lead Developer
9 7 (6.73%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Senior .NET Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Azure Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (40.38%) .NET
2 29 (27.88%) Spring
3 28 (26.92%) Spring Boot
4 21 (20.19%) React
5 20 (19.23%) REST
6 19 (18.27%) AngularJS
7 18 (17.31%) RESTful
8 15 (14.42%) .NET Core
9 12 (11.54%) Node.js
10 11 (10.58%) Kafka
11 10 (9.62%) .NET Framework
11 10 (9.62%) CSS
11 10 (9.62%) HTML
12 9 (8.65%) ASP.NET Web API
13 8 (7.69%) gRPC
14 7 (6.73%) Hibernate
15 6 (5.77%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (4.81%) Akka
16 5 (4.81%) Akka.NET
16 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (24.04%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.65%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.81%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.88%) Clustering
8 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.96%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.96%) IoT
10 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.96%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.65%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) CentOS
2 4 (3.85%) Debian
2 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.92%) VMS
3 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 55 (52.88%) Agile
3 51 (49.04%) Software Engineering
4 45 (43.27%) Containerisation
5 36 (34.62%) DevOps
6 28 (26.92%) TDD
7 27 (25.96%) Scrum
8 25 (24.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (21.15%) Clean Code
9 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (20.19%) Mentoring
11 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (18.27%) Event-Driven
12 18 (17.31%) Design Patterns
12 18 (17.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 16 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
13 16 (15.38%) SDLC
13 16 (15.38%) Unit Testing
14 15 (14.42%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.38%) C#
2 38 (36.54%) Java
3 23 (22.12%) JavaScript
4 22 (21.15%) SQL
5 13 (12.50%) Python
6 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.77%) Go
8 5 (4.81%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.88%) Erlang
10 2 (1.92%) PHP
11 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) Degree
4 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.96%) MBA
4 1 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.96%) GDPR
1 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (33.65%) Kubernetes
2 20 (19.23%) Terraform
3 14 (13.46%) Ansible
4 5 (4.81%) Puppet
5 3 (2.88%) Rancher
6 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.85%) Google
2 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.85%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.92%) Pega
3 2 (1.92%) VMware
4 1 (0.96%) Databricks
4 1 (0.96%) WSO2