Microservices Jobs in the Midlands

Microservices
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 133 103
Rank change year-on-year +12 -30 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 159 242 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.28% 1.76% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.21% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 83 214 171
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +3.33%

All Process and 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 6,176 10,937 7,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.74% 79.47% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,815 7,333 4,437
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +19 93 £70,000 +7.69% 67
East Midlands +33 66 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (32.70%) Confluence
2 4 (2.52%) CMS
3 3 (1.89%) Apache
3 3 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.89%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.63%) JBoss
5 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.63%) Moqups
1 1 (0.63%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 128 (80.50%) AWS
2 117 (73.58%) Azure
3 66 (41.51%) GCP
4 18 (11.32%) SaaS
5 10 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (5.66%) Serverless
7 8 (5.03%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.77%) AWS KMS
9 6 (3.77%) Route 53
10 5 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.89%) Figma
11 3 (1.89%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.26%) Azure Functions
12 2 (1.26%) Contentful
12 2 (1.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (43.40%) SQL Server
2 29 (18.24%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.81%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.92%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.03%) Big Data
5 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.77%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.89%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.63%) MySQL
9 1 (0.63%) Power BI
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (45.91%) Maven
2 70 (44.03%) SonarQube
3 69 (43.40%) JIRA
4 66 (41.51%) GitLab
5 64 (40.25%) Cucumber
5 64 (40.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 63 (39.62%) Bitbucket
6 63 (39.62%) Selenium
7 21 (13.21%) Git
8 19 (11.95%) JUnit
9 17 (10.69%) Mockito
10 11 (6.92%) Jenkins
11 8 (5.03%) Eclipse
11 8 (5.03%) IntelliJ
11 8 (5.03%) Jasmine
11 8 (5.03%) Karma Test Runner
11 8 (5.03%) Protractor
12 6 (3.77%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (3.77%) DbUnit
12 6 (3.77%) jMock
General
1 78 (49.06%) Finance
2 71 (44.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (41.51%) Banking
4 20 (12.58%) Retail
5 16 (10.06%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (10.06%) Investment Banking
6 15 (9.43%) Social Skills
7 12 (7.55%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.14%) Law
10 3 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.26%) Automotive
11 2 (1.26%) Games
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) iGaming
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (52.83%) Software Engineer
2 43 (27.04%) Developer
3 26 (16.35%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.32%) Senior
5 13 (8.18%) Architect
6 11 (6.92%) Lead
6 11 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.29%) Backend Developer
7 10 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) Lead Developer
9 8 (5.03%) SaaS Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Lead Java Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.14%) C# Developer
12 4 (2.52%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Senior C# Developer
12 4 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (60.38%) Spring
2 90 (56.60%) React
3 81 (50.94%) Spring Boot
4 79 (49.69%) JPA
5 71 (44.65%) HTML
6 69 (43.40%) CSS
6 69 (43.40%) Hibernate
6 69 (43.40%) Kafka
7 63 (39.62%) Redux
8 38 (23.90%) REST
9 34 (21.38%) RESTful
10 27 (16.98%) AngularJS
11 19 (11.95%) CSS3
11 19 (11.95%) HTML5
12 18 (11.32%) Jest
13 17 (10.69%) .NET
14 16 (10.06%) Sass
15 13 (8.18%) Web Services
16 12 (7.55%) Node.js
17 11 (6.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 65 (40.88%) Product Ownership
2 64 (40.25%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.29%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.77%) IoT
7 6 (3.77%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.14%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.14%) Legacy Code
8 5 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.52%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.26%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.26%) Life Science
11 2 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.26%) Replication
12 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (67.30%) Agile
2 97 (61.01%) DevOps
3 96 (60.38%) CI/CD
4 94 (59.12%) Containerisation
5 90 (56.60%) Software Engineering
6 80 (50.31%) TDD
7 77 (48.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 73 (45.91%) Test Automation
9 70 (44.03%) SDLC
10 67 (42.14%) Front End Development
11 64 (40.25%) Performance Optimisation
12 55 (34.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (33.96%) Clean Code
14 32 (20.13%) Mentoring
15 22 (13.84%) User Experience
16 19 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (10.69%) Migration
17 17 (10.69%) Responsive Web Design
17 17 (10.69%) Strategic Thinking
18 16 (10.06%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 109 (68.55%) Java
2 94 (59.12%) SQL
3 83 (52.20%) JavaScript
4 30 (18.87%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.06%) C#
6 13 (8.18%) Python
7 5 (3.14%) Go
8 4 (2.52%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.26%) PHP
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.89%) Degree
4 2 (1.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (40.88%) QA
2 16 (10.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 108 (67.92%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 98 (61.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.77%) Terraform
3 4 (2.52%) Grafana
3 4 (2.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (39.62%) Solace
2 12 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.03%) IBM
4 6 (3.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.89%) Oracle
5 3 (1.89%) Splunk
6 2 (1.26%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.26%) Google
6 2 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.63%) OpenAI