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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 133 84
Rank change year-on-year -28 -49 0
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 62 118 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.77% 1.88% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 2.07% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 46 67 192
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,703 £77,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

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 6,473 5,708 5,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.58% 90.91% 86.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,607 2,541 4,796
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +6 36 £72,500 +3.57% 36
East Midlands -36 24 £76,000 +16.92% 62
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 6 (9.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.45%) IIS
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) CMS
3 1 (1.61%) JBoss
3 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.84%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (72.58%) AWS
2 42 (67.74%) Azure
3 16 (25.81%) SaaS
4 10 (16.13%) GCP
5 6 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.06%) GitHub
6 5 (8.06%) NuGet
6 5 (8.06%) Serverless
6 5 (8.06%) SonarCloud
7 4 (6.45%) npm
7 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.84%) Kong
8 3 (4.84%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.84%) MySQL
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.61%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Redis
5 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.61%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) JUnit
2 10 (16.13%) Mockito
3 9 (14.52%) Git
3 9 (14.52%) Maven
4 4 (6.45%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.45%) Selenium
5 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.61%) Gradle
7 1 (1.61%) JIRA
7 1 (1.61%) Snyk
7 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Law
3 6 (9.68%) Retail
4 5 (8.06%) Marketing
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Military
6 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Developer
2 19 (30.65%) Architect
3 16 (25.81%) Senior
4 15 (24.19%) Lead
5 11 (17.74%) Java Developer
6 10 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (14.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (14.52%) Senior Developer
8 8 (12.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (11.29%) Lead Architect
9 7 (11.29%) Software Developer
10 6 (9.68%) Lead Developer
10 6 (9.68%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (8.06%) C# Developer
11 5 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (8.06%) Software Engineer
12 4 (6.45%) Lead C# Developer
12 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (43.55%) React
2 25 (40.32%) .NET
3 13 (20.97%) Spring
4 12 (19.35%) REST
5 10 (16.13%) Node.js
6 9 (14.52%) AngularJS
7 8 (12.90%) Spring Boot
8 7 (11.29%) Kafka
9 6 (9.68%) RESTful
10 5 (8.06%) GraphQL
11 4 (6.45%) .NET Framework
11 4 (6.45%) YAML
12 3 (4.84%) Apollo GraphQL
12 3 (4.84%) Django
12 3 (4.84%) HTML
13 2 (3.23%) CSS
13 2 (3.23%) Playwright
13 2 (3.23%) SOAP
13 2 (3.23%) Web Services
13 2 (3.23%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Product Ownership
2 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.45%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.84%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.23%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Linux
2 6 (9.68%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Android
3 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Agile
2 25 (40.32%) DevOps
3 21 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
4 20 (32.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (30.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (30.65%) Software Engineering
6 14 (22.58%) Event-Driven
7 13 (20.97%) Mentoring
7 13 (20.97%) Roadmaps
8 12 (19.35%) Containerisation
8 12 (19.35%) TDD
9 10 (16.13%) AI
9 10 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (14.52%) E-Commerce
10 9 (14.52%) Scrum
10 9 (14.52%) SDLC
10 9 (14.52%) SOA
10 9 (14.52%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) C#
2 22 (35.48%) Java
3 17 (27.42%) SQL
4 10 (16.13%) Bash
4 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.90%) Python
6 7 (11.29%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.06%) C
8 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.45%) R
9 2 (3.23%) Delphi
9 2 (3.23%) Go
10 1 (1.61%) C++
10 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (40.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (17.74%) Terraform
3 4 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Argo
5 1 (1.61%) Nagios
5 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Oracle
2 6 (9.68%) Adobe
2 6 (9.68%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.45%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.84%) Informatica
4 3 (4.84%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft