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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 106 130 227
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.61% 6.05% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.50% 6.32% 5.88%
Number of salaries quoted 72 103 183
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +10.75% +0.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,250 £93,778 £100,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -

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 3,027 2,058 3,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.45% 95.72% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,003 1,246 3,160
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £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 £76,692 £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 19 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 2 (1.89%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.94%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (55.66%) AWS
2 52 (49.06%) Azure
3 14 (13.21%) GCP
4 13 (12.26%) Azure AKS
4 13 (12.26%) SaaS
4 13 (12.26%) Serverless
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 30 (28.30%) NoSQL
2 14 (13.21%) MongoDB
3 11 (10.38%) MySQL
3 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.49%) 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
8 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.89%) GIS
8 2 (1.89%) QGIS
9 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.94%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.72%) 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
4 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.89%) Advertising
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 38 (35.85%) Senior
2 35 (33.02%) Software Engineer
3 30 (28.30%) Developer
4 16 (15.09%) Lead
5 13 (12.26%) Java Developer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) .NET Developer
6 11 (10.38%) Architect
6 11 (10.38%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.43%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (7.55%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (6.60%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (6.60%) Senior Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Azure Architect
10 6 (5.66%) Lead Developer
10 6 (5.66%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (45.28%) .NET
2 30 (28.30%) Spring
3 29 (27.36%) Spring Boot
4 22 (20.75%) React
5 21 (19.81%) REST
5 21 (19.81%) RESTful
6 18 (16.98%) AngularJS
7 17 (16.04%) Node.js
8 15 (14.15%) .NET Core
9 13 (12.26%) .NET Framework
10 10 (9.43%) CSS
10 10 (9.43%) HTML
11 9 (8.49%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (6.60%) gRPC
12 7 (6.60%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.66%) Kafka
13 6 (5.66%) OAuth
13 6 (5.66%) OAuth2
13 6 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (4.72%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (33.96%) Cloud Native
2 27 (25.47%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (12.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (7.55%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.66%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.94%) Clustering
8 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.94%) IoT
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
8 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 61 (57.55%) Agile
3 52 (49.06%) Software Engineering
4 43 (40.57%) Containerisation
5 38 (35.85%) DevOps
6 34 (32.08%) Scrum
7 30 (28.30%) TDD
8 27 (25.47%) Clean Code
9 26 (24.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (21.70%) 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 15 (14.15%) Open Source
14 15 (14.15%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (13.21%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.45%) C#
2 40 (37.74%) Java
3 26 (24.53%) JavaScript
3 26 (24.53%) SQL
4 15 (14.15%) Python
5 11 (10.38%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.66%) Go
6 6 (5.66%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.83%) Erlang
8 2 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
9 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 22 (20.75%) 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