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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 103 75
Rank change year-on-year -17 -28 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 137 67 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.37% 1.92% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.34% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 108 50 128
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £47,666 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,602 £74,375
90th Percentile £99,500 £90,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.97%

All Process & 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 7,047 2,859 5,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.70% 81.90% 75.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,792 1,811 3,494
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%

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 14 September 2026.

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 14 September 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
Gloucestershire -19 39 £83,750 +34.00% 38
Somerset -3 35 £52,500 -44.74%
Bristol -34 25 £66,250 -3.28% 25
Devon -12 21 £67,500 +68.75% 3
Wiltshire -16 13 £102,500 +84.59% 4
Dorset -17 3 £45,000 -5.26% 12
Cornwall +6 1 - -
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 7 (5.11%) Confluence
2 5 (3.65%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.92%) Apache
4 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.09%) Azure
2 62 (45.26%) AWS
3 23 (16.79%) GCP
4 17 (12.41%) GitHub
5 13 (9.49%) Entra ID
6 12 (8.76%) OpenShift
7 10 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.11%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (5.11%) Serverless
10 6 (4.38%) Figma
11 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
12 4 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.19%) SaaS
14 2 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
14 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) AMQP
2 1 (0.73%) Broadband
2 1 (0.73%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.52%) MongoDB
2 17 (12.41%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (9.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.11%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.38%) Big Data
7 5 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.19%) MySQL
8 3 (2.19%) Redis
9 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.73%) Parquet
10 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (10.95%) Git
2 10 (7.30%) GitLab
3 7 (5.11%) JIRA
3 7 (5.11%) MSI
4 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.38%) Postman
5 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.46%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.60%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.68%) Finance
4 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.38%) Electronics
5 6 (4.38%) Games
6 5 (3.65%) Retail
7 3 (2.19%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.73%) Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (37.23%) Software Engineer
2 42 (30.66%) Developer
3 29 (21.17%) Architect
4 19 (13.87%) Lead
4 19 (13.87%) Senior
5 15 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.65%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
13 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 3 (2.19%) Lead Architect
14 2 (1.46%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.01%) Vue
2 32 (23.36%) WPF
3 30 (21.90%) Node.js
4 28 (20.44%) .NET
5 26 (18.98%) Spring
5 26 (18.98%) Spring Boot
6 25 (18.25%) React
6 25 (18.25%) RESTful
7 22 (16.06%) Terraform
8 20 (14.60%) .NET Core
8 20 (14.60%) AngularJS
9 17 (12.41%) REST
10 14 (10.22%) .NET Framework
10 14 (10.22%) ASP.NET
11 13 (9.49%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (8.76%) LDAP
12 12 (8.76%) SailPoint
13 9 (6.57%) CSS
13 9 (6.57%) HTML
14 7 (5.11%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (28.47%) Cloud Native
2 27 (19.71%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (8.76%) Onboarding
4 11 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.46%) PKI
7 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.73%) IoT
7 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.73%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (0.73%) Robotics
7 1 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.03%) Linux
2 8 (5.84%) Windows
3 3 (2.19%) CentOS
3 3 (2.19%) Debian
3 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (60.58%) Agile
2 74 (54.01%) CI/CD
3 61 (44.53%) Software Engineering
4 53 (38.69%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (35.77%) DevOps
6 47 (34.31%) Containerisation
7 35 (25.55%) Test Automation
8 25 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (18.25%) Mentoring
9 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (17.52%) Software Architecture
9 24 (17.52%) SOLID
10 21 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (13.87%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (13.87%) Scrum
12 18 (13.14%) Sprint Planning
12 18 (13.14%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (12.41%) ETL
14 16 (11.68%) Data Modelling
15 15 (10.95%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.50%) C#
2 44 (32.12%) Java
3 41 (29.93%) Python
4 36 (26.28%) JavaScript
5 29 (21.17%) SQL
6 23 (16.79%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.11%) Bicep
8 5 (3.65%) Bash
9 4 (2.92%) C++
9 4 (2.92%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.92%) Scala
10 3 (2.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 55 (40.15%) Security Cleared
2 41 (29.93%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.38%) Degree
5 4 (2.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.46%) CISM
6 2 (1.46%) CISSP
6 2 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.46%) PhD
6 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.22%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.76%) WCAG
3 9 (6.57%) NCSC
4 6 (4.38%) GDPR
5 4 (2.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.19%) NIST
7 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 37 (27.01%) Docker
2 10 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.57%) NDS
Systems Management
1 44 (32.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.49%) Ansible
3 3 (2.19%) Puppet
4 2 (1.46%) Grafana
4 2 (1.46%) Rancher
5 1 (0.73%) Kibana
5 1 (0.73%) logstash
5 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (27.74%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.76%) CyberArk
2 12 (8.76%) ForgeRock
2 12 (8.76%) Google
2 12 (8.76%) Okta
2 12 (8.76%) OpenText
3 9 (6.57%) NetIQ
4 5 (3.65%) Oracle
5 4 (2.92%) Epicor
5 4 (2.92%) IFS
5 4 (2.92%) Infor
5 4 (2.92%) OneLogin
5 4 (2.92%) SAP
6 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.19%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.73%) Typelevel