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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 36 44
Rank change year-on-year -28 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 103 133 218
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.37% 6.56% 4.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 6.88% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 68 105 176
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,281
90th Percentile £85,750 £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 3,190 1,933 4,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.50% 95.32% 87.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,159 1,243 3,246
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,438 £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 £88,750 £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 31 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 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.88%) Apache
3 3 (2.91%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.31%) AWS
2 50 (48.54%) Azure
3 14 (13.59%) Serverless
4 13 (12.62%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.62%) SaaS
5 12 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (11.65%) GCP
6 11 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.80%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.83%) IaaS
8 6 (5.83%) PaaS
9 5 (4.85%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.85%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.94%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) AMQP
2 3 (2.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.97%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.13%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.68%) MySQL
2 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.74%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.85%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.88%) Big Data
5 4 (3.88%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.91%) GIS
6 3 (2.91%) QGIS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (20.39%) Git
2 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.83%) JIRA
4 4 (3.88%) GitLab
5 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.91%) JUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
General
1 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.45%) Finance
3 4 (3.88%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.88%) Banking
3 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.91%) Advertising
4 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.94%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Billing
6 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Software Engineer
2 35 (33.98%) Senior
3 25 (24.27%) Developer
4 15 (14.56%) Lead
5 13 (12.62%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.62%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Architect
7 10 (9.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 9 (8.74%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.83%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (42.72%) .NET
2 32 (31.07%) Spring
3 31 (30.10%) Spring Boot
4 25 (24.27%) React
5 22 (21.36%) RESTful
6 21 (20.39%) REST
7 20 (19.42%) AngularJS
8 18 (17.48%) Node.js
9 13 (12.62%) .NET Framework
10 11 (10.68%) .NET Core
10 11 (10.68%) CSS
10 11 (10.68%) HTML
11 7 (6.80%) gRPC
12 6 (5.83%) Hibernate
12 6 (5.83%) OAuth
12 6 (5.83%) OAuth2
12 6 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (5.83%) Vue
13 5 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
13 5 (4.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.95%) Cloud Native
2 26 (25.24%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.62%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.74%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.77%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.83%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.97%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.97%) IoT
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.97%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) CentOS
2 4 (3.88%) Debian
2 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.94%) VMS
3 2 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (63.11%) CI/CD
2 62 (60.19%) Agile
3 54 (52.43%) Software Engineering
4 38 (36.89%) Containerisation
4 38 (36.89%) DevOps
5 32 (31.07%) Scrum
6 31 (30.10%) TDD
7 30 (29.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (23.30%) Design Patterns
8 24 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (22.33%) Event-Driven
10 22 (21.36%) Clean Code
11 20 (19.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 19 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (17.48%) Mentoring
14 15 (14.56%) Open Source
15 14 (13.59%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (13.59%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (13.59%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.78%) Java
2 39 (37.86%) C#
3 29 (28.16%) JavaScript
4 27 (26.21%) SQL
5 16 (15.53%) Python
6 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.83%) Go
7 6 (5.83%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.94%) PHP
9 1 (0.97%) Erlang
9 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.97%) MBA
5 1 (0.97%) PhD
System Software
1 25 (24.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (34.95%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.33%) Terraform
3 14 (13.59%) Ansible
4 4 (3.88%) Puppet
5 3 (2.91%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.88%) Google
2 4 (3.88%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.88%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.91%) Pega
4 2 (1.94%) VMware
4 2 (1.94%) WSO2
5 1 (0.97%) Databricks