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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 102 136 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.03% 6.57% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 6.89% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 68 104 173
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,374 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £96,750 £100,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -

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 3,678 1,975 4,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.28% 95.41% 86.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,511 1,268 3,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,950 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -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 22 April 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 3 (2.94%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (57.84%) AWS
2 51 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (13.73%) Serverless
4 13 (12.75%) Azure AKS
5 12 (11.76%) GCP
5 12 (11.76%) SaaS
6 11 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.86%) OpenShift
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.90%) IaaS
10 5 (4.90%) PaaS
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) AMQP
2 3 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.78%) MySQL
3 10 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.88%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.90%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.92%) Big Data
7 4 (3.92%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (2.94%) GIS
8 3 (2.94%) QGIS
8 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git
2 7 (6.86%) JIRA
3 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.92%) GitLab
5 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.94%) JUnit
6 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
General
1 19 (18.63%) Finance
1 19 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 4 (3.92%) Advertising
3 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.92%) Banking
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Retail
5 2 (1.96%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.96%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.98%) Billing
6 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (39.22%) Software Engineer
2 33 (32.35%) Senior
3 25 (24.51%) Developer
4 14 (13.73%) Lead
5 13 (12.75%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.80%) .NET Software Engineer
7 10 (9.80%) Architect
8 9 (8.82%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.84%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.86%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.88%) C# Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (43.14%) .NET
2 30 (29.41%) Spring
3 29 (28.43%) Spring Boot
4 27 (26.47%) React
5 23 (22.55%) RESTful
6 20 (19.61%) Node.js
7 19 (18.63%) REST
8 18 (17.65%) AngularJS
9 13 (12.75%) .NET Framework
10 11 (10.78%) CSS
10 11 (10.78%) HTML
11 10 (9.80%) .NET Core
12 7 (6.86%) gRPC
12 7 (6.86%) Web Services
13 6 (5.88%) OAuth
13 6 (5.88%) OAuth2
13 6 (5.88%) Vue
14 5 (4.90%) AWS CDK
14 5 (4.90%) Hibernate
14 5 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (36.27%) Cloud Native
2 27 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.84%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.88%) Mobile App
7 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.98%) IoT
10 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.98%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.98%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) 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 1 (0.98%) VMS
3 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (65.69%) CI/CD
2 63 (61.76%) Agile
3 54 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 39 (38.24%) DevOps
5 36 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 33 (32.35%) TDD
7 31 (30.39%) Scrum
8 29 (28.43%) Event-Driven
9 27 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (23.53%) Design Patterns
11 23 (22.55%) Clean Code
11 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (19.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 18 (17.65%) Mentoring
15 16 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (14.71%) Open Source
17 14 (13.73%) Performance Tuning
17 14 (13.73%) Software Architecture
18 13 (12.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (39.22%) C#
1 40 (39.22%) Java
2 27 (26.47%) JavaScript
2 27 (26.47%) SQL
3 16 (15.69%) Python
4 15 (14.71%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.88%) Go
5 6 (5.88%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.96%) PHP
7 1 (0.98%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) MBA
5 1 (0.98%) PhD
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (36.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (23.53%) Terraform
3 11 (10.78%) Ansible
4 4 (3.92%) Puppet
5 3 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (4.90%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.92%) Google
2 4 (3.92%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.92%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.94%) Pega
4 2 (1.96%) WSO2
5 1 (0.98%) Databricks
5 1 (0.98%) VMware