Microservices Jobs in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 96
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 552 582 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.75% 3.32% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 3.98% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 213 509 350
10th Percentile £48,338 £42,500 £46,989
25th Percentile £57,000 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% -7.41% +17.39%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £94,504
England median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.18% -18.75% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,048 14,622 16,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.38% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,724 11,233 7,867
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 North of England

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North of England.

Salary trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +29 451 £67,500 +3.85% 163
Yorkshire -21 89 £72,500 +18.45% 73
North East -15 12 £55,000 -10.14% 25
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 58 (10.51%) Confluence
2 7 (1.27%) SAS
3 3 (0.54%) Apache
3 3 (0.54%) GemFire
3 3 (0.54%) IIS
4 2 (0.36%) CMS
4 2 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 385 (69.75%) AWS
2 377 (68.30%) Azure
3 281 (50.91%) GCP
4 25 (4.53%) SaaS
5 21 (3.80%) Serverless
6 12 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (2.17%) GitHub
7 11 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (1.99%) Azure AKS
7 11 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (1.09%) Apigee
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon Cognito
12 4 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.72%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.72%) DAB
1 4 (0.72%) HTTP
2 3 (0.54%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.18%) Broadband
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.37%) SQL Server
2 58 (10.51%) NoSQL
3 45 (8.15%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.99%) MySQL
5 17 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.99%) Big Data
8 9 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.63%) RDBMS
9 8 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.45%) Redis
10 7 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.54%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.54%) InterSystems Cache
12 2 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.18%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 134 (24.28%) JIRA
2 131 (23.73%) SonarQube
3 129 (23.37%) GitLab
4 121 (21.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 119 (21.56%) Maven
6 118 (21.38%) Selenium
7 113 (20.47%) Cucumber
8 112 (20.29%) Bitbucket
9 42 (7.61%) Git
10 24 (4.35%) Jenkins
11 11 (1.99%) JUnit
12 6 (1.09%) Jasmine
12 6 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
13 3 (0.54%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.54%) JMeter
14 2 (0.36%) Mocha
14 2 (0.36%) Protractor
14 2 (0.36%) Storybook
15 1 (0.18%) ESLint
General
1 296 (53.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 199 (36.05%) Finance
3 182 (32.97%) Banking
4 95 (17.21%) Social Skills
5 89 (16.12%) Retail
6 72 (13.04%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (13.04%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.62%) Law
8 9 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.27%) Marketing
10 5 (0.91%) Back Office
11 4 (0.72%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.54%) Games
12 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.36%) Automotive
13 2 (0.36%) Electronics
13 2 (0.36%) Front Office
13 2 (0.36%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 338 (61.23%) Software Engineer
2 230 (41.67%) Senior
3 191 (34.60%) Senior Software Engineer
4 79 (14.31%) Lead
5 60 (10.87%) Developer
6 43 (7.79%) Architect
7 34 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (3.80%) Senior Developer
9 20 (3.62%) .NET Developer
10 15 (2.72%) Lead Systems Engineer
10 15 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (2.54%) Technical Leader
12 12 (2.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (1.99%) Java Developer
14 9 (1.63%) Java Engineer
15 8 (1.45%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (1.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 8 (1.45%) Lead Architect
16 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
16 7 (1.27%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (39.86%) .NET
2 214 (38.77%) Node.js
3 168 (30.43%) React
4 164 (29.71%) Spring
5 153 (27.72%) Spring Boot
6 148 (26.81%) Kafka
7 134 (24.28%) CSS
8 133 (24.09%) HTML
9 120 (21.74%) Redux
10 113 (20.47%) JPA
11 110 (19.93%) RESTful
12 104 (18.84%) REST
13 81 (14.67%) HTML5
14 79 (14.31%) Sass
15 77 (13.95%) Jest
16 75 (13.59%) CSS3
17 50 (9.06%) Hibernate
18 29 (5.25%) .NET Core
19 26 (4.71%) AngularJS
20 12 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (31.52%) Cyberattack
2 172 (31.16%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (31.16%) Self-Motivation
3 157 (28.44%) Product Ownership
4 117 (21.20%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (6.16%) Management Information System
6 29 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 12 (2.17%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.27%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.27%) Market Risk
13 5 (0.91%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.72%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.54%) Mobile App
15 3 (0.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 187 (33.88%) Linux
2 9 (1.63%) Unix
3 4 (0.72%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (78.62%) Agile
2 406 (73.55%) Software Engineering
3 303 (54.89%) Mentoring
4 263 (47.64%) User Experience
5 228 (41.30%) DevOps
6 211 (38.22%) CI/CD
7 207 (37.50%) Scrum
8 201 (36.41%) Containerisation
9 183 (33.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 178 (32.25%) Cloud Security
11 177 (32.07%) Machine Learning
12 174 (31.52%) Data Engineering
13 147 (26.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 145 (26.27%) Test Automation
15 135 (24.46%) SDLC
16 124 (22.46%) Front End Development
17 122 (22.10%) Performance Optimisation
18 89 (16.12%) TDD
19 85 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
20 79 (14.31%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 402 (72.83%) Java
2 349 (63.22%) JavaScript
3 221 (40.04%) Python
4 186 (33.70%) Go
5 173 (31.34%) Rust
6 172 (31.16%) C++
7 162 (29.35%) SQL
8 127 (23.01%) TypeScript
9 50 (9.06%) C#
10 15 (2.72%) C
11 9 (1.63%) PHP
12 7 (1.27%) R
13 6 (1.09%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.72%) Bash
15 3 (0.54%) Groovy
16 1 (0.18%) Bicep
16 1 (0.18%) Perl
16 1 (0.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 179 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 177 (32.07%) AWS Certification
2 177 (32.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 173 (31.34%) DV Cleared
4 172 (31.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 34 (6.16%) Degree
6 15 (2.72%) HND
7 10 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.72%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.54%) OCP
10 3 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (22.10%) QA
2 79 (14.31%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.72%) GDPR
4 8 (1.45%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.27%) Basel II
5 7 (1.27%) Basel III
5 7 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
5 7 (1.27%) IFRS
5 7 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 7 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.72%) NIST
6 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 211 (38.22%) Docker
2 19 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 220 (39.86%) Kubernetes
2 44 (7.97%) Terraform
3 14 (2.54%) Grafana
4 9 (1.63%) Istio
4 9 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.09%) Ansible
6 4 (0.72%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.54%) Argo
7 3 (0.54%) Kibana
8 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (20.83%) Solace
2 20 (3.62%) Google
3 16 (2.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (0.91%) Dynatrace
4 5 (0.91%) Oracle
4 5 (0.91%) Ping Identity
5 4 (0.72%) Bloomberg
5 4 (0.72%) IBM
6 3 (0.54%) Atlassian
6 3 (0.54%) TIBCO
7 2 (0.36%) ANSYS
7 2 (0.36%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.18%) Cisco
8 1 (0.18%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.18%) New Relic
8 1 (0.18%) Revolut
8 1 (0.18%) ServiceNow