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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 23 56
Rank change year-on-year -47 +33 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 112 237 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.94% 11.07% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 11.55% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 80 94 169
10th Percentile £49,875 £52,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +13.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,900 £100,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +9.62% -

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 4,136 2,052 4,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.81% 95.84% 85.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,032 1,167 3,444
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,450 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 23 May 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 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.68%) Apache
2 3 (2.68%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.89%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.93%) AWS
2 45 (40.18%) Azure
3 14 (12.50%) Serverless
4 11 (9.82%) Azure AKS
4 11 (9.82%) GCP
5 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (7.14%) SaaS
7 6 (5.36%) GitHub
7 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.68%) IaaS
10 3 (2.68%) PaaS
11 2 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) AMQP
1 3 (2.68%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.64%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) MySQL
4 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.57%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.68%) Big Data
6 3 (2.68%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.68%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.68%) GIS
6 3 (2.68%) QGIS
6 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.89%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (18.75%) Git
2 11 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.93%) GitLab
4 7 (6.25%) JIRA
4 7 (6.25%) JUnit
5 4 (3.57%) Spock
6 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.79%) Maven
7 2 (1.79%) Vite
8 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
General
1 24 (21.43%) Finance
2 21 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Advertising
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
6 3 (2.68%) Retail
7 2 (1.79%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.89%) Billing
8 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (34.82%) Software Engineer
2 36 (32.14%) Senior
3 30 (26.79%) Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Java Developer
4 15 (13.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 13 (11.61%) Lead
6 12 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) Architect
7 11 (9.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (8.93%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.04%) Java Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.36%) .NET Developer
12 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (35.71%) Spring
2 37 (33.04%) .NET
3 35 (31.25%) Spring Boot
4 30 (26.79%) React
5 27 (24.11%) Node.js
6 26 (23.21%) RESTful
7 24 (21.43%) AngularJS
8 19 (16.96%) REST
9 13 (11.61%) CSS
9 13 (11.61%) HTML
10 8 (7.14%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.25%) .NET Core
11 7 (6.25%) Kafka
11 7 (6.25%) Vue
12 6 (5.36%) gRPC
12 6 (5.36%) OAuth
12 6 (5.36%) OAuth2
13 5 (4.46%) AWS CDK
14 4 (3.57%) Backbone.js
14 4 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 24 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.04%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.89%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.89%) IoT
10 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.89%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) CentOS
2 3 (2.68%) Debian
2 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 63 (56.25%) Agile
3 50 (44.64%) Software Engineering
4 44 (39.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (37.50%) DevOps
6 33 (29.46%) Scrum
6 33 (29.46%) TDD
7 30 (26.79%) Containerisation
8 27 (24.11%) Event-Driven
9 24 (21.43%) AI
10 23 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (19.64%) Test Automation
12 19 (16.96%) Clean Code
12 19 (16.96%) Mentoring
13 18 (16.07%) Design Patterns
14 16 (14.29%) Code Quality
14 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (13.39%) API Design
15 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (48.21%) Java
2 34 (30.36%) JavaScript
3 32 (28.57%) C#
4 25 (22.32%) Python
4 25 (22.32%) SQL
5 18 (16.07%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.93%) Go
7 6 (5.36%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.57%) Groovy
8 4 (3.57%) PHP
9 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) Degree
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) MBA
5 1 (0.89%) PhD
5 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (24.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (22.32%) Terraform
3 10 (8.93%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Puppet
4 3 (2.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (3.57%) AppDynamics
1 4 (3.57%) Splunk
2 3 (2.68%) Adobe
2 3 (2.68%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (2.68%) Google
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle
2 3 (2.68%) Pega
2 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
2 3 (2.68%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.79%) WSO2