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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 74 112
Rank change year-on-year -40 +38 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 128 96 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.46% 2.75% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 3.28% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 101 57 114
10th Percentile £43,300 £43,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £111,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

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 6,255 2,924 6,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.57% 83.90% 75.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,105 1,911 4,248
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Somerset -7 32 £52,500 -44.74% 6
Gloucestershire -39 32 £52,500 -41.67% 18
Devon -2 25 £67,500 +42.11% 3
Bristol -36 23 £62,500 -18.73% 13
Wiltshire -26 8 £88,750 +59.83% 3
Dorset -17 5 £45,000 -5.26% 3
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 8 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (2.34%) Apache
2 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.78%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.78%) Azure
2 59 (46.09%) AWS
3 25 (19.53%) GCP
4 17 (13.28%) GitHub
5 9 (7.03%) Serverless
6 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.47%) SaaS
8 6 (4.69%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.91%) Figma
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.56%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Broadband
2 2 (1.56%) AMQP
3 1 (0.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.97%) MongoDB
2 19 (14.84%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (10.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.47%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (3.91%) Big Data
6 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.13%) MySQL
6 4 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.34%) Redis
8 2 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Git
2 9 (7.03%) GitLab
3 8 (6.25%) JIRA
4 7 (5.47%) MSI
5 5 (3.91%) Postman
6 4 (3.13%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.34%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.56%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.78%) JUnit
9 1 (0.78%) Maven
9 1 (0.78%) Mockito
9 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (10.94%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.16%) Finance
4 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Games
6 6 (4.69%) Electronics
7 4 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 49 (38.28%) Software Engineer
2 37 (28.91%) Developer
3 23 (17.97%) Architect
4 17 (13.28%) Lead
5 15 (11.72%) .NET Developer
6 14 (10.94%) Senior
7 13 (10.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (9.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (8.59%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.91%) Senior Developer
13 4 (3.13%) Data Scientist
13 4 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.13%) Scala Engineer
14 3 (2.34%) Head of Engineering
14 3 (2.34%) Head of Software Engineering
14 3 (2.34%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.13%) Vue
2 31 (24.22%) WPF
3 29 (22.66%) .NET
4 23 (17.97%) Node.js
4 23 (17.97%) RESTful
5 22 (17.19%) AngularJS
6 21 (16.41%) .NET Core
6 21 (16.41%) React
6 21 (16.41%) Spring
7 20 (15.63%) Spring Boot
8 16 (12.50%) ASP.NET
8 16 (12.50%) REST
9 14 (10.94%) .NET Framework
9 14 (10.94%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (7.81%) CSS
10 10 (7.81%) HTML
11 8 (6.25%) Kafka
12 7 (5.47%) CSS3
12 7 (5.47%) HTML5
12 7 (5.47%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (27.34%) Cloud Native
2 26 (20.31%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.81%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.13%) IoT
6 4 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 4 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (2.34%) PKI
8 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.03%) Linux
2 8 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (1.56%) CentOS
3 2 (1.56%) Debian
3 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (57.81%) Agile
2 64 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (47.66%) Software Engineering
4 49 (38.28%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (35.94%) Containerisation
6 43 (33.59%) DevOps
7 32 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 23 (17.97%) Mentoring
8 23 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (17.97%) SOLID
9 22 (17.19%) Software Architecture
10 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (14.84%) Scrum
12 17 (13.28%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.72%) TOGAF
14 14 (10.94%) Clean Code
14 14 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (10.16%) Code Quality
15 13 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.84%) C#
2 45 (35.16%) Python
3 37 (28.91%) Java
4 32 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 28 (21.88%) SQL
6 22 (17.19%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.47%) Bicep
7 7 (5.47%) Go
7 7 (5.47%) Scala
8 3 (2.34%) Bash
8 3 (2.34%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.34%) PHP
9 2 (1.56%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.28%) DV Cleared
4 11 (8.59%) Degree
5 7 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.34%) CISM
7 3 (2.34%) CISSP
7 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) Accessibility
2 11 (8.59%) WCAG
3 10 (7.81%) NCSC
4 7 (5.47%) GDPR
4 7 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (3.13%) NIST
5 4 (3.13%) QA
6 3 (2.34%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (30.47%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.91%) NDS
3 3 (2.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (32.03%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.28%) Terraform
3 9 (7.03%) Ansible
4 4 (3.13%) Grafana
5 3 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.56%) Kibana
6 2 (1.56%) Puppet
6 2 (1.56%) Rancher
7 1 (0.78%) logstash
Vendors
1 33 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.59%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.47%) ForgeRock
3 7 (5.47%) Okta
3 7 (5.47%) OpenText
4 6 (4.69%) Oracle
5 5 (3.91%) NetIQ
6 4 (3.13%) Epicor
6 4 (3.13%) IFS
6 4 (3.13%) Infor
6 4 (3.13%) SAP
6 4 (3.13%) Typelevel
7 3 (2.34%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.56%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI