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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 24 69
Rank change year-on-year -43 +45 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 146 218 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.03% 9.06% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 10.10% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 104 74 77
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,250 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% +14.37% -9.32%
75th Percentile £98,125 £83,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,750 £84,000
North West median annual salary £77,000 £70,000 £61,853
% change year-on-year +10.00% +13.17% -4.84%

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 5,417 2,159 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.33% 89.70% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,198 1,248 1,943
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,104 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.48% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,803
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.58% -7.63%

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 5 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 5 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 +1 6 £63,750 -
Stockport -3 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 (3.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.37%) Apache
2 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.37%) nginx
2 2 (1.37%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.68%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.01%) AWS
2 30 (20.55%) Azure
3 18 (12.33%) GitHub
3 18 (12.33%) SaaS
3 18 (12.33%) Serverless
4 13 (8.90%) GCP
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.74%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (1.37%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.37%) Datadog
11 2 (1.37%) LangSmith
11 2 (1.37%) Vercel
11 2 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) AMQP
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.22%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.53%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.48%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.11%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.42%) MySQL
6 5 (3.42%) Redis
7 2 (1.37%) Big Data
7 2 (1.37%) Chroma
7 2 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.37%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.68%) GIS
8 1 (0.68%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 27 (18.49%) Git
2 24 (16.44%) GitLab
3 17 (11.64%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.90%) JUnit
4 13 (8.90%) Spock
5 7 (4.79%) Maven
6 4 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.74%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.74%) Vite
7 2 (1.37%) JIRA
8 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) Mocha
General
1 34 (23.29%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.81%) Finance
3 14 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.16%) Marketing
6 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.37%) Advertising
7 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.37%) iGaming
7 2 (1.37%) Publishing
7 2 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Local Government
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (26.03%) Software Engineer
2 36 (24.66%) Senior
3 34 (23.29%) Developer
3 34 (23.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 28 (19.18%) Lead
5 20 (13.70%) Architect
6 16 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (9.59%) Principal Engineer
7 14 (9.59%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 14 (9.59%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Java Developer
8 11 (7.53%) Java Engineer
8 11 (7.53%) Technical Leader
9 10 (6.85%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Technical Engineer
11 8 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.82%) React
1 45 (30.82%) Spring
2 43 (29.45%) Node.js
3 37 (25.34%) AngularJS
4 35 (23.97%) .NET
5 31 (21.23%) Spring Boot
6 24 (16.44%) Terraform
7 18 (12.33%) Vue
8 16 (10.96%) REST
9 14 (9.59%) Kafka
10 12 (8.22%) RESTful
11 10 (6.85%) FastAPI
12 9 (6.16%) CSS
13 8 (5.48%) HTML
14 7 (4.79%) LangChain
15 6 (4.11%) Express.js
15 6 (4.11%) Flask
16 4 (2.74%) Backbone.js
16 4 (2.74%) CrewAI
16 4 (2.74%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.99%) Cloud Native
2 42 (28.77%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.90%) Private Cloud
4 9 (6.16%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.42%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.05%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.37%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.37%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.37%) Podcast
10 1 (0.68%) Blog
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 11 (7.53%) Linux
2 6 (4.11%) CentOS
2 6 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.74%) VMS
4 2 (1.37%) Debian
4 2 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (67.81%) CI/CD
2 73 (50.00%) DevOps
2 73 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 65 (44.52%) Software Engineering
4 59 (40.41%) Agile
5 58 (39.73%) AI
6 37 (25.34%) Test Automation
7 36 (24.66%) Observability
8 34 (23.29%) Event-Driven
9 33 (22.60%) Mentoring
10 31 (21.23%) Containerisation
11 30 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (18.49%) Code Quality
13 27 (18.49%) TDD
14 25 (17.12%) Scrum
15 24 (16.44%) Infrastructure as Code
16 23 (15.75%) Clean Code
16 23 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (14.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.84%) Java
2 50 (34.25%) JavaScript
3 47 (32.19%) TypeScript
4 35 (23.97%) Python
5 26 (17.81%) C#
6 25 (17.12%) SQL
7 9 (6.16%) Go
8 8 (5.48%) Groovy
9 4 (2.74%) PHP
10 2 (1.37%) C++
10 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Ruby
11 1 (0.68%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) DV Cleared
4 11 (7.53%) Degree
5 10 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.74%) MBA
7 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) QA
2 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (32.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (26.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.53%) Ansible
3 2 (1.37%) Puppet
4 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (8.90%) AppDynamics
1 13 (8.90%) Splunk
2 9 (6.16%) Adobe
3 7 (4.79%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.11%) Oracle
5 4 (2.74%) Mistral
6 2 (1.37%) Google
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.37%) Pega
6 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.37%) WSO2
7 1 (0.68%) YouTube