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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 157 83
Rank change year-on-year -4 -74 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 67 109 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.99% 1.36% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.58% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52 61 140
10th Percentile £53,875 £47,500 £51,125
25th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,563 £82,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -6.25%

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 5,552 6,904 4,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.89% 86.13% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,383 3,083 3,503
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,656 £38,750 £36,334
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,250
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 6 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 6 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 +11 38 £70,000 +7.69% 69
East Midlands -2 27 £76,750 +18.08% 46
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 (2.99%) Apache
1 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.99%) IIS
1 2 (2.99%) JBoss
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.99%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (76.12%) AWS
2 41 (61.19%) Azure
3 19 (28.36%) SaaS
4 12 (17.91%) GCP
5 8 (11.94%) Serverless
6 5 (7.46%) GitHub
6 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.48%) Kong
8 3 (4.48%) NuGet
8 3 (4.48%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (4.48%) SonarCloud
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.99%) Big Data
5 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.99%) MySQL
5 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.49%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.49%) Power BI
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JUnit
2 12 (17.91%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) Mockito
4 7 (10.45%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.96%) Maven
6 5 (7.46%) GitLab
7 4 (5.97%) Selenium
8 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.48%) JIRA
8 3 (4.48%) Postman
9 2 (2.99%) Gradle
9 2 (2.99%) JMeter
9 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.49%) NUnit
10 1 (1.49%) Snyk
General
1 21 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.90%) Finance
3 7 (10.45%) Law
4 6 (8.96%) Marketing
4 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.96%) Retail
5 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Advertising
8 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (41.79%) Developer
2 22 (32.84%) Architect
3 15 (22.39%) Lead
4 13 (19.40%) Java Developer
5 11 (16.42%) Senior
5 11 (16.42%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.45%) Lead Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Lead Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Principal Architect
7 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.97%) C# Architect
9 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead C# Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Product Architect
10 3 (4.48%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (35.82%) React
2 22 (32.84%) .NET
3 18 (26.87%) Spring
4 13 (19.40%) REST
4 13 (19.40%) Spring Boot
5 9 (13.43%) RESTful
6 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
7 7 (10.45%) Kafka
7 7 (10.45%) Node.js
8 5 (7.46%) Django
8 5 (7.46%) Web Services
9 4 (5.97%) Flask
9 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.97%) HTML
10 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
10 3 (4.48%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (4.48%) jQuery
10 3 (4.48%) SOAP
10 3 (4.48%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (16.42%) Product Ownership
3 9 (13.43%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.48%) IoT
6 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.99%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.49%) Life Science
8 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) Agile
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) DevOps
3 22 (32.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
5 17 (25.37%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (23.88%) Mentoring
7 15 (22.39%) TDD
8 14 (20.90%) Event-Driven
8 14 (20.90%) Roadmaps
9 12 (17.91%) AI
10 11 (16.42%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (16.42%) Clean Code
11 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.43%) E-Commerce
11 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (11.94%) Collaborative Culture
12 8 (11.94%) Customer Experience
13 7 (10.45%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) C#
3 16 (23.88%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.91%) Python
5 7 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.46%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.97%) Bash
7 4 (5.97%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.99%) Delphi
8 2 (2.99%) Go
8 2 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.49%) C
9 1 (1.49%) C++
9 1 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
System Software
1 21 (31.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (35.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.94%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Grafana
3 2 (2.99%) Kibana
4 1 (1.49%) Argo
4 1 (1.49%) Nagios
4 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) Adobe
2 6 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.48%) Informatica
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.99%) Splunk