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 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 85 73 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 296 589 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.17% 3.50% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 4.14% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 176 483 428
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £49,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% -5.36%
75th Percentile £83,750 £74,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £97,500
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
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 8,550 14,220 13,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.62% 84.55% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,911 7,968
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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 11 May 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 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
Thames Valley +51 178 £82,500 +37.50% 52
Berkshire +40 135 £82,500 +26.92% 29
Hampshire +9 43 £55,000 -12.00% 29
Buckinghamshire +25 22 £70,000 +33.33% 14
Oxfordshire +32 21 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Surrey -6 21 £80,000 +33.33% 28
West Sussex +18 17 £70,000 +21.74% 13
Middlesex 0 16 £62,500 +39.95% 1
Kent -41 9 £66,250 +20.45% 9
East Sussex -14 8 £50,000 -37.50% 10
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 18 (6.08%) JBoss
2 13 (4.39%) Confluence
2 13 (4.39%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (2.03%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) GemFire
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 123 (41.55%) AWS
2 88 (29.73%) Azure
3 78 (26.35%) Serverless
4 42 (14.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 41 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
5 41 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
6 38 (12.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 36 (12.16%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (11.49%) SonarCloud
9 24 (8.11%) GCP
10 21 (7.09%) Amazon S3
10 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 20 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (6.76%) SaaS
12 14 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (3.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (2.36%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.01%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) MQTT
2 1 (0.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (26.01%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (15.54%) Relational Database
3 34 (11.49%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (11.15%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.12%) MongoDB
6 20 (6.76%) DynamoDB
6 20 (6.76%) RDBMS
6 20 (6.76%) Redis
7 18 (6.08%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.70%) MySQL
9 6 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.03%) Big Data
10 5 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.35%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.68%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 81 (27.36%) Git
2 73 (24.66%) Jenkins
3 49 (16.55%) JUnit
3 49 (16.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 35 (11.82%) MSBuild
5 34 (11.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 34 (11.49%) Visual Studio
6 32 (10.81%) Mockito
7 20 (6.76%) JMeter
8 18 (6.08%) GitLab
9 17 (5.74%) JIRA
10 15 (5.07%) Maven
10 15 (5.07%) SonarQube
11 10 (3.38%) Selenium
12 9 (3.04%) Cucumber
13 8 (2.70%) Bitbucket
13 8 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.69%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.69%) jMock
15 4 (1.35%) TeamCity
General
1 91 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.22%) Law
3 42 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.46%) Retail
5 27 (9.12%) Finance
6 21 (7.09%) Marketing
7 15 (5.07%) Banking
8 14 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.38%) Tech for Good
11 7 (2.36%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.69%) Advertising
12 5 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.01%) Front Office
14 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.68%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (44.59%) Developer
2 72 (24.32%) Architect
3 67 (22.64%) Java Developer
4 43 (14.53%) Senior
5 40 (13.51%) Technical Architect
6 38 (12.84%) Lead
7 33 (11.15%) Senior Developer
8 32 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (10.47%) Software Engineer
10 24 (8.11%) Enterprise Architect
11 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Architect
12 18 (6.08%) .NET Developer
13 15 (5.07%) C# Developer
14 13 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
14 13 (4.39%) Software Developer
15 12 (4.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (3.72%) Senior Software Developer
17 10 (3.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 10 (3.38%) Java Engineer
18 9 (3.04%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (47.30%) REST
2 85 (28.72%) React
3 76 (25.68%) .NET
4 72 (24.32%) HTML
5 67 (22.64%) Spring Boot
6 66 (22.30%) Spring
7 54 (18.24%) CSS
8 48 (16.22%) Web Services
9 43 (14.53%) JSON
10 42 (14.19%) Hibernate
10 42 (14.19%) SOAP
11 41 (13.85%) XML
12 40 (13.51%) Kafka
13 39 (13.18%) RESTful
14 38 (12.84%) Bootstrap
15 37 (12.50%) ASP.NET
16 35 (11.82%) gRPC
17 33 (11.15%) Apache Camel
17 33 (11.15%) Node.js
18 30 (10.14%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.26%) Enterprise Software
2 46 (15.54%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 8 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.69%) IoT
6 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) BBC
8 2 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.34%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (0.34%) Derivative
9 1 (0.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.34%) Equities
9 1 (0.34%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.41%) Linux
2 3 (1.01%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (48.65%) Agile
2 128 (43.24%) DevOps
3 116 (39.19%) CI/CD
4 88 (29.73%) TDD
5 75 (25.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (24.66%) Design Patterns
7 71 (23.99%) Technical Leadership
8 64 (21.62%) Computer Science
9 62 (20.95%) Event-Driven
10 61 (20.61%) Scrum
11 59 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (19.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 56 (18.92%) Software Engineering
14 53 (17.91%) Kanban
15 51 (17.23%) MVC
16 47 (15.88%) Data Modelling
17 45 (15.20%) Performance Optimisation
18 44 (14.86%) Data Management
19 43 (14.53%) Unit Testing
20 42 (14.19%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 106 (35.81%) Java
2 98 (33.11%) JavaScript
3 76 (25.68%) C#
4 74 (25.00%) SQL
5 49 (16.55%) Python
6 28 (9.46%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.09%) Apex Code
7 21 (7.09%) Shell Script
8 20 (6.76%) Go
9 12 (4.05%) PHP
10 8 (2.70%) Ruby
11 7 (2.36%) C
11 7 (2.36%) C++
11 7 (2.36%) Perl
11 7 (2.36%) Rust
12 3 (1.01%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.68%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (22.30%) Degree
2 39 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 36 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (12.16%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.12%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) MCSE
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.50%) GDPR
2 32 (10.81%) QA
3 23 (7.77%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.39%) SLA
5 9 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) CDISC
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 138 (46.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) Postfix
4 2 (0.68%) HDFS
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (31.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.42%) Kibana
3 16 (5.41%) Ansible
3 16 (5.41%) Terraform
4 7 (2.36%) Grafana
4 7 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Argo
5 2 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (7.09%) Salesforce
1 21 (7.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 20 (6.76%) Splunk
3 19 (6.42%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.04%) Solace
6 8 (2.70%) Cisco
6 8 (2.70%) Oracle
7 6 (2.03%) Google
8 5 (1.69%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.69%) Databricks
9 4 (1.35%) IBM
10 2 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.68%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (0.68%) MapR
11 1 (0.34%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.34%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.34%) Spotify