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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 104 157
Rank change year-on-year -57 +53 -62
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 104 151 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 2.64% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 3.10% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 80 77 135
10th Percentile £47,375 £52,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £78,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,000 £89,000
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 9,824 4,869 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.92% 85.18% 78.02%
Number of salaries quoted 6,997 2,963 5,407
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 1 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 1 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 -37 76 £78,750 +12.50% 32
East Midlands -60 27 £64,000 +6.67% 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 (5.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.81%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (71.15%) Azure
2 50 (48.08%) AWS
3 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.54%) GCP
4 8 (7.69%) GitHub
5 7 (6.73%) SaaS
6 6 (5.77%) Serverless
6 6 (5.77%) SonarCloud
7 5 (4.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.81%) npm
7 5 (4.81%) NuGet
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.85%) Google Ads
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Advertising
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.88%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.92%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (2.88%) Internet
2 2 (1.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.96%) DNS
3 1 (0.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.73%) MongoDB
2 23 (22.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (16.35%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (14.42%) NoSQL
5 11 (10.58%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.85%) MySQL
8 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.92%) Redis
10 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.96%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.96%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.42%) Maven
2 14 (13.46%) JUnit
3 13 (12.50%) Mockito
4 9 (8.65%) Git
5 3 (2.88%) GitLab
5 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.92%) JMeter
6 2 (1.92%) Postman
6 2 (1.92%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.96%) Gatling
7 1 (0.96%) Gradle
7 1 (0.96%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.96%) NUnit
7 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.96%) TestNG
7 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (15.38%) Finance
1 16 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.65%) Retail
4 5 (4.81%) Advertising
4 5 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.85%) Games
5 4 (3.85%) Marketing
6 3 (2.88%) Law
7 2 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.96%) Automotive
8 1 (0.96%) Billing
8 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (43.27%) Developer
2 25 (24.04%) .NET Developer
2 25 (24.04%) Lead
3 20 (19.23%) Architect
4 19 (18.27%) Senior
5 11 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead Architect
10 5 (4.81%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.85%) Digital Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (46.15%) .NET
2 40 (38.46%) React
3 36 (34.62%) ASP.NET
4 34 (32.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 30 (28.85%) .NET Core
6 28 (26.92%) Node.js
7 24 (23.08%) ASP.NET Web API
8 21 (20.19%) Blazor
9 18 (17.31%) Spring
10 14 (13.46%) .NET Framework
10 14 (13.46%) REST
11 13 (12.50%) RESTful
12 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
12 9 (8.65%) Kafka
13 6 (5.77%) Entity Framework
13 6 (5.77%) LINQ
13 6 (5.77%) YAML
14 5 (4.81%) Spring Boot
14 5 (4.81%) Vue
15 4 (3.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (16.35%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.73%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.92%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.96%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.96%) Mobile Wallet
9 1 (0.96%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.96%) Robotics
9 1 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.27%) Linux
2 7 (6.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.96%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.27%) Agile
2 53 (50.96%) CI/CD
3 38 (36.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 38 (36.54%) Mentoring
4 32 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
5 30 (28.85%) DevOps
6 27 (25.96%) TDD
7 25 (24.04%) AI
8 24 (23.08%) Scrum
9 23 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (20.19%) Event-Driven
11 18 (17.31%) Containerisation
12 17 (16.35%) Software Engineering
13 16 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (13.46%) BDD
15 14 (13.46%) Observability
15 14 (13.46%) Test Automation
16 12 (11.54%) Coaching
16 12 (11.54%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.04%) C#
2 50 (48.08%) SQL
3 48 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 31 (29.81%) Java
5 19 (18.27%) TypeScript
6 16 (15.38%) Bash
7 13 (12.50%) PL/SQL
8 12 (11.54%) Python
9 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
10 6 (5.77%) Go
11 4 (3.85%) Rust
12 3 (2.88%) PHP
13 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.92%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.96%) C
14 1 (0.96%) C++
14 1 (0.96%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) Degree
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) GDPR
2 4 (3.85%) QA
3 3 (2.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.96%) GxP
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) PSD2
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (33.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (41.35%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.35%) Terraform
3 5 (4.81%) Grafana
4 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) Ansible
5 1 (0.96%) Argo
5 1 (0.96%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.96%) Nagios
Vendors
1 35 (33.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.46%) Oracle
3 6 (5.77%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.85%) Facebook
4 4 (3.85%) Google
4 4 (3.85%) Instagram
4 4 (3.85%) TikTok
5 3 (2.88%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.88%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.92%) Veracode
7 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.96%) Databricks
7 1 (0.96%) IFS
7 1 (0.96%) OpenText
7 1 (0.96%) SAP
7 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.96%) Splunk