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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 23 64
Rank change year-on-year -53 +41 -19
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 140 223 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.90% 9.35% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 10.45% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 99 76 72
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £100,000 £84,688 £77,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £83,975
North West median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.37% -5.84%

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 5,547 2,133 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.42% 89.47% 82.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4,269 1,213 1,813
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £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 £97,500 £86,250 £83,425
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 14 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 14 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 -6 2 £70,000 -
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 (3.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.14%) Apache
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.71%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 90 (64.29%) AWS
2 28 (20.00%) Azure
3 20 (14.29%) Serverless
4 18 (12.86%) GitHub
5 17 (12.14%) SaaS
6 13 (9.29%) GCP
7 12 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (6.43%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.57%) OpenShift
13 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
15 2 (1.43%) Amazon EventBridge
15 2 (1.43%) Azure Functions
15 2 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 2 (1.43%) LangSmith
15 2 (1.43%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.14%) AMQP
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) Relational Database
2 10 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.29%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.57%) MySQL
5 5 (3.57%) Redis
6 3 (2.14%) Big Data
6 3 (2.14%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.14%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.43%) Chroma
7 2 (1.43%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.43%) Parquet
7 2 (1.43%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 28 (20.00%) Git
2 24 (17.14%) GitLab
3 16 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.29%) JUnit
4 13 (9.29%) Spock
5 7 (5.00%) Maven
6 4 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.86%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.86%) Vite
7 2 (1.43%) JIRA
8 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.71%) Mocha
General
1 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Finance
3 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.43%) Marketing
6 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.14%) Publishing
8 2 (1.43%) Advertising
8 2 (1.43%) iGaming
8 2 (1.43%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Local Government
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (26.43%) Software Engineer
2 35 (25.00%) Senior
3 34 (24.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 31 (22.14%) Developer
5 26 (18.57%) Lead
6 19 (13.57%) Architect
7 15 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (7.86%) Technical Leader
10 10 (7.14%) Java Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior Developer
11 9 (6.43%) Senior Java Engineer
11 9 (6.43%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.43%) React
2 43 (30.71%) Spring
3 41 (29.29%) Node.js
4 37 (26.43%) AngularJS
5 30 (21.43%) .NET
6 29 (20.71%) Spring Boot
7 24 (17.14%) Terraform
8 17 (12.14%) Vue
9 16 (11.43%) REST
10 15 (10.71%) Kafka
11 11 (7.86%) RESTful
12 10 (7.14%) FastAPI
13 9 (6.43%) CSS
14 8 (5.71%) HTML
15 7 (5.00%) LangChain
16 6 (4.29%) Express.js
16 6 (4.29%) Flask
17 5 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
18 4 (2.86%) Next.js
18 4 (2.86%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (38.57%) Cloud Native
2 38 (27.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (9.29%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.43%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.14%) Media Streaming
8 3 (2.14%) Podcast
9 2 (1.43%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.71%) Blog
10 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.71%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.71%) PMI
10 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.57%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) CentOS
2 7 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.86%) VMS
4 3 (2.14%) Debian
4 3 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 72 (51.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 70 (50.00%) DevOps
4 66 (47.14%) Software Engineering
5 57 (40.71%) AI
6 56 (40.00%) Agile
7 37 (26.43%) Test Automation
8 35 (25.00%) Observability
9 34 (24.29%) Mentoring
10 32 (22.86%) Event-Driven
11 31 (22.14%) Containerisation
12 28 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (18.57%) Code Quality
15 25 (17.86%) TDD
16 24 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (16.43%) Scrum
18 22 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
19 21 (15.00%) Kanban
20 20 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) Java
2 50 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 48 (34.29%) TypeScript
4 38 (27.14%) Python
5 26 (18.57%) SQL
6 21 (15.00%) C#
7 9 (6.43%) Go
8 8 (5.71%) Groovy
9 4 (2.86%) PHP
10 2 (1.43%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Ruby
11 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.14%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.86%) MBA
6 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) QA
2 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (32.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.86%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) AppDynamics
1 13 (9.29%) Splunk
2 9 (6.43%) Adobe
3 7 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.29%) Oracle
5 4 (2.86%) Mistral
6 3 (2.14%) Google
6 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.14%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.71%) Pega
8 1 (0.71%) WSO2
8 1 (0.71%) YouTube