Microservices Jobs in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 91 92
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 111 279 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.09% 2.59% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 3.27% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 68 220 139
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,258 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -13.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £94,083 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £115,625 £87,500 £97,290
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £79,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.24% +6.00%

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 3,265 8,532 6,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 90.85% 79.11% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,925 6,018 3,522
10th Percentile £26,100 £28,500 £30,544
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,750 £54,361
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -4.80% +8.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -12.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South West.

Salary trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South West over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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 +26 51 £75,000 +15.38% 73
Gloucestershire +34 25 £98,750 +64.58% 87
Dorset +21 16 £47,500 -5.00% 35
Wiltshire +28 7 £51,058 -18.31% 28
Devon +6 5 £55,000 - 35
Somerset +12 3 £95,000 +90.00% 46
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 20 (18.02%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
3 2 (1.80%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (49.55%) AWS
2 48 (43.24%) Azure
3 20 (18.02%) GCP
4 11 (9.91%) npm
4 11 (9.91%) Serverless
5 8 (7.21%) Apigee
6 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.41%) PaaS
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.80%) Boomi
10 2 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.80%) Datadog
10 2 (1.80%) GitHub
10 2 (1.80%) SaaS
10 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.80%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Internet
2 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.82%) Big Data
2 13 (11.71%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.01%) MySQL
3 10 (9.01%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.31%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.80%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Git
2 13 (11.71%) Cypress.io
2 13 (11.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (9.91%) Cucumber
3 11 (9.91%) GitLab
3 11 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) webpack
4 5 (4.50%) JIRA
5 4 (3.60%) JUnit
6 2 (1.80%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.80%) Gatling
6 2 (1.80%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.80%) Maven
6 2 (1.80%) Mockito
6 2 (1.80%) Selenium
6 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.80%) TestRail
6 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.80%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (53.15%) Finance
2 32 (28.83%) Banking
3 28 (25.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Retail
6 6 (5.41%) Law
6 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.90%) Games
8 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Senior
2 26 (23.42%) Software Engineer
3 25 (22.52%) Lead
4 24 (21.62%) Developer
5 20 (18.02%) Data Scientist
5 20 (18.02%) Senior Data Scientist
6 17 (15.32%) Java Engineer
7 14 (12.61%) Architect
8 13 (11.71%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (7.21%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Angular Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.60%) Operations Engineer
13 4 (3.60%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) React
2 32 (28.83%) RESTful
3 29 (26.13%) Spring Boot
4 23 (20.72%) AngularJS
5 19 (17.12%) Kafka
5 19 (17.12%) Node.js
6 15 (13.51%) .NET
7 14 (12.61%) Spring
8 13 (11.71%) Web Services
9 12 (10.81%) .NET Core
10 11 (9.91%) Jest
10 11 (9.91%) REST
11 9 (8.11%) React Native
12 7 (6.31%) .NET Framework
12 7 (6.31%) CSS
12 7 (6.31%) GraphQL
12 7 (6.31%) Vue
13 6 (5.41%) HTML
14 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET
14 4 (3.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Algorithms
1 20 (18.02%) Cyberattack
2 15 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 13 (11.71%) Product Ownership
4 12 (10.81%) Public Cloud
5 7 (6.31%) IoT
6 6 (5.41%) DataPower
6 6 (5.41%) Distributed Applications
6 6 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.41%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.60%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.70%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Android
1 6 (5.41%) Apple iOS
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Windows
3 2 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (54.05%) Software Engineering
2 55 (49.55%) Agile
3 46 (41.44%) CI/CD
3 46 (41.44%) DevOps
4 36 (32.43%) Mentoring
5 34 (30.63%) Test Automation
6 31 (27.93%) Event-Driven
7 30 (27.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (25.23%) Containerisation
9 27 (24.32%) Computer Science
9 27 (24.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 27 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (23.42%) Decision-Making
11 24 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
11 24 (21.62%) Machine Learning
12 20 (18.02%) Data Analysis
12 20 (18.02%) Mathematics
12 20 (18.02%) OpenUP
12 20 (18.02%) Statistics
12 20 (18.02%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (61.26%) Java
2 41 (36.94%) JavaScript
3 30 (27.03%) Python
4 18 (16.22%) SQL
5 15 (13.51%) C#
6 14 (12.61%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.60%) Go
8 3 (2.70%) PHP
9 2 (1.80%) Bash
9 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (31.53%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) Degree
3 24 (21.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (19.82%) DV Cleared
5 12 (10.81%) AWS Certification
6 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.60%) CISM
8 4 (3.60%) CISSP
8 4 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) GDPR
2 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.90%) GRC
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (49.55%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 41 (36.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.91%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.80%) Grafana
4 2 (1.80%) Istio
4 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.31%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) Apple
3 6 (5.41%) IBM
4 2 (1.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.80%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle
4 2 (1.80%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.90%) Genesys