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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 25 59
Rank change year-on-year -34 +34 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 141 240 208
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.24% 10.14% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 10.77% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 110 90 160
10th Percentile £51,250 £54,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,297 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +20.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,100 £100,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -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 4,593 2,229 4,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.95% 94.13% 83.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 1,283 3,551
10th Percentile £32,528 £29,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,179
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -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 1 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheadle +2 6 £63,750 -
Microservices
North West

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 (3.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.13%) Apache
2 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.13%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.42%) nginx
3 2 (1.42%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 95 (67.38%) AWS
2 42 (29.79%) Azure
3 21 (14.89%) Serverless
4 14 (9.93%) GitHub
5 12 (8.51%) SaaS
6 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (7.80%) GCP
7 9 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.67%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (5.67%) Azure AKS
9 7 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (4.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
12 2 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.42%) Datadog
12 2 (1.42%) npm
12 2 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) AMQP
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.18%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.80%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.67%) MySQL
4 6 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.26%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.13%) Big Data
5 3 (2.13%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.13%) GIS
5 3 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.13%) QGIS
5 3 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.42%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.42%) Redis
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (14.89%) Git
2 15 (10.64%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.93%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) JUnit
4 6 (4.26%) Spock
5 4 (2.84%) JIRA
5 4 (2.84%) Vite
6 2 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.42%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.71%) Mocha
General
1 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.48%) Finance
3 12 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.38%) Marketing
6 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Advertising
8 3 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.13%) Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Retail
9 2 (1.42%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Billing
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 49 (34.75%) Software Engineer
2 37 (26.24%) Senior
3 32 (22.70%) Developer
4 23 (16.31%) Lead
5 19 (13.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 18 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (12.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (9.22%) Architect
8 13 (9.22%) Java Developer
9 12 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (7.80%) Java Engineer
11 10 (7.09%) Senior Java Engineer
12 9 (6.38%) Senior Developer
12 9 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (5.67%) Java Software Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) .NET Software Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
14 7 (4.96%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (32.62%) React
2 44 (31.21%) .NET
3 41 (29.08%) Node.js
3 41 (29.08%) Spring
4 34 (24.11%) Spring Boot
5 30 (21.28%) AngularJS
6 20 (14.18%) RESTful
6 20 (14.18%) Vue
7 17 (12.06%) REST
8 10 (7.09%) CSS
8 10 (7.09%) FastAPI
8 10 (7.09%) HTML
9 8 (5.67%) .NET Framework
10 7 (4.96%) Kafka
10 7 (4.96%) LangChain
11 6 (4.26%) Flask
11 6 (4.26%) OAuth
11 6 (4.26%) OAuth2
12 5 (3.55%) AWS CDK
12 5 (3.55%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.88%) Cloud Native
2 36 (25.53%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.67%) Marketing Technology
5 7 (4.96%) Mobile App
5 7 (4.96%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (4.26%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.55%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.42%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.71%) PMI
10 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.67%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) CentOS
2 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.13%) Debian
3 3 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (61.70%) CI/CD
2 67 (47.52%) Software Engineering
3 63 (44.68%) Agile
3 63 (44.68%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (43.26%) DevOps
5 42 (29.79%) AI
6 37 (26.24%) Event-Driven
7 35 (24.82%) TDD
8 31 (21.99%) Containerisation
8 31 (21.99%) Scrum
9 29 (20.57%) Test Automation
10 27 (19.15%) Clean Code
10 27 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (18.44%) Mentoring
11 26 (18.44%) Observability
12 25 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (16.31%) Infrastructure as Code
14 20 (14.18%) API Design
14 20 (14.18%) Decision-Making
15 19 (13.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (41.13%) Java
2 44 (31.21%) JavaScript
3 39 (27.66%) Python
4 35 (24.82%) TypeScript
5 34 (24.11%) C#
6 31 (21.99%) SQL
7 11 (7.80%) Go
8 6 (4.26%) PHP
9 5 (3.55%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.84%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Degree
5 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.13%) MBA
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.96%) QA
2 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (22.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (23.40%) Kubernetes
2 29 (20.57%) Terraform
3 10 (7.09%) Ansible
4 3 (2.13%) Puppet
5 1 (0.71%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (5.67%) Adobe
2 7 (4.96%) OpenAI
3 6 (4.26%) AppDynamics
3 6 (4.26%) Splunk
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 3 (2.13%) Google
5 3 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.13%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.42%) Pega
6 2 (1.42%) WSO2