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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 135 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 -56 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 63 110 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.81% 1.65% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.84% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49 60 147
10th Percentile £54,750 £54,250 £49,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,902 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -9.38%

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 6,361 5,982 4,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.66% 89.64% 88.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 2,641 3,683
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,479 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 30 December 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 December 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 0 37 £71,250 +14.00% 274
East Midlands -35 24 £77,500 +19.23% 266
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 (6.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) JBoss
3 1 (1.59%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 42 (66.67%) Azure
3 18 (28.57%) SaaS
4 10 (15.87%) GCP
5 6 (9.52%) Serverless
6 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.94%) GitHub
7 4 (6.35%) NuGet
7 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.35%) SonarCloud
8 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.76%) Kong
8 3 (4.76%) npm
8 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.17%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 8 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.59%) Power BI
5 1 (1.59%) Redis
5 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.59%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JUnit
2 10 (15.87%) Git
3 8 (12.70%) Mockito
4 7 (11.11%) Maven
5 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 4 (6.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.35%) Selenium
6 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.76%) Postman
7 2 (3.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.59%) Gradle
8 1 (1.59%) NUnit
8 1 (1.59%) Snyk
8 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Law
3 6 (9.52%) Retail
4 5 (7.94%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Military
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Developer
2 21 (33.33%) Architect
3 15 (23.81%) Lead
4 13 (20.63%) Senior
5 11 (17.46%) Java Developer
6 10 (15.87%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (12.70%) Senior Developer
8 7 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (11.11%) Lead Architect
8 7 (11.11%) Software Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Lead Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Principal Architect
10 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (7.94%) C# Developer
10 5 (7.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (6.35%) C# Architect
11 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (6.35%) Product Architect
11 4 (6.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.10%) React
2 23 (36.51%) .NET
3 14 (22.22%) Spring
4 10 (15.87%) REST
4 10 (15.87%) Spring Boot
5 8 (12.70%) Node.js
5 8 (12.70%) RESTful
6 7 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 6 (9.52%) Kafka
8 4 (6.35%) .NET Framework
8 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
9 3 (4.76%) Apollo GraphQL
9 3 (4.76%) Django
9 3 (4.76%) HTML
9 3 (4.76%) YAML
10 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.17%) Entity Framework
10 2 (3.17%) Playwright
10 2 (3.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (17.46%) Product Ownership
3 9 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.76%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Agile
2 26 (41.27%) DevOps
3 21 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (31.75%) CI/CD
5 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 17 (26.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (22.22%) Event-Driven
9 13 (20.63%) Mentoring
9 13 (20.63%) Roadmaps
10 12 (19.05%) TDD
11 11 (17.46%) Architectural Patterns
11 11 (17.46%) Containerisation
12 10 (15.87%) AI
13 9 (14.29%) Clean Code
13 9 (14.29%) E-Commerce
13 9 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (12.70%) Scrum
14 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
15 7 (11.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) C#
1 22 (34.92%) Java
2 15 (23.81%) SQL
3 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.11%) Bash
4 7 (11.11%) Python
4 7 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 6 (9.52%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.76%) C
6 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.17%) Delphi
7 2 (3.17%) Go
7 2 (3.17%) R
8 1 (1.59%) C++
8 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 19 (30.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (36.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
5 1 (1.59%) Argo
5 1 (1.59%) Nagios
5 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) Adobe
2 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.76%) Informatica
3 3 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft