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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 100 99
Rank change year-on-year -82 -1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 78 149 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.59% 3.08% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 3.44% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 59 76 252
10th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -18.75%

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 9,613 4,335 9,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.49% 89.49% 80.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5,862 2,346 7,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,936 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,213
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -62 55 £77,500 +10.71% 22
East Midlands -76 22 £65,000 - 21
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 11 (14.10%) IIS
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (76.92%) Azure
2 40 (51.28%) AWS
3 16 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) npm
4 11 (14.10%) NuGet
4 11 (14.10%) SonarCloud
5 6 (7.69%) GCP
5 6 (7.69%) Serverless
6 4 (5.13%) GitHub
7 3 (3.85%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.28%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.28%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (1.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) MongoDB
2 19 (24.36%) NoSQL
3 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
4 9 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (6.41%) MySQL
8 3 (3.85%) Redis
8 3 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.28%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Maven
2 13 (16.67%) JUnit
2 13 (16.67%) Mockito
3 10 (12.82%) Git
4 3 (3.85%) GitLab
5 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.28%) Gatling
6 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.28%) JMeter
6 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.28%) Postman
6 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.28%) Selenium
6 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (19.23%) Finance
2 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (2.56%) Advertising
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Military
5 2 (2.56%) Retail
6 1 (1.28%) Automotive
6 1 (1.28%) Games
6 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (35.90%) Developer
2 19 (24.36%) Senior
3 18 (23.08%) Lead
4 14 (17.95%) Architect
5 12 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (12.82%) .NET Developer
6 10 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (12.82%) Senior DevOps
6 10 (12.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (11.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (11.54%) Java Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.41%) Lead Architect
10 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (44.87%) React
2 33 (42.31%) .NET
3 25 (32.05%) Node.js
4 21 (26.92%) ASP.NET
5 20 (25.64%) ASP.NET Core
6 17 (21.79%) .NET Framework
7 16 (20.51%) .NET Core
8 14 (17.95%) Spring
9 13 (16.67%) REST
10 12 (15.38%) ASP.NET Web API
11 11 (14.10%) YAML
12 8 (10.26%) Blazor
12 8 (10.26%) Kafka
12 8 (10.26%) RESTful
13 6 (7.69%) Entity Framework
14 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
15 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
15 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
16 3 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
16 3 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.28%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.28%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.77%) Linux
2 12 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (1.28%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.28%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.95%) Agile
2 44 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 35 (44.87%) DevOps
4 29 (37.18%) Mentoring
5 25 (32.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (26.92%) TDD
8 20 (25.64%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (24.36%) Test Automation
10 18 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (21.79%) Containerisation
11 17 (21.79%) Scrum
12 16 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (17.95%) AI
14 12 (15.38%) Event-Driven
14 12 (15.38%) Unit Testing
15 11 (14.10%) DevSecOps
16 10 (12.82%) Coaching
16 10 (12.82%) Migration
16 10 (12.82%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.87%) SQL
2 34 (43.59%) C#
3 30 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 29 (37.18%) Java
5 21 (26.92%) Bash
6 14 (17.95%) TypeScript
7 13 (16.67%) PL/SQL
8 12 (15.38%) PowerShell
9 11 (14.10%) Python
10 7 (8.97%) C
11 4 (5.13%) R
11 4 (5.13%) Rust
12 3 (3.85%) C++
12 3 (3.85%) PHP
13 1 (1.28%) JCL
13 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 12 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (43.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (53.85%) Kubernetes
2 22 (28.21%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Grafana
3 3 (3.85%) Nagios
3 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.56%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) Argo
5 1 (1.28%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.67%) Oracle
3 11 (14.10%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Veracode