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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 115 152
Rank change year-on-year -58 +37 -74
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 138 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.70% 2.45% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.81% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 77 63 75
10th Percentile £49,500 £54,000 £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 £88,148 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £94,250 £98,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -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 11,036 4,906 7,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 70.61% 86.95% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,779 2,835 3,515
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 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 9 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 -39 79 £80,000 +14.29% 57
East Midlands -63 30 £65,000 -7.14% 33
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 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.92%) Documentum
2 1 (0.92%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (65.14%) Azure
2 53 (48.62%) AWS
3 11 (10.09%) GCP
4 9 (8.26%) SaaS
5 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
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
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
9 3 (2.75%) SonarCloud
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
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 9 (8.26%) 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 24 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.43%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Retail
4 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.67%) Advertising
7 4 (3.67%) Games
7 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Automotive
8 3 (2.75%) Billing
8 3 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (36.70%) Developer
2 29 (26.61%) Lead
3 27 (24.77%) Architect
4 24 (22.02%) .NET Developer
5 17 (15.60%) 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
9 9 (8.26%) Software Architect
10 8 (7.34%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.42%) .NET Architect
11 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (6.42%) Technical Architect
11 7 (6.42%) Technical Leader
12 6 (5.50%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.59%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (44.04%) .NET
2 36 (33.03%) React
3 34 (31.19%) ASP.NET
4 32 (29.36%) ASP.NET Core
5 27 (24.77%) .NET Core
6 23 (21.10%) ASP.NET Web API
6 23 (21.10%) Blazor
6 23 (21.10%) Node.js
7 18 (16.51%) REST
8 17 (15.60%) Spring
9 16 (14.68%) Terraform
10 13 (11.93%) RESTful
11 10 (9.17%) AngularJS
12 8 (7.34%) .NET Framework
12 8 (7.34%) Kafka
13 7 (6.42%) Django
14 6 (5.50%) LINQ
14 6 (5.50%) Vue
15 5 (4.59%) Entity Framework
16 3 (2.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (22.94%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.42%) Robotics
3 7 (6.42%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.67%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.75%) IoT
6 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.75%) SCADA
7 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.83%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.83%) Tandem
7 2 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.92%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.92%) PKI
8 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.43%) Linux
2 4 (3.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.14%) Agile
2 56 (51.38%) CI/CD
3 45 (41.28%) Technical Leadership
4 42 (38.53%) Mentoring
5 37 (33.94%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (27.52%) AI
7 29 (26.61%) Event-Driven
7 29 (26.61%) TDD
8 27 (24.77%) Containerisation
9 25 (22.94%) DevOps
9 25 (22.94%) Scrum
9 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
10 21 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (19.27%) Observability
11 19 (17.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 17 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (13.76%) LLM
14 14 (12.84%) BDD
14 14 (12.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 52 (47.71%) C#
2 51 (46.79%) SQL
3 48 (44.04%) JavaScript
4 30 (27.52%) Java
5 22 (20.18%) TypeScript
6 20 (18.35%) Python
7 14 (12.84%) Bash
7 14 (12.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.50%) Go
8 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.83%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.83%) VB.NET
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%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) CISM
5 1 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.59%) GDPR
1 5 (4.59%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.92%) GxP
4 1 (0.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
4 1 (0.92%) PSD2
4 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (37.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (41.28%) 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%) Facebook
4 4 (3.67%) Google
4 4 (3.67%) Instagram
4 4 (3.67%) TikTok
5 3 (2.75%) CrowdStrike
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