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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 107 75
Rank change year-on-year -12 -32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 144 60 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.38% 1.70% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.08% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 109 45 126
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £44,375
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,165 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £89,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -13.97%

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 7,402 2,885 5,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.18% 81.87% 76.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,030 1,804 3,154
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,955 £31,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -30 44 £82,500 +32.00% 23
Somerset +3 36 £52,500 -44.74% 4
Bristol -32 26 £62,500 - 14
Devon -6 21 £67,500 +68.75% 1
Wiltshire -18 14 £102,500 +84.59% 9
Dorset -15 3 £45,000 -7.69% 5
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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) Apache
2 5 (3.47%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 78 (54.17%) Azure
2 67 (46.53%) AWS
3 25 (17.36%) GCP
4 17 (11.81%) GitHub
5 14 (9.72%) Entra ID
5 14 (9.72%) OpenShift
6 12 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.56%) Serverless
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
10 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.17%) Figma
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.08%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (2.08%) SaaS
13 2 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) AMQP
2 1 (0.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.36%) MongoDB
2 18 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (9.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.86%) Big Data
5 7 (4.86%) Geospatial Data
6 5 (3.47%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.78%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (2.78%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.78%) MySQL
8 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.08%) Redis
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.69%) Chroma
9 1 (0.69%) Parquet
9 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (13.89%) Git
2 15 (10.42%) GitLab
3 10 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.86%) JIRA
4 7 (4.86%) MSI
5 6 (4.17%) Postman
6 3 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.39%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.69%) Vite
General
1 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.81%) Finance
4 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.17%) Electronics
5 6 (4.17%) Games
5 6 (4.17%) Retail
6 4 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.39%) Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (36.11%) Software Engineer
2 43 (29.86%) Developer
3 30 (20.83%) Architect
4 23 (15.97%) Senior
5 19 (13.19%) Lead
6 15 (10.42%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (10.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 13 (9.03%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 12 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
13 3 (2.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
13 3 (2.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (25.00%) Vue
2 31 (21.53%) Node.js
2 31 (21.53%) RESTful
2 31 (21.53%) WPF
3 30 (20.83%) .NET
4 27 (18.75%) React
4 27 (18.75%) Spring
4 27 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.75%) Terraform
5 20 (13.89%) .NET Core
5 20 (13.89%) AngularJS
6 19 (13.19%) REST
7 14 (9.72%) .NET Framework
7 14 (9.72%) ASP.NET
8 13 (9.03%) ASP.NET Core
8 13 (9.03%) LDAP
8 13 (9.03%) SailPoint
9 9 (6.25%) CSS
9 9 (6.25%) HTML
10 7 (4.86%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 26 (18.06%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (9.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.69%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.69%) PKI
9 1 (0.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.11%) Linux
2 8 (5.56%) Windows
3 4 (2.78%) CentOS
3 4 (2.78%) Debian
3 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (61.11%) Agile
2 80 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 64 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 57 (39.58%) DevOps
5 54 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (36.81%) Containerisation
7 38 (26.39%) Test Automation
8 30 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (19.44%) Mentoring
10 26 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (18.06%) Software Architecture
11 25 (17.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (15.97%) SOLID
13 20 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
13 20 (13.89%) Scrum
13 20 (13.89%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (12.50%) ETL
14 18 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
15 17 (11.81%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) C#
1 49 (34.03%) Java
2 44 (30.56%) Python
3 39 (27.08%) JavaScript
4 31 (21.53%) SQL
5 23 (15.97%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.86%) Bicep
6 7 (4.86%) C++
7 5 (3.47%) Bash
8 4 (2.78%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.08%) Go
9 3 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 46 (31.94%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.81%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.25%) Degree
5 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.39%) PhD
8 1 (0.69%) CISM
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.33%) WCAG
3 8 (5.56%) NCSC
4 7 (4.86%) GDPR
5 4 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.39%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 41 (28.47%) Docker
2 11 (7.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.94%) NDS
Systems Management
1 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.11%) Ansible
3 4 (2.78%) Puppet
4 3 (2.08%) Rancher
5 2 (1.39%) Grafana
6 1 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.69%) logstash
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.72%) Google
3 13 (9.03%) CyberArk
3 13 (9.03%) ForgeRock
3 13 (9.03%) Okta
3 13 (9.03%) OpenText
4 10 (6.94%) NetIQ
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle
6 4 (2.78%) Epicor
6 4 (2.78%) IFS
6 4 (2.78%) Infor
6 4 (2.78%) OneLogin
6 4 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.78%) SaltStack
6 4 (2.78%) SAP
7 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.69%) Mistral