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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 122 96
Rank change year-on-year -74 -26 +18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 57 95 277
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.46% 1.94% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 2.18% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 46 82 247
10th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £78,438 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £104,500 £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 9,072 4,352 9,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 73.35% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5,337 2,621 7,104
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,640 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -38 35 £72,500 +3.57% 13
East Midlands -75 21 £66,000 +1.54% 20
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 10 (17.54%) IIS
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (63.16%) Azure
2 28 (49.12%) AWS
3 14 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (19.30%) NuGet
5 10 (17.54%) npm
5 10 (17.54%) SonarCloud
6 4 (7.02%) GitHub
6 4 (7.02%) Serverless
7 3 (5.26%) GCP
7 3 (5.26%) iPaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Kong
7 3 (5.26%) SaaS
7 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) NoSQL
2 14 (24.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.26%) Redis
5 3 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (3.51%) MySQL
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.75%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) JUnit
3 7 (12.28%) Maven
4 6 (10.53%) GitLab
4 6 (10.53%) Mockito
5 5 (8.77%) Selenium
6 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
7 3 (5.26%) Postman
8 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.75%) Gatling
8 1 (1.75%) JMeter
8 1 (1.75%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.53%) Law
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Military
7 2 (3.51%) Advertising
7 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
1 20 (35.09%) Senior
2 13 (22.81%) Architect
3 12 (21.05%) Lead
4 11 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (17.54%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (15.79%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (15.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (14.04%) Lead Architect
8 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (12.28%) Senior Developer
8 7 (12.28%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
9 6 (10.53%) Software Developer
10 5 (8.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (5.26%) E-Commerce Architect
11 3 (5.26%) Lead Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (49.12%) React
2 24 (42.11%) .NET
3 19 (33.33%) Node.js
4 11 (19.30%) .NET Framework
5 10 (17.54%) YAML
6 9 (15.79%) REST
7 8 (14.04%) Spring
8 7 (12.28%) .NET Core
8 7 (12.28%) GraphQL
8 7 (12.28%) Kafka
9 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET
9 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
10 3 (5.26%) Apollo GraphQL
10 3 (5.26%) HTML
10 3 (5.26%) Playwright
10 3 (5.26%) RESTful
11 2 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.75%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Linux
2 13 (22.81%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Android
3 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) DevOps
2 27 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 26 (45.61%) Agile
4 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 16 (28.07%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (24.56%) Event-Driven
7 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (24.56%) Mentoring
8 13 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
10 11 (19.30%) Migration
11 10 (17.54%) DevSecOps
12 9 (15.79%) TDD
13 7 (12.28%) Coaching
13 7 (12.28%) Decision-Making
13 7 (12.28%) Enterprise Architecture
13 7 (12.28%) Scrum
13 7 (12.28%) SDLC
13 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) C#
1 21 (36.84%) Java
2 16 (28.07%) SQL
3 15 (26.32%) Bash
4 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
5 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) Python
6 7 (12.28%) C
7 6 (10.53%) PL/SQL
8 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
9 4 (7.02%) R
9 4 (7.02%) Rust
10 3 (5.26%) C++
10 3 (5.26%) PHP
11 2 (3.51%) Delphi
11 2 (3.51%) Go
12 1 (1.75%) JCL
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (49.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (31.58%) Terraform
3 5 (8.77%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Ansible
5 3 (5.26%) Nagios
5 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.75%) Argo
6 1 (1.75%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
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 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk
5 1 (1.75%) Veracode