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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 59 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 -28 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 124 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.43% 3.89% 7.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 4.33% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 75 77 104
10th Percentile £51,550 £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £87,125
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 2,097 2,866 2,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 85.31% 89.96% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 1,381 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +5.53%
75th Percentile £71,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,369 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% -6.60% +2.33%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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
Bury -3 2 £52,500 -12.50%
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 3 (2.75%) Apache
1 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 67 (61.47%) AWS
2 59 (54.13%) Azure
3 23 (21.10%) GCP
4 16 (14.68%) SaaS
5 11 (10.09%) Serverless
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (7.34%) IaaS
6 8 (7.34%) PaaS
7 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.67%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.92%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) AMQP
3 1 (0.92%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (30.28%) NoSQL
2 24 (22.02%) MongoDB
3 21 (19.27%) SQL Server
4 11 (10.09%) MySQL
5 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.67%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.75%) Big Data
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.92%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Git
2 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) GitLab
4 3 (2.75%) JIRA
4 3 (2.75%) JUnit
5 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.83%) Gatling
5 2 (1.83%) JMeter
5 2 (1.83%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
General
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.68%) Finance
3 6 (5.50%) Retail
4 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.83%) Back Office
4 2 (1.83%) Billing
4 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Marketing
5 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.92%) Digital Health
5 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.92%) Law
5 1 (0.92%) Legal
5 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Developer
2 37 (33.94%) Senior
3 28 (25.69%) Software Engineer
4 23 (21.10%) Lead
5 20 (18.35%) .NET Developer
6 17 (15.60%) Architect
7 15 (13.76%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (12.84%) Senior Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Lead Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (10.09%) Java Developer
10 11 (10.09%) Senior .NET Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Lead .NET Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Senior Architect
11 7 (6.42%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (5.50%) AWS Architect
12 6 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (5.50%) AWS Solution Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Azure Architect
13 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (45.87%) .NET
2 24 (22.02%) Spring
2 24 (22.02%) Spring Boot
3 20 (18.35%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.43%) .NET Core
4 19 (17.43%) React
5 17 (15.60%) RESTful
6 15 (13.76%) REST
7 13 (11.93%) Kafka
8 11 (10.09%) ASP.NET Web API
8 11 (10.09%) CSS
8 11 (10.09%) HTML
9 9 (8.26%) .NET Framework
9 9 (8.26%) Hibernate
10 7 (6.42%) Node.js
11 6 (5.50%) Blazor
11 6 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (5.50%) Vue
12 5 (4.59%) Akka.NET
12 5 (4.59%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (32.11%) Cloud Native
2 27 (24.77%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (10.09%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.34%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (6.42%) Clustering
7 5 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.92%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.09%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) CentOS
3 2 (1.83%) Debian
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (60.55%) CI/CD
2 56 (51.38%) Agile
3 49 (44.95%) Containerisation
3 49 (44.95%) Software Engineering
4 45 (41.28%) DevOps
5 28 (25.69%) Clean Code
5 28 (25.69%) Roadmaps
6 27 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
8 22 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (20.18%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (18.35%) Performance Optimisation
9 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (16.51%) TDD
11 17 (15.60%) Design Patterns
11 17 (15.60%) Scrum
12 15 (13.76%) Event-Driven
13 14 (12.84%) Performance Engineering
13 14 (12.84%) Unit Testing
14 13 (11.93%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 54 (49.54%) C#
2 35 (32.11%) Java
3 27 (24.77%) SQL
4 24 (22.02%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.60%) Python
6 8 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.75%) Erlang
7 3 (2.75%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
8 1 (0.92%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.92%) R
8 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (6.42%) AWS Certification
2 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (4.59%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (1.83%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.92%) Degree
5 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) MBA
5 1 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) GDPR
2 5 (4.59%) HIPAA
2 5 (4.59%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (39.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.83%) vSphere
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.51%) Terraform
3 12 (11.01%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) BiZZdesign
2 7 (6.42%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.83%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.92%) Pega
4 1 (0.92%) WSO2