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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 25 71
Rank change year-on-year -39 +46 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 147 228 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.08% 9.13% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 10.07% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 108 81 89
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +14.37% -9.32%
75th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £83,800
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 5,299 2,264 3,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.12% 90.63% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,138 1,316 2,270
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 August 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 25 August 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 +1 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -2 2 £70,000 - 1
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 (3.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.04%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) nginx
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 91 (61.90%) AWS
2 34 (23.13%) Azure
3 20 (13.61%) Serverless
4 18 (12.24%) GitHub
4 18 (12.24%) SaaS
5 13 (8.84%) GCP
6 9 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.40%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.72%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.04%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.36%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.36%) LangSmith
12 2 (1.36%) Vercel
12 2 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.08%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.40%) MySQL
7 4 (2.72%) Redis
8 3 (2.04%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.04%) GIS
8 3 (2.04%) QGIS
9 2 (1.36%) Big Data
9 2 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.36%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.36%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.68%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (17.01%) Git
2 21 (14.29%) GitLab
3 18 (12.24%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.48%) JUnit
4 11 (7.48%) Spock
5 4 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.72%) Maven
5 4 (2.72%) Vite
6 3 (2.04%) JIRA
7 2 (1.36%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 33 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.01%) Finance
3 15 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.12%) Marketing
6 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Advertising
8 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.36%) iGaming
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Software Engineer
2 34 (23.13%) Developer
3 33 (22.45%) Senior
4 32 (21.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 30 (20.41%) Lead
6 20 (13.61%) Architect
7 17 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Java Developer
10 11 (7.48%) Java Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Technical Leader
11 10 (6.80%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.12%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.61%) Node.js
2 43 (29.25%) React
3 41 (27.89%) Spring
4 40 (27.21%) .NET
5 36 (24.49%) AngularJS
6 29 (19.73%) Spring Boot
7 26 (17.69%) Terraform
8 19 (12.93%) Vue
9 15 (10.20%) REST
9 15 (10.20%) RESTful
10 11 (7.48%) Kafka
11 10 (6.80%) CSS
11 10 (6.80%) FastAPI
12 9 (6.12%) HTML
13 7 (4.76%) LangChain
14 6 (4.08%) Express.js
14 6 (4.08%) Flask
15 5 (3.40%) .NET Framework
16 4 (2.72%) Backbone.js
16 4 (2.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.41%) Cloud Native
2 41 (27.89%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.48%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.40%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.36%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.68%) Blog
11 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.68%) PMI
11 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.80%) Linux
2 6 (4.08%) CentOS
2 6 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Debian
3 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 73 (49.66%) Full-Stack Development
3 71 (48.30%) DevOps
4 66 (44.90%) Software Engineering
5 60 (40.82%) Agile
6 53 (36.05%) AI
7 35 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 32 (21.77%) Event-Driven
8 32 (21.77%) Observability
9 30 (20.41%) Containerisation
9 30 (20.41%) Mentoring
10 28 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (19.05%) Scrum
10 28 (19.05%) TDD
11 25 (17.01%) Clean Code
11 25 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (16.33%) Code Quality
13 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
13 23 (15.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (42.18%) Java
2 50 (34.01%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 37 (25.17%) Python
5 29 (19.73%) C#
6 27 (18.37%) SQL
7 9 (6.12%) Go
8 6 (4.08%) Groovy
9 4 (2.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.36%) C++
10 2 (1.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (17.01%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.48%) Degree
5 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.72%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (30.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (7.48%) AppDynamics
1 11 (7.48%) Splunk
2 9 (6.12%) Adobe
3 7 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.40%) Oracle
5 2 (1.36%) Google
5 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.36%) Pega
5 2 (1.36%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.36%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.36%) WSO2