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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 114 145
Rank change year-on-year -52 +31 -64
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 136 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.69% 2.42% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.79% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 78 61 81
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £91,269 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,125 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +7.41% -10.66%

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 11,037 4,879 7,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.13% 86.85% 79.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,845 2,823 3,669
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -43 80 £80,000 +14.29% 58
East Midlands -62 29 £65,000 -3.70% 36
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 (6.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.83%) IIS
3 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.92%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (66.06%) Azure
2 52 (47.71%) AWS
3 11 (10.09%) GCP
4 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (8.26%) SaaS
5 8 (7.34%) GitHub
6 6 (5.50%) Serverless
7 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.67%) Google Ads
8 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Advertising
8 4 (3.67%) SonarCloud
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.75%) IaaS
9 3 (2.75%) PaaS
10 2 (1.83%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
1 2 (1.83%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (1.83%) Internet
1 2 (1.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.44%) MongoDB
2 22 (20.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (14.68%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.75%) MySQL
9 2 (1.83%) Redis
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) JUnit
1 15 (13.76%) Maven
2 14 (12.84%) Mockito
3 9 (8.26%) Git
4 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.83%) GitLab
4 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) JMeter
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.92%) Gradle
5 1 (0.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.92%) NUnit
5 1 (0.92%) Postman
5 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.92%) TestNG
5 1 (0.92%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Retail
4 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.67%) Advertising
6 4 (3.67%) Games
6 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Billing
8 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Automotive
8 2 (1.83%) Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Law
9 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (37.61%) Developer
2 31 (28.44%) Lead
3 26 (23.85%) Architect
4 24 (22.02%) .NET Developer
5 18 (16.51%) Senior
6 12 (11.01%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (10.09%) Software Engineer
8 10 (9.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (9.17%) Java Developer
9 9 (8.26%) Senior Developer
10 8 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.34%) Technical Architect
10 8 (7.34%) Technical Leader
11 7 (6.42%) Lead Architect
11 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (5.50%) Lead Developer
12 6 (5.50%) Software Architect
13 4 (3.67%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (43.12%) .NET
2 36 (33.03%) React
3 35 (32.11%) ASP.NET
4 33 (30.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 27 (24.77%) .NET Core
6 24 (22.02%) Node.js
7 23 (21.10%) ASP.NET Web API
8 21 (19.27%) Blazor
9 17 (15.60%) REST
9 17 (15.60%) Spring
10 16 (14.68%) Terraform
11 12 (11.01%) RESTful
12 10 (9.17%) .NET Framework
13 9 (8.26%) AngularJS
14 8 (7.34%) Kafka
15 6 (5.50%) LINQ
15 6 (5.50%) Vue
16 5 (4.59%) Entity Framework
17 4 (3.67%) Django
17 4 (3.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 22 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (3.67%) Robotics
7 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.83%) IoT
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.83%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.83%) SCADA
8 2 (1.83%) Tandem
8 2 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.92%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.51%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.14%) Agile
2 54 (49.54%) CI/CD
3 42 (38.53%) Mentoring
3 42 (38.53%) Technical Leadership
4 36 (33.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (27.52%) AI
6 29 (26.61%) TDD
7 28 (25.69%) Event-Driven
8 25 (22.94%) DevOps
8 25 (22.94%) Scrum
9 24 (22.02%) Software Engineering
10 23 (21.10%) Containerisation
11 21 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (16.51%) Observability
13 17 (15.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 16 (14.68%) Coaching
15 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (13.76%) LLM
16 14 (12.84%) BDD
16 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.71%) SQL
2 50 (45.87%) C#
3 47 (43.12%) JavaScript
4 29 (26.61%) Java
5 21 (19.27%) TypeScript
6 17 (15.60%) Python
7 15 (13.76%) Bash
8 14 (12.84%) PL/SQL
9 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.50%) Go
11 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.83%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.92%) PHP
12 1 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) CISM
5 1 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) GDPR
2 4 (3.67%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.92%) GxP
5 1 (0.92%) NCSC
5 1 (0.92%) NIST
5 1 (0.92%) PSD2
5 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (34.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (39.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.67%) Grafana
3 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.92%) Argo
Vendors
1 37 (33.94%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.76%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.67%) Facebook
4 4 (3.67%) Google
4 4 (3.67%) Instagram
4 4 (3.67%) TikTok
5 3 (2.75%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 2 (1.83%) IFS
6 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.83%) Veracode
7 1 (0.92%) Adobe
7 1 (0.92%) Databricks
7 1 (0.92%) NCR
7 1 (0.92%) OpenText