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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 58 30
Rank change year-on-year +15 -28 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 137 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.59% 3.78% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 4.31% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 77 83 117
10th Percentile £52,300 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,500 £87,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% +3.85%

All Process and 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 2,006 3,182 2,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.53% 87.90% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,492 1,734
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,054
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.65% +6.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.54%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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
Bury -2 2 £52,500 -12.50%
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 3 (2.75%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 72 (66.06%) AWS
2 59 (54.13%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) GCP
4 15 (13.76%) SaaS
5 13 (11.93%) Serverless
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (6.42%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.42%) IaaS
7 7 (6.42%) PaaS
8 6 (5.50%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.92%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) AMQP
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.36%) NoSQL
2 23 (21.10%) MongoDB
3 21 (19.27%) SQL Server
4 10 (9.17%) MySQL
5 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.75%) Big Data
7 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.75%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.92%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Git
2 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.67%) GitLab
4 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.83%) Gatling
4 2 (1.83%) JIRA
4 2 (1.83%) JMeter
4 2 (1.83%) JUnit
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.92%) Jasmine
5 1 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 16 (14.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.93%) Finance
3 8 (7.34%) Retail
4 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.83%) Back Office
4 2 (1.83%) Billing
4 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (1.83%) Marketing
5 1 (0.92%) Digital Health
5 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (0.92%) Law
5 1 (0.92%) Legal
5 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (36.70%) Developer
2 35 (32.11%) Senior
3 29 (26.61%) Software Engineer
4 24 (22.02%) Lead
5 19 (17.43%) .NET Developer
6 18 (16.51%) Architect
7 16 (14.68%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (11.93%) Lead Developer
9 12 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (10.09%) Senior Developer
11 10 (9.17%) Java Developer
12 9 (8.26%) Senior .NET Developer
12 9 (8.26%) Senior Architect
12 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (7.34%) AWS Architect
13 8 (7.34%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (7.34%) AWS Solution Architect
13 8 (7.34%) Lead .NET Developer
14 7 (6.42%) DevOps Architect
14 7 (6.42%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (44.95%) .NET
2 22 (20.18%) Spring
2 22 (20.18%) Spring Boot
3 21 (19.27%) React
4 20 (18.35%) AngularJS
5 17 (15.60%) .NET Core
6 14 (12.84%) RESTful
7 13 (11.93%) REST
8 12 (11.01%) Kafka
9 10 (9.17%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (9.17%) CSS
9 10 (9.17%) HTML
10 9 (8.26%) .NET Framework
11 8 (7.34%) Hibernate
11 8 (7.34%) Node.js
12 7 (6.42%) Blazor
13 6 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (5.50%) Vue
14 5 (4.59%) Akka
14 5 (4.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (34.86%) Cloud Native
2 24 (22.02%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.01%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.34%) Clustering
6 7 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (6.42%) Management Information System
7 6 (5.50%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.92%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.75%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) CentOS
3 2 (1.83%) Debian
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (58.72%) CI/CD
2 54 (49.54%) Agile
3 51 (46.79%) Software Engineering
4 47 (43.12%) Containerisation
5 45 (41.28%) DevOps
6 30 (27.52%) Roadmaps
7 27 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (23.85%) Clean Code
9 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
10 22 (20.18%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (17.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (17.43%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (16.51%) TDD
13 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven
13 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (14.68%) Design Patterns
14 16 (14.68%) Scrum
15 15 (13.76%) Enterprise Architecture
16 13 (11.93%) Performance Engineering
16 13 (11.93%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.38%) C#
2 34 (31.19%) Java
3 26 (23.85%) SQL
4 24 (22.02%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.60%) Python
6 11 (10.09%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.75%) Erlang
7 3 (2.75%) PHP
8 1 (0.92%) Bash
8 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) AWS Certification
2 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (6.42%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) GDPR
2 7 (6.42%) HIPAA
2 7 (6.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.67%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 43 (39.45%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.83%) vSphere
3 1 (0.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.51%) Terraform
3 11 (10.09%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Puppet
5 2 (1.83%) Grafana
5 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Google
2 7 (6.42%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (1.83%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.83%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.83%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Databricks
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.92%) Pega
4 1 (0.92%) WSO2