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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 90 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 109 287 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.02% 2.78% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.47% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 67 230 135
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,525 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -13.60% +15.75%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £91,318 £96,374
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%

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 3,326 8,281 6,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.16% 80.19% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 5,874 3,487
10th Percentile £26,775 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,436 £54,222
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -5.14% +8.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £80,627
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +13 52 £71,991 +6.65% 50
Gloucestershire +37 26 £90,000 +50.00% 20
Dorset +12 14 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Wiltshire +22 5 £68,525 +9.64% 4
Devon +5 5 £55,000 - 2
Somerset +10 3 £95,000 +90.00% 21
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 (18.35%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.67%) Confluence
3 2 (1.83%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 54 (49.54%) AWS
2 48 (44.04%) Azure
3 20 (18.35%) GCP
4 12 (11.01%) Serverless
5 11 (10.09%) npm
6 8 (7.34%) Apigee
6 8 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.50%) PaaS
8 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.83%) Datadog
10 2 (1.83%) GitHub
10 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.83%) SaaS
10 2 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.83%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.18%) Big Data
2 12 (11.01%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.09%) Relational Database
4 10 (9.17%) MySQL
5 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (6.42%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.42%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.83%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (17.43%) Git
2 13 (11.93%) Cypress.io
2 13 (11.93%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (10.09%) Cucumber
3 11 (10.09%) GitLab
3 11 (10.09%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.09%) webpack
4 4 (3.67%) JIRA
4 4 (3.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.83%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.83%) Gatling
5 2 (1.83%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.83%) Maven
5 2 (1.83%) Mockito
5 2 (1.83%) Selenium
5 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.83%) Zephyr
General
1 58 (53.21%) Finance
2 31 (28.44%) Banking
3 26 (23.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (10.09%) Social Skills
5 8 (7.34%) Retail
6 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.59%) Law
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.92%) Games
9 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (26.61%) Senior
2 26 (23.85%) Developer
2 26 (23.85%) Lead
3 25 (22.94%) Software Engineer
4 20 (18.35%) Data Scientist
4 20 (18.35%) Senior Data Scientist
5 17 (15.60%) Java Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) Architect
7 13 (11.93%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (9.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
10 8 (7.34%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.59%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.59%) Lead Developer
12 5 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 4 (3.67%) Angular Developer
13 4 (3.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
14 3 (2.75%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (33.03%) React
2 32 (29.36%) RESTful
3 30 (27.52%) Spring Boot
4 23 (21.10%) AngularJS
5 20 (18.35%) Node.js
6 19 (17.43%) Kafka
7 14 (12.84%) .NET
7 14 (12.84%) Spring
8 13 (11.93%) Web Services
9 11 (10.09%) .NET Core
9 11 (10.09%) Jest
10 10 (9.17%) REST
11 9 (8.26%) React Native
12 8 (7.34%) CSS
12 8 (7.34%) GraphQL
13 7 (6.42%) .NET Framework
13 7 (6.42%) Vue
14 6 (5.50%) HTML
15 5 (4.59%) Next.js
16 4 (3.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Algorithms
1 20 (18.35%) Cyberattack
2 15 (13.76%) Cloud Native
3 13 (11.93%) Product Ownership
4 12 (11.01%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.50%) DataPower
5 6 (5.50%) Distributed Applications
5 6 (5.50%) IoT
5 6 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.59%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.67%) N-Tier
8 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.83%) Replication
9 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Android
1 6 (5.50%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.67%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Unix
3 2 (1.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) Software Engineering
2 53 (48.62%) Agile
3 47 (43.12%) DevOps
4 44 (40.37%) CI/CD
5 36 (33.03%) Mentoring
6 35 (32.11%) Test Automation
7 32 (29.36%) Event-Driven
7 32 (29.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (25.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 27 (24.77%) Computer Science
9 27 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (23.85%) Containerisation
11 25 (22.94%) Decision-Making
12 23 (21.10%) Artificial Intelligence
12 23 (21.10%) Machine Learning
13 20 (18.35%) Data Analysis
13 20 (18.35%) Exploratory Data Analysis
13 20 (18.35%) OpenUP
13 20 (18.35%) Statistics
13 20 (18.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (62.39%) Java
2 42 (38.53%) JavaScript
3 31 (28.44%) Python
4 19 (17.43%) SQL
5 17 (15.60%) TypeScript
6 14 (12.84%) C#
7 4 (3.67%) Go
8 3 (2.75%) PHP
9 2 (1.83%) Bash
9 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.61%) Degree
3 24 (22.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (20.18%) DV Cleared
5 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
6 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.83%) CISM
9 2 (1.83%) CISSP
9 2 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.83%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) GRC
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (49.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.09%) Terraform
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Istio
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.42%) Google
3 6 (5.50%) Apple
3 6 (5.50%) IBM
4 2 (1.83%) Databricks
4 2 (1.83%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle
5 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.92%) Genesys
5 1 (0.92%) SnapLogic