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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 109 147
Rank change year-on-year -61 +38 -45
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 97 149 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.71% 2.64% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 3.09% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 79 75 160
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £103,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

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 9,463 4,829 9,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.69% 85.42% 78.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6,728 2,902 6,127
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,063 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,544 £77,500 £75,309
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -43 70 £78,750 +12.50% 31
East Midlands -60 26 £64,000 +6.67% 23
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 (7.22%) IIS
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.03%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (72.16%) Azure
2 46 (47.42%) AWS
3 12 (12.37%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (11.34%) GCP
5 7 (7.22%) GitHub
5 7 (7.22%) npm
5 7 (7.22%) NuGet
5 7 (7.22%) SonarCloud
6 6 (6.19%) Serverless
7 5 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (5.15%) SaaS
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
9 3 (3.09%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Advertising
10 2 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (3.09%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.02%) MongoDB
2 23 (23.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (17.53%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (15.46%) NoSQL
5 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
6 8 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.12%) MySQL
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.06%) Redis
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.03%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (1.03%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) Maven
2 10 (10.31%) JUnit
2 10 (10.31%) Mockito
3 8 (8.25%) Git
4 3 (3.09%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.03%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.03%) Gatling
6 1 (1.03%) JMeter
6 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.03%) NUnit
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.03%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.25%) Retail
5 4 (4.12%) Advertising
5 4 (4.12%) Games
6 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.09%) Law
6 3 (3.09%) Marketing
7 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (42.27%) Developer
2 25 (25.77%) .NET Developer
3 23 (23.71%) Lead
4 19 (19.59%) Architect
5 16 (16.49%) Senior
6 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Java Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead Architect
10 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.12%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.12%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (48.45%) .NET
2 39 (40.21%) React
3 35 (36.08%) ASP.NET
4 34 (35.05%) ASP.NET Core
5 30 (30.93%) .NET Core
5 30 (30.93%) Node.js
6 24 (24.74%) ASP.NET Web API
7 21 (21.65%) Blazor
8 15 (15.46%) Spring
9 14 (14.43%) .NET Framework
10 12 (12.37%) RESTful
11 10 (10.31%) REST
12 9 (9.28%) Kafka
13 8 (8.25%) AngularJS
14 7 (7.22%) YAML
15 6 (6.19%) Entity Framework
15 6 (6.19%) LINQ
16 5 (5.15%) Spring Boot
16 5 (5.15%) Vue
17 4 (4.12%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.49%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.09%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.03%) Mobile Wallet
6 1 (1.03%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.03%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.03%) Robotics
6 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.03%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.53%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.04%) Agile
2 49 (50.52%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (34.02%) Mentoring
5 30 (30.93%) DevOps
6 27 (27.84%) Technical Leadership
7 23 (23.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (23.71%) TDD
8 22 (22.68%) AI
9 20 (20.62%) Event-Driven
9 20 (20.62%) Scrum
10 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
12 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
13 14 (14.43%) Containerisation
13 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (13.40%) BDD
15 12 (12.37%) Observability
16 11 (11.34%) Coaching
17 10 (10.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.55%) C#
2 45 (46.39%) JavaScript
2 45 (46.39%) SQL
3 27 (27.84%) Java
4 18 (18.56%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.43%) Bash
6 11 (11.34%) Python
7 10 (10.31%) PL/SQL
8 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.12%) Go
9 4 (4.12%) Rust
10 3 (3.09%) PHP
11 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.03%) C
12 1 (1.03%) C++
12 1 (1.03%) JCL
12 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) Degree
3 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) GDPR
2 3 (3.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.09%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) GxP
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.03%) PSD2
3 1 (1.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (31.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (39.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.56%) Terraform
3 5 (5.15%) Grafana
4 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) Argo
5 1 (1.03%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Oracle
3 7 (7.22%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.09%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.09%) Facebook
4 3 (3.09%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Instagram
4 3 (3.09%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.09%) TikTok
5 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.03%) Databricks
5 1 (1.03%) OpenText
5 1 (1.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) Splunk
5 1 (1.03%) Veracode