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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 66 96
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 97 106 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.19% 3.36% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 3.89% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 73 64 198
10th Percentile £40,500 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +14.21% -13.60%
75th Percentile £76,250 £94,083 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,500 £113,000 £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 5,765 2,726 7,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.90% 86.32% 78.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,834 1,769 5,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -1.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,948 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -26 26 £52,500 -46.84% 14
Somerset -20 22 £51,250 -46.05% 9
Bristol -43 21 £72,500 -5.73% 18
Devon -16 16 £45,000 -18.18% 4
Dorset -14 5 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire -18 1 £57,500 +12.62% 4
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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.09%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.06%) CMS
4 2 (2.06%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) Azure
2 46 (47.42%) AWS
3 23 (23.71%) GCP
4 15 (15.46%) GitHub
5 11 (11.34%) Serverless
6 8 (8.25%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (7.22%) SaaS
8 5 (5.15%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (3.09%) Figma
10 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.06%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (2.06%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Broadband
2 3 (3.09%) AMQP
3 1 (1.03%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.65%) MongoDB
2 17 (17.53%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (12.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.12%) Big Data
6 4 (4.12%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (4.12%) MySQL
7 3 (3.09%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.09%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) GitLab
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.12%) MSI
5 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.09%) Maven
5 3 (3.09%) Postman
6 2 (2.06%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.06%) Gradle
7 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.03%) JUnit
7 1 (1.03%) Mockito
7 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Games
5 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.12%) Electronics
7 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.06%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Software Engineer
2 31 (31.96%) Developer
3 13 (13.40%) .NET Developer
4 12 (12.37%) Architect
5 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (10.31%) Senior
6 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.12%) Scala Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.09%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (3.09%) Head of Software Engineering
10 3 (3.09%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.87%) Vue
2 24 (24.74%) .NET
3 22 (22.68%) AngularJS
3 22 (22.68%) Node.js
3 22 (22.68%) RESTful
3 22 (22.68%) WPF
4 21 (21.65%) React
5 16 (16.49%) .NET Core
5 16 (16.49%) Spring
6 15 (15.46%) ASP.NET
6 15 (15.46%) Spring Boot
7 12 (12.37%) ASP.NET Core
7 12 (12.37%) REST
8 10 (10.31%) .NET Framework
9 8 (8.25%) CSS
9 8 (8.25%) HTML
10 7 (7.22%) gRPC
11 6 (6.19%) ASP.NET Web API
11 6 (6.19%) Blazor
12 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.87%) Cloud Native
2 17 (17.53%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.12%) Over-the-Top Content
5 4 (4.12%) PKI
5 4 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.12%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (3.09%) IoT
6 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) CentOS
3 3 (3.09%) Debian
3 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (59.79%) Agile
2 50 (51.55%) CI/CD
3 48 (49.48%) Software Engineering
4 35 (36.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 34 (35.05%) Containerisation
5 34 (35.05%) DevOps
6 23 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.71%) Test Automation
7 20 (20.62%) Mentoring
8 19 (19.59%) Scrum
9 17 (17.53%) Software Architecture
10 16 (16.49%) SOLID
11 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (12.37%) AI
13 12 (12.37%) Code Quality
13 12 (12.37%) Sprint Planning
13 12 (12.37%) TOGAF
14 10 (10.31%) Architectural Patterns
14 10 (10.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.24%) C#
2 35 (36.08%) Python
3 27 (27.84%) Java
4 26 (26.80%) JavaScript
5 23 (23.71%) SQL
6 19 (19.59%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.22%) Go
8 5 (5.15%) Scala
9 4 (4.12%) Bicep
10 3 (3.09%) Bash
10 3 (3.09%) PHP
11 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.31%) Degree
5 7 (7.22%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.22%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.12%) CISM
6 4 (4.12%) CISSP
6 4 (4.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.06%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
1 8 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (8.25%) NCSC
1 8 (8.25%) WCAG
2 7 (7.22%) GDPR
3 5 (5.15%) NIST
4 4 (4.12%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.12%) QA
5 3 (3.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (3.09%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 34 (35.05%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (35.05%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.43%) Terraform
3 9 (9.28%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.09%) Puppet
6 2 (2.06%) Kibana
6 2 (2.06%) Rancher
7 1 (1.03%) logstash
Vendors
1 21 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.34%) Google
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Typelevel
5 3 (3.09%) Epicor
5 3 (3.09%) IFS
5 3 (3.09%) Infor
5 3 (3.09%) OneLogin
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.09%) SaltStack
5 3 (3.09%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI