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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 74 104
Rank change year-on-year -41 +30 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 117 103 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 3.05% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 3.61% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 92 61 160
10th Percentile £42,580 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.91% +14.21% -13.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £113,750 £87,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -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 6,003 2,857 7,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.41% 84.60% 78.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,959 1,861 5,263
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £73,250 £67,500 £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 20 July 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 20 July 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
Somerset -14 28 £52,500 -44.74% 7
Gloucestershire -34 28 £52,500 -46.84% 5
Bristol -41 24 £67,500 -14.35% 7
Devon -6 23 £67,500 +22.73% 2
Dorset -14 5 £45,000 -5.26%
Wiltshire -19 5 £66,250 +29.75% 3
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 6 (5.13%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) Apache
2 3 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 61 (52.14%) Azure
2 55 (47.01%) AWS
3 25 (21.37%) GCP
4 17 (14.53%) GitHub
5 9 (7.69%) Serverless
6 8 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
6 8 (6.84%) OpenShift
7 7 (5.98%) SaaS
8 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.42%) Figma
10 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) AMQP
3 1 (0.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.66%) MongoDB
2 19 (16.24%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (11.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.27%) Big Data
4 5 (4.27%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.42%) MySQL
5 4 (3.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.56%) Redis
6 3 (2.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.71%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Git
2 9 (7.69%) GitLab
3 6 (5.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.27%) MSI
5 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.42%) Postman
6 3 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.71%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.85%) JUnit
8 1 (0.85%) Maven
8 1 (0.85%) Mockito
8 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.11%) Finance
3 12 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.98%) Games
7 6 (5.13%) Electronics
8 4 (3.42%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (37.61%) Software Engineer
2 35 (29.91%) Developer
3 20 (17.09%) Architect
4 15 (12.82%) .NET Developer
5 13 (11.11%) Lead
5 13 (11.11%) Senior
6 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (9.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.42%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.42%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Scala Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Security Architect
12 3 (2.56%) Java Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.06%) Vue
2 28 (23.93%) .NET
3 27 (23.08%) WPF
4 23 (19.66%) AngularJS
4 23 (19.66%) Node.js
5 21 (17.95%) React
5 21 (17.95%) RESTful
6 19 (16.24%) .NET Core
7 18 (15.38%) Spring
8 17 (14.53%) ASP.NET
8 17 (14.53%) Spring Boot
9 14 (11.97%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (11.97%) REST
10 12 (10.26%) .NET Framework
11 9 (7.69%) CSS
11 9 (7.69%) HTML
12 8 (6.84%) Kafka
13 7 (5.98%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (5.98%) Blazor
14 6 (5.13%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 22 (18.80%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (9.40%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.84%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.42%) IoT
6 4 (3.42%) Over-the-Top Content
6 4 (3.42%) PKI
6 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.42%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.85%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.71%) CentOS
3 2 (1.71%) Debian
3 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (58.12%) Agile
2 57 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 56 (47.86%) Software Engineering
4 44 (37.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (34.19%) Containerisation
6 38 (32.48%) DevOps
7 29 (24.79%) Test Automation
8 22 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 20 (17.09%) Scrum
10 20 (17.09%) Software Architecture
11 19 (16.24%) SOLID
12 17 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
13 15 (12.82%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (12.82%) TOGAF
14 13 (11.11%) Clean Code
14 13 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.26%) Code Quality
16 11 (9.40%) AI
16 11 (9.40%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.17%) C#
2 39 (33.33%) Python
3 32 (27.35%) Java
4 30 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 27 (23.08%) SQL
6 21 (17.95%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.98%) Go
7 7 (5.98%) Scala
8 5 (4.27%) Bicep
9 3 (2.56%) Bash
9 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.56%) PHP
10 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.97%) DV Cleared
4 11 (9.40%) Degree
5 8 (6.84%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.84%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.42%) CISM
6 4 (3.42%) CISSP
6 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 9 (7.69%) NCSC
1 9 (7.69%) WCAG
2 8 (6.84%) GDPR
2 8 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.27%) NIST
4 4 (3.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.42%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.42%) QA
5 3 (2.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (32.48%) Docker
2 4 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.42%) NDS
3 3 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (32.48%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.97%) Terraform
3 8 (6.84%) Ansible
4 4 (3.42%) Grafana
5 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.71%) Kibana
6 2 (1.71%) Puppet
6 2 (1.71%) Rancher
7 1 (0.85%) logstash
Vendors
1 30 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) Oracle
4 4 (3.42%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.42%) Epicor
4 4 (3.42%) ForgeRock
4 4 (3.42%) IFS
4 4 (3.42%) Infor
4 4 (3.42%) NetIQ
4 4 (3.42%) Okta
4 4 (3.42%) OpenText
4 4 (3.42%) SAP
4 4 (3.42%) Typelevel
5 3 (2.56%) OneLogin
6 2 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.85%) OpenAI