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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 55 80
Rank change year-on-year -96 +25 +20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 64 106 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.83% 4.02% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 4.42% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 39 68 228
10th Percentile £43,140 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +14.21% -11.11%
75th Percentile £76,250 £93,778 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £112,000 £91,455
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -18.75%

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 5,297 2,398 7,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.60% 91.04% 81.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,498 1,453 5,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,625 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -4.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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
Bristol -51 17 £60,000 -16.66% 14
Gloucestershire -34 15 £50,437 -43.96% 16
Devon -23 7 £45,000 -18.18% 2
Somerset -27 7 £50,000 -47.37% 5
Dorset -21 6 £45,000 -5.26% 1
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire -16 1 £57,500 -16.09%
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 3 (4.69%) Apache
1 3 (4.69%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (56.25%) AWS
2 25 (39.06%) Azure
3 14 (21.88%) GCP
4 9 (14.06%) Serverless
5 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.81%) GitHub
6 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
6 5 (7.81%) SaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.56%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Broadband
2 2 (3.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) MongoDB
2 10 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.94%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (7.81%) MySQL
4 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.69%) Big Data
6 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.56%) DB2
8 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.69%) Maven
4 2 (3.13%) Gradle
4 2 (3.13%) JIRA
4 2 (3.13%) JUnit
4 2 (3.13%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Mockito
General
1 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Games
5 2 (3.13%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Software Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Developer
3 8 (12.50%) Senior
4 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) .NET Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Architect
6 5 (7.81%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Data Scientist
7 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (6.25%) Scala Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Head of Engineering
8 3 (4.69%) Head of Software Engineering
9 2 (3.13%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.56%) React
2 16 (25.00%) Spring
3 15 (23.44%) Spring Boot
4 13 (20.31%) AngularJS
4 13 (20.31%) Vue
5 12 (18.75%) RESTful
6 10 (15.63%) Node.js
6 10 (15.63%) WPF
7 8 (12.50%) REST
8 7 (10.94%) .NET
9 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET
9 6 (9.38%) gRPC
10 5 (7.81%) HTML
11 4 (6.25%) .NET Core
11 4 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.25%) Kafka
11 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (4.69%) Next.js
12 3 (4.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.81%) PKI
4 4 (6.25%) IoT
4 4 (6.25%) Over-the-Top Content
4 4 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) CentOS
2 2 (3.13%) Debian
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) Software Engineering
2 31 (48.44%) CI/CD
3 30 (46.88%) Agile
4 21 (32.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 20 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 20 (31.25%) DevOps
6 17 (26.56%) Test Automation
7 14 (21.88%) Mentoring
7 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.63%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
9 10 (15.63%) Machine Learning
9 10 (15.63%) Scrum
10 9 (14.06%) Clean Code
11 8 (12.50%) Data Science
11 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (12.50%) Software Architecture
11 8 (12.50%) TDD
12 7 (10.94%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.38%) Java
2 20 (31.25%) Python
3 17 (26.56%) C#
4 15 (23.44%) JavaScript
4 15 (23.44%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.06%) SQL
6 7 (10.94%) Go
7 5 (7.81%) Scala
8 4 (6.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.81%) CISM
4 5 (7.81%) CISSP
4 5 (7.81%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.81%) GDPR
2 5 (7.81%) NCSC
2 5 (7.81%) NIST
2 5 (7.81%) PCI DSS
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (32.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (6.25%) Ansible
4 3 (4.69%) Grafana
4 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.13%) Kibana
5 2 (3.13%) Puppet
6 1 (1.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (6.25%) Google
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.25%) Oracle
1 4 (6.25%) Typelevel
2 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.13%) Guidewire
2 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.13%) SaltStack