Microservices Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Microservices
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 33 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 7 3 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.76% 1.22% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.35% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 20
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +37.57%
75th Percentile £71,250 £57,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £72,750 - £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 707 223 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 76.43% 91.02% 86.45%
Number of salaries quoted 301 56 294
10th Percentile - £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £40,166 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £66,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Microservices
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Microservices

Microservices
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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
County Antrim -27 4 £62,500 +13.64% 3
County Fermanagh - 3 - -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Gen AI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) pgvector
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) AI
3 2 (28.57%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
3 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 2 (28.57%) MLOps
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) HOOD
4 1 (14.29%) LLM
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAI