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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 104 87
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 133 65 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.40% 1.86% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 2.26% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 106 49 124
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,422 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £84,063 £68,750 £74,375
90th Percentile £98,750 £91,000 £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 6,747 2,870 5,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.98% 82.33% 75.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 1,865 3,865
10th Percentile £30,225 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 31 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 31 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 -23 39 £82,500 +13.79% 17
Somerset -3 34 £52,500 -44.74% 3
Devon -4 24 £67,500 +68.75% 1
Bristol -21 24 £66,250 +3.92% 17
Wiltshire -21 7 £102,500 +84.59% 2
Dorset -15 4 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Cornwall +5 1 - -
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 5 (3.76%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.01%) Apache
4 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.12%) Azure
2 59 (44.36%) AWS
3 23 (17.29%) GCP
4 18 (13.53%) GitHub
5 11 (8.27%) OpenShift
6 9 (6.77%) Serverless
7 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.02%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.02%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.51%) Figma
9 6 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.51%) SaaS
10 5 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.50%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) AMQP
2 1 (0.75%) Broadband
2 1 (0.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.80%) MongoDB
2 18 (13.53%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (4.51%) Big Data
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.01%) MySQL
7 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.26%) Redis
9 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Git
2 9 (6.77%) GitLab
3 7 (5.26%) JIRA
3 7 (5.26%) MSI
4 6 (4.51%) Postman
5 5 (3.76%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.75%) JUnit
7 1 (0.75%) Mockito
7 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 15 (11.28%) Finance
4 12 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Games
7 6 (4.51%) Electronics
8 4 (3.01%) Retail
9 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (38.35%) Software Engineer
2 42 (31.58%) Developer
3 23 (17.29%) Architect
4 18 (13.53%) Lead
5 16 (12.03%) Senior
6 15 (11.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (10.53%) .NET Developer
7 14 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (9.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 12 (9.02%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Software Developer
14 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 3 (2.26%) Head of Software Engineering
14 3 (2.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.57%) Vue
2 32 (24.06%) WPF
3 30 (22.56%) Node.js
4 29 (21.80%) .NET
5 27 (20.30%) Spring
5 27 (20.30%) Spring Boot
6 25 (18.80%) React
6 25 (18.80%) RESTful
7 22 (16.54%) Terraform
8 21 (15.79%) .NET Core
8 21 (15.79%) AngularJS
9 16 (12.03%) REST
10 15 (11.28%) ASP.NET
11 14 (10.53%) .NET Framework
11 14 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
12 9 (6.77%) CSS
12 9 (6.77%) HTML
13 8 (6.02%) Kafka
14 7 (5.26%) CSS3
14 7 (5.26%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 39 (29.32%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.30%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.01%) IoT
7 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.50%) PKI
8 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.75%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.75%) Robotics
8 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 8 (6.02%) Windows
3 3 (2.26%) CentOS
3 3 (2.26%) Debian
3 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (60.15%) Agile
2 72 (54.14%) CI/CD
3 61 (45.86%) Software Engineering
4 54 (40.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (36.09%) Containerisation
5 48 (36.09%) DevOps
6 34 (25.56%) Test Automation
7 26 (19.55%) Mentoring
8 25 (18.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (18.05%) SOLID
10 23 (17.29%) Software Architecture
11 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.29%) Scrum
13 18 (13.53%) Sprint Planning
14 16 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
15 15 (11.28%) TOGAF
16 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (9.77%) Data Modelling
17 13 (9.77%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.35%) C#
2 44 (33.08%) Python
3 43 (32.33%) Java
4 35 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 29 (21.80%) SQL
6 24 (18.05%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.26%) Bicep
8 5 (3.76%) Bash
9 4 (3.01%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.01%) Scala
10 3 (2.26%) C++
10 3 (2.26%) Go
10 3 (2.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 47 (35.34%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.78%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.51%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.51%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) CISM
6 2 (1.50%) CISSP
6 2 (1.50%) PhD
6 2 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.77%) Accessibility
2 12 (9.02%) WCAG
3 9 (6.77%) NCSC
4 6 (4.51%) GDPR
4 6 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (3.01%) QA
6 3 (2.26%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.26%) NIST
7 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (30.08%) Docker
2 5 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.76%) NDS
3 3 (2.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (36.09%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.77%) Ansible
3 3 (2.26%) Puppet
4 2 (1.50%) Grafana
4 2 (1.50%) Rancher
5 1 (0.75%) Kibana
5 1 (0.75%) logstash
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.02%) Google
3 7 (5.26%) CyberArk
3 7 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 7 (5.26%) Okta
3 7 (5.26%) OpenText
4 5 (3.76%) NetIQ
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle
5 4 (3.01%) Epicor
5 4 (3.01%) IFS
5 4 (3.01%) Infor
5 4 (3.01%) OneLogin
5 4 (3.01%) SAP
6 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.26%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.75%) Typelevel