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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 54 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 -25 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 100 120 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.59% 4.42% 7.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 4.74% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 70 79 123
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £79,375 £86,875 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £66,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.92% - -

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 2,243 2,532 2,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 80.51% 93.23% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,320 1,181 1,706
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £33,858
25th Percentile £35,486 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,325
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £84,858
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%

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 3 January 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 (4.00%) Apache
1 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (60.00%) AWS
2 54 (54.00%) Azure
3 20 (20.00%) GCP
4 17 (17.00%) SaaS
5 10 (10.00%) Serverless
6 9 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (9.00%) IaaS
6 9 (9.00%) PaaS
7 6 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (6.00%) Azure AKS
8 5 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) HTTP
2 3 (3.00%) AMQP
3 1 (1.00%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 23 (23.00%) MongoDB
3 15 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.00%) MySQL
5 8 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.00%) Big Data
8 3 (3.00%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (17.00%) Git
2 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.00%) GitLab
3 4 (4.00%) JIRA
3 4 (4.00%) JUnit
4 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 20 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Finance
3 4 (4.00%) Retail
4 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.00%) Billing
5 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Back Office
6 1 (1.00%) Banking
6 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Law
6 1 (1.00%) Legal
6 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (37.00%) Senior
2 33 (33.00%) Developer
3 30 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) .NET Developer
4 17 (17.00%) Lead
5 15 (15.00%) Architect
6 14 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (13.00%) Senior Developer
7 13 (13.00%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (10.00%) Lead Developer
8 10 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
12 4 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (48.00%) .NET
2 24 (24.00%) Spring
2 24 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 22 (22.00%) AngularJS
4 19 (19.00%) .NET Core
5 18 (18.00%) React
5 18 (18.00%) RESTful
6 17 (17.00%) REST
7 13 (13.00%) Kafka
8 10 (10.00%) .NET Framework
8 10 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 9 (9.00%) CSS
9 9 (9.00%) HTML
10 7 (7.00%) gRPC
10 7 (7.00%) Hibernate
10 7 (7.00%) Node.js
10 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.00%) Akka
11 5 (5.00%) Akka.NET
11 5 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (29.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (26.00%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 9 (9.00%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (5.00%) Clustering
9 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
10 2 (2.00%) Private Cloud
11 1 (1.00%) Credit Risk
11 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.00%) IoT
11 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
11 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.00%) CentOS
2 3 (3.00%) Debian
2 3 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 52 (52.00%) Agile
3 50 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 47 (47.00%) Containerisation
5 38 (38.00%) DevOps
6 26 (26.00%) Mentoring
7 25 (25.00%) Clean Code
8 23 (23.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (22.00%) TDD
10 20 (20.00%) Scrum
11 19 (19.00%) Roadmaps
12 18 (18.00%) Design Patterns
12 18 (18.00%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (17.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (15.00%) Unit Testing
15 14 (14.00%) Event-Driven
16 13 (13.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 12 (12.00%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (50.00%) C#
2 33 (33.00%) Java
3 24 (24.00%) SQL
4 21 (21.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.00%) Python
6 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.00%) Erlang
8 2 (2.00%) Go
8 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.00%) Bash
9 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.00%) R
9 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
2 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.00%) MBA
4 1 (1.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.00%) NIST
2 2 (2.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 36 (36.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.00%) vSphere
3 1 (1.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (19.00%) Terraform
3 14 (14.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.00%) Rancher
6 1 (1.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) BiZZdesign
2 5 (5.00%) Google
3 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.00%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.00%) Pega
4 2 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (1.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.00%) WSO2