Microservices Job Trends in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 76 54
Rank change year-on-year -51 -22 +36
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 53 147 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.12% 2.80% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 3.50% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 39 96 193
10th Percentile £48,032 £45,000 £44,800
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,438 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £96,112 £97,290
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,510 4,206 4,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 74.43% 80.21% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 2,292 3,086
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the South West

Microservices
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South West over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Bristol -28 12 £72,500 +5.45% 20
Gloucestershire +12 11 £63,750 - 29
Dorset -2 10 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Wiltshire +5 8 £60,000 -28.57% 8
Devon +3 4 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Cornwall - 3 - -
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (7.55%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) CMS
3 1 (1.89%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 45 (84.91%) AWS
2 17 (32.08%) Azure
3 11 (20.75%) Serverless
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (13.21%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (13.21%) SaaS
6 5 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.43%) GitHub
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.66%) IaaS
7 3 (5.66%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.77%) GCP
9 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) AMQP
2 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (18.87%) MySQL
3 6 (11.32%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.89%) DB2
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Git
1 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.55%) JIRA
4 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.66%) GitLab
4 3 (5.66%) JUnit
4 3 (5.66%) Selenium
5 2 (3.77%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.77%) Gatling
5 2 (3.77%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.77%) Locust
5 2 (3.77%) TestRail
5 2 (3.77%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.89%) Postman
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Software Engineer
3 10 (18.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Senior
5 7 (13.21%) Lead
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.55%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Architect
7 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Java Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (47.17%) React
2 17 (32.08%) Spring
3 15 (28.30%) Spring Boot
4 11 (20.75%) AngularJS
5 9 (16.98%) RESTful
6 7 (13.21%) .NET
6 7 (13.21%) HTML
7 6 (11.32%) Kafka
8 5 (9.43%) Node.js
9 4 (7.55%) CSS
9 4 (7.55%) REST
10 3 (5.66%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (5.66%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.66%) Jest
10 3 (5.66%) JSF
10 3 (5.66%) PrimeFaces
11 2 (3.77%) .NET Core
11 2 (3.77%) Next.js
11 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (3.77%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.32%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (5.66%) IoT
4 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.89%) DataPower
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) CI/CD
2 29 (54.72%) Agile
3 21 (39.62%) DevOps
3 21 (39.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (33.96%) Software Engineering
5 14 (26.42%) Containerisation
6 12 (22.64%) Mentoring
7 10 (18.87%) Coaching
7 10 (18.87%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.98%) AI
8 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.21%) Scrum
10 7 (13.21%) User Experience
11 6 (11.32%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (11.32%) TDD
12 5 (9.43%) API Design
12 5 (9.43%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (9.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) Java
2 17 (32.08%) TypeScript
3 16 (30.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.87%) Python
4 10 (18.87%) SQL
5 8 (15.09%) C#
6 5 (9.43%) PHP
7 3 (5.66%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.89%) C
9 1 (1.89%) C++
9 1 (1.89%) Go
9 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) CISM
3 4 (7.55%) CISSP
4 3 (5.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.66%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.32%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Kibana
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Oracle
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.66%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.66%) Fortinet
3 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.89%) IBM
4 1 (1.89%) SnapLogic