Microservices Job Trends in the Midlands

Microservices
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 115 157
Rank change year-on-year -54 +42 -79
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 113 135 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.72% 2.44% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 2.81% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 78 59 69
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £92,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,153 4,803 7,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.96% 86.87% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,902 2,802 3,427
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,445 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -9.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Microservices
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
West Midlands -36 82 £80,000 +14.29% 20
East Midlands -56 31 £65,000 -11.86% 6
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 7 (6.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.88%) Documentum
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (64.60%) Azure
2 56 (49.56%) AWS
3 11 (9.73%) GCP
4 9 (7.96%) SaaS
5 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.08%) GitHub
6 7 (6.19%) Serverless
7 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (3.54%) Google Ads
8 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Advertising
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.65%) IaaS
9 3 (2.65%) PaaS
9 3 (2.65%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (2.65%) Internet
2 2 (1.77%) DNS
2 2 (1.77%) HTTP
2 2 (1.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (29.20%) MongoDB
2 24 (21.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (15.93%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (7.96%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.65%) MySQL
8 3 (2.65%) Redis
9 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) JUnit
1 15 (13.27%) Maven
2 14 (12.39%) Mockito
3 10 (8.85%) Git
4 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 2 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.77%) JMeter
4 2 (1.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) Gradle
5 1 (0.88%) JIRA
5 1 (0.88%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.88%) NUnit
5 1 (0.88%) Postman
5 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.88%) TestNG
5 1 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.81%) Finance
3 15 (13.27%) Retail
4 10 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.54%) Advertising
7 4 (3.54%) Games
7 4 (3.54%) Marketing
8 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.65%) Automotive
8 3 (2.65%) Billing
8 3 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.77%) Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (38.05%) Developer
2 29 (25.66%) Lead
3 26 (23.01%) .NET Developer
3 26 (23.01%) Architect
4 19 (16.81%) Senior
5 13 (11.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (11.50%) Software Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.85%) Senior Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.96%) Software Architect
8 8 (7.08%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Technical Leader
9 7 (6.19%) .NET Architect
9 7 (6.19%) Lead Developer
9 7 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.19%) Technical Architect
10 5 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (45.13%) .NET
2 39 (34.51%) React
3 36 (31.86%) ASP.NET
4 34 (30.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 29 (25.66%) .NET Core
6 27 (23.89%) Node.js
7 25 (22.12%) ASP.NET Web API
7 25 (22.12%) Blazor
8 19 (16.81%) REST
9 18 (15.93%) Terraform
10 17 (15.04%) Spring
11 13 (11.50%) RESTful
12 10 (8.85%) AngularJS
13 8 (7.08%) .NET Framework
13 8 (7.08%) Kafka
14 7 (6.19%) Django
15 6 (5.31%) LINQ
15 6 (5.31%) Vue
16 5 (4.42%) Entity Framework
17 3 (2.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 26 (23.01%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.08%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.19%) Robotics
4 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.54%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.65%) IoT
7 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.65%) SCADA
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.77%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.77%) Tandem
8 2 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.88%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.81%) Linux
2 4 (3.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (65.49%) Agile
2 58 (51.33%) CI/CD
3 46 (40.71%) Technical Leadership
4 43 (38.05%) Mentoring
5 40 (35.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (26.55%) AI
7 29 (25.66%) Event-Driven
7 29 (25.66%) TDD
8 28 (24.78%) Containerisation
9 27 (23.89%) Software Engineering
10 26 (23.01%) DevOps
11 25 (22.12%) Scrum
12 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (18.58%) Observability
14 20 (17.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 18 (15.93%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (13.27%) LLM
16 15 (13.27%) Technical Architecture
17 14 (12.39%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (47.79%) C#
1 54 (47.79%) SQL
2 50 (44.25%) JavaScript
3 31 (27.43%) Java
4 24 (21.24%) TypeScript
5 20 (17.70%) Python
6 14 (12.39%) Bash
6 14 (12.39%) PL/SQL
7 6 (5.31%) Go
7 6 (5.31%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.65%) Degree
4 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) GDPR
1 5 (4.42%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) GxP
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) PSD2
4 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (38.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (41.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.54%) Grafana
3 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Argo
Vendors
1 39 (34.51%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.27%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.54%) Facebook
4 4 (3.54%) Google
4 4 (3.54%) Instagram
4 4 (3.54%) TikTok
5 3 (2.65%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.65%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.65%) SAP
6 2 (1.77%) IFS
6 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.77%) Veracode
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) NCR
7 1 (0.88%) OpenText