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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 166 78
Rank change year-on-year +65 -88 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 136 109 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.46% 1.23% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.51% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 57 60 157
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £49,150
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,327 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,053 £86,250
90th Percentile £94,000 £87,750 £89,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £69,375 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -3.23%

All Process and 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 4,764 7,199 4,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.10% 81.07% 93.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,875 3,279 3,685
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,757
25th Percentile £31,875 £38,125 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,390 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.37% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,025 £64,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 30 October 2025.

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 30 October 2025. 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 +52 71 £70,000 +7.69% 39
East Midlands +28 63 £77,500 +19.23% 22
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 52 (38.24%) Confluence
2 4 (2.94%) Apache
2 4 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.47%) JBoss
3 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.74%) CMS
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 121 (88.97%) AWS
2 100 (73.53%) Azure
3 62 (45.59%) GCP
4 20 (14.71%) SaaS
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.88%) Serverless
7 7 (5.15%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.41%) AWS KMS
8 6 (4.41%) Route 53
8 6 (4.41%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.94%) Azure Functions
11 3 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.21%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (1.47%) GitHub
12 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.62%) DynamoDB
3 9 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.21%) Hazelcast
6 3 (2.21%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.47%) Big Data
7 2 (1.47%) MySQL
7 2 (1.47%) Power BI
7 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (55.88%) Maven
2 70 (51.47%) JIRA
2 70 (51.47%) SonarQube
3 66 (48.53%) GitLab
4 65 (47.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 64 (47.06%) Cucumber
6 63 (46.32%) Bitbucket
6 63 (46.32%) Selenium
7 17 (12.50%) Git
8 16 (11.76%) JUnit
9 13 (9.56%) Jenkins
9 13 (9.56%) Mockito
10 6 (4.41%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (4.41%) DbUnit
10 6 (4.41%) jMock
11 2 (1.47%) Gradle
11 2 (1.47%) JMeter
12 1 (0.74%) NUnit
12 1 (0.74%) Postman
12 1 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 75 (55.15%) Finance
2 64 (47.06%) Banking
2 64 (47.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (16.91%) Retail
4 16 (11.76%) Corporate Banking
4 16 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 16 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.03%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Law
7 6 (4.41%) Marketing
8 3 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 73 (53.68%) Software Engineer
2 36 (26.47%) Developer
3 23 (16.91%) Java Developer
4 18 (13.24%) Architect
4 18 (13.24%) Lead
5 11 (8.09%) Lead Developer
6 7 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (5.15%) Senior
7 6 (4.41%) C# Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Lead Architect
7 6 (4.41%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Principal Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Python Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Product Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (69.12%) Spring
2 85 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 81 (59.56%) React
4 72 (52.94%) JPA
5 69 (50.74%) Kafka
6 68 (50.00%) HTML
7 66 (48.53%) CSS
8 64 (47.06%) Redux
9 59 (43.38%) Hibernate
10 35 (25.74%) REST
11 32 (23.53%) RESTful
12 17 (12.50%) .NET
12 17 (12.50%) Jest
13 16 (11.76%) AngularJS
13 16 (11.76%) CSS3
13 16 (11.76%) HTML5
13 16 (11.76%) Sass
14 15 (11.03%) Web Services
15 11 (8.09%) SOAP
16 10 (7.35%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 72 (52.94%) Product Ownership
2 63 (46.32%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (13.24%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.94%) IoT
6 4 (2.94%) Legacy Code
7 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.47%) Life Science
8 2 (1.47%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (77.21%) Agile
2 89 (65.44%) CI/CD
2 89 (65.44%) DevOps
3 82 (60.29%) Software Engineering
4 80 (58.82%) Containerisation
5 78 (57.35%) Full-Stack Development
6 76 (55.88%) TDD
7 70 (51.47%) Test Automation
8 67 (49.26%) SDLC
9 66 (48.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (47.79%) Front End Development
11 64 (47.06%) Performance Optimisation
12 59 (43.38%) Clean Code
13 31 (22.79%) Mentoring
14 19 (13.97%) Strategic Thinking
14 19 (13.97%) User Experience
15 17 (12.50%) Migration
16 16 (11.76%) Responsive Web Design
16 16 (11.76%) Scrum
17 15 (11.03%) AI
Programming Languages
1 97 (71.32%) Java
2 83 (61.03%) SQL
3 73 (53.68%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.50%) C#
6 12 (8.82%) Python
7 6 (4.41%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.21%) Go
10 2 (1.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) PHP
11 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (49.26%) QA
2 16 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 93 (68.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 89 (65.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.68%) Terraform
3 4 (2.94%) Grafana
3 4 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.47%) Kibana
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 63 (46.32%) Solace
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.41%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.41%) Oracle
4 5 (3.68%) Adobe
4 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.21%) Splunk
6 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.47%) Informatica
6 2 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.47%) SAP