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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 99 124
Rank change year-on-year -26 +25 -53
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 153 284 229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.25% 2.25% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.80% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 79 252 160
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £41,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,991 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,250 £93,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%

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 6,225 10,156 8,630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.57% 80.56% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,443 7,358 4,443
10th Percentile £26,974 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £38,276
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -10 87 £70,000 +7.69% 579
East Midlands +8 66 £65,000 +18.18% 448
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 50 (32.68%) Confluence
2 4 (2.61%) CMS
3 3 (1.96%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.31%) Apache
4 2 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.65%) Moqups
1 1 (0.65%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 124 (81.05%) AWS
2 118 (77.12%) Azure
3 64 (41.83%) GCP
4 21 (13.73%) SaaS
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (3.92%) Serverless
7 5 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.27%) AWS KMS
7 5 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (3.27%) Route 53
8 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.96%) Figma
8 3 (1.96%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.31%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.31%) Contentful
9 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (45.10%) SQL Server
2 31 (20.26%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.19%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.23%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.92%) Big Data
7 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.61%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.31%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.65%) MySQL
11 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (45.75%) Maven
2 69 (45.10%) SonarQube
3 66 (43.14%) JIRA
4 65 (42.48%) GitLab
5 63 (41.18%) Bitbucket
5 63 (41.18%) Cucumber
5 63 (41.18%) Selenium
5 63 (41.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (13.73%) JUnit
6 21 (13.73%) Mockito
7 15 (9.80%) Eclipse
7 15 (9.80%) Git
7 15 (9.80%) IntelliJ
7 15 (9.80%) Jasmine
7 15 (9.80%) Karma Test Runner
7 15 (9.80%) Protractor
8 7 (4.58%) Jenkins
9 5 (3.27%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (3.27%) DbUnit
9 5 (3.27%) jMock
General
1 75 (49.02%) Finance
2 71 (46.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 67 (43.79%) Banking
4 22 (14.38%) Retail
5 17 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 16 (10.46%) Corporate Banking
7 12 (7.84%) Social Skills
8 8 (5.23%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (2.61%) Law
11 2 (1.31%) Automotive
11 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.31%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) iGaming
12 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (54.25%) Software Engineer
2 40 (26.14%) Developer
3 25 (16.34%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.46%) Backend Developer
5 15 (9.80%) Architect
5 15 (9.80%) SaaS Developer
6 14 (9.15%) Senior
6 14 (9.15%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.84%) Lead
8 9 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.23%) Lead Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.61%) Principal Architect
11 4 (2.61%) Principal Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.96%) .NET Developer
12 3 (1.96%) Java Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (64.05%) React
2 88 (57.52%) Spring
3 85 (55.56%) JPA
4 74 (48.37%) Spring Boot
5 72 (47.06%) Hibernate
6 70 (45.75%) CSS
6 70 (45.75%) Kafka
7 68 (44.44%) HTML
8 63 (41.18%) Redux
9 32 (20.92%) AngularJS
9 32 (20.92%) REST
10 31 (20.26%) RESTful
11 19 (12.42%) CSS3
11 19 (12.42%) HTML5
12 18 (11.76%) Jest
13 17 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
14 16 (10.46%) Sass
15 14 (9.15%) .NET
16 11 (7.19%) Node.js
17 8 (5.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (41.83%) Enterprise Software
2 63 (41.18%) Product Ownership
3 17 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.92%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.61%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.96%) IoT
8 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.31%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.31%) Replication
9 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.65%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (67.97%) Agile
2 100 (65.36%) Containerisation
3 94 (61.44%) DevOps
4 90 (58.82%) Software Engineering
5 87 (56.86%) CI/CD
6 75 (49.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 71 (46.41%) TDD
8 70 (45.75%) SDLC
9 69 (45.10%) Test Automation
10 67 (43.79%) Front End Development
11 64 (41.83%) Performance Optimisation
12 52 (33.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (32.03%) Clean Code
14 28 (18.30%) Mentoring
15 23 (15.03%) User Experience
16 20 (13.07%) Unit Testing
17 19 (12.42%) Migration
18 17 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
18 17 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
18 17 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 108 (70.59%) Java
2 94 (61.44%) SQL
3 81 (52.94%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.92%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.80%) C#
6 9 (5.88%) Python
7 4 (2.61%) Go
8 2 (1.31%) PHP
8 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.19%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.96%) Degree
4 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (41.18%) QA
2 16 (10.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 105 (68.63%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 88 (57.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.61%) Grafana
2 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 63 (41.18%) Solace
2 15 (9.80%) IBM
3 12 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.27%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.31%) Google
5 2 (1.31%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe
6 1 (0.65%) Databricks
6 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.65%) Splunk