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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 25 75
Rank change year-on-year -33 +50 -28
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 147 234 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.20% 9.31% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.97% 10.17% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 109 86 99
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,262 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £94,389 £84,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -6.34%

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 4,944 2,302 3,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.03% 91.60% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,889 1,339 2,460
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,000
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -5.45%

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 4 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 4 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 -5 1 £70,000 - 3
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 35 (23.81%) Azure
3 19 (12.93%) Serverless
4 17 (11.56%) GitHub
4 17 (11.56%) SaaS
5 11 (7.48%) GCP
6 9 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (5.44%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.72%) Azure AKS
9 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.36%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.36%) LangSmith
11 2 (1.36%) npm
11 2 (1.36%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) NoSQL
2 12 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.76%) 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 24 (16.33%) Git
2 20 (13.61%) GitLab
3 17 (11.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.48%) JUnit
4 11 (7.48%) Spock
5 4 (2.72%) Maven
5 4 (2.72%) Vite
6 3 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
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 32 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.01%) Finance
3 14 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.12%) Marketing
6 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Advertising
7 3 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.36%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Billing
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 34 (23.13%) Senior
3 32 (21.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 29 (19.73%) Developer
4 29 (19.73%) Lead
5 19 (12.93%) Architect
6 17 (11.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) Principal 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%) Technical Leader
11 10 (6.80%) Java Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.12%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
13 8 (5.44%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
14 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (29.25%) Node.js
1 43 (29.25%) React
2 40 (27.21%) .NET
2 40 (27.21%) Spring
3 36 (24.49%) AngularJS
4 29 (19.73%) Spring Boot
5 19 (12.93%) Vue
6 15 (10.20%) RESTful
7 14 (9.52%) REST
8 10 (6.80%) FastAPI
9 9 (6.12%) CSS
9 9 (6.12%) HTML
10 8 (5.44%) Kafka
11 7 (4.76%) LangChain
12 6 (4.08%) .NET Framework
12 6 (4.08%) Flask
13 5 (3.40%) Express.js
14 4 (2.72%) Backbone.js
14 4 (2.72%) OAuth
14 4 (2.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 40 (27.21%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.48%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.40%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.40%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.36%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.68%) PMI
10 1 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.44%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) CentOS
2 5 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.36%) Debian
3 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.36%) VMS
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (65.31%) CI/CD
2 71 (48.30%) Full-Stack Development
3 70 (47.62%) DevOps
4 65 (44.22%) Software Engineering
5 58 (39.46%) Agile
6 52 (35.37%) AI
7 38 (25.85%) Event-Driven
8 35 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 31 (21.09%) Observability
9 31 (21.09%) Scrum
9 31 (21.09%) TDD
10 29 (19.73%) Containerisation
10 29 (19.73%) Mentoring
11 26 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.01%) Clean Code
13 24 (16.33%) Code Quality
14 23 (15.65%) Decision-Making
15 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (14.29%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 61 (41.50%) Java
2 48 (32.65%) JavaScript
3 42 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 40 (27.21%) Python
5 29 (19.73%) C#
6 27 (18.37%) SQL
7 10 (6.80%) Go
8 6 (4.08%) Groovy
9 5 (3.40%) PHP
10 3 (2.04%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (8.16%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) Degree
3 11 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.72%) MBA
6 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (27.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (21.77%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.01%) Terraform
3 10 (6.80%) Ansible
4 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