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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 78 72
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 69 200 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.97% 2.65% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 3.49% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 52 128 167
10th Percentile £42,625 £45,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £47,999 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £74,789 £77,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £89,875 £87,500 £96,839
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.97% -2.51%

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 2,868 5,730 4,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.78% 76.06% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,811 3,444 3,339
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -10 21 £68,496 +9.59% 18
Dorset +19 18 £47,500 -20.83% 3
Wiltshire +15 10 £55,529 -25.96% 1
Gloucestershire +11 10 £72,500 +20.83% 24
Devon +8 4 £40,000 -27.27% 3
Cornwall - 3 - -
Somerset 0 1 £95,000 +80.95% 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (79.71%) AWS
2 28 (40.58%) Azure
3 13 (18.84%) Serverless
4 8 (11.59%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (11.59%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.14%) GCP
6 4 (5.80%) SaaS
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.35%) IaaS
7 3 (4.35%) PaaS
8 2 (2.90%) Apigee
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Internet
2 2 (2.90%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.49%) MySQL
3 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.90%) InterSystems Cache
5 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (15.94%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.49%) Git
3 7 (10.14%) GitLab
4 5 (7.25%) JIRA
5 4 (5.80%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.80%) JUnit
6 3 (4.35%) CircleCI
6 3 (4.35%) Gatling
6 3 (4.35%) LoadRunner
6 3 (4.35%) Locust
6 3 (4.35%) Selenium
6 3 (4.35%) TestRail
6 3 (4.35%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.90%) Maven
7 2 (2.90%) Mockito
7 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (26.09%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Banking
3 9 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.70%) Law
5 6 (8.70%) Retail
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.45%) Games
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 15 (21.74%) Developer
3 12 (17.39%) Java Engineer
4 10 (14.49%) Lead
5 9 (13.04%) Architect
5 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (11.59%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (10.14%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (8.70%) Senior
9 5 (7.25%) Angular Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Security Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.80%) Software Developer
11 3 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
11 3 (4.35%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.43%) React
2 20 (28.99%) Spring
3 19 (27.54%) Spring Boot
4 18 (26.09%) Kafka
5 16 (23.19%) .NET
6 15 (21.74%) RESTful
7 12 (17.39%) AngularJS
8 11 (15.94%) .NET Core
9 9 (13.04%) REST
10 7 (10.14%) Vue
11 6 (8.70%) HTML
12 5 (7.25%) .NET Framework
12 5 (7.25%) Node.js
13 4 (5.80%) CSS
14 3 (4.35%) ASP.NET
14 3 (4.35%) OAuth
14 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
15 2 (2.90%) Hibernate
15 2 (2.90%) OpenID
15 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Cloud Security Posture
2 5 (7.25%) IoT
2 5 (7.25%) Public Cloud
2 5 (7.25%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.80%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (60.87%) Agile
2 37 (53.62%) CI/CD
3 32 (46.38%) Software Engineering
4 27 (39.13%) DevOps
5 19 (27.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 12 (17.39%) Scrum
8 11 (15.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (15.94%) Event-Driven
8 11 (15.94%) TDD
9 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (13.04%) Code Quality
10 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.59%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.59%) Computer Science
11 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
11 8 (11.59%) Risk Management
11 8 (11.59%) TOGAF
12 7 (10.14%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) Java
2 18 (26.09%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.74%) SQL
4 12 (17.39%) C#
5 8 (11.59%) Python
5 8 (11.59%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.35%) Bicep
7 2 (2.90%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) C
8 1 (1.45%) C++
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.45%) VB
8 1 (1.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.84%) Degree
4 11 (15.94%) AWS Certification
5 5 (7.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.25%) CISM
5 5 (7.25%) CISSP
5 5 (7.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.35%) ISTQB
7 3 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) GDPR
2 2 (2.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) GRC
3 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (34.78%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (28.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
3 2 (2.90%) Istio
4 1 (1.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (4.35%) Fortinet
2 3 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 2 (2.90%) Google
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 1 (1.45%) Genesys
4 1 (1.45%) SnapLogic