Microservices Jobs in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 40 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 270 687 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.51% 7.63% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 7.94% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 143 286 357
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £82,548 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £100,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £78,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +12.14% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,941 8,651 8,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.96% 96.08% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,685 5,083 5,877
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,831 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,439 £40,625 £37,904
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,406 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +6.81% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,056 £84,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,208 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% +9.09%

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 30 November 2023.

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 30 November 2023. 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 -3 209 £70,576 +8.58% 59
Merseyside +5 39 £62,500 -3.85% 7
Cheshire +17 8 £80,000 +68.42% 15
Lancashire +41 6 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Cumbria - 3 £82,500 - 2
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 (4.07%) Tomcat
2 8 (2.96%) Jetty
3 4 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.11%) nginx
4 3 (1.11%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.74%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 117 (43.33%) Azure
2 108 (40.00%) AWS
3 84 (31.11%) Serverless
4 66 (24.44%) GCP
5 38 (14.07%) SaaS
6 37 (13.70%) PaaS
7 35 (12.96%) IaaS
8 17 (6.30%) GitHub
9 16 (5.93%) OpenShift
10 14 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (1.48%) CloudFront
15 4 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (1.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.33%) Internet
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
3 4 (1.48%) Network Security
4 3 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.11%) MPLS
4 3 (1.11%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.37%) IPsec
6 1 (0.37%) IPv6
6 1 (0.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.37%) VoIP
6 1 (0.37%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.74%) NoSQL
2 21 (7.78%) Data Lake
2 21 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (6.67%) MySQL
4 12 (4.44%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.44%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.44%) RDBMS
4 12 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.33%) Big Data
7 8 (2.96%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.74%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 71 (26.30%) Git
2 18 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.96%) Bitbucket
3 8 (2.96%) Cucumber
4 7 (2.59%) GitLab
4 7 (2.59%) Spinnaker
5 6 (2.22%) JIRA
6 5 (1.85%) git-flow
6 5 (1.85%) Selenium
7 4 (1.48%) JDeveloper
7 4 (1.48%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.11%) JSUnit
8 3 (1.11%) JUnit
8 3 (1.11%) Mocha
8 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.74%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (35.19%) Finance
2 61 (22.59%) Banking
3 58 (21.48%) Social Skills
4 43 (15.93%) Retail
5 38 (14.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (10.00%) Police
7 10 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.96%) Marketing
8 8 (2.96%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.74%) Automotive
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) Avionics
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (37.41%) Software Engineer
2 73 (27.04%) Architect
3 66 (24.44%) Senior
4 65 (24.07%) Developer
5 37 (13.70%) Solutions Architect
6 34 (12.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (11.11%) Java Engineer
7 30 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
8 24 (8.89%) Enterprise Architect
8 24 (8.89%) Lead
9 21 (7.78%) Java Developer
9 21 (7.78%) Senior Developer
10 15 (5.56%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.81%) Full Stack Developer
12 12 (4.44%) Ruby Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.07%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Senior Architect
15 7 (2.59%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (30.37%) React
2 68 (25.19%) .NET
3 65 (24.07%) Node.js
4 56 (20.74%) Spring
5 30 (11.11%) Kafka
6 27 (10.00%) HTML
6 27 (10.00%) J2EE
7 26 (9.63%) AngularJS
7 26 (9.63%) RESTful
8 25 (9.26%) CSS
8 25 (9.26%) Ruby on Rails
9 22 (8.15%) OpenID
10 19 (7.04%) Spring Boot
11 18 (6.67%) .NET Core
12 16 (5.93%) REST
13 15 (5.56%) jQuery
14 13 (4.81%) Jest
15 12 (4.44%) JSON
16 10 (3.70%) .NET Framework
16 10 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.37%) Public Cloud
2 24 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (8.52%) Cyberattack
3 23 (8.52%) Linux Command Line
4 21 (7.78%) Blockchain
4 21 (7.78%) Mainframe
5 20 (7.41%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.81%) Private Cloud
7 12 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.96%) Online Banking
9 5 (1.85%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.85%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.74%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.78%) Linux
2 22 (8.15%) Unix
3 6 (2.22%) Windows
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (60.74%) Agile
2 152 (56.30%) Software Engineering
3 85 (31.48%) Mentoring
4 82 (30.37%) Containerisation
4 82 (30.37%) Design Patterns
5 77 (28.52%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 72 (26.67%) DevOps
8 61 (22.59%) Unit Testing
9 60 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
10 59 (21.85%) Scrum
11 55 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
12 52 (19.26%) Code Quality
13 49 (18.15%) Machine Learning
14 45 (16.67%) Coaching
15 43 (15.93%) Clean Code
15 43 (15.93%) Roadmaps
16 40 (14.81%) User Experience
17 38 (14.07%) TDD
18 31 (11.48%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 136 (50.37%) Java
2 107 (39.63%) Python
3 84 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.63%) C#
5 40 (14.81%) Go
5 40 (14.81%) Ruby
6 34 (12.59%) TypeScript
7 31 (11.48%) SQL
8 23 (8.52%) Rust
9 16 (5.93%) Bash
10 12 (4.44%) Perl
11 9 (3.33%) PHP
12 6 (2.22%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
14 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 78 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (13.70%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.59%) DV Cleared
4 29 (10.74%) AWS Certification
5 24 (8.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 23 (8.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 23 (8.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (8.52%) Degree
7 16 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) CCIE
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.37%) CISSP
10 1 (0.37%) ISEB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.22%) QA
2 3 (1.11%) NCSC
3 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.74%) GDPR
3 2 (0.74%) WCAG
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 76 (28.15%) Docker
2 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) KVM
4 1 (0.37%) RACF
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (27.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.78%) Terraform
3 5 (1.85%) Ansible
4 3 (1.11%) Grafana
4 3 (1.11%) MIIS
4 3 (1.11%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.74%) Istio
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.37%) Nagios
6 1 (0.37%) Packer
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (6.30%) Oracle
2 15 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.48%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.11%) Databricks
4 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.11%) VMware
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe
5 2 (0.74%) New Relic
5 2 (0.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.37%) Arista
6 1 (0.37%) BT
6 1 (0.37%) Cadence
6 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.37%) Facebook
6 1 (0.37%) Google
6 1 (0.37%) Juniper