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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 147 99
Rank change year-on-year +26 -48 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 152 207 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.20% 1.61% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.03% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 77 181 172
10th Percentile £52,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £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 6,028 10,184 7,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.32% 79.25% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,950 6,599 4,290
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 19 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 19 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 +15 90 £70,000 +7.69% 64
East Midlands +32 62 £60,000 +9.09% 38
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 (34.21%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) CMS
3 3 (1.97%) Apache
3 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.97%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 121 (79.61%) AWS
2 114 (75.00%) Azure
3 66 (43.42%) GCP
4 15 (9.87%) SaaS
5 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.58%) Serverless
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (3.95%) AWS KMS
8 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (3.95%) Route 53
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.97%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.97%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.32%) Contentful
10 2 (1.32%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (45.39%) SQL Server
2 26 (17.11%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (8.55%) MongoDB
5 11 (7.24%) DynamoDB
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.61%) Big Data
8 6 (3.95%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.97%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.66%) MySQL
11 1 (0.66%) Power BI
11 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (48.03%) Maven
2 70 (46.05%) SonarQube
3 69 (45.39%) JIRA
4 66 (43.42%) GitLab
5 64 (42.11%) Cucumber
5 64 (42.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 63 (41.45%) Bitbucket
6 63 (41.45%) Selenium
7 22 (14.47%) Git
8 17 (11.18%) JUnit
9 15 (9.87%) Mockito
10 11 (7.24%) Jenkins
11 6 (3.95%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (3.95%) DbUnit
11 6 (3.95%) Eclipse
11 6 (3.95%) IntelliJ
11 6 (3.95%) Jasmine
11 6 (3.95%) jMock
11 6 (3.95%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (3.95%) Protractor
General
1 78 (51.32%) Finance
2 71 (46.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (43.42%) Banking
4 18 (11.84%) Retail
5 16 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 15 (9.87%) Social Skills
7 12 (7.89%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.63%) Law
10 3 (1.97%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.66%) Advertising
12 1 (0.66%) iGaming
12 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (55.26%) Software Engineer
2 40 (26.32%) Developer
3 24 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.84%) Senior
5 11 (7.24%) Architect
6 10 (6.58%) Java Engineer
7 9 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (5.92%) Java Software Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Backend Developer
8 8 (5.26%) Lead
8 8 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.95%) Lead Developer
9 6 (3.95%) Lead Java Developer
9 6 (3.95%) SaaS Developer
9 6 (3.95%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.29%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.29%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.63%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Senior C# Developer
11 4 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (62.50%) Spring
2 86 (56.58%) React
3 80 (52.63%) Spring Boot
4 77 (50.66%) JPA
5 71 (46.71%) HTML
6 69 (45.39%) CSS
7 68 (44.74%) Kafka
8 67 (44.08%) Hibernate
9 63 (41.45%) Redux
10 39 (25.66%) REST
11 32 (21.05%) RESTful
12 24 (15.79%) AngularJS
13 19 (12.50%) CSS3
13 19 (12.50%) HTML5
14 17 (11.18%) .NET
14 17 (11.18%) Jest
15 16 (10.53%) Sass
16 13 (8.55%) Web Services
17 10 (6.58%) ActiveMQ
17 10 (6.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (42.76%) Product Ownership
2 63 (41.45%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (8.55%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (5.26%) Algorithms
7 6 (3.95%) IoT
8 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.97%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.32%) Life Science
11 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.32%) Replication
12 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
12 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (68.42%) Agile
2 97 (63.82%) CI/CD
2 97 (63.82%) DevOps
3 91 (59.87%) Containerisation
4 88 (57.89%) Software Engineering
5 81 (53.29%) TDD
6 76 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 73 (48.03%) Test Automation
8 70 (46.05%) SDLC
9 67 (44.08%) Front End Development
10 64 (42.11%) Performance Optimisation
11 55 (36.18%) Clean Code
11 55 (36.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (19.08%) Mentoring
13 21 (13.82%) User Experience
14 18 (11.84%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (11.18%) Migration
15 17 (11.18%) Responsive Web Design
15 17 (11.18%) Strategic Thinking
16 16 (10.53%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (69.74%) Java
2 92 (60.53%) SQL
3 80 (52.63%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.18%) C#
6 12 (7.89%) Python
7 5 (3.29%) Go
8 4 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
3 3 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.97%) Degree
4 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (43.42%) QA
2 16 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 105 (69.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 96 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.95%) Terraform
3 4 (2.63%) Grafana
3 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (41.45%) Solace
2 12 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.95%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.95%) IBM
4 3 (1.97%) Oracle
4 3 (1.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.32%) Google
5 2 (1.32%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.66%) OpenAI