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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 85 71
Rank change year-on-year +30 -14 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 455 271 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.69% 2.75% 4.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 3.32% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 139 226 194
10th Percentile £51,000 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,590 £51,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,728
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -2.59% +16.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £98,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £74,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.62% -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 7,662 8,161 7,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.78% 82.83% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,126 6,195 3,909
10th Percentile £26,722 £27,500 £30,750
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 £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 11 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 11 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 +40 246 £75,000 +15.38% 136
Lancashire -4 114 £57,836 -11.02% 56
Cheshire +57 83 £57,500 -11.54% 24
Merseyside +45 12 £68,750 +25.00% 17
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 49 (10.77%) Confluence
2 3 (0.66%) Apache
2 3 (0.66%) GemFire
2 3 (0.66%) IIS
3 2 (0.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.44%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 363 (79.78%) AWS
2 336 (73.85%) Azure
3 239 (52.53%) GCP
4 15 (3.30%) Serverless
5 13 (2.86%) SaaS
6 10 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.10%) GitHub
11 4 (0.88%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (0.88%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.88%) CloudFront
11 4 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (0.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.66%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.66%) HTTP
1 3 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (27.69%) SQL Server
2 37 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 33 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.98%) MySQL
4 9 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.10%) Redis
7 3 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.66%) Apache Ignite
7 3 (0.66%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.66%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (0.66%) Metadata
7 3 (0.66%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.44%) Big Data
9 1 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.22%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 122 (26.81%) GitLab
1 122 (26.81%) JIRA
1 122 (26.81%) SonarQube
2 112 (24.62%) Maven
2 112 (24.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 109 (23.96%) Bitbucket
3 109 (23.96%) Cucumber
3 109 (23.96%) Selenium
4 27 (5.93%) Git
5 17 (3.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.32%) JUnit
7 4 (0.88%) Jasmine
7 4 (0.88%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (0.66%) JMeter
9 2 (0.44%) Storybook
10 1 (0.22%) ESLint
10 1 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 281 (61.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 148 (32.53%) Finance
3 128 (28.13%) Banking
4 83 (18.24%) Retail
5 70 (15.38%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (15.38%) Investment Banking
6 54 (11.87%) Social Skills
7 11 (2.42%) Law
8 6 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.10%) Back Office
10 3 (0.66%) Games
10 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.44%) Front Office
11 2 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.44%) Retail Finance
12 1 (0.22%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 313 (68.79%) Software Engineer
2 204 (44.84%) Senior
3 180 (39.56%) Senior Software Engineer
4 59 (12.97%) Lead
5 37 (8.13%) Developer
6 21 (4.62%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 21 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
7 17 (3.74%) .NET Developer
7 17 (3.74%) Architect
8 13 (2.86%) Senior Developer
8 13 (2.86%) Technical Leader
9 8 (1.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (1.76%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.54%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (1.54%) Java Engineer
10 7 (1.54%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (1.54%) Senior .NET Developer
11 6 (1.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 6 (1.32%) Senior Architect
12 5 (1.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (46.15%) .NET
2 197 (43.30%) Node.js
3 137 (30.11%) React
4 136 (29.89%) Kafka
4 136 (29.89%) Spring
5 125 (27.47%) CSS
5 125 (27.47%) HTML
6 123 (27.03%) Spring Boot
7 111 (24.40%) Redux
8 109 (23.96%) JPA
9 91 (20.00%) RESTful
10 83 (18.24%) REST
11 77 (16.92%) HTML5
11 77 (16.92%) Sass
12 73 (16.04%) CSS3
13 71 (15.60%) Jest
14 45 (9.89%) Hibernate
15 23 (5.05%) .NET Core
16 15 (3.30%) AngularJS
17 9 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (38.02%) Cyberattack
2 172 (37.80%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (37.80%) Self-Motivation
3 126 (27.69%) Product Ownership
4 114 (25.05%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (5.27%) Management Information System
6 19 (4.18%) Cloud Native
7 15 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.10%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.66%) Derivative
12 3 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.66%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.66%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.66%) Sports Betting
13 2 (0.44%) Reference Data
13 2 (0.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 181 (39.78%) Linux
2 6 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (83.74%) Agile
2 374 (82.20%) Software Engineering
3 274 (60.22%) Mentoring
4 258 (56.70%) User Experience
5 198 (43.52%) Scrum
6 182 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 180 (39.56%) DevOps
8 177 (38.90%) Cloud Security
9 175 (38.46%) Machine Learning
10 173 (38.02%) Data Engineering
11 165 (36.26%) CI/CD
12 162 (35.60%) Containerisation
13 137 (30.11%) Full-Stack Development
14 130 (28.57%) SDLC
15 120 (26.37%) Performance Optimisation
16 119 (26.15%) Test Automation
17 118 (25.93%) Front End Development
18 72 (15.82%) Strategic Thinking
19 71 (15.60%) Migration
20 70 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 354 (77.80%) Java
2 318 (69.89%) JavaScript
3 201 (44.18%) Python
4 181 (39.78%) Go
5 173 (38.02%) C++
5 173 (38.02%) Rust
6 131 (28.79%) SQL
7 102 (22.42%) TypeScript
8 40 (8.79%) C#
9 21 (4.62%) C
10 5 (1.10%) PHP
10 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.66%) Bash
12 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 177 (38.90%) AWS Certification
1 177 (38.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 177 (38.90%) Security Cleared
2 172 (37.80%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (37.80%) DV Cleared
3 37 (8.13%) Degree
4 21 (4.62%) HND
5 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.66%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (25.05%) QA
2 75 (16.48%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.76%) GDPR
3 8 (1.76%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.88%) NIST
4 4 (0.88%) SOC 2
5 3 (0.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 164 (36.04%) Docker
2 25 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 168 (36.92%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.37%) Terraform
3 9 (1.98%) Grafana
4 4 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) Istio
5 3 (0.66%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (24.62%) Solace
2 18 (3.96%) Google
3 5 (1.10%) Oracle
4 4 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 3 (0.66%) Bloomberg
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.66%) TIBCO
6 2 (0.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.44%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.22%) New Relic
7 1 (0.22%) Revolut
7 1 (0.22%) ServiceNow