Microservices Jobs in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 50 85 74
Rank change year-on-year +35 -11 -35
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 451 273 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.81% 2.67% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 3.28% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 124 222 184
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,590 £49,063 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £79,063
90th Percentile £93,778 £95,000 £95,000
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
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 7,443 8,321 7,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.84% 81.39% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 6,289 3,873
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,011
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 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 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
Manchester +37 240 £73,750 +14.79% 336
Lancashire -17 112 £57,836 -11.02% 106
Cheshire +54 87 £57,500 -11.54% 176
Merseyside +45 12 £68,750 +25.00% 79
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 54 (11.97%) Confluence
2 3 (0.67%) Apache
2 3 (0.67%) GemFire
2 3 (0.67%) IIS
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 367 (81.37%) AWS
2 333 (73.84%) Azure
3 238 (52.77%) GCP
4 14 (3.10%) Serverless
5 11 (2.44%) GitHub
6 9 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.55%) SaaS
9 6 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.89%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (0.89%) CloudFront
10 4 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.67%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (0.67%) Apigee
11 3 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.89%) HTTP
2 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (28.60%) SQL Server
2 40 (8.87%) MongoDB
3 36 (7.98%) NoSQL
4 15 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.00%) MySQL
6 6 (1.33%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.89%) Redis
8 3 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.67%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (0.67%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 2 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 128 (28.38%) JIRA
2 126 (27.94%) GitLab
3 121 (26.83%) SonarQube
4 115 (25.50%) Cucumber
4 115 (25.50%) Selenium
5 112 (24.83%) Maven
5 112 (24.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 109 (24.17%) Bitbucket
7 31 (6.87%) Git
8 17 (3.77%) Jenkins
9 7 (1.55%) JUnit
10 4 (0.89%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.89%) Jasmine
10 4 (0.89%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (0.67%) JMeter
12 1 (0.22%) ESLint
12 1 (0.22%) Storybook
12 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 281 (62.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 150 (33.26%) Finance
3 127 (28.16%) Banking
4 84 (18.63%) Retail
5 70 (15.52%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (15.52%) Investment Banking
6 53 (11.75%) Social Skills
7 8 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (1.77%) Law
8 6 (1.33%) Back Office
9 2 (0.44%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (0.44%) Front Office
9 2 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.44%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.22%) Games
10 1 (0.22%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 319 (70.73%) Software Engineer
2 209 (46.34%) Senior
3 183 (40.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 44 (9.76%) Lead
5 36 (7.98%) Developer
6 17 (3.77%) .NET Developer
7 15 (3.33%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 15 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
8 14 (3.10%) Architect
8 14 (3.10%) Java Engineer
9 13 (2.88%) Senior Developer
10 9 (2.00%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.00%) Technical Leader
11 8 (1.77%) Senior .NET Developer
12 7 (1.55%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (1.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (1.55%) Senior Architect
13 6 (1.33%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (1.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (46.12%) .NET
2 197 (43.68%) Node.js
3 146 (32.37%) Spring
4 143 (31.71%) Kafka
5 139 (30.82%) React
6 134 (29.71%) Spring Boot
7 128 (28.38%) CSS
7 128 (28.38%) HTML
8 110 (24.39%) Redux
9 109 (24.17%) JPA
10 98 (21.73%) RESTful
11 85 (18.85%) REST
12 77 (17.07%) HTML5
12 77 (17.07%) Sass
13 75 (16.63%) Jest
14 73 (16.19%) CSS3
15 44 (9.76%) Hibernate
16 22 (4.88%) .NET Core
17 16 (3.55%) AngularJS
18 10 (2.22%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 173 (38.36%) Cyberattack
2 172 (38.14%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (38.14%) Self-Motivation
3 126 (27.94%) Product Ownership
4 112 (24.83%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.43%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.21%) Cloud Native
7 18 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.77%) Wiki
9 6 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.67%) Clustering
11 3 (0.67%) Derivative
11 3 (0.67%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.67%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.67%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.44%) Equities
12 2 (0.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 180 (39.91%) Linux
2 6 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (83.15%) Agile
2 369 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 266 (58.98%) Mentoring
4 260 (57.65%) User Experience
5 193 (42.79%) Scrum
6 181 (40.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 180 (39.91%) DevOps
8 178 (39.47%) Cloud Security
9 177 (39.25%) Data Engineering
10 174 (38.58%) CI/CD
11 173 (38.36%) Machine Learning
12 160 (35.48%) Containerisation
13 139 (30.82%) Full-Stack Development
14 128 (28.38%) SDLC
15 123 (27.27%) Test Automation
16 120 (26.61%) Performance Optimisation
17 117 (25.94%) Front End Development
18 77 (17.07%) Strategic Thinking
19 72 (15.96%) TDD
20 70 (15.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 362 (80.27%) Java
2 317 (70.29%) JavaScript
3 201 (44.57%) Python
4 182 (40.35%) Go
5 173 (38.36%) C++
5 173 (38.36%) Rust
6 137 (30.38%) SQL
7 103 (22.84%) TypeScript
8 37 (8.20%) C#
9 15 (3.33%) C
10 5 (1.11%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.89%) PHP
12 1 (0.22%) Bash
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 178 (39.47%) AWS Certification
1 178 (39.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 175 (38.80%) Security Cleared
3 172 (38.14%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (38.14%) DV Cleared
4 31 (6.87%) Degree
5 15 (3.33%) HND
6 11 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (25.06%) QA
2 75 (16.63%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.00%) GDPR
3 9 (2.00%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.11%) NIST
5 4 (0.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 172 (38.14%) Docker
2 19 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 172 (38.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.43%) Terraform
3 9 (2.00%) Grafana
4 3 (0.67%) Istio
4 3 (0.67%) Kibana
4 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.22%) Ansible
5 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (24.83%) Solace
2 18 (3.99%) Google
3 5 (1.11%) Ping Identity
4 4 (0.89%) Bloomberg
4 4 (0.89%) Oracle
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.67%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.22%) New Relic
7 1 (0.22%) Revolut
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow