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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 75 47
Rank change year-on-year +44 -28 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 333 191 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 6.79% 2.76% 5.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 3.41% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 83 101 152
10th Percentile £51,400 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.36% +0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.23%

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 4,154 5,600 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 84.71% 80.98% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 2,793 2,844
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +33 191 £70,000 +16.67% 91
Lancashire +36 67 £50,000 -23.08% 37
Cheshire +34 58 £56,250 -24.50% 32
Merseyside -4 15 £65,000 -10.34% 7
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 33 (9.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.60%) Apache
2 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.30%) nginx
3 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 291 (87.39%) AWS
2 264 (79.28%) Azure
3 175 (52.55%) GCP
4 12 (3.60%) SaaS
5 11 (3.30%) GitHub
5 11 (3.30%) Serverless
6 9 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.20%) IaaS
10 4 (1.20%) PaaS
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.60%) Google Ads
12 2 (0.60%) NuGet
12 2 (0.60%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) HTTP
1 2 (0.60%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (32.13%) SQL Server
2 37 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 34 (10.21%) MongoDB
4 16 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (3.60%) MySQL
6 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.60%) Big Data
8 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.30%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.30%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.30%) Redis
9 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 92 (27.63%) GitLab
2 90 (27.03%) Cucumber
2 90 (27.03%) JIRA
2 90 (27.03%) Selenium
3 82 (24.62%) Bitbucket
3 82 (24.62%) Maven
3 82 (24.62%) SonarQube
3 82 (24.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (5.11%) Git
5 6 (1.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.90%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) ESLint
7 2 (0.60%) Gatling
7 2 (0.60%) JMeter
7 2 (0.60%) Storybook
7 2 (0.60%) webpack
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) git-flow
8 1 (0.30%) Mocha
8 1 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 203 (60.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 98 (29.43%) Finance
3 81 (24.32%) Banking
4 64 (19.22%) Retail
5 55 (16.52%) Corporate Banking
5 55 (16.52%) Investment Banking
6 19 (5.71%) Social Skills
7 3 (0.90%) Back Office
8 2 (0.60%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Billing
8 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Marketing
8 2 (0.60%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.30%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 230 (69.07%) Software Engineer
2 163 (48.95%) Senior
3 134 (40.24%) Senior Software Engineer
4 54 (16.22%) Developer
5 22 (6.61%) Lead
6 20 (6.01%) .NET Developer
7 17 (5.11%) Architect
7 17 (5.11%) Java Developer
8 15 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.90%) Senior Developer
10 12 (3.60%) Lead Developer
10 12 (3.60%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.30%) Senior Architect
12 10 (3.00%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.00%) AWS Solution Architect
13 9 (2.70%) DevOps Architect
13 9 (2.70%) Lead .NET Developer
13 9 (2.70%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.70%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (51.35%) .NET
2 131 (39.34%) Node.js
3 116 (34.83%) Spring Boot
4 115 (34.53%) Spring
5 107 (32.13%) React
6 100 (30.03%) Kafka
7 91 (27.33%) CSS
7 91 (27.33%) HTML
8 82 (24.62%) JPA
8 82 (24.62%) Redux
9 76 (22.82%) RESTful
10 72 (21.62%) REST
11 59 (17.72%) Jest
12 56 (16.82%) HTML5
12 56 (16.82%) Sass
13 55 (16.52%) CSS3
14 36 (10.81%) Hibernate
15 19 (5.71%) .NET Core
15 19 (5.71%) AngularJS
16 12 (3.60%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 121 (36.34%) Cyberattack
1 121 (36.34%) Linux Command Line
1 121 (36.34%) Self-Motivation
2 91 (27.33%) Product Ownership
3 82 (24.62%) Enterprise Software
4 32 (9.61%) Cloud Native
5 20 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.70%) Clustering
7 9 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.80%) Wiki
9 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.90%) IoT
11 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.30%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.30%) Legacy Code
12 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 132 (39.64%) Linux
2 6 (1.80%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) VMS
4 1 (0.30%) CentOS
4 1 (0.30%) Debian
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (80.78%) Agile
2 250 (75.08%) Software Engineering
3 199 (59.76%) Mentoring
4 188 (56.46%) User Experience
5 153 (45.95%) CI/CD
6 142 (42.64%) DevOps
7 135 (40.54%) Scrum
8 132 (39.64%) Containerisation
9 125 (37.54%) Cloud Security
10 123 (36.94%) Data Engineering
11 122 (36.64%) Machine Learning
11 122 (36.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 103 (30.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 100 (30.03%) Performance Optimisation
14 94 (28.23%) Test Automation
15 91 (27.33%) SDLC
16 90 (27.03%) Front End Development
17 60 (18.02%) Strategic Thinking
18 56 (16.82%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (16.82%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 254 (76.28%) Java
2 226 (67.87%) JavaScript
3 140 (42.04%) Python
4 125 (37.54%) Go
5 122 (36.64%) C++
6 121 (36.34%) Rust
7 114 (34.23%) SQL
8 71 (21.32%) TypeScript
9 58 (17.42%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) Elixir
10 3 (0.90%) Erlang
10 3 (0.90%) PHP
10 3 (0.90%) Ruby
11 2 (0.60%) Bash
12 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 132 (39.64%) AWS Certification
2 130 (39.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 126 (37.84%) Security Cleared
4 123 (36.94%) DV Cleared
5 121 (36.34%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.20%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.60%) Degree
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (27.03%) QA
2 55 (16.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.30%) GDPR
4 9 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 9 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 136 (40.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
2 2 (0.60%) vSphere
3 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 127 (38.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.71%) Terraform
3 10 (3.00%) Ansible
4 5 (1.50%) Grafana
5 3 (0.90%) Puppet
6 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 81 (24.32%) Solace
2 15 (4.50%) Google
3 4 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (0.60%) VMware
5 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.30%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle
5 1 (0.30%) Pega
5 1 (0.30%) Ping Identity
5 1 (0.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.30%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.30%) Veracode
5 1 (0.30%) WSO2