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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 60 60
Rank change year-on-year -72 0 +50
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 63 151 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.05% 4.38% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 4.93% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 43 89 253
10th Percentile £46,939 £46,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,525 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +9.64% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,375 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £110,250 £100,051
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -15.63%

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 4,247 3,060 5,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.06% 88.67% 87.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,886 1,498 4,613
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,963 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -1 16 £61,250 +2.08% 9
Bristol -42 15 £77,500 +7.65% 14
Dorset -18 8 £70,000 +40.00% 6
Devon -9 5 £52,050 -5.36% 6
Wiltshire -13 4 £60,000 -28.57% 3
Cornwall - 4 - - 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 4 (6.35%) Apache
1 4 (6.35%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 47 (74.60%) AWS
2 22 (34.92%) Azure
3 11 (17.46%) Serverless
4 8 (12.70%) Amazon S3
4 8 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (12.70%) GCP
4 8 (12.70%) SaaS
5 6 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (6.35%) GitHub
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.76%) IaaS
7 3 (4.76%) PaaS
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) AMQP
1 2 (3.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.29%) MySQL
3 8 (12.70%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.76%) Big Data
6 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.59%) DB2
7 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (9.52%) GitLab
3 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.35%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.35%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.35%) JIRA
5 3 (4.76%) JUnit
5 3 (4.76%) Maven
6 2 (3.17%) Gradle
6 2 (3.17%) REST Assured
6 2 (3.17%) Selenium
7 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.59%) Gatling
7 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.59%) Locust
7 1 (1.59%) Postman
7 1 (1.59%) TestRail
7 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.70%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.59%) Games
7 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Developer
1 19 (30.16%) Software Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Senior
3 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (12.70%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Lead
6 6 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Security Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.76%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Principal Software Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.27%) React
2 20 (31.75%) Spring
3 19 (30.16%) Spring Boot
4 13 (20.63%) AngularJS
4 13 (20.63%) RESTful
5 8 (12.70%) Node.js
5 8 (12.70%) REST
6 7 (11.11%) HTML
7 5 (7.94%) .NET
7 5 (7.94%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.35%) CSS
8 4 (6.35%) Next.js
9 3 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET
9 3 (4.76%) gRPC
9 3 (4.76%) Jest
9 3 (4.76%) JSF
9 3 (4.76%) Kafka
9 3 (4.76%) PrimeFaces
10 2 (3.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.35%) PKI
5 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.76%) IoT
5 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.17%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (3.17%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.59%) DataPower
7 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) CentOS
2 1 (1.59%) Debian
2 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 28 (44.44%) Agile
2 28 (44.44%) DevOps
2 28 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 23 (36.51%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (26.98%) Containerisation
5 16 (25.40%) Test Automation
6 15 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.05%) AI
8 12 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
8 12 (19.05%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.46%) Coaching
9 11 (17.46%) Machine Learning
10 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (12.70%) API Design
11 8 (12.70%) Scrum
11 8 (12.70%) TDD
11 8 (12.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (44.44%) Java
2 21 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 17 (26.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (23.81%) Python
5 8 (12.70%) SQL
6 6 (9.52%) C#
6 6 (9.52%) PHP
7 5 (7.94%) Go
8 3 (4.76%) Bicep
9 2 (3.17%) Scala
10 1 (1.59%) Ruby
10 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) CISM
4 5 (7.94%) CISSP
4 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 3 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.94%) GDPR
2 5 (7.94%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.35%) NCSC
3 4 (6.35%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (28.57%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (26.98%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.29%) Terraform
3 6 (9.52%) Kibana
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 3 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.17%) Guidewire
4 2 (3.17%) Typelevel
5 1 (1.59%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) SaltStack