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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 105 133 218
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.40% 6.55% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 6.87% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 69 105 176
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £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 £83,281
90th Percentile £85,500 £96,011 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

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 3,219 1,935 4,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.53% 95.37% 87.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,182 1,247 3,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,579 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 1 April 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) GeoServer
3 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (56.19%) AWS
2 52 (49.52%) Azure
3 15 (14.29%) Serverless
4 14 (13.33%) SaaS
5 13 (12.38%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (12.38%) Azure AKS
6 12 (11.43%) GCP
7 11 (10.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.67%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.71%) IaaS
9 6 (5.71%) PaaS
10 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) AMQP
2 3 (2.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.52%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.48%) MySQL
4 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.81%) Big Data
6 4 (3.81%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.86%) GIS
7 3 (2.86%) QGIS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 23 (21.90%) Git
2 9 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) JIRA
4 4 (3.81%) GitLab
5 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
6 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (19.05%) Finance
2 19 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.81%) Advertising
4 4 (3.81%) Aerospace
4 4 (3.81%) Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.90%) Retail
6 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Billing
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Software Engineer
2 33 (31.43%) Senior
3 28 (26.67%) Developer
4 15 (14.29%) Lead
5 14 (13.33%) Java Developer
6 13 (12.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (9.52%) .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) Architect
9 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (7.62%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.71%) C# Developer
12 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (41.90%) .NET
2 34 (32.38%) Spring
3 33 (31.43%) Spring Boot
4 26 (24.76%) React
5 23 (21.90%) RESTful
6 22 (20.95%) AngularJS
6 22 (20.95%) REST
7 19 (18.10%) Node.js
8 13 (12.38%) .NET Framework
9 11 (10.48%) .NET Core
9 11 (10.48%) CSS
9 11 (10.48%) HTML
10 7 (6.67%) gRPC
11 6 (5.71%) Hibernate
11 6 (5.71%) OAuth
11 6 (5.71%) OAuth2
11 6 (5.71%) Vue
11 6 (5.71%) Web Services
12 5 (4.76%) Kafka
12 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.71%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.62%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.71%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.95%) IoT
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.62%) Linux
2 4 (3.81%) CentOS
2 4 (3.81%) Debian
2 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.95%) VMS
3 1 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 64 (60.95%) Agile
3 55 (52.38%) Software Engineering
4 38 (36.19%) DevOps
5 37 (35.24%) Containerisation
6 34 (32.38%) Scrum
7 33 (31.43%) TDD
8 32 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (23.81%) Design Patterns
9 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.86%) Clean Code
10 24 (22.86%) Event-Driven
11 20 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (18.10%) Mentoring
13 15 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
13 15 (14.29%) Open Source
14 14 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (13.33%) Software Architecture
15 13 (12.38%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.90%) Java
2 40 (38.10%) C#
3 30 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 28 (26.67%) SQL
5 16 (15.24%) Python
6 12 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.71%) Go
7 6 (5.71%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.90%) PHP
9 1 (0.95%) Erlang
9 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Degree
5 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.95%) MBA
5 1 (0.95%) PhD
System Software
1 26 (24.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (35.24%) Kubernetes
2 24 (22.86%) Terraform
3 14 (13.33%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Puppet
5 3 (2.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.71%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.81%) Google
2 4 (3.81%) Pega
2 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.81%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.86%) WSO2
4 1 (0.95%) Databricks
4 1 (0.95%) VMware