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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 43
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 106 130 222
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.54% 6.06% 4.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 6.34% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 71 103 179
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £83,438
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

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 3,100 2,051 3,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.30% 95.66% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,058 1,251 3,212
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,125
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -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 March 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 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) GeoServer
4 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 60 (56.60%) AWS
2 53 (50.00%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) GCP
3 14 (13.21%) Serverless
4 13 (12.26%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.26%) SaaS
5 12 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
8 6 (5.66%) IaaS
8 6 (5.66%) PaaS
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) AMQP
2 3 (2.83%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.25%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.38%) MySQL
3 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.77%) Big Data
6 4 (3.77%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.83%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.83%) GIS
7 3 (2.83%) QGIS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 21 (19.81%) Git
2 8 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) JIRA
4 4 (3.77%) GitLab
5 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.83%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
General
1 21 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 4 (3.77%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.77%) Banking
3 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.83%) Advertising
4 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.89%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.89%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.94%) Billing
6 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Senior
2 36 (33.96%) Software Engineer
3 29 (27.36%) Developer
4 16 (15.09%) Lead
5 14 (13.21%) Java Developer
6 13 (12.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (10.38%) Architect
8 10 (9.43%) .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (9.43%) Senior Developer
9 9 (8.49%) .NET Developer
9 9 (8.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (6.60%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (6.60%) Senior Applications Engineer
12 6 (5.66%) Azure Architect
12 6 (5.66%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior .NET Developer
12 6 (5.66%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.34%) .NET
2 31 (29.25%) Spring
3 30 (28.30%) Spring Boot
4 23 (21.70%) React
5 22 (20.75%) RESTful
6 21 (19.81%) REST
7 19 (17.92%) AngularJS
8 18 (16.98%) Node.js
9 13 (12.26%) .NET Core
9 13 (12.26%) .NET Framework
10 11 (10.38%) CSS
10 11 (10.38%) HTML
11 7 (6.60%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (6.60%) gRPC
11 7 (6.60%) Hibernate
12 6 (5.66%) Kafka
12 6 (5.66%) OAuth
12 6 (5.66%) OAuth2
12 6 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (4.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.96%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.47%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.26%) Product Ownership
4 9 (8.49%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.55%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Clustering
9 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.94%) IoT
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.49%) Linux
2 4 (3.77%) CentOS
2 4 (3.77%) Debian
2 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.89%) VMS
3 2 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.09%) CI/CD
2 63 (59.43%) Agile
3 53 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 41 (38.68%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.85%) DevOps
6 34 (32.08%) Scrum
7 31 (29.25%) TDD
8 28 (26.42%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (23.58%) Clean Code
9 25 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (22.64%) Design Patterns
11 23 (21.70%) Event-Driven
12 20 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (18.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
14 16 (15.09%) Open Source
15 14 (13.21%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (13.21%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.57%) C#
2 42 (39.62%) Java
3 28 (26.42%) JavaScript
4 27 (25.47%) SQL
5 16 (15.09%) Python
6 11 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.66%) Go
7 6 (5.66%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.83%) Erlang
9 2 (1.89%) PHP
10 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) MBA
5 1 (0.94%) PhD
System Software
1 26 (24.53%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 23 (21.70%) Terraform
3 14 (13.21%) Ansible
4 4 (3.77%) Puppet
5 3 (2.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (3.77%) Google
2 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.77%) SaltStack
3 3 (2.83%) Pega
4 2 (1.89%) VMware
4 2 (1.89%) WSO2
5 1 (0.94%) Databricks