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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 76 62
Rank change year-on-year -34 -14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 252 588 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.58% 3.20% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 3.88% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 140 485 414
10th Percentile £45,525 £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 £97,125
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 8,964 15,144 12,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.81% 82.48% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,428 10,339 7,613
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £30,650
25th Percentile £38,688 £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 £78,268 £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 8 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 8 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 +53 147 £82,500 +37.50% 250
Berkshire +47 115 £82,500 +37.50% 225
Hampshire +4 39 £57,500 -8.00% 50
Surrey -9 22 £72,500 +26.09% 31
Oxfordshire +37 18 £55,000 -8.33% 17
West Sussex +13 15 £70,000 +21.74% 10
Buckinghamshire +16 14 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Middlesex -6 11 £62,500 +39.95% 2
East Sussex -15 7 £50,000 -37.50% 9
Kent -44 6 £85,000 +44.68% 4
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%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.06%) AWS
2 77 (30.56%) Azure
3 59 (23.41%) Serverless
4 36 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (12.70%) Amazon EC2
6 32 (12.70%) Amazon ECS
7 29 (11.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 28 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 28 (11.11%) SonarCloud
9 24 (9.52%) GCP
10 23 (9.13%) Amazon S3
11 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 16 (6.35%) SaaS
13 12 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
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
2 1 (0.40%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (15.87%) Relational Database
3 28 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (9.92%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.54%) NoSQL
5 19 (7.54%) SQL Server
6 18 (7.14%) Redis
7 15 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 15 (5.95%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.57%) MySQL
9 7 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.59%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.19%) Big Data
11 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.19%) Couchbase
11 3 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.79%) Bigtable
12 2 (0.79%) HBase
12 2 (0.79%) Impala
Development Applications
1 67 (26.59%) Git
2 59 (23.41%) Jenkins
3 43 (17.06%) JUnit
4 37 (14.68%) Octopus Deploy
5 29 (11.51%) MSBuild
6 28 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 28 (11.11%) Visual Studio
7 25 (9.92%) Mockito
8 17 (6.75%) JIRA
8 17 (6.75%) Maven
9 16 (6.35%) SonarQube
10 15 (5.95%) JMeter
11 14 (5.56%) GitLab
12 13 (5.16%) Selenium
13 9 (3.57%) Cucumber
14 8 (3.17%) Bitbucket
14 8 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (2.38%) DbUnit
15 6 (2.38%) jMock
16 5 (1.98%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 82 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.25%) Law
3 38 (15.08%) 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%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.57%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.59%) Advertising
10 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Front Office
12 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (42.06%) Developer
2 61 (24.21%) Java Developer
3 60 (23.81%) Architect
4 39 (15.48%) Lead
5 32 (12.70%) Technical Architect
6 28 (11.11%) Senior
7 27 (10.71%) Software Engineer
8 24 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 23 (9.13%) Enterprise Architect
9 23 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
10 21 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (5.16%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.76%) Lead Developer
13 10 (3.97%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.97%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.57%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (3.57%) C# Developer
14 9 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (3.17%) Development Manager
15 8 (3.17%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (47.62%) REST
2 67 (26.59%) Spring Boot
3 63 (25.00%) Spring
4 62 (24.60%) React
5 58 (23.02%) .NET
6 55 (21.83%) HTML
7 43 (17.06%) SOAP
8 42 (16.67%) CSS
9 41 (16.27%) Web Services
10 40 (15.87%) Kafka
11 36 (14.29%) Hibernate
11 36 (14.29%) JSON
12 35 (13.89%) Bootstrap
12 35 (13.89%) RESTful
12 35 (13.89%) XML
13 30 (11.90%) ASP.NET
14 29 (11.51%) gRPC
14 29 (11.51%) Node.js
15 28 (11.11%) Apache Camel
16 27 (10.71%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 39 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.97%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.19%) IoT
6 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (0.79%) BBC
7 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
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
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Linux
2 2 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) Android
3 1 (0.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (50.00%) Agile
2 119 (47.22%) DevOps
3 98 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 76 (30.16%) TDD
5 73 (28.97%) Technical Leadership
6 64 (25.40%) Design Patterns
7 61 (24.21%) Computer Science
8 57 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 53 (21.03%) Scrum
10 52 (20.63%) Software Engineering
11 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (19.05%) Data Modelling
13 46 (18.25%) Data Management
13 46 (18.25%) Event-Driven
14 42 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 42 (16.67%) Kanban
15 38 (15.08%) BDD
15 38 (15.08%) MVC
16 37 (14.68%) Analytics
16 37 (14.68%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (40.48%) Java
2 84 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 61 (24.21%) C#
4 57 (22.62%) SQL
5 39 (15.48%) Python
6 21 (8.33%) Apex Code
7 18 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.95%) Shell Script
9 13 (5.16%) Go
10 10 (3.97%) PHP
11 3 (1.19%) Ruby
12 2 (0.79%) C
12 2 (0.79%) C++
12 2 (0.79%) Groovy
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.79%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (25.00%) Degree
2 38 (15.08%) Security Cleared
3 34 (13.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 26 (10.32%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
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
1 116 (46.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.79%) HDFS
2 2 (0.79%) Postfix
2 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 77 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.54%) Ansible
3 14 (5.56%) Kibana
4 13 (5.16%) Terraform
5 7 (2.78%) Grafana
5 7 (2.78%) 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 15 (5.95%) Splunk
3 14 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 14 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.57%) Solace
5 8 (3.17%) Google
5 8 (3.17%) Oracle
6 7 (2.78%) Cisco
7 6 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.59%) Sage
9 3 (1.19%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (1.19%) Black Duck
9 3 (1.19%) Databricks
9 3 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.19%) UiPath
9 3 (1.19%) VMware
10 2 (0.79%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.79%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.79%) MapR