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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 162 81
Rank change year-on-year +18 -81 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 71 112 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.18% 1.28% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.53% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 55 61 146
10th Percentile £53,000 £47,500 £49,125
25th Percentile £56,500 £57,500 £56,563
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 £82,500 £85,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £89,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -4.46%

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 4,905 7,331 4,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.80% 83.66% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,286 3,278 3,564
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,425 £26,768
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% -2.91%
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% - -2.44%

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 25 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 25 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 +30 42 £70,000 +7.69% 39
East Midlands +12 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 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Apache
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) JBoss
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (77.46%) AWS
2 42 (59.15%) Azure
3 21 (29.58%) SaaS
4 12 (16.90%) GCP
5 8 (11.27%) Serverless
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.04%) GitHub
6 5 (7.04%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.63%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 3 (4.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (4.23%) Kong
8 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.82%) AWS KMS
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.23%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.82%) Big Data
8 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.82%) MySQL
8 2 (2.82%) Power BI
8 2 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.41%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) JUnit
2 13 (18.31%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) Mockito
4 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (12.68%) Maven
5 5 (7.04%) JIRA
6 4 (5.63%) GitLab
6 4 (5.63%) Selenium
7 3 (4.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.23%) Postman
8 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (2.82%) DbUnit
8 2 (2.82%) Gradle
8 2 (2.82%) JMeter
8 2 (2.82%) jMock
8 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.41%) NUnit
9 1 (1.41%) Snyk
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.86%) Law
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Marketing
5 6 (8.45%) Retail
6 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Advertising
8 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (47.89%) Developer
2 21 (29.58%) Architect
3 17 (23.94%) Java Developer
3 17 (23.94%) Lead
4 12 (16.90%) Senior
5 10 (14.08%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (11.27%) Lead Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.86%) C# Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Lead Architect
7 7 (9.86%) Software Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) Principal Architect
9 4 (5.63%) C# Architect
9 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead C# Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Product Architect
10 3 (4.23%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (32.39%) .NET
1 23 (32.39%) Spring
2 22 (30.99%) React
3 17 (23.94%) Spring Boot
4 15 (21.13%) REST
5 12 (16.90%) AngularJS
5 12 (16.90%) RESTful
6 8 (11.27%) Web Services
7 7 (9.86%) Kafka
8 6 (8.45%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.04%) Django
9 5 (7.04%) HTML
9 5 (7.04%) Node.js
9 5 (7.04%) SOAP
10 4 (5.63%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (5.63%) Flask
10 4 (5.63%) jQuery
11 3 (4.23%) CSS
11 3 (4.23%) Entity Framework
11 3 (4.23%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.76%) Cloud Native
2 12 (16.90%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.68%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.23%) Client/Server
6 3 (4.23%) IoT
6 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.41%) Life Science
8 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 2 (2.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.93%) Agile
2 27 (38.03%) CI/CD
3 23 (32.39%) DevOps
4 21 (29.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (28.17%) Software Engineering
5 20 (28.17%) TDD
6 18 (25.35%) Mentoring
7 17 (23.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (19.72%) AI
8 14 (19.72%) Event-Driven
8 14 (19.72%) Roadmaps
9 12 (16.90%) Clean Code
9 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.49%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (14.08%) Scrum
12 9 (12.68%) BDD
12 9 (12.68%) E-Commerce
12 9 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (12.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) Java
2 23 (32.39%) C#
3 17 (23.94%) SQL
4 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.90%) Python
6 7 (9.86%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.45%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.63%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.23%) Go
10 2 (2.82%) Bash
10 2 (2.82%) Delphi
10 2 (2.82%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
System Software
1 25 (35.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (35.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) Terraform
3 3 (4.23%) Grafana
4 2 (2.82%) Kibana
5 1 (1.41%) Ansible
5 1 (1.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (14.08%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Adobe
2 6 (8.45%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.23%) Informatica
4 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.23%) SAP
4 3 (4.23%) Splunk
5 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace