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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 177 72
Rank change year-on-year +38 -105 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 73 101 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.25% 1.14% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.39% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 58 54 152
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,525 £49,325
25th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £84,964 £86,563
90th Percentile £93,000 £89,250 £89,900
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -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 4,892 7,263 4,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.85% 81.63% 93.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,136 3,208 3,580
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £64,750 £66,967 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 +30 45 £70,000 +7.69% 54
East Midlands +8 26 £70,000 -6.67% 37
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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
2 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.74%) JBoss
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.74%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.37%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (79.45%) AWS
2 42 (57.53%) Azure
3 20 (27.40%) SaaS
4 14 (19.18%) GCP
5 8 (10.96%) Serverless
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.85%) Snowflake
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.48%) AWS KMS
9 4 (5.48%) GitHub
9 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.48%) Route 53
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Functions
10 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.11%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.59%) DynamoDB
3 7 (9.59%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.11%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (2.74%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
7 2 (2.74%) Power BI
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (23.29%) JUnit
2 15 (20.55%) Git
3 12 (16.44%) Mockito
4 11 (15.07%) Jenkins
4 11 (15.07%) Maven
5 6 (8.22%) JIRA
6 5 (6.85%) GitLab
7 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (5.48%) DbUnit
7 4 (5.48%) jMock
7 4 (5.48%) Selenium
7 4 (5.48%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.11%) Postman
9 2 (2.74%) Gradle
9 2 (2.74%) JMeter
9 2 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.37%) NUnit
10 1 (1.37%) Snyk
General
1 20 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Law
6 6 (8.22%) Marketing
6 6 (8.22%) Retail
7 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (49.32%) Developer
2 20 (27.40%) Java Developer
3 18 (24.66%) Architect
3 18 (24.66%) Lead
4 12 (16.44%) Senior
5 9 (12.33%) Lead Developer
5 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.59%) C# Developer
7 7 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.22%) Lead Architect
8 6 (8.22%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Principal Architect
10 4 (5.48%) C# Architect
10 4 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Java Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Lead C# Developer
10 4 (5.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.36%) Spring
2 23 (31.51%) React
3 20 (27.40%) .NET
4 19 (26.03%) Spring Boot
5 17 (23.29%) REST
6 15 (20.55%) AngularJS
7 14 (19.18%) RESTful
8 11 (15.07%) Web Services
9 9 (12.33%) Hibernate
10 7 (9.59%) SOAP
11 6 (8.22%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (8.22%) Kafka
12 5 (6.85%) Django
12 5 (6.85%) HTML
12 5 (6.85%) JPA
13 4 (5.48%) jQuery
13 4 (5.48%) Node.js
13 4 (5.48%) PowerMock
13 4 (5.48%) Spring Batch
13 4 (5.48%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 11 (15.07%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (10.96%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (5.48%) IoT
6 4 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
7 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (4.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (4.11%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.74%) Life Science
8 2 (2.74%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 29 (39.73%) CI/CD
3 27 (36.99%) DevOps
4 26 (35.62%) TDD
5 22 (30.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
7 18 (24.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (24.66%) Mentoring
8 15 (20.55%) AI
8 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
8 15 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (19.18%) Roadmaps
10 13 (17.81%) Clean Code
10 13 (17.81%) Scrum
11 12 (16.44%) Event-Driven
12 11 (15.07%) BDD
12 11 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (13.70%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (13.70%) Design Patterns
13 10 (13.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.84%) Java
2 21 (28.77%) C#
3 20 (27.40%) SQL
4 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
5 13 (17.81%) Python
6 8 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.59%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.11%) Go
10 2 (2.74%) Bash
10 2 (2.74%) Delphi
10 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.37%) PHP
11 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
System Software
1 28 (38.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (36.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.85%) Terraform
3 4 (5.48%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) Kibana
4 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Oracle
2 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.85%) Adobe
3 5 (6.85%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.11%) Splunk
6 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.74%) Informatica
6 2 (2.74%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.74%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) Jaspersoft