Microservices Jobs in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 103 92
Rank change year-on-year +19 -11 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 107 235 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.73% 2.34% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 2.95% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 64 178 147
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £49,063 £53,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -13.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £95,625 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £118,125 £87,500 £95,916
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -16.13% +3.33%

All Process and 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 3,422 7,957 6,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 87.23% 79.14% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,078 5,597 3,678
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £54,590
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.83% +9.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,150
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South West.

Salary trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +39 46 £82,031 +31.25% 29
Gloucestershire +32 25 £98,750 +64.58% 32
Dorset +21 16 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Wiltshire +21 8 £51,058 -18.31% 6
Devon +4 5 £55,000 - 5
Somerset +13 3 £95,000 +90.00% 5
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (18.69%) Jupyter
2 5 (4.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (47.66%) AWS
2 46 (42.99%) Azure
3 20 (18.69%) GCP
4 11 (10.28%) npm
5 10 (9.35%) Serverless
6 8 (7.48%) Apigee
7 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.61%) PaaS
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.87%) Boomi
11 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.87%) Datadog
11 2 (1.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.87%) SaaS
11 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.87%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.56%) Big Data
2 13 (12.15%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.41%) MySQL
4 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.87%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.87%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Git
2 13 (12.15%) Cypress.io
2 13 (12.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (10.28%) Cucumber
3 11 (10.28%) GitLab
3 11 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.28%) webpack
4 5 (4.67%) JIRA
5 4 (3.74%) JUnit
6 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.87%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.87%) Gatling
6 2 (1.87%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.87%) Maven
6 2 (1.87%) Mockito
6 2 (1.87%) Selenium
6 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.87%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (55.14%) Finance
2 32 (29.91%) Banking
3 28 (26.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.48%) Retail
6 6 (5.61%) Law
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.93%) Games
8 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (25.23%) Senior
2 26 (24.30%) Software Engineer
3 22 (20.56%) Lead
4 20 (18.69%) Data Scientist
4 20 (18.69%) Senior Data Scientist
5 19 (17.76%) Developer
6 17 (15.89%) Java Engineer
7 14 (13.08%) Architect
8 13 (12.15%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.48%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.61%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
12 5 (4.67%) Angular Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 5 (4.67%) Operations Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Security Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (28.97%) React
2 29 (27.10%) RESTful
2 29 (27.10%) Spring Boot
3 22 (20.56%) AngularJS
4 19 (17.76%) Kafka
5 15 (14.02%) .NET
6 14 (13.08%) Node.js
6 14 (13.08%) Spring
7 13 (12.15%) Web Services
8 12 (11.21%) .NET Core
9 11 (10.28%) Jest
9 11 (10.28%) REST
10 9 (8.41%) React Native
11 7 (6.54%) .NET Framework
11 7 (6.54%) Vue
12 6 (5.61%) GraphQL
12 6 (5.61%) HTML
13 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET
13 4 (3.74%) CSS
14 3 (2.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.69%) Algorithms
1 20 (18.69%) Cyberattack
2 15 (14.02%) Cloud Native
3 13 (12.15%) Product Ownership
4 12 (11.21%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) DataPower
5 6 (5.61%) Distributed Applications
5 6 (5.61%) IoT
5 6 (5.61%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (5.61%) Reference Data
6 5 (4.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (4.67%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.87%) Replication
9 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 6 (5.61%) Android
2 6 (5.61%) Apple iOS
3 5 (4.67%) Windows
4 2 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.07%) Software Engineering
2 52 (48.60%) Agile
3 46 (42.99%) DevOps
4 44 (41.12%) CI/CD
5 35 (32.71%) Mentoring
6 33 (30.84%) Test Automation
7 30 (28.04%) Event-Driven
8 29 (27.10%) Containerisation
9 27 (25.23%) Computer Science
9 27 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (24.30%) Decision-Making
10 26 (24.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 26 (24.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 24 (22.43%) Artificial Intelligence
11 24 (22.43%) Machine Learning
12 20 (18.69%) Data Analysis
12 20 (18.69%) Mathematics
12 20 (18.69%) OpenUP
12 20 (18.69%) Statistics
12 20 (18.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (63.55%) Java
2 41 (38.32%) JavaScript
3 30 (28.04%) Python
4 15 (14.02%) C#
4 15 (14.02%) SQL
5 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.74%) Go
7 2 (1.87%) Bash
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
7 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.91%) Degree
3 24 (22.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (20.56%) DV Cleared
5 13 (12.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (4.67%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.67%) CISM
8 5 (4.67%) CISSP
8 5 (4.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) GRC
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (52.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 42 (39.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.28%) Terraform
3 3 (2.80%) Ansible
4 2 (1.87%) Grafana
4 2 (1.87%) Istio
4 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) Google
3 6 (5.61%) Apple
3 6 (5.61%) IBM
4 2 (1.87%) Databricks
4 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle
4 2 (1.87%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.93%) Genesys