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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 131 92
Rank change year-on-year -40 -39 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 60 117 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.68% 1.96% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 2.13% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 45 69 223
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,703 £80,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,750 £93,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £74,685 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.77% +10.64% -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 6,922 5,482 7,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 78.94% 91.93% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,892 2,444 5,842
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,759 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.02% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,513 £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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -5 35 £70,000 - 30
East Midlands -44 23 £67,750 +4.23% 12
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 6 (10.00%) IIS
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (73.33%) AWS
2 39 (65.00%) Azure
3 11 (18.33%) SaaS
4 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (13.33%) GCP
5 7 (11.67%) NuGet
5 7 (11.67%) SonarCloud
6 6 (10.00%) npm
6 6 (10.00%) Serverless
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
8 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.00%) Kong
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.00%) MySQL
5 2 (3.33%) Redis
5 2 (3.33%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.67%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) JUnit
2 10 (16.67%) Mockito
3 9 (15.00%) Git
3 9 (15.00%) Maven
4 4 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (6.67%) Selenium
5 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) Snyk
7 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Law
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Military
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Advertising
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Automotive
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Developer
2 18 (30.00%) Senior
3 16 (26.67%) Architect
4 10 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 10 (16.67%) Lead
5 9 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 9 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (11.67%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Lead Architect
9 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Software Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (6.67%) Product Architect
10 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (48.33%) React
2 25 (41.67%) .NET
3 14 (23.33%) Spring
4 13 (21.67%) Node.js
5 11 (18.33%) REST
6 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
7 7 (11.67%) Kafka
8 6 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (10.00%) YAML
9 5 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 4 (6.67%) HTML
10 4 (6.67%) RESTful
11 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
11 3 (5.00%) Apollo GraphQL
11 3 (5.00%) Django
12 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (3.33%) Playwright
12 2 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
6 3 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Agile
2 26 (43.33%) DevOps
3 23 (38.33%) CI/CD
4 21 (35.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (28.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
6 14 (23.33%) Event-Driven
7 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 12 (20.00%) TDD
7 12 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 9 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (15.00%) Scrum
9 9 (15.00%) SOA
10 8 (13.33%) SDLC
10 8 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
10 8 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.00%) Java
2 22 (36.67%) C#
3 17 (28.33%) SQL
4 12 (20.00%) Bash
5 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 8 (13.33%) PL/SQL
6 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
7 7 (11.67%) Python
8 6 (10.00%) C
8 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (6.67%) R
10 2 (3.33%) C++
10 2 (3.33%) Delphi
10 2 (3.33%) Go
11 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (48.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (21.67%) Terraform
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (3.33%) Nagios
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (8.33%) Adobe
3 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.00%) Informatica
4 3 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace