Microservices Job Trends in Surrey

Microservices
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 0
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 65 25 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.60% 2.21% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 2.46% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 57 25 43
10th Percentile - £36,250 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,931 1,015 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.30% 89.66% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 679 723
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Surrey

Microservices
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Surrey

Microservices
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Staines 0 19 £72,500 +3.57%
Guildford -13 15 £85,000 +41.67% 2
Woking -20 6 £55,000 +46.67% 2
Farnham - 5 £55,000 -
Egham - 4 £65,000 -
Reigate - 4 £87,500 - 4
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Camberley - 2 £70,000 -
Godalming - 2 - -
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 5 (7.69%) IIS
1 5 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) JBoss
3 1 (1.54%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 43 (66.15%) Azure
2 29 (44.62%) AWS
3 20 (30.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 17 (26.15%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (26.15%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (26.15%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (23.08%) SaaS
6 12 (18.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (16.92%) GitHub
8 8 (12.31%) GCP
9 7 (10.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (10.77%) Snowflake
10 5 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 5 (7.69%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (7.69%) Cloudflare
11 4 (6.15%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (4.62%) ChatGPT
12 3 (4.62%) Google Gemini
13 2 (3.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (4.62%) Internet
2 1 (1.54%) LAN
2 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 24 (36.92%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (26.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (24.62%) MongoDB
5 9 (13.85%) Redis
6 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (7.69%) MySQL
8 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
9 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.08%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Finance
5 5 (7.69%) Retail
6 4 (6.15%) Law
7 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (69.23%) Developer
2 30 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 24 (36.92%) Lead
4 19 (29.23%) Lead Developer
5 12 (18.46%) Lead .NET Developer
6 10 (15.38%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) .NET Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) C# Developer
7 7 (10.77%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Lead Software Developer
7 7 (10.77%) Software Developer
8 6 (9.23%) .NET Software Developer
8 6 (9.23%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (9.23%) C# Software Developer
8 6 (9.23%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Backend Developer
9 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (63.08%) .NET
2 30 (46.15%) .NET Core
3 26 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 22 (33.85%) Node.js
5 20 (30.77%) Blazor
5 20 (30.77%) REST
6 17 (26.15%) Vue
7 14 (21.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 12 (18.46%) gRPC
9 8 (12.31%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (12.31%) HTML
9 8 (12.31%) React
10 7 (10.77%) Spring
11 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
11 6 (9.23%) CSS
11 6 (9.23%) Kafka
11 6 (9.23%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (7.69%) ARM Templates
12 5 (7.69%) Loki
12 5 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.92%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.62%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.08%) Culture of Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
1 6 (9.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) Agile
1 28 (43.08%) CI/CD
2 27 (41.54%) Full-Stack Development
3 24 (36.92%) DevOps
4 21 (32.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
6 17 (26.15%) AI
6 17 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (24.62%) Event-Driven
7 16 (24.62%) Mentoring
8 15 (23.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 15 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
9 14 (21.54%) MVC
9 14 (21.54%) Software Engineering
10 12 (18.46%) Continuous Deployment
10 12 (18.46%) People Management
11 11 (16.92%) Computer Science
11 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
12 9 (13.85%) Clean Code
12 9 (13.85%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 41 (63.08%) C#
2 25 (38.46%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 13 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 7 (10.77%) Java
6 5 (7.69%) Bicep
6 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.15%) Go
8 2 (3.08%) C++
8 2 (3.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) HND
4 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.23%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (49.23%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.69%) Grafana
2 5 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (35.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.77%) Google
3 5 (7.69%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.54%) Sparx
4 1 (1.54%) VMware