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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 36 38
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 102 136 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.61% 6.10% 5.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 6.37% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 70 104 182
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,750 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,913 2,135 3,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.43% 95.83% 88.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,904 1,232 3,133
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,520
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,884 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,017 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 11 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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.92%) AWS
2 50 (49.02%) Azure
3 14 (13.73%) GCP
4 13 (12.75%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.75%) Serverless
5 12 (11.76%) SaaS
6 11 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.86%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.88%) IaaS
8 6 (5.88%) PaaS
9 5 (4.90%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) AMQP
2 3 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.39%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.78%) MySQL
4 9 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.90%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.92%) Big Data
6 4 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.96%) GIS
8 2 (1.96%) QGIS
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Git
2 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.90%) JIRA
4 4 (3.92%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.94%) JUnit
General
1 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.92%) Banking
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Billing
4 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.96%) Advertising
5 2 (1.96%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (34.31%) Senior
1 35 (34.31%) Software Engineer
2 29 (28.43%) Developer
3 16 (15.69%) Lead
4 12 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 12 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (10.78%) .NET Developer
5 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.80%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Architect
7 8 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Lead Developer
8 7 (6.86%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Azure Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (44.12%) .NET
2 29 (28.43%) Spring
3 28 (27.45%) Spring Boot
4 21 (20.59%) RESTful
5 20 (19.61%) React
6 19 (18.63%) REST
7 17 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 15 (14.71%) .NET Core
9 14 (13.73%) Node.js
10 13 (12.75%) .NET Framework
11 10 (9.80%) CSS
11 10 (9.80%) HTML
12 9 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (8.82%) Kafka
13 7 (6.86%) gRPC
13 7 (6.86%) Hibernate
14 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.90%) Akka
15 5 (4.90%) Akka.NET
15 5 (4.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 24 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.90%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.96%) Clustering
9 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.98%) IoT
10 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.82%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) CentOS
2 4 (3.92%) Debian
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.96%) VMS
3 2 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.75%) CI/CD
2 59 (57.84%) Agile
3 52 (50.98%) Software Engineering
4 43 (42.16%) Containerisation
5 35 (34.31%) DevOps
6 32 (31.37%) Scrum
7 27 (26.47%) TDD
8 26 (25.49%) Clean Code
9 25 (24.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (19.61%) Design Patterns
12 19 (18.63%) Event-Driven
13 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (17.65%) Mentoring
14 15 (14.71%) Open Source
14 15 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (13.73%) Technical Leadership
16 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.18%) C#
2 39 (38.24%) Java
3 26 (25.49%) SQL
4 25 (24.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (14.71%) Python
6 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.88%) Go
8 5 (4.90%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.94%) Erlang
10 2 (1.96%) PHP
11 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.98%) Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.98%) MBA
4 1 (0.98%) PhD
System Software
1 23 (22.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.59%) Terraform
3 13 (12.75%) Ansible
4 4 (3.92%) Puppet
5 3 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.92%) Google
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.96%) Pega
3 2 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (0.98%) Databricks
4 1 (0.98%) WSO2