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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 133 84
Rank change year-on-year -23 -49 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 63 114 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.75% 1.86% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 2.04% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47 64 222
10th Percentile £53,960 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,703 £80,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £91,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -15.63%

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 6,672 5,586 6,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.63% 91.36% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,723 2,481 5,733
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.43% -6.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -11.30%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +6 37 £71,250 +1.79% 31
East Midlands -44 24 £68,000 +4.62% 17
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 6 (9.52%) IIS
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 42 (66.67%) Azure
3 14 (22.22%) SaaS
4 10 (15.87%) GCP
5 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (11.11%) NuGet
6 7 (11.11%) SonarCloud
7 6 (9.52%) npm
7 6 (9.52%) Serverless
8 5 (7.94%) GitHub
9 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.76%) Kong
10 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) Redis
5 2 (3.17%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.59%) Power BI
6 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) JUnit
2 10 (15.87%) Mockito
3 9 (14.29%) Git
4 8 (12.70%) Maven
5 4 (6.35%) GitLab
5 4 (6.35%) Selenium
6 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.17%) Postman
8 1 (1.59%) Snyk
8 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.22%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Law
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Retail
5 4 (6.35%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Military
6 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Advertising
7 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Developer
2 19 (30.16%) Architect
3 17 (26.98%) Senior
4 13 (20.63%) Lead
5 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (15.87%) Java Developer
5 10 (15.87%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (11.11%) Lead Architect
9 6 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (9.52%) Software Developer
10 5 (7.94%) C# Developer
10 5 (7.94%) Lead Developer
10 5 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (7.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (47.62%) React
2 26 (41.27%) .NET
3 13 (20.63%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) Spring
4 12 (19.05%) REST
5 9 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 8 (12.70%) Spring Boot
7 7 (11.11%) Kafka
8 6 (9.52%) GraphQL
8 6 (9.52%) YAML
9 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
9 5 (7.94%) RESTful
10 4 (6.35%) HTML
11 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
11 3 (4.76%) Apollo GraphQL
11 3 (4.76%) Django
12 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (3.17%) Playwright
12 2 (3.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.87%) Product Ownership
3 7 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
6 3 (4.76%) Client/Server
7 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.59%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Windows
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Agile
2 28 (44.44%) DevOps
3 23 (36.51%) CI/CD
4 22 (34.92%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 14 (22.22%) Event-Driven
9 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 12 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 12 (19.05%) Roadmaps
9 12 (19.05%) TDD
9 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
10 10 (15.87%) Architectural Patterns
11 9 (14.29%) AI
11 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (14.29%) Scrum
11 9 (14.29%) SDLC
11 9 (14.29%) SOA
12 8 (12.70%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) C#
2 23 (36.51%) Java
3 17 (26.98%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Bash
5 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
6 8 (12.70%) PL/SQL
6 8 (12.70%) Python
6 8 (12.70%) TypeScript
7 6 (9.52%) C
7 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.35%) R
9 2 (3.17%) C++
9 2 (3.17%) Delphi
9 2 (3.17%) Go
10 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.63%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Ansible
4 3 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (3.17%) Nagios
5 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) Adobe
2 6 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.76%) Informatica
3 3 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft