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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 104 103
Rank change year-on-year -95 -1 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 55 125 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 2.47% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 2.77% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46 81 247
10th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £105,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 9,299 4,519 9,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.67% 89.15% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,550 2,612 7,120
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £80,024 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 May 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 May 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 -45 34 £72,500 +3.57% 26
East Midlands -78 20 £67,250 +5.49% 30
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 11 (20.00%) IIS
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) Azure
2 24 (43.64%) AWS
3 15 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (21.82%) NuGet
5 11 (20.00%) npm
5 11 (20.00%) SonarCloud
6 5 (9.09%) GitHub
7 4 (7.27%) GCP
8 3 (5.45%) iPaaS
8 3 (5.45%) Serverless
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.64%) SaaS
10 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.82%) Kong
10 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 14 (25.45%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.45%) Redis
5 3 (5.45%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.64%) MySQL
7 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.82%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Git
2 7 (12.73%) JUnit
3 6 (10.91%) Maven
4 5 (9.09%) GitLab
4 5 (9.09%) Mockito
5 4 (7.27%) Cucumber
5 4 (7.27%) Selenium
6 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.64%) Postman
8 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.82%) Gatling
8 1 (1.82%) JMeter
8 1 (1.82%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Military
6 2 (3.64%) Advertising
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
1 19 (34.55%) Senior
2 12 (21.82%) Architect
2 12 (21.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 10 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Lead
5 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Lead Architect
6 6 (10.91%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.91%) Software Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Technical Architect
9 3 (5.45%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (45.45%) .NET
2 23 (41.82%) React
3 19 (34.55%) Node.js
4 13 (23.64%) .NET Framework
5 11 (20.00%) YAML
6 8 (14.55%) .NET Core
6 8 (14.55%) ASP.NET
6 8 (14.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (14.55%) REST
7 7 (12.73%) Spring
8 6 (10.91%) Kafka
9 5 (9.09%) GraphQL
9 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
10 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
11 3 (5.45%) HTML
12 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
12 2 (3.64%) Flask
12 2 (3.64%) pytest
12 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) Linux
2 14 (25.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Android
3 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.82%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) DevOps
2 27 (49.09%) CI/CD
3 25 (45.45%) Agile
4 20 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (34.55%) Test Automation
6 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
8 13 (23.64%) Event-Driven
8 13 (23.64%) Mentoring
9 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 11 (20.00%) Migration
10 9 (16.36%) TDD
11 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
11 7 (12.73%) Scrum
12 6 (10.91%) API Design
12 6 (10.91%) Coaching
12 6 (10.91%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (10.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) C#
2 18 (32.73%) Java
3 16 (29.09%) Bash
3 16 (29.09%) SQL
4 11 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (16.36%) Python
6 7 (12.73%) C
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.73%) TypeScript
7 5 (9.09%) PL/SQL
8 4 (7.27%) R
8 4 (7.27%) Rust
9 3 (5.45%) C++
9 3 (5.45%) PHP
10 2 (3.64%) Delphi
10 2 (3.64%) Go
11 1 (1.82%) JCL
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (47.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (56.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.73%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Grafana
4 4 (7.27%) Ansible
5 3 (5.45%) Nagios
5 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.82%) Argo
6 1 (1.82%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (12.73%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) Adobe
5 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk
5 1 (1.82%) Veracode