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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 104 97
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 130 62 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.43% 1.78% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 2.13% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 103 45 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £43,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.37%
75th Percentile £79,375 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £93,000 £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 6,493 2,904 6,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.52% 83.30% 75.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,307 1,895 4,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -11.01% -0.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

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 17 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 17 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
Gloucestershire -19 36 £73,750 -14.49% 16
Somerset -1 34 £52,500 -44.74% 2
Devon +5 24 £67,500 +68.75% 2
Bristol -31 23 £60,000 -10.77% 8
Wiltshire -22 7 £102,500 +84.59% 2
Dorset -14 4 £45,000 -5.26%
Cornwall - 2 - -
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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) Apache
2 4 (3.08%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.77%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.00%) Azure
2 57 (43.85%) AWS
3 24 (18.46%) GCP
4 18 (13.85%) GitHub
5 9 (6.92%) OpenShift
5 9 (6.92%) Serverless
6 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
6 8 (6.15%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.38%) SaaS
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.62%) Figma
8 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.54%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) AMQP
2 2 (1.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.77%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.46%) MongoDB
2 18 (13.85%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (10.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.38%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.62%) Big Data
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.08%) MySQL
7 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.31%) Redis
9 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (10.00%) Git
2 9 (6.92%) GitLab
3 7 (5.38%) JIRA
3 7 (5.38%) MSI
4 6 (4.62%) Postman
5 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.54%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.77%) JUnit
7 1 (0.77%) Mockito
7 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 13 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.38%) Games
7 6 (4.62%) Electronics
8 4 (3.08%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 40 (30.77%) Developer
3 22 (16.92%) Architect
4 18 (13.85%) Lead
5 15 (11.54%) .NET Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (10.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (10.77%) Senior
7 13 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 12 (9.23%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
13 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 3 (2.31%) Head of Engineering
13 3 (2.31%) Head of Software Engineering
13 3 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 3 (2.31%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (29.23%) Vue
2 32 (24.62%) WPF
3 30 (23.08%) .NET
4 28 (21.54%) Node.js
5 25 (19.23%) RESTful
5 25 (19.23%) Spring
5 25 (19.23%) Spring Boot
6 24 (18.46%) React
7 22 (16.92%) AngularJS
8 21 (16.15%) .NET Core
9 16 (12.31%) ASP.NET
9 16 (12.31%) REST
10 14 (10.77%) .NET Framework
10 14 (10.77%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (7.69%) CSS
11 10 (7.69%) HTML
12 8 (6.15%) Kafka
13 7 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (5.38%) Blazor
13 7 (5.38%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (28.46%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.77%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.08%) IoT
8 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.54%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.54%) PKI
9 2 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.77%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 3 (2.31%) CentOS
3 3 (2.31%) Debian
3 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.31%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (60.00%) Agile
2 67 (51.54%) CI/CD
3 62 (47.69%) Software Engineering
4 53 (40.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (35.38%) Containerisation
6 44 (33.85%) DevOps
7 34 (26.15%) Test Automation
8 25 (19.23%) Mentoring
9 24 (18.46%) SOLID
10 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (17.69%) Software Architecture
11 20 (15.38%) Scrum
12 19 (14.62%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (10.77%) TOGAF
15 13 (10.00%) Code Quality
15 13 (10.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.00%) C#
2 45 (34.62%) Python
3 41 (31.54%) Java
4 34 (26.15%) JavaScript
5 29 (22.31%) SQL
6 24 (18.46%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.38%) Bicep
8 5 (3.85%) Scala
9 4 (3.08%) Bash
9 4 (3.08%) Go
10 3 (2.31%) C++
10 3 (2.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.08%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.38%) Degree
5 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.62%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.54%) CISM
7 2 (1.54%) CISSP
7 2 (1.54%) PhD
7 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.23%) WCAG
3 9 (6.92%) NCSC
4 6 (4.62%) GDPR
4 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (3.08%) QA
6 3 (2.31%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.31%) NIST
7 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (29.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.85%) NDS
3 3 (2.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (33.08%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.62%) Terraform
3 12 (9.23%) Ansible
4 3 (2.31%) Puppet
5 2 (1.54%) Grafana
5 2 (1.54%) Rancher
6 1 (0.77%) Kibana
6 1 (0.77%) logstash
6 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.23%) Google
3 7 (5.38%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.38%) ForgeRock
3 7 (5.38%) Okta
3 7 (5.38%) OpenText
4 5 (3.85%) NetIQ
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
5 4 (3.08%) Epicor
5 4 (3.08%) IFS
5 4 (3.08%) Infor
5 4 (3.08%) OneLogin
5 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.31%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.54%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.54%) Typelevel
8 1 (0.77%) OpenAI