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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 97 112
Rank change year-on-year -22 +15 -36
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 163 285 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.30% 2.40% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.92% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 84 252 188
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £79,063 £71,991 £81,250
90th Percentile £103,500 £91,250 £92,500
England median annual salary £74,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.62% -18.75% +6.67%

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 6,485 9,746 8,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.67% 82.02% 96.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,686 7,160 4,507
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,270 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -20 89 £70,000 +7.69% 81
East Midlands +18 74 £62,500 +13.64% 52
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 48 (29.45%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) CMS
3 3 (1.84%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.23%) Moqups
1 2 (1.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 126 (77.30%) AWS
2 123 (75.46%) Azure
3 61 (37.42%) GCP
4 29 (17.79%) SaaS
5 6 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (3.68%) Azure API Management
5 6 (3.68%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (3.68%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.68%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.68%) Serverless
6 5 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.45%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.45%) Figma
8 3 (1.84%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.84%) IaaS
8 3 (1.84%) PaaS
9 2 (1.23%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (46.63%) SQL Server
2 37 (22.70%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.59%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.68%) Big Data
4 6 (3.68%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.07%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.07%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.84%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.61%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.61%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 67 (41.10%) Maven
2 66 (40.49%) SonarQube
3 65 (39.88%) GitLab
4 64 (39.26%) JIRA
5 63 (38.65%) Bitbucket
5 63 (38.65%) Cucumber
5 63 (38.65%) Selenium
5 63 (38.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (12.27%) JUnit
6 20 (12.27%) Mockito
7 17 (10.43%) Eclipse
7 17 (10.43%) IntelliJ
7 17 (10.43%) Jasmine
7 17 (10.43%) Karma Test Runner
7 17 (10.43%) Protractor
8 13 (7.98%) Git
9 6 (3.68%) Visual Studio
9 6 (3.68%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (2.45%) Jenkins
10 4 (2.45%) Storybook
General
1 75 (46.01%) Finance
2 71 (43.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (41.10%) Banking
4 22 (13.50%) Retail
5 17 (10.43%) Investment Banking
6 16 (9.82%) Corporate Banking
7 14 (8.59%) Social Skills
8 8 (4.91%) Law
9 4 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.84%) Games
11 2 (1.23%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.61%) iGaming
12 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (49.69%) Software Engineer
2 38 (23.31%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Java Developer
4 20 (12.27%) Architect
5 18 (11.04%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (10.43%) Backend Developer
7 16 (9.82%) SaaS Developer
8 15 (9.20%) Lead
9 14 (8.59%) Senior
10 8 (4.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Java Software Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.07%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.07%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 4 (2.45%) Designer
13 4 (2.45%) Principal Architect
13 4 (2.45%) Principal Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.84%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (65.03%) React
2 84 (51.53%) JPA
3 80 (49.08%) Spring
4 75 (46.01%) CSS
5 70 (42.94%) Hibernate
5 70 (42.94%) Spring Boot
6 69 (42.33%) HTML
6 69 (42.33%) Kafka
7 65 (39.88%) Redux
8 30 (18.40%) AngularJS
8 30 (18.40%) REST
9 29 (17.79%) RESTful
10 19 (11.66%) CSS3
10 19 (11.66%) HTML5
10 19 (11.66%) Jest
10 19 (11.66%) RabbitMQ
11 16 (9.82%) Sass
12 15 (9.20%) .NET
12 15 (9.20%) Node.js
13 10 (6.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (41.10%) Enterprise Software
2 63 (38.65%) Product Ownership
3 19 (11.66%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.52%) Legacy Code
5 7 (4.29%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.29%) Distributed Architecture
5 7 (4.29%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.23%) Replication
10 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.33%) Agile
2 96 (58.90%) Containerisation
2 96 (58.90%) DevOps
3 94 (57.67%) Software Engineering
4 89 (54.60%) CI/CD
5 76 (46.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 70 (42.94%) Front End Development
6 70 (42.94%) SDLC
7 67 (41.10%) Test Automation
8 64 (39.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 62 (38.04%) TDD
10 54 (33.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (29.45%) Clean Code
12 34 (20.86%) Mentoring
13 28 (17.18%) User Experience
14 24 (14.72%) Migration
15 22 (13.50%) Unit Testing
16 17 (10.43%) Responsive Web Design
16 17 (10.43%) Strategic Thinking
17 16 (9.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 102 (62.58%) Java
2 95 (58.28%) SQL
3 93 (57.06%) JavaScript
4 40 (24.54%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.88%) C#
6 8 (4.91%) Python
7 3 (1.84%) Go
8 1 (0.61%) PHP
8 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (6.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) Degree
4 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (38.65%) QA
2 16 (9.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 100 (61.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 84 (51.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.84%) Grafana
2 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (38.65%) Solace
2 18 (11.04%) IBM
3 16 (9.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.23%) Adobe
4 2 (1.23%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.23%) Google
5 1 (0.61%) Databricks
5 1 (0.61%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle