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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 107 136 225
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.70% 6.15% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 6.42% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 73 104 182
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,563
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 £83,456
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,956 2,118 3,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.59% 95.84% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 1,228 3,130
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,283 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 13 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 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 2 (1.87%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.14%) AWS
2 53 (49.53%) Azure
3 14 (13.08%) GCP
4 13 (12.15%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.15%) SaaS
4 13 (12.15%) Serverless
5 12 (11.21%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.54%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.61%) IaaS
8 6 (5.61%) PaaS
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.74%) AMQP
2 3 (2.80%) HTTP
3 1 (0.93%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.97%) NoSQL
2 15 (14.02%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.28%) MySQL
3 11 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.67%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.74%) Big Data
6 4 (3.74%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.87%) GIS
8 2 (1.87%) QGIS
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) JIRA
4 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 3 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.80%) JUnit
6 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
General
1 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Finance
3 4 (3.74%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.74%) Banking
4 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.87%) Advertising
5 2 (1.87%) Billing
5 2 (1.87%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (34.58%) Senior
2 35 (32.71%) Software Engineer
3 31 (28.97%) Developer
4 17 (15.89%) Lead
5 13 (12.15%) Java Developer
6 12 (11.21%) .NET Developer
6 12 (11.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (10.28%) Architect
7 11 (10.28%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.35%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Lead Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Azure Architect
11 6 (5.61%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.86%) .NET
2 31 (28.97%) Spring
3 30 (28.04%) Spring Boot
4 22 (20.56%) React
5 21 (19.63%) RESTful
6 20 (18.69%) REST
7 18 (16.82%) AngularJS
8 17 (15.89%) Node.js
9 15 (14.02%) .NET Core
10 13 (12.15%) .NET Framework
11 10 (9.35%) CSS
11 10 (9.35%) HTML
12 9 (8.41%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (6.54%) gRPC
13 7 (6.54%) Hibernate
13 7 (6.54%) Kafka
14 6 (5.61%) OAuth
14 6 (5.61%) OAuth2
14 6 (5.61%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.67%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.64%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.23%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.15%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.48%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (7.48%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.61%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.87%) Clustering
8 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.93%) IoT
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.93%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
2 4 (3.74%) CentOS
2 4 (3.74%) Debian
2 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.87%) VMS
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (63.55%) CI/CD
2 62 (57.94%) Agile
3 52 (48.60%) Software Engineering
4 43 (40.19%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.51%) DevOps
6 34 (31.78%) Scrum
7 29 (27.10%) TDD
8 27 (25.23%) Clean Code
9 26 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (21.50%) Design Patterns
12 22 (20.56%) Event-Driven
13 21 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (18.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 19 (17.76%) Mentoring
16 15 (14.02%) Open Source
16 15 (14.02%) Performance Optimisation
16 15 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
17 14 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
17 14 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.06%) C#
2 41 (38.32%) Java
3 26 (24.30%) JavaScript
3 26 (24.30%) SQL
4 15 (14.02%) Python
5 11 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.61%) Go
6 6 (5.61%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.80%) Erlang
8 2 (1.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.61%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.87%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) MBA
5 1 (0.93%) PhD
System Software
1 25 (23.36%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 21 (19.63%) Terraform
3 14 (13.08%) Ansible
4 4 (3.74%) Puppet
5 3 (2.80%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.61%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.74%) Google
2 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.74%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.80%) Pega
4 2 (1.87%) VMware
4 2 (1.87%) WSO2
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks