Microservices Job Trends in South Wales

Microservices
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 3 17 17
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.39% 2.70% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 3.24% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 15
10th Percentile £51,326 - £45,000
25th Percentile £53,316 £41,594 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -9.09% -5.71%
75th Percentile £59,064 £66,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £60,523 £88,600 £85,250
Wales median annual salary £55,916 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.83% -4.76% -11.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 524 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.19% 83.17% 90.24%
Number of salaries quoted 403 266 428
10th Percentile £24,977 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,149 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in South Wales

Microservices
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Microservices

Microservices
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Bridgend - 2 £59,064 - 1
Cardiff +5 1 £50,000 +12.75% 21
Microservices
Wales

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (33.33%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure API Management
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) git-flow
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) CQRS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle