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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 23 64
Rank change year-on-year -49 +41 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 145 221 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.93% 9.39% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 10.51% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 100 73 72
10th Percentile £52,375 £52,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.18% -10.74%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £101,625 £97,000 £87,500
North West median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +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 5,710 2,102 3,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.00% 89.33% 83.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,348 1,193 1,782
10th Percentile £32,175 £29,100 £30,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -8.53%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 0 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -7 2 £70,000 -
Wigan -1 1 - - 3
Altrincham -1 1 - - 5
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 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.07%) Apache
2 3 (2.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 91 (62.76%) AWS
2 28 (19.31%) Azure
3 20 (13.79%) Serverless
4 19 (13.10%) GitHub
5 17 (11.72%) SaaS
6 13 (8.97%) GCP
7 12 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.14%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
14 3 (2.07%) Azure Functions
15 2 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
15 2 (1.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (1.38%) LangSmith
15 2 (1.38%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.07%) AMQP
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
2 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.59%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.52%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.14%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.45%) MySQL
6 5 (3.45%) Redis
7 3 (2.07%) Big Data
7 3 (2.07%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.07%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.38%) Chroma
8 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.38%) Parquet
8 2 (1.38%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (19.31%) Git
2 25 (17.24%) GitLab
3 16 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.97%) JUnit
4 13 (8.97%) Spock
5 7 (4.83%) Maven
6 5 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.76%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.76%) Vite
8 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.69%) JIRA
8 1 (0.69%) Mocha
General
1 37 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Finance
3 15 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.21%) Marketing
6 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Publishing
8 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.38%) iGaming
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.21%) Software Engineer
2 36 (24.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 36 (24.83%) Senior
3 30 (20.69%) Developer
4 27 (18.62%) Lead
5 20 (13.79%) Architect
6 16 (11.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (10.34%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 14 (9.66%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Java Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Technical Leader
10 11 (7.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.21%) Senior Java Engineer
12 8 (5.52%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (5.52%) Java Developer
12 8 (5.52%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (4.83%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (32.41%) Spring
2 46 (31.72%) React
3 41 (28.28%) Node.js
4 36 (24.83%) AngularJS
5 30 (20.69%) Spring Boot
6 29 (20.00%) .NET
7 23 (15.86%) Terraform
8 19 (13.10%) Kafka
9 16 (11.03%) REST
9 16 (11.03%) Vue
10 10 (6.90%) FastAPI
10 10 (6.90%) RESTful
11 8 (5.52%) CSS
12 7 (4.83%) HTML
12 7 (4.83%) LangChain
13 6 (4.14%) Express.js
13 6 (4.14%) Flask
14 5 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
15 4 (2.76%) CrewAI
15 4 (2.76%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 57 (39.31%) Cloud Native
2 38 (26.21%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.97%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.21%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.76%) Media Streaming
7 4 (2.76%) Podcast
8 2 (1.38%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.69%) Blog
9 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.69%) PMI
9 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) CentOS
2 8 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.76%) VMS
4 3 (2.07%) Debian
4 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.38%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (66.90%) CI/CD
2 74 (51.03%) DevOps
3 73 (50.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (46.21%) Software Engineering
5 59 (40.69%) Agile
6 58 (40.00%) AI
7 39 (26.90%) Observability
8 38 (26.21%) Mentoring
8 38 (26.21%) Test Automation
9 35 (24.14%) Event-Driven
10 33 (22.76%) Containerisation
11 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (18.62%) Code Quality
12 27 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (17.93%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (16.55%) TDD
15 23 (15.86%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (14.48%) Clean Code
16 21 (14.48%) Scrum
17 20 (13.79%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 67 (46.21%) Java
2 50 (34.48%) TypeScript
3 48 (33.10%) JavaScript
4 37 (25.52%) Python
5 25 (17.24%) SQL
6 21 (14.48%) C#
7 9 (6.21%) Go
8 8 (5.52%) Groovy
9 4 (2.76%) PHP
10 2 (1.38%) C++
11 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.69%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.72%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.90%) Degree
5 4 (2.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.76%) MBA
6 1 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.21%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (34.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (28.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.28%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Puppet
4 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.97%) AppDynamics
1 13 (8.97%) Splunk
2 9 (6.21%) Adobe
3 7 (4.83%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.14%) Oracle
5 4 (2.76%) Mistral
6 3 (2.07%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.07%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.07%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.69%) Pega
7 1 (0.69%) WSO2
7 1 (0.69%) YouTube