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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 90 71
Rank change year-on-year +43 -19 -32
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 460 273 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.97% 2.44% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 3.05% 4.92%
Number of salaries quoted 124 212 184
10th Percentile £50,375 £42,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £56,590 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -3.85% +12.55%
75th Percentile £83,875 £80,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £94,633 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +3.33%

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 7,195 8,942 6,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 93.41% 79.82% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,660 6,443 3,836
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £39,500 £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 £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -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 July 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 July 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 +35 242 £75,000 +20.00% 298
Lancashire -8 110 £57,836 -11.02% 70
Cheshire +61 94 £57,500 -13.21% 54
Merseyside +44 13 £68,000 +23.64% 40
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 (11.74%) Confluence
2 3 (0.65%) Apache
2 3 (0.65%) GemFire
2 3 (0.65%) IIS
3 2 (0.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 375 (81.52%) AWS
2 344 (74.78%) Azure
3 243 (52.83%) GCP
4 15 (3.26%) Serverless
5 12 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (2.39%) GitHub
7 9 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (1.09%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.09%) CloudFront
9 5 (1.09%) NuGet
9 5 (1.09%) SaaS
10 4 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (0.87%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.65%) Apigee
11 3 (0.65%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.87%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (29.78%) SQL Server
2 42 (9.13%) NoSQL
3 41 (8.91%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.17%) MySQL
5 10 (2.17%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.52%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.87%) Redis
8 3 (0.65%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (0.65%) InterSystems Cache
8 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.43%) Big Data
9 2 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 130 (28.26%) GitLab
2 128 (27.83%) JIRA
3 121 (26.30%) SonarQube
4 118 (25.65%) Cucumber
4 118 (25.65%) Selenium
5 113 (24.57%) Maven
5 113 (24.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 110 (23.91%) Bitbucket
7 33 (7.17%) Git
8 18 (3.91%) Jenkins
9 8 (1.74%) JUnit
10 5 (1.09%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.09%) JMeter
10 5 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.43%) Gatling
13 1 (0.22%) ESLint
13 1 (0.22%) Sinon.JS
13 1 (0.22%) Storybook
13 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 281 (61.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 151 (32.83%) Finance
3 125 (27.17%) Banking
4 85 (18.48%) Retail
5 70 (15.22%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (15.22%) Investment Banking
6 49 (10.65%) Social Skills
7 7 (1.52%) Back Office
8 6 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (0.65%) Law
10 2 (0.43%) Front Office
10 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.22%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.22%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.22%) Games
11 1 (0.22%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.22%) Online Betting
11 1 (0.22%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.22%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 317 (68.91%) Software Engineer
2 215 (46.74%) Senior
3 182 (39.57%) Senior Software Engineer
4 49 (10.65%) Developer
5 45 (9.78%) Lead
6 18 (3.91%) .NET Developer
6 18 (3.91%) Architect
7 16 (3.48%) Senior Developer
8 15 (3.26%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 15 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.83%) Java Engineer
11 11 (2.39%) Java Developer
11 11 (2.39%) Senior Architect
11 11 (2.39%) Technical Leader
12 10 (2.17%) AWS Architect
12 10 (2.17%) AWS Solution Architect
13 9 (1.96%) DevOps Architect
13 9 (1.96%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (1.96%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (46.09%) .NET
2 192 (41.74%) Node.js
3 151 (32.83%) Spring
4 146 (31.74%) Kafka
5 140 (30.43%) Spring Boot
6 135 (29.35%) React
7 131 (28.48%) CSS
7 131 (28.48%) HTML
8 110 (23.91%) JPA
8 110 (23.91%) Redux
9 101 (21.96%) RESTful
10 85 (18.48%) REST
11 78 (16.96%) Sass
12 77 (16.74%) HTML5
13 76 (16.52%) Jest
14 72 (15.65%) CSS3
15 47 (10.22%) Hibernate
16 24 (5.22%) .NET Core
17 15 (3.26%) AngularJS
18 14 (3.04%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 173 (37.61%) Cyberattack
2 172 (37.39%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (37.39%) Self-Motivation
3 125 (27.17%) Product Ownership
4 110 (23.91%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (5.43%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.22%) Management Information System
7 19 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.52%) Wiki
10 6 (1.30%) Clustering
10 6 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.87%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.65%) Derivative
12 3 (0.65%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.65%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.43%) Credit Derivative
13 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 185 (40.22%) Linux
2 6 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (82.61%) Agile
2 365 (79.35%) Software Engineering
3 262 (56.96%) Mentoring
4 259 (56.30%) User Experience
5 187 (40.65%) DevOps
6 185 (40.22%) CI/CD
6 185 (40.22%) Scrum
7 180 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 177 (38.48%) Cloud Security
8 177 (38.48%) Data Engineering
9 173 (37.61%) Machine Learning
10 167 (36.30%) Containerisation
11 138 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (27.83%) SDLC
12 128 (27.83%) Test Automation
13 122 (26.52%) Front End Development
13 122 (26.52%) Performance Optimisation
14 76 (16.52%) Strategic Thinking
15 73 (15.87%) TDD
16 71 (15.43%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 370 (80.43%) Java
2 319 (69.35%) JavaScript
3 200 (43.48%) Python
4 180 (39.13%) Go
5 173 (37.61%) C++
5 173 (37.61%) Rust
6 147 (31.96%) SQL
7 102 (22.17%) TypeScript
8 48 (10.43%) C#
9 15 (3.26%) C
10 6 (1.30%) PHP
11 5 (1.09%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.22%) Bash
Qualifications
1 184 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 182 (39.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 176 (38.26%) Security Cleared
4 172 (37.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (37.39%) DV Cleared
5 28 (6.09%) Degree
6 15 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.26%) HND
7 5 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.43%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (25.00%) QA
2 74 (16.09%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.83%) GDPR
3 13 (2.83%) HIPAA
4 9 (1.96%) NIST
5 4 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 180 (39.13%) Docker
2 19 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 177 (38.48%) Kubernetes
2 28 (6.09%) Terraform
3 7 (1.52%) Grafana
4 3 (0.65%) Istio
5 2 (0.43%) Kibana
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (24.35%) Solace
2 23 (5.00%) Google
3 4 (0.87%) Bloomberg
3 4 (0.87%) Oracle
4 3 (0.65%) Ping Identity
4 3 (0.65%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.43%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.22%) Veracode