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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 100 135
Rank change year-on-year -71 +35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 90 154 257
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 2.97% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 3.39% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 72 80 227
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,188 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £72,245
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

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 8,859 4,546 10,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.74% 87.64% 79.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,242 2,653 7,479
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -42 63 £77,500 +10.71% 22
East Midlands -58 26 £64,500 +7.50% 10
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 8 (8.89%) IIS
2 4 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.11%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (75.56%) Azure
2 45 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.89%) npm
4 8 (8.89%) NuGet
4 8 (8.89%) SonarCloud
5 7 (7.78%) Serverless
6 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 5 (5.56%) GCP
7 5 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.33%) iPaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.22%) Copilot Studio
10 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 20 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (18.89%) NoSQL
4 15 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.44%) MySQL
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.22%) Redis
9 2 (2.22%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.11%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.33%) Maven
2 11 (12.22%) JUnit
2 11 (12.22%) Mockito
3 7 (7.78%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.11%) Gatling
5 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.11%) JMeter
5 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.11%) NUnit
5 1 (1.11%) Postman
5 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.11%) Selenium
5 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (13.33%) Finance
2 11 (12.22%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Retail
5 4 (4.44%) Games
6 3 (3.33%) Law
7 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Billing
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (43.33%) Developer
2 22 (24.44%) .NET Developer
3 19 (21.11%) Lead
4 18 (20.00%) Senior
5 17 (18.89%) Architect
6 9 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (7.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (50.00%) .NET
2 38 (42.22%) React
3 33 (36.67%) ASP.NET
4 32 (35.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 30 (33.33%) Node.js
6 27 (30.00%) .NET Core
7 21 (23.33%) ASP.NET Web API
8 17 (18.89%) Blazor
9 15 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 13 (14.44%) Spring
11 12 (13.33%) REST
12 10 (11.11%) AngularJS
13 9 (10.00%) RESTful
14 8 (8.89%) Kafka
14 8 (8.89%) YAML
15 6 (6.67%) Entity Framework
15 6 (6.67%) Vue
16 5 (5.56%) LINQ
17 4 (4.44%) HTML
18 3 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.22%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.11%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Linux
2 9 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.11%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (72.22%) Agile
2 45 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (37.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 31 (34.44%) DevOps
5 30 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 24 (26.67%) TDD
7 23 (25.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (22.22%) Scrum
8 20 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (21.11%) AI
10 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.89%) Event-Driven
10 17 (18.89%) Test Automation
11 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
13 13 (14.44%) BDD
13 13 (14.44%) Software Engineering
14 11 (12.22%) Coaching
14 11 (12.22%) Unit Testing
15 9 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) C#
2 45 (50.00%) SQL
3 41 (45.56%) JavaScript
4 27 (30.00%) Java
5 18 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 16 (17.78%) Bash
7 11 (12.22%) PL/SQL
7 11 (12.22%) Python
8 9 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.44%) C
9 4 (4.44%) Rust
10 3 (3.33%) PHP
11 2 (2.22%) C++
11 2 (2.22%) R
11 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.11%) JCL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) QA
2 4 (4.44%) GDPR
3 3 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) GxP
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (35.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (42.22%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.11%) Terraform
3 3 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Nagios
4 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.11%) Ansible
5 1 (1.11%) Argo
5 1 (1.11%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.11%) OpenText
5 1 (1.11%) SAP
5 1 (1.11%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) Veracode