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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 19 54
Rank change year-on-year -55 +35 0
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 116 239 201
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.99% 11.20% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 11.69% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 85 94 169
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,438 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,900 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 4,183 2,045 4,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.92% 95.83% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,071 1,143 3,464
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
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 26 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 5 (4.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.59%) Apache
3 3 (2.59%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.86%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 70 (60.34%) AWS
2 45 (38.79%) Azure
3 14 (12.07%) Serverless
4 11 (9.48%) Azure AKS
4 11 (9.48%) GCP
5 10 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (7.76%) GitHub
7 8 (6.90%) SaaS
8 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.59%) IaaS
11 3 (2.59%) PaaS
12 2 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) AMQP
2 2 (1.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.86%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.10%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.03%) MySQL
4 5 (4.31%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.59%) Big Data
6 3 (2.59%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.59%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (2.59%) GIS
6 3 (2.59%) QGIS
6 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.86%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (17.24%) Git
2 11 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.62%) GitLab
4 6 (5.17%) JIRA
4 6 (5.17%) JUnit
5 4 (3.45%) Spock
6 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.72%) Maven
7 2 (1.72%) Vite
8 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
General
1 24 (20.69%) Finance
1 24 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.76%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.31%) Marketing
5 4 (3.45%) Advertising
5 4 (3.45%) Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.59%) Retail
7 2 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Billing
8 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (33.62%) Software Engineer
2 36 (31.03%) Senior
3 30 (25.86%) Developer
4 17 (14.66%) Lead
5 15 (12.93%) Java Developer
5 15 (12.93%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (10.34%) Architect
7 11 (9.48%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (9.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (8.62%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.76%) Java Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (6.03%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (34.48%) Spring
2 38 (32.76%) .NET
3 35 (30.17%) Spring Boot
4 30 (25.86%) Node.js
4 30 (25.86%) React
5 26 (22.41%) RESTful
6 25 (21.55%) AngularJS
7 18 (15.52%) REST
8 14 (12.07%) CSS
8 14 (12.07%) HTML
9 8 (6.90%) .NET Framework
9 8 (6.90%) Vue
10 7 (6.03%) .NET Core
10 7 (6.03%) Kafka
11 6 (5.17%) OAuth
11 6 (5.17%) OAuth2
12 5 (4.31%) AWS CDK
12 5 (4.31%) gRPC
13 4 (3.45%) LangChain
13 4 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (22.41%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.76%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (4.31%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (3.45%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.59%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.72%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.86%) IoT
11 1 (0.86%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.86%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.17%) Linux
2 3 (2.59%) CentOS
2 3 (2.59%) Debian
2 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (61.21%) CI/CD
2 65 (56.03%) Agile
3 51 (43.97%) Software Engineering
4 45 (38.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (37.07%) DevOps
6 35 (30.17%) TDD
7 32 (27.59%) Scrum
8 30 (25.86%) Containerisation
9 29 (25.00%) Event-Driven
10 25 (21.55%) AI
11 24 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (20.69%) Test Automation
12 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (18.10%) Mentoring
14 19 (16.38%) Clean Code
15 18 (15.52%) API Design
15 18 (15.52%) Design Patterns
16 17 (14.66%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (13.79%) Code Quality
17 16 (13.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (48.28%) Java
2 36 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 32 (27.59%) C#
4 28 (24.14%) Python
4 28 (24.14%) SQL
5 18 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.62%) Go
7 6 (5.17%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.45%) Groovy
8 4 (3.45%) PHP
9 1 (0.86%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.86%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.72%) Degree
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.86%) MBA
5 1 (0.86%) PhD
5 1 (0.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 25 (21.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.55%) Terraform
3 10 (8.62%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Puppet
4 3 (2.59%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (4.31%) Adobe
2 4 (3.45%) AppDynamics
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle
2 4 (3.45%) Splunk
3 3 (2.59%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (2.59%) Google
3 3 (2.59%) OpenAI
3 3 (2.59%) Pega
3 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.59%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.72%) WSO2