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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 71 47
Rank change year-on-year -59 -24 +46
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 52 137 241
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.03% 3.14% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 3.74% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 38 92 201
10th Percentile £49,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £48,438 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,813 £79,813 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,875 £93,625 £100,064
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -9.38%

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 3,663 3,668 4,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.53% 84.07% 91.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,484 1,897 3,061
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,315 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +6.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 28 December 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 28 December 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 -38 13 £71,250 +4.76% 38
Gloucestershire +12 12 £65,000 -3.70% 59
Dorset -12 8 £65,000 +30.00% 34
Wiltshire -2 5 £61,250 -27.08% 27
Devon - 4 £50,000 - 50
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 (5.77%) Apache
1 3 (5.77%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) NServiceBus
Cloud Services
1 44 (84.62%) AWS
2 17 (32.69%) Azure
3 11 (21.15%) Serverless
4 9 (17.31%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (13.46%) SaaS
6 6 (11.54%) GitHub
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (5.77%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.77%) GCP
9 3 (5.77%) IaaS
9 3 (5.77%) PaaS
10 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (21.15%) MySQL
3 8 (15.38%) MongoDB
4 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.85%) Big Data
6 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.54%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.69%) GitLab
5 3 (5.77%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.77%) JIRA
5 3 (5.77%) JUnit
5 3 (5.77%) Selenium
6 2 (3.85%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.85%) Gatling
6 2 (3.85%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.85%) Locust
6 2 (3.85%) TestRail
6 2 (3.85%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.92%) Postman
7 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 6 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Developer
2 13 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) Senior
4 9 (17.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Lead
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Java Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (44.23%) React
2 18 (34.62%) Spring
3 17 (32.69%) Spring Boot
4 11 (21.15%) AngularJS
5 9 (17.31%) RESTful
6 7 (13.46%) HTML
7 6 (11.54%) .NET
8 5 (9.62%) Kafka
8 5 (9.62%) Node.js
9 4 (7.69%) CSS
9 4 (7.69%) REST
10 3 (5.77%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (5.77%) Hibernate
10 3 (5.77%) Jest
10 3 (5.77%) JSF
10 3 (5.77%) PrimeFaces
11 2 (3.85%) Django
11 2 (3.85%) Next.js
11 2 (3.85%) Redux
11 2 (3.85%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.77%) IoT
5 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.92%) DataPower
7 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 27 (51.92%) Agile
3 23 (44.23%) DevOps
4 21 (40.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (36.54%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 11 (21.15%) Mentoring
7 11 (21.15%) Test Automation
8 10 (19.23%) Coaching
9 9 (17.31%) Collaborative Culture
9 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (15.38%) AI
11 7 (13.46%) Architectural Patterns
11 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.46%) Scrum
11 7 (13.46%) TDD
11 7 (13.46%) User Experience
12 4 (7.69%) Event-Driven
12 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) Java
2 19 (36.54%) TypeScript
3 16 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 11 (21.15%) SQL
5 10 (19.23%) Python
6 7 (13.46%) C#
7 6 (11.54%) PHP
8 3 (5.77%) Bicep
9 2 (3.85%) Go
9 2 (3.85%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.92%) C
10 1 (1.92%) C++
10 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.85%) CISM
5 2 (3.85%) CISSP
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (26.92%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Terraform
3 5 (9.62%) Kibana
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.77%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (5.77%) Fortinet
3 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.92%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.92%) IBM