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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 116 148
Rank change year-on-year -46 +32 -58
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 107 143 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.73% 2.46% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 2.90% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 78 70 118
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £92,192 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £94,125 £100,500 £84,114
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 10,270 4,929 8,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.76% 84.72% 77.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,339 2,953 4,917
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -34 77 £80,000 +10.34% 18
East Midlands -48 30 £65,000 -3.70% 15
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 (6.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.67%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (69.16%) Azure
2 49 (45.79%) AWS
3 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.21%) GCP
5 9 (8.41%) SaaS
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub
7 7 (6.54%) SonarCloud
8 5 (4.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.67%) npm
8 5 (4.67%) NuGet
8 5 (4.67%) Serverless
9 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.74%) Google Ads
9 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Advertising
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.80%) IaaS
10 3 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (2.80%) Internet
2 2 (1.87%) DNS
2 2 (1.87%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.91%) MongoDB
2 23 (21.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (15.89%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (14.95%) NoSQL
5 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.80%) MySQL
8 2 (1.87%) Redis
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.93%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.02%) JUnit
1 15 (14.02%) Maven
2 14 (13.08%) Mockito
3 10 (9.35%) Git
4 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.80%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.80%) JMeter
4 3 (2.80%) Selenium
5 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.87%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.87%) Postman
5 2 (1.87%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.93%) Gatling
6 1 (0.93%) Gradle
6 1 (0.93%) NUnit
6 1 (0.93%) TestNG
6 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (15.89%) Finance
1 17 (15.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.28%) Retail
3 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.74%) Advertising
4 4 (3.74%) Games
4 4 (3.74%) Marketing
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Law
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Billing
7 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (42.06%) Developer
2 29 (27.10%) Lead
3 25 (23.36%) .NET Developer
4 21 (19.63%) Architect
5 20 (18.69%) Senior
6 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) Senior Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Principal Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.48%) Software Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Lead Architect
11 6 (5.61%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Technical Architect
11 6 (5.61%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (45.79%) .NET
2 39 (36.45%) React
3 37 (34.58%) ASP.NET
4 35 (32.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 30 (28.04%) .NET Core
6 28 (26.17%) Node.js
7 24 (22.43%) ASP.NET Web API
8 22 (20.56%) Blazor
9 18 (16.82%) Terraform
10 17 (15.89%) Spring
11 15 (14.02%) REST
12 14 (13.08%) .NET Framework
13 12 (11.21%) RESTful
14 9 (8.41%) AngularJS
14 9 (8.41%) Kafka
15 7 (6.54%) YAML
16 6 (5.61%) LINQ
16 6 (5.61%) Vue
17 5 (4.67%) Entity Framework
18 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.30%) Cloud Native
2 18 (16.82%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.54%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.54%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.74%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.87%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.87%) Robotics
7 2 (1.87%) Tandem
7 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.93%) Mobile Wallet
8 1 (0.93%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.56%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (67.29%) Agile
2 56 (52.34%) CI/CD
3 42 (39.25%) Mentoring
4 37 (34.58%) Full-Stack Development
4 37 (34.58%) Technical Leadership
5 29 (27.10%) DevOps
5 29 (27.10%) TDD
6 28 (26.17%) AI
7 25 (23.36%) Scrum
8 23 (21.50%) Containerisation
8 23 (21.50%) Event-Driven
8 23 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
11 16 (14.95%) Observability
11 16 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (14.02%) BDD
12 15 (14.02%) Coaching
13 14 (13.08%) Test Automation
14 13 (12.15%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (48.60%) C#
2 51 (47.66%) SQL
3 49 (45.79%) JavaScript
4 30 (28.04%) Java
5 20 (18.69%) TypeScript
6 18 (16.82%) Bash
7 14 (13.08%) PL/SQL
7 14 (13.08%) Python
8 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.61%) Go
10 4 (3.74%) Rust
11 3 (2.80%) PHP
12 2 (1.87%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.87%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.93%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.74%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) GDPR
3 3 (2.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) GxP
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) PSD2
5 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (34.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (42.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.61%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.93%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Argo
4 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 36 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.02%) Oracle
3 7 (6.54%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.74%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.74%) Facebook
4 4 (3.74%) Google
4 4 (3.74%) Instagram
4 4 (3.74%) TikTok
5 3 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.80%) Veracode
6 2 (1.87%) IFS
6 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.93%) Databricks
7 1 (0.93%) NCR
7 1 (0.93%) OpenText
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Splunk