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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 61 87
Rank change year-on-year -72 +26 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 84 107 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.07% 3.74% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 4.22% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 60 65 221
10th Percentile £43,220 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +14.21% -13.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,250 £112,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £73,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% +13.08% -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 5,516 2,538 8,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.06% 88.80% 78.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,685 1,613 6,023
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -32 22 £52,500 -46.84% 7
Bristol -51 20 £75,000 +2.05% 8
Somerset -21 17 £50,000 -47.37% 9
Devon -22 11 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Dorset -10 5 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire -20 1 £57,500 +12.62% 2
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 (4.76%) Apache
1 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) CMS
3 2 (2.38%) NServiceBus
3 2 (2.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.19%) Azure
2 39 (46.43%) AWS
3 21 (25.00%) GCP
4 11 (13.10%) GitHub
4 11 (13.10%) Serverless
5 8 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 7 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.33%) SaaS
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.95%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (2.38%) Figma
10 2 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Broadband
2 3 (3.57%) AMQP
3 1 (1.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 13 (15.48%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.76%) Big Data
5 4 (4.76%) MySQL
6 3 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (9.52%) Git
1 8 (9.52%) GitLab
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.57%) Maven
3 3 (3.57%) MSI
4 2 (2.38%) Gradle
4 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) Postman
4 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.19%) JUnit
5 1 (1.19%) Mockito
5 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.95%) Games
6 4 (4.76%) Electronics
7 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.38%) Law
8 2 (2.38%) Retail
9 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 23 (27.38%) Developer
3 10 (11.90%) .NET Developer
3 10 (11.90%) Architect
4 9 (10.71%) Senior
5 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Lead
5 7 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Security Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Scala Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (3.57%) Head of Software Engineering
9 3 (3.57%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Lead Developer
10 2 (2.38%) Automation Test Lead
10 2 (2.38%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) Vue
2 19 (22.62%) RESTful
2 19 (22.62%) WPF
3 17 (20.24%) .NET
3 17 (20.24%) AngularJS
4 16 (19.05%) Node.js
4 16 (19.05%) React
5 13 (15.48%) Spring
6 12 (14.29%) .NET Core
6 12 (14.29%) Spring Boot
7 11 (13.10%) ASP.NET
7 11 (13.10%) REST
8 9 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 7 (8.33%) gRPC
10 5 (5.95%) CSS
10 5 (5.95%) HTML
10 5 (5.95%) Kafka
10 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.14%) PKI
5 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.76%) Over-the-Top Content
5 4 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (3.57%) IoT
6 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) CentOS
2 3 (3.57%) Debian
2 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.76%) Agile
2 45 (53.57%) Software Engineering
3 43 (51.19%) CI/CD
4 29 (34.52%) Containerisation
5 28 (33.33%) DevOps
6 27 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (26.19%) Test Automation
8 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.24%) Mentoring
10 15 (17.86%) Software Architecture
11 14 (16.67%) Scrum
12 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (15.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (15.48%) SOLID
13 12 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
14 11 (13.10%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (13.10%) Code Quality
15 10 (11.90%) AI
15 10 (11.90%) Machine Learning
15 10 (11.90%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (38.10%) C#
2 29 (34.52%) Python
3 23 (27.38%) Java
4 19 (22.62%) JavaScript
5 18 (21.43%) TypeScript
6 17 (20.24%) SQL
7 7 (8.33%) Go
8 5 (5.95%) Scala
9 3 (3.57%) Bash
9 3 (3.57%) Bicep
9 3 (3.57%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 8 (9.52%) Azure Certification
3 8 (9.52%) Degree
3 8 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) CISM
4 6 (7.14%) CISSP
4 6 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (10.71%) NCSC
3 8 (9.52%) GDPR
4 7 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 7 (8.33%) NIST
5 6 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 6 (7.14%) QA
6 4 (4.76%) WCAG
7 3 (3.57%) ISO 9001
8 2 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 30 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.86%) Terraform
3 9 (10.71%) Ansible
4 4 (4.76%) Grafana
5 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.57%) Puppet
6 2 (2.38%) Kibana
6 2 (2.38%) Rancher
7 1 (1.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Google
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Typelevel
4 3 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.57%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.38%) Epicor
5 2 (2.38%) Guidewire
5 2 (2.38%) IFS
5 2 (2.38%) Infor
5 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.19%) OpenAI