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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 124 96
Rank change year-on-year -57 -28 +15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 61 88 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 1.84% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 2.02% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 46 74 244
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +0.78% -0.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,688 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,375 £93,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -15.63%

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 8,044 4,347 8,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 76.26% 91.13% 83.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,631 2,562 6,809
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -21 34 £70,000 - 21
East Midlands -62 26 £67,500 +3.85% 15
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 9 (14.75%) IIS
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.64%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (63.93%) Azure
2 37 (60.66%) AWS
3 12 (19.67%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (16.39%) NuGet
4 10 (16.39%) SonarCloud
5 9 (14.75%) npm
6 8 (13.11%) SaaS
7 7 (11.48%) GCP
8 5 (8.20%) GitHub
8 5 (8.20%) Serverless
9 3 (4.92%) Kong
9 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.64%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (21.31%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.92%) MySQL
4 3 (4.92%) Redis
4 3 (4.92%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.64%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) JUnit
2 10 (16.39%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) Maven
3 9 (14.75%) Mockito
4 5 (8.20%) GitLab
4 5 (8.20%) Selenium
5 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.64%) Gatling
7 1 (1.64%) JMeter
7 1 (1.64%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.64%) Snyk
7 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Finance
3 7 (11.48%) Law
4 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Military
6 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Advertising
7 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Automotive
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Developer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 15 (24.59%) Architect
4 11 (18.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (16.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (14.75%) Java Developer
6 9 (14.75%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (13.11%) Lead
7 8 (13.11%) Senior Developer
8 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (11.48%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (11.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (9.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (9.84%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (9.84%) Software Developer
10 4 (6.56%) Lead Architect
10 4 (6.56%) Product Architect
11 3 (4.92%) Strategy Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) React
2 28 (45.90%) .NET
3 17 (27.87%) Node.js
4 12 (19.67%) Spring
5 11 (18.03%) REST
6 9 (14.75%) .NET Framework
6 9 (14.75%) YAML
7 7 (11.48%) .NET Core
7 7 (11.48%) GraphQL
7 7 (11.48%) Kafka
7 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
8 6 (9.84%) AngularJS
9 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (6.56%) RESTful
10 3 (4.92%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (4.92%) HTML
10 3 (4.92%) Playwright
11 2 (3.28%) Django
11 2 (3.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.84%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
5 3 (4.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.64%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Linux
2 11 (18.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.64%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (49.18%) DevOps
2 29 (47.54%) Agile
3 28 (45.90%) CI/CD
4 24 (39.34%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (26.23%) Test Automation
7 15 (24.59%) Event-Driven
8 13 (21.31%) Containerisation
8 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
9 11 (18.03%) Migration
9 11 (18.03%) TDD
10 10 (16.39%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.75%) DevSecOps
11 9 (14.75%) Roadmaps
11 9 (14.75%) SOA
12 8 (13.11%) Scrum
12 8 (13.11%) SDLC
13 7 (11.48%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (40.98%) C#
2 24 (39.34%) Java
3 19 (31.15%) SQL
4 15 (24.59%) Bash
5 10 (16.39%) JavaScript
6 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
7 8 (13.11%) PL/SQL
7 8 (13.11%) Python
7 8 (13.11%) TypeScript
8 7 (11.48%) C
9 4 (6.56%) R
10 3 (4.92%) C++
10 3 (4.92%) Rust
11 2 (3.28%) Delphi
11 2 (3.28%) Go
11 2 (3.28%) PHP
12 1 (1.64%) JCL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (44.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (50.82%) Kubernetes
2 16 (26.23%) Terraform
3 5 (8.20%) Grafana
4 4 (6.56%) Ansible
5 3 (4.92%) Nagios
5 3 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.64%) Argo
6 1 (1.64%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Oracle
2 9 (14.75%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.92%) Adobe
3 3 (4.92%) Informatica
3 3 (4.92%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Veracode