Microservices Job Trends in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 59 67
Rank change year-on-year -112 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 126 297 594
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.89% 4.33% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 4.81% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 78 186 473
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,375 £42,999
25th Percentile £55,438 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

All Process & 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 10,382 6,169 13,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.09% 89.87% 84.63%
Number of salaries quoted 6,635 3,335 9,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,662 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,268
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the South East

Microservices
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

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 21 April 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
Thames Valley -70 65 £77,500 -6.06% 28
Berkshire -43 46 £82,500 - 10
Surrey -31 16 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Buckinghamshire -23 15 £68,750 -1.79% 6
Hampshire -62 15 £70,000 +27.27% 15
East Sussex -17 10 £85,000 +70.00% 2
Sussex - 8 £75,000 - 1
West Sussex -33 6 £70,000 - 6
Oxfordshire -18 4 £40,000 -27.27% 12
Kent -42 4 £27,500 -58.49% 4
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.38%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (57.94%) AWS
2 50 (39.68%) Azure
3 26 (20.63%) Serverless
4 21 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (15.08%) GCP
6 16 (12.70%) Amazon ECS
6 16 (12.70%) SaaS
7 15 (11.90%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.73%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.56%) GitHub
11 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.97%) Apigee
12 5 (3.97%) Kong
12 5 (3.97%) OpenShift
13 4 (3.17%) Datadog
14 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (2.38%) IaaS
14 3 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Internet
2 5 (3.97%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (3.97%) Firewall
3 4 (3.17%) MQTT
4 2 (1.59%) Broadband
4 2 (1.59%) RFID
5 1 (0.79%) HTTP
5 1 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.79%) Modbus
5 1 (0.79%) Network Security
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.49%) Relational Database
3 11 (8.73%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.17%) MySQL
5 4 (3.17%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (22.22%) Git
2 23 (18.25%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.70%) GitLab
4 10 (7.94%) JUnit
5 9 (7.14%) JIRA
6 7 (5.56%) Mockito
6 7 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 6 (4.76%) Cucumber
8 5 (3.97%) Selenium
9 4 (3.17%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.17%) JMeter
10 2 (1.59%) git-flow
10 2 (1.59%) Jasmine
10 2 (1.59%) MSTest
10 2 (1.59%) NUnit
10 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Finance
3 15 (11.90%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.76%) Law
5 6 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.17%) Digital Healthcare
6 4 (3.17%) Health Technology
6 4 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.59%) Aviation
7 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (53.17%) Developer
2 29 (23.02%) Java Developer
2 29 (23.02%) Senior
3 22 (17.46%) Senior Developer
4 19 (15.08%) Full-Stack Developer
5 18 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 16 (12.70%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.32%) Architect
8 11 (8.73%) C# Developer
8 11 (8.73%) Lead
9 10 (7.94%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
10 9 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (6.35%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (6.35%) .NET Software Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) C# Software Developer
11 8 (6.35%) C# Software Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 8 (6.35%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.13%) REST
2 40 (31.75%) React
3 36 (28.57%) .NET
4 25 (19.84%) Spring Boot
5 22 (17.46%) Spring
6 18 (14.29%) RESTful
7 17 (13.49%) JSON
7 17 (13.49%) Kafka
7 17 (13.49%) Web Services
8 16 (12.70%) AngularJS
9 15 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (11.11%) HTML
11 12 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (9.52%) XML
12 11 (8.73%) CSS
13 10 (7.94%) Vue
14 9 (7.14%) ASP.NET
14 9 (7.14%) Node.js
14 9 (7.14%) YAML
15 8 (6.35%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (31.75%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (15.08%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.32%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.97%) IoT
5 5 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.17%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.59%) Contactless
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.79%) CMDB
9 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (49.21%) CI/CD
2 55 (43.65%) Agile
3 50 (39.68%) DevOps
4 36 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 33 (26.19%) Containerisation
5 33 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 26 (20.63%) TDD
8 25 (19.84%) Scrum
9 20 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (15.87%) SDLC
9 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
10 17 (13.49%) Deployment Automation
11 16 (12.70%) Computer Science
11 16 (12.70%) Event-Driven
12 13 (10.32%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (10.32%) Observability
12 13 (10.32%) Roadmaps
13 12 (9.52%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.71%) Java
2 32 (25.40%) C#
3 29 (23.02%) Python
3 29 (23.02%) SQL
4 26 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.94%) Go
6 8 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.76%) Groovy
9 5 (3.97%) Rust
10 4 (3.17%) Perl
10 4 (3.17%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.38%) PHP
12 2 (1.59%) Bicep
12 2 (1.59%) C
12 2 (1.59%) Scala
13 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.25%) Degree
3 21 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.05%) QA
2 6 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) WCAG
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (37.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (39.68%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.87%) Ansible
3 18 (14.29%) Terraform
4 8 (6.35%) Kibana
5 5 (3.97%) Grafana
5 5 (3.97%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.17%) Packer
7 2 (1.59%) MIIS
8 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) AppDynamics
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) Dynatrace
2 8 (6.35%) IBM
2 8 (6.35%) Oracle
3 5 (3.97%) Cisco
3 5 (3.97%) F5
3 5 (3.97%) Juniper
3 5 (3.97%) Palo Alto
3 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.17%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) Typelevel
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.79%) Sparx
6 1 (0.79%) Tenable