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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 54 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 -21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 102 128 215
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.24% 4.95% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 5.23% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 70 84 164
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £82,851
90th Percentile £87,750 £93,778 £98,500
North West median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 2,451 2,446 2,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 77.74% 94.51% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,507 1,163 2,447
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,550 £30,600
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 30 January 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 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.92%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 62 (60.78%) AWS
2 55 (53.92%) Azure
3 19 (18.63%) GCP
4 15 (14.71%) SaaS
5 11 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (10.78%) Serverless
6 10 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (8.82%) IaaS
7 9 (8.82%) PaaS
8 8 (7.84%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.86%) OpenShift
10 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
13 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (0.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) AMQP
1 4 (3.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.98%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.45%) NoSQL
2 19 (18.63%) MongoDB
3 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 9 (8.82%) MySQL
5 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.88%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.90%) Big Data
8 4 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (3.92%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Git
2 5 (4.90%) GitLab
2 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.92%) JIRA
3 4 (3.92%) JUnit
4 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.96%) Billing
4 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.96%) Retail
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Back Office
5 1 (0.98%) Banking
5 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (35.29%) Senior
2 32 (31.37%) Software Engineer
3 30 (29.41%) Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Lead
4 16 (15.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (13.73%) .NET Developer
6 13 (12.75%) Architect
7 12 (11.76%) Senior Developer
8 11 (10.78%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (9.80%) Java Developer
10 9 (8.82%) Lead Developer
11 8 (7.84%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (5.88%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 5 (4.90%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (4.90%) Lead C# Developer
13 5 (4.90%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (45.10%) .NET
2 27 (26.47%) Spring
3 26 (25.49%) Spring Boot
4 22 (21.57%) React
5 21 (20.59%) AngularJS
6 20 (19.61%) REST
7 18 (17.65%) .NET Core
8 15 (14.71%) RESTful
9 12 (11.76%) Kafka
10 11 (10.78%) Node.js
11 10 (9.80%) ASP.NET Web API
12 9 (8.82%) CSS
12 9 (8.82%) HTML
13 8 (7.84%) .NET Framework
13 8 (7.84%) gRPC
13 8 (7.84%) Hibernate
14 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (4.90%) Akka
15 5 (4.90%) Akka.NET
15 5 (4.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) Cloud Native
2 27 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.76%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.92%) Clustering
7 4 (3.92%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.98%) IoT
9 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.78%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) CentOS
2 4 (3.92%) Debian
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.94%) Windows
4 2 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 55 (53.92%) Agile
3 52 (50.98%) Software Engineering
4 48 (47.06%) Containerisation
5 37 (36.27%) DevOps
6 26 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (25.49%) TDD
7 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (22.55%) Scrum
8 21 (20.59%) Clean Code
8 21 (20.59%) Mentoring
9 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (19.61%) Design Patterns
10 18 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 14 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (12.75%) Roadmaps
14 12 (11.76%) Event-Driven
14 12 (11.76%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.10%) C#
2 34 (33.33%) Java
3 22 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.61%) SQL
5 11 (10.78%) Python
5 11 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.92%) Go
7 3 (2.94%) Erlang
8 2 (1.96%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.98%) PHP
9 1 (0.98%) R
9 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) DV Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.98%) Degree
3 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.98%) MBA
3 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) GDPR
1 2 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.96%) vSphere
3 1 (0.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.55%) Terraform
3 16 (15.69%) Ansible
4 6 (5.88%) Puppet
5 3 (2.94%) Rancher
6 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (8.82%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.92%) Google
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.96%) Pega
3 2 (1.96%) VMware
4 1 (0.98%) Databricks
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.98%) WSO2