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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 151 80
Rank change year-on-year +35 -71 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 137 143 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.44% 1.42% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 1.81% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 63 91 160
10th Percentile £52,750 £45,750 £48,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.97% -2.51%

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 4,808 7,918 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.61% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,883 4,035 3,831
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,893 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +41 79 £70,000 +7.69% 45
East Midlands +29 56 £65,000 +8.33% 30
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (37.96%) Confluence
2 4 (2.92%) Apache
2 4 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) CMS
3 2 (1.46%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.46%) JBoss
3 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 119 (86.86%) AWS
2 103 (75.18%) Azure
3 66 (48.18%) GCP
4 16 (11.68%) SaaS
5 10 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
6 9 (6.57%) Serverless
7 7 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.38%) AWS KMS
8 6 (4.38%) Route 53
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.92%) Azure Functions
9 4 (2.92%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (2.19%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.46%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (49.64%) SQL Server
2 15 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.22%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.49%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.57%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
7 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.19%) Big Data
9 3 (2.19%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.46%) Power BI
10 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 74 (54.01%) Maven
2 70 (51.09%) JIRA
2 70 (51.09%) SonarQube
3 66 (48.18%) GitLab
4 65 (47.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 64 (46.72%) Cucumber
6 63 (45.99%) Bitbucket
6 63 (45.99%) Selenium
7 21 (15.33%) Git
8 13 (9.49%) JUnit
9 12 (8.76%) Jenkins
10 10 (7.30%) Mockito
11 6 (4.38%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (4.38%) DbUnit
11 6 (4.38%) jMock
12 2 (1.46%) Gradle
12 2 (1.46%) JMeter
12 2 (1.46%) NUnit
12 2 (1.46%) Storybook
13 1 (0.73%) Postman
General
1 76 (55.47%) Finance
2 64 (46.72%) Banking
2 64 (46.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (16.06%) Retail
4 16 (11.68%) Corporate Banking
4 16 (11.68%) Investment Banking
5 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.76%) Social Skills
6 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.38%) Marketing
8 5 (3.65%) Law
9 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.73%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 78 (56.93%) Software Engineer
2 36 (26.28%) Developer
3 20 (14.60%) Java Developer
4 16 (11.68%) Lead
5 11 (8.03%) Architect
5 11 (8.03%) Lead Developer
6 10 (7.30%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.57%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.38%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (4.38%) Senior
10 5 (3.65%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Lead Architect
11 4 (2.92%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Senior Developer
11 4 (2.92%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (2.92%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (71.53%) Spring
2 83 (60.58%) Spring Boot
3 78 (56.93%) React
4 72 (52.55%) JPA
5 70 (51.09%) HTML
6 68 (49.64%) CSS
7 67 (48.91%) Kafka
8 64 (46.72%) Redux
9 62 (45.26%) Hibernate
10 36 (26.28%) REST
11 31 (22.63%) RESTful
12 18 (13.14%) CSS3
12 18 (13.14%) HTML5
13 17 (12.41%) AngularJS
13 17 (12.41%) Jest
14 16 (11.68%) Sass
15 15 (10.95%) Web Services
16 14 (10.22%) .NET
17 11 (8.03%) SOAP
18 10 (7.30%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (51.82%) Product Ownership
2 63 (45.99%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (12.41%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.92%) IoT
7 4 (2.92%) Legacy Code
8 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.46%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.46%) Life Science
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.84%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (75.18%) Agile
2 94 (68.61%) DevOps
3 93 (67.88%) CI/CD
4 84 (61.31%) Containerisation
5 83 (60.58%) Software Engineering
6 79 (57.66%) TDD
7 77 (56.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 70 (51.09%) Test Automation
9 67 (48.91%) SDLC
10 66 (48.18%) Front End Development
11 64 (46.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 64 (46.72%) Performance Optimisation
12 58 (42.34%) Clean Code
13 32 (23.36%) Mentoring
14 19 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (13.14%) User Experience
16 17 (12.41%) Migration
16 17 (12.41%) Strategic Thinking
17 16 (11.68%) Artificial Intelligence
17 16 (11.68%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 99 (72.26%) Java
2 81 (59.12%) SQL
3 74 (54.01%) JavaScript
4 22 (16.06%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.22%) C#
6 13 (9.49%) Python
7 4 (2.92%) Go
7 4 (2.92%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.73%) PHP
9 1 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (48.91%) QA
2 16 (11.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 94 (68.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.46%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 90 (65.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.92%) Grafana
2 4 (2.92%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.19%) Terraform
4 2 (1.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (45.99%) Solace
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.38%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle
5 3 (2.19%) Adobe
5 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.19%) Splunk
6 2 (1.46%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.46%) Google
6 2 (1.46%) Jaspersoft