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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 117 90
Rank change year-on-year -55 -27 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 57 109 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.60% 2.01% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.16% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 43 69 233
10th Percentile £52,420 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £78,875 £81,703 £76,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £96,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -15.63%

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 7,367 5,045 7,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 77.78% 92.88% 85.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,161 2,464 6,079
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,967 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -12 33 £72,500 +3.57% 46
East Midlands -59 23 £67,500 +3.85% 35
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 7 (12.28%) IIS
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.75%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (68.42%) AWS
2 36 (63.16%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) SaaS
4 8 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (14.04%) NuGet
4 8 (14.04%) SonarCloud
5 7 (12.28%) npm
5 7 (12.28%) Serverless
6 6 (10.53%) GCP
7 5 (8.77%) GitHub
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Kong
8 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 3 (5.26%) Redis
4 3 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) JUnit
2 9 (15.79%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Maven
2 9 (15.79%) Mockito
3 4 (7.02%) GitLab
3 4 (7.02%) Selenium
4 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.51%) Postman
6 1 (1.75%) Snyk
6 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Finance
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Law
3 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Military
4 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Advertising
5 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Automotive
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (24.56%) Architect
4 11 (19.30%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (14.04%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (12.28%) Lead
8 6 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.77%) Software Developer
10 4 (7.02%) Product Architect
10 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
11 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (50.88%) React
2 25 (43.86%) .NET
3 14 (24.56%) Node.js
4 13 (22.81%) Spring
5 11 (19.30%) REST
6 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
6 8 (14.04%) Spring Boot
7 7 (12.28%) .NET Framework
7 7 (12.28%) GraphQL
7 7 (12.28%) YAML
8 6 (10.53%) Kafka
9 5 (8.77%) .NET Core
10 4 (7.02%) HTML
10 4 (7.02%) RESTful
11 3 (5.26%) Apollo GraphQL
11 3 (5.26%) Django
12 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (3.51%) Entity Framework
12 2 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
1 8 (14.04%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.26%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) Agile
2 25 (43.86%) DevOps
3 23 (40.35%) CI/CD
4 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (35.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (29.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 14 (24.56%) Event-Driven
9 13 (22.81%) Test Automation
10 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
10 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (19.30%) TDD
11 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
12 9 (15.79%) SOA
13 8 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (14.04%) Migration
13 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
13 8 (14.04%) Scrum
13 8 (14.04%) SDLC
14 7 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Java
2 22 (38.60%) C#
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 13 (22.81%) Bash
5 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
6 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 8 (14.04%) PL/SQL
8 7 (12.28%) C
8 7 (12.28%) PowerShell
8 7 (12.28%) Python
9 4 (7.02%) R
10 3 (5.26%) C++
11 2 (3.51%) Delphi
11 2 (3.51%) Go
12 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (52.63%) Kubernetes
2 14 (24.56%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) Nagios
4 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.26%) Adobe
3 3 (5.26%) Informatica
3 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace