Microservices Jobs in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 77 69
Rank change year-on-year -34 -8 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 252 594 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.62% 3.19% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.89% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 137 489 404
10th Percentile £43,350 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,801 15,283 12,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 81.98% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,352 10,406 7,558
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,713
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £85,000
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 South East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Salary trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Thames Valley +52 148 £82,500 +37.50% 222
Berkshire +50 117 £82,500 +37.50% 200
Hampshire +1 37 £57,500 -9.80% 40
Surrey -7 23 £72,500 +26.09% 32
Oxfordshire +42 17 £55,000 -8.33% 14
West Sussex +14 15 £70,000 +21.74% 9
Buckinghamshire +11 14 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Middlesex -5 11 £62,500 +39.95% 1
East Sussex -10 8 £50,000 -37.50% 8
Kent -43 5 £90,000 +53.19% 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 19 (7.54%) JBoss
2 14 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
3 13 (5.16%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.59%) Apache
5 4 (1.59%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.19%) Appian
7 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) GemFire
8 1 (0.40%) IIS
8 1 (0.40%) nginx
8 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.06%) AWS
2 77 (30.56%) Azure
3 58 (23.02%) Serverless
4 37 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (13.49%) Amazon EC2
6 34 (13.49%) Amazon ECS
7 30 (11.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 29 (11.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 28 (11.11%) SonarCloud
10 23 (9.13%) Amazon S3
10 23 (9.13%) GCP
11 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 16 (6.35%) SaaS
13 12 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.38%) AWS KMS
17 5 (1.98%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Internet
1 2 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (25.79%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 28 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (9.92%) MongoDB
5 20 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 19 (7.54%) NoSQL
7 18 (7.14%) Redis
8 17 (6.75%) RDBMS
9 13 (5.16%) DynamoDB
10 9 (3.57%) MySQL
11 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.19%) Big Data
13 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.19%) Couchbase
13 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.79%) Bigtable
14 2 (0.79%) HBase
14 2 (0.79%) Impala
Development Applications
1 68 (26.98%) Git
2 61 (24.21%) Jenkins
3 45 (17.86%) JUnit
4 38 (15.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 29 (11.51%) MSBuild
6 28 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 28 (11.11%) Visual Studio
7 27 (10.71%) Mockito
8 17 (6.75%) JIRA
8 17 (6.75%) JMeter
8 17 (6.75%) Maven
9 16 (6.35%) SonarQube
10 14 (5.56%) GitLab
11 13 (5.16%) Selenium
12 9 (3.57%) Cucumber
13 8 (3.17%) Bitbucket
13 8 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (2.38%) DbUnit
14 6 (2.38%) jMock
15 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 81 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.25%) Law
3 40 (15.87%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.52%) Retail
5 21 (8.33%) Marketing
6 20 (7.94%) Finance
7 13 (5.16%) Banking
8 11 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (3.57%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.59%) Advertising
11 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.40%) Automotive
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (41.67%) Developer
2 63 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 60 (23.81%) Architect
4 40 (15.87%) Lead
5 32 (12.70%) Technical Architect
6 27 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 26 (10.32%) Senior
8 24 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 23 (9.13%) Enterprise Architect
10 22 (8.73%) Senior Developer
11 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
12 14 (5.56%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.76%) Lead Developer
14 10 (3.97%) C# .NET Developer
14 10 (3.97%) C# Developer
14 10 (3.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (3.97%) Java Engineer
15 9 (3.57%) Software Developer
16 8 (3.17%) Development Manager
16 8 (3.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (48.41%) REST
2 69 (27.38%) Spring Boot
3 65 (25.79%) Spring
4 60 (23.81%) .NET
5 59 (23.41%) React
6 56 (22.22%) HTML
7 43 (17.06%) SOAP
7 43 (17.06%) Web Services
8 41 (16.27%) CSS
9 40 (15.87%) Kafka
10 38 (15.08%) Hibernate
10 38 (15.08%) JSON
11 37 (14.68%) XML
12 35 (13.89%) Bootstrap
12 35 (13.89%) RESTful
13 30 (11.90%) Apache Camel
13 30 (11.90%) ASP.NET
14 29 (11.51%) gRPC
15 27 (10.71%) AngularJS
15 27 (10.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (16.27%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.79%) BBC
7 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) IoT
7 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.40%) Credit Derivative
8 1 (0.40%) Derivative
8 1 (0.40%) Equities
8 1 (0.40%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.40%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.35%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Unix
2 2 (0.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (50.79%) Agile
2 118 (46.83%) DevOps
3 98 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 78 (30.95%) TDD
5 73 (28.97%) Technical Leadership
6 64 (25.40%) Design Patterns
7 60 (23.81%) Computer Science
8 57 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (21.03%) Scrum
10 51 (20.24%) Software Engineering
11 49 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (19.05%) Data Modelling
13 46 (18.25%) Data Management
14 45 (17.86%) Event-Driven
15 41 (16.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 40 (15.87%) BDD
16 40 (15.87%) Kanban
17 38 (15.08%) MVC
18 37 (14.68%) Performance Optimisation
19 36 (14.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 104 (41.27%) Java
2 86 (34.13%) JavaScript
3 63 (25.00%) C#
4 58 (23.02%) SQL
5 40 (15.87%) Python
6 21 (8.33%) Apex Code
7 17 (6.75%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.76%) Go
10 10 (3.97%) PHP
11 2 (0.79%) Groovy
11 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.79%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) Bash
12 1 (0.40%) C
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Perl
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 62 (24.60%) Degree
2 38 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 33 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 26 (10.32%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.30%) GDPR
1 31 (12.30%) QA
2 23 (9.13%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.56%) SLA
4 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) CDISC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 118 (46.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) HDFS
3 2 (0.79%) Postfix
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 79 (31.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.54%) Ansible
3 16 (6.35%) Kibana
4 12 (4.76%) Terraform
5 8 (3.17%) Grafana
5 8 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (8.33%) Salesforce
1 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 17 (6.75%) Splunk
3 16 (6.35%) Dynatrace
4 14 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.57%) Solace
6 8 (3.17%) Oracle
7 7 (2.78%) Cisco
7 7 (2.78%) Google
8 6 (2.38%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.59%) Sage
10 3 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (1.19%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.19%) Databricks
10 3 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (1.19%) UiPath
10 3 (1.19%) VMware
11 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.79%) MapR