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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 65 67
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 -19
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 179 306 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.61% 3.37% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 4.00% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 145 237 231
10th Percentile £47,975 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,590 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +10.17%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,465 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.57% -18.17% +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 6,448 7,647 7,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.04% 84.23% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,970 5,826 4,114
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,538
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,818 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,967 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £59,400 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +8 134 £72,500 +10.75% 79
Lancashire -23 38 £57,836 -11.02% 11
Cheshire +35 7 £55,000 -16.98% 18
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 11 (6.15%) Confluence
2 3 (1.68%) Apache
2 3 (1.68%) GemFire
3 2 (1.12%) CMS
3 2 (1.12%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 75 (41.90%) AWS
2 57 (31.84%) Azure
3 33 (18.44%) GCP
4 14 (7.82%) SaaS
4 14 (7.82%) Serverless
5 9 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.47%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.79%) GitHub
10 4 (2.23%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.23%) PaaS
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.68%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) HTTP
1 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.67%) MongoDB
2 27 (15.08%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.47%) MySQL
5 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.35%) Redis
6 6 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.79%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.68%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.68%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.68%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (1.68%) Metadata
8 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.12%) Big Data
9 2 (1.12%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 24 (13.41%) Git
2 16 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.82%) JIRA
4 13 (7.26%) SonarQube
5 12 (6.70%) GitLab
6 6 (3.35%) JUnit
7 3 (1.68%) Maven
7 3 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.12%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.12%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (1.12%) Storybook
9 1 (0.56%) JMeter
General
1 55 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Finance
3 18 (10.06%) Banking
4 13 (7.26%) Law
5 10 (5.59%) Legal
6 9 (5.03%) Retail
7 6 (3.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Games
8 3 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Marketing
8 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.12%) Back Office
9 2 (1.12%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.12%) Front Office
9 2 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.12%) Retail Finance
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 56 (31.28%) Lead
2 33 (18.44%) Developer
3 32 (17.88%) Software Engineer
4 28 (15.64%) Senior
5 22 (12.29%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (7.82%) .NET Developer
7 13 (7.26%) Architect
8 12 (6.70%) Technical Leader
9 11 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Head of Digital
10 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) C# Developer
13 5 (2.79%) Java Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Security Engineer
13 5 (2.79%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.79%) .NET
2 29 (16.20%) Node.js
2 29 (16.20%) React
3 25 (13.97%) Kafka
4 24 (13.41%) Spring
5 19 (10.61%) .NET Core
5 19 (10.61%) RESTful
6 16 (8.94%) HTML
7 15 (8.38%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.26%) CSS
9 12 (6.70%) Spring Boot
10 9 (5.03%) REST
11 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.79%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (2.79%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.79%) gRPC
12 5 (2.79%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.79%) HTML5
12 5 (2.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.73%) Management Information System
2 15 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.70%) Cloud Native
5 9 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.91%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.79%) Sports Betting
8 4 (2.23%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.68%) Derivative
9 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.12%) IoT
10 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.94%) Linux
2 6 (3.35%) Unix
3 3 (1.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Android
4 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (57.54%) Agile
2 94 (52.51%) Software Engineering
3 70 (39.11%) DevOps
4 64 (35.75%) Containerisation
5 59 (32.96%) Roadmaps
6 54 (30.17%) CI/CD
7 46 (25.70%) Mentoring
8 36 (20.11%) Line Management
9 35 (19.55%) Scrum
10 32 (17.88%) Technology Roadmap
11 29 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 29 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (16.20%) TDD
12 26 (14.53%) Event-Driven
13 25 (13.97%) Business Strategy
14 23 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (12.85%) Systems Engineering
15 22 (12.29%) Data Analysis
15 22 (12.29%) SysML
15 22 (12.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 71 (39.66%) Java
2 38 (21.23%) JavaScript
3 35 (19.55%) Python
4 34 (18.99%) C#
5 29 (16.20%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.29%) C
7 17 (9.50%) SQL
8 11 (6.15%) Go
9 8 (4.47%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.79%) PHP
11 4 (2.23%) Bash
12 3 (1.68%) C++
12 3 (1.68%) Rust
13 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (26.82%) Degree
2 22 (12.29%) HND
3 10 (5.59%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.68%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) GDPR
1 5 (2.79%) HIPAA
2 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.23%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) SEPA
4 1 (0.56%) TARGET2
System Software
1 50 (27.93%) Docker
2 26 (14.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (32.40%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.76%) Terraform
3 8 (4.47%) Grafana
4 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.68%) Ansible
5 3 (1.68%) Istio
5 3 (1.68%) Kibana
5 3 (1.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (8.38%) Google
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.79%) Oracle
3 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg
3 3 (1.68%) Ping Identity
3 3 (1.68%) Solace
3 3 (1.68%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.12%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.56%) New Relic
5 1 (0.56%) Revolut
5 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow