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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 70 53
Rank change year-on-year -56 -17 +42
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 55 137 274
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.03% 3.39% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 3.93% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 38 90 241
10th Percentile £50,875 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,563 £50,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,750 £79,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,875 £97,597 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

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 3,790 3,485 5,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.17% 86.33% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,559 1,713 3,902
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,775 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,234
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.30% +2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
Bristol -39 15 £77,500 +13.10% 33
Gloucestershire +9 14 £63,750 -5.56% 29
Dorset -15 7 £70,000 +40.00% 22
Wiltshire -9 3 £63,750 -24.11% 18
Cornwall - 3 - - 4
Devon - 3 £60,000 - 25
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 4 (7.27%) Apache
2 3 (5.45%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) CMS
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.82%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 45 (81.82%) AWS
2 19 (34.55%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) Serverless
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon S3
4 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (12.73%) SaaS
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (10.91%) GCP
7 5 (9.09%) GitHub
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.45%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.45%) IaaS
9 3 (5.45%) PaaS
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) MySQL
1 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.45%) Big Data
4 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.82%) DB2
6 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Git
1 5 (9.09%) GitLab
1 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.27%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.45%) JIRA
3 3 (5.45%) JUnit
4 2 (3.64%) Gradle
4 2 (3.64%) Maven
4 2 (3.64%) REST Assured
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.82%) Gatling
5 1 (1.82%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.82%) Locust
5 1 (1.82%) Postman
5 1 (1.82%) TestRail
5 1 (1.82%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Law
6 1 (1.82%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.82%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
1 17 (30.91%) Software Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Lead
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.45%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Software Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (43.64%) React
2 21 (38.18%) Spring
2 21 (38.18%) Spring Boot
3 13 (23.64%) RESTful
4 10 (18.18%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.73%) Node.js
6 5 (9.09%) Hibernate
6 5 (9.09%) HTML
6 5 (9.09%) REST
7 4 (7.27%) .NET
7 4 (7.27%) Kafka
8 3 (5.45%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (5.45%) Jest
8 3 (5.45%) JSF
8 3 (5.45%) Next.js
8 3 (5.45%) PrimeFaces
8 3 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.64%) Django
9 2 (3.64%) JPA
9 2 (3.64%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.45%) IoT
4 3 (5.45%) PKI
4 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) DataPower
6 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) CentOS
2 1 (1.82%) Debian
2 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (58.18%) CI/CD
2 27 (49.09%) Agile
3 25 (45.45%) DevOps
4 24 (43.64%) Software Engineering
5 22 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 13 (23.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
8 12 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
9 11 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (18.18%) AI
10 10 (18.18%) Coaching
10 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.36%) TDD
12 7 (12.73%) API Design
12 7 (12.73%) Scrum
12 7 (12.73%) User Experience
13 6 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Java
2 18 (32.73%) TypeScript
3 15 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 10 (18.18%) Python
5 9 (16.36%) SQL
6 6 (10.91%) PHP
7 5 (9.09%) C#
8 3 (5.45%) Bicep
9 2 (3.64%) Go
10 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) CISM
3 4 (7.27%) CISSP
3 4 (7.27%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.27%) GDPR
2 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.45%) NCSC
3 3 (5.45%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.55%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Kibana
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.45%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.45%) Fortinet
3 3 (5.45%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.64%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) IBM
5 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.82%) SaltStack