Microservices Job Trends in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 76 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 -38 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 126 178 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.39% 2.88% 5.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 3.36% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 88 104 137
10th Percentile £51,775 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,063 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,490 5,300 3,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 85.30% 85.71% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,716 2,588
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,182 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £84,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the North West

Microservices
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North West region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Manchester +13 109 £70,000 +12.00% 54
Cheshire -10 7 £56,250 -13.13% 18
Merseyside -9 6 £68,000 -6.21% 6
Lancashire +1 2 £65,629 +7.23% 23
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (2.38%) Apache
1 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.38%) nginx
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 75 (59.52%) AWS
2 67 (53.17%) Azure
3 24 (19.05%) GCP
4 16 (12.70%) SaaS
5 12 (9.52%) Serverless
6 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.35%) IaaS
6 8 (6.35%) PaaS
7 6 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.97%) GitHub
9 4 (3.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.59%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) AMQP
3 1 (0.79%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 28 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 25 (19.84%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.32%) MySQL
5 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.38%) Big Data
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.59%) PostHog
9 2 (1.59%) Redis
10 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.79%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.79%) DocumentDB
10 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (16.67%) Git
2 7 (5.56%) GitLab
2 7 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.17%) JIRA
3 4 (3.17%) JUnit
4 3 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.38%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.59%) Gatling
5 2 (1.59%) JMeter
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.79%) ESLint
6 1 (0.79%) git-flow
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Mockito
6 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.79%) Storybook
6 1 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 20 (15.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Finance
3 6 (4.76%) Retail
4 3 (2.38%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.59%) Back Office
5 2 (1.59%) Billing
5 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (1.59%) Legal
5 2 (1.59%) Marketing
5 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.79%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (40.48%) Developer
2 40 (31.75%) Senior
3 28 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 27 (21.43%) Lead
5 21 (16.67%) .NET Developer
6 19 (15.08%) Architect
7 16 (12.70%) Java Developer
7 16 (12.70%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (11.11%) Senior Developer
9 12 (9.52%) Lead Developer
9 12 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (8.73%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (7.14%) Senior Architect
11 9 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.56%) AWS Architect
12 7 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
12 7 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
13 6 (4.76%) DevOps Architect
13 6 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (44.44%) .NET
2 27 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 26 (20.63%) React
3 26 (20.63%) Spring
4 21 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 20 (15.87%) .NET Core
6 19 (15.08%) RESTful
7 18 (14.29%) REST
8 13 (10.32%) CSS
8 13 (10.32%) HTML
8 13 (10.32%) Kafka
9 12 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (8.73%) .NET Framework
11 10 (7.94%) Hibernate
12 9 (7.14%) Node.js
12 9 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (6.35%) Next.js
14 6 (4.76%) Blazor
14 6 (4.76%) Vue
15 5 (3.97%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 38 (30.16%) Cloud Native
2 27 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.73%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (7.94%) Product Ownership
5 8 (6.35%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (5.56%) Clustering
6 7 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.76%) Management Information System
8 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.38%) IoT
10 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.59%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Linux
2 7 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (1.59%) CentOS
3 2 (1.59%) Debian
3 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (57.94%) CI/CD
2 67 (53.17%) Agile
3 54 (42.86%) DevOps
4 52 (41.27%) Containerisation
5 51 (40.48%) Software Engineering
6 36 (28.57%) Clean Code
7 33 (26.19%) Roadmaps
8 29 (23.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 24 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (18.25%) Technical Leadership
12 21 (16.67%) TDD
13 20 (15.87%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (14.29%) Event-Driven
15 17 (13.49%) Design Patterns
15 17 (13.49%) Scrum
16 15 (11.90%) Enterprise Architecture
17 14 (11.11%) Performance Engineering
17 14 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) C#
2 42 (33.33%) Java
3 34 (26.98%) SQL
4 28 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.08%) Python
6 12 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.17%) Go
8 3 (2.38%) Elixir
8 3 (2.38%) Erlang
8 3 (2.38%) PHP
8 3 (2.38%) Ruby
9 2 (1.59%) Bash
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.79%) R
10 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
2 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.59%) Degree
6 2 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) MBA
7 1 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) QA
2 8 (6.35%) GDPR
3 6 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 6 (4.76%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.59%) vSphere
3 1 (0.79%) HDFS
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (34.92%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.08%) Terraform
3 13 (10.32%) Ansible
4 6 (4.76%) Grafana
5 4 (3.17%) Puppet
6 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.79%) Argo
7 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) Google
2 7 (5.56%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.59%) SaltStack
3 2 (1.59%) VMware
4 1 (0.79%) Databricks
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle
4 1 (0.79%) Pega
4 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.79%) Veracode
4 1 (0.79%) WSO2