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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 160 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 -82 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 69 112 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 1.31% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.55% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 53 62 144
10th Percentile £52,750 £48,250 £49,475
25th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,875 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £89,700
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +10.71% -7.35% -3.31%

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 4,960 7,216 4,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.36% 84.48% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 3,225 3,522
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £26,752
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -3.85%
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% - -3.04%

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 29 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 29 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 +32 40 £70,000 +7.69% 33
East Midlands +8 27 £76,750 +18.08% 18
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 2 (2.90%) Apache
1 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.90%) Confluence
1 2 (2.90%) JBoss
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.90%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 52 (75.36%) AWS
2 42 (60.87%) Azure
3 21 (30.43%) SaaS
4 11 (15.94%) GCP
5 8 (11.59%) Serverless
6 5 (7.25%) GitHub
6 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.80%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.35%) Kong
8 3 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.80%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.90%) Big Data
7 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.90%) MySQL
7 2 (2.90%) Power BI
7 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.45%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 14 (20.29%) JUnit
2 11 (15.94%) Git
3 9 (13.04%) Mockito
4 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.59%) Maven
5 4 (5.80%) GitLab
5 4 (5.80%) JIRA
5 4 (5.80%) Selenium
6 3 (4.35%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.35%) Postman
7 2 (2.90%) Gradle
7 2 (2.90%) JMeter
7 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.45%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.45%) jMock
8 1 (1.45%) NUnit
8 1 (1.45%) Snyk
8 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Finance
3 8 (11.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.14%) Law
5 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.70%) Marketing
5 6 (8.70%) Retail
6 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Advertising
8 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (46.38%) Developer
2 21 (30.43%) Architect
3 16 (23.19%) Lead
4 15 (21.74%) Java Developer
5 12 (17.39%) Senior
6 10 (14.49%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (11.59%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.14%) C# Developer
8 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (10.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (10.14%) Lead Architect
8 7 (10.14%) Lead Developer
8 7 (10.14%) Software Developer
9 6 (8.70%) Principal Architect
9 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) C# Architect
10 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Lead C# Developer
10 4 (5.80%) Product Architect
11 3 (4.35%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (33.33%) .NET
2 22 (31.88%) React
3 20 (28.99%) Spring
4 15 (21.74%) REST
4 15 (21.74%) Spring Boot
5 11 (15.94%) AngularJS
5 11 (15.94%) RESTful
6 7 (10.14%) Kafka
6 7 (10.14%) Web Services
7 5 (7.25%) Django
7 5 (7.25%) Hibernate
7 5 (7.25%) HTML
7 5 (7.25%) Node.js
8 4 (5.80%) Flask
8 4 (5.80%) jQuery
8 4 (5.80%) SOAP
9 3 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (4.35%) CSS
9 3 (4.35%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 12 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 9 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.35%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.35%) IoT
6 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.90%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.45%) Life Science
8 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Unix
2 2 (2.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (56.52%) Agile
2 25 (36.23%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.33%) DevOps
4 21 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (27.54%) Software Engineering
6 18 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (24.64%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (24.64%) TDD
8 14 (20.29%) Event-Driven
8 14 (20.29%) Roadmaps
9 13 (18.84%) AI
10 12 (17.39%) Clean Code
11 11 (15.94%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (14.49%) Containerisation
13 9 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (13.04%) E-Commerce
13 9 (13.04%) Scrum
13 9 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (11.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) Java
2 23 (33.33%) C#
3 17 (24.64%) SQL
4 15 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.39%) Python
6 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.80%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.35%) Go
10 2 (2.90%) Bash
10 2 (2.90%) Delphi
10 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (31.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.90%) Kibana
5 1 (1.45%) Argo
5 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) Oracle
2 6 (8.70%) Adobe
2 6 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Informatica
4 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.35%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.90%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian