Microservices Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 94 85
Rank change year-on-year -11 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 89 122 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.24% 3.11% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 3.45% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 36 71
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £60,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +16.07% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,875 £93,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% -13.93%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,069 3,539 3,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.48% 90.14% 81.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,606 1,466 2,105
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Berkshire -14 51 £82,500 - 32
Buckinghamshire +12 27 £62,000 -4.62% 15
Oxfordshire -29 11 £47,500 -20.83% 25
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (2.25%) Confluence
1 2 (2.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.12%) JBoss
2 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 55 (61.80%) AWS
2 45 (50.56%) Azure
3 22 (24.72%) Serverless
4 20 (22.47%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (15.73%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (15.73%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.36%) SaaS
7 9 (10.11%) GitHub
8 8 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.87%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.49%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.37%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.25%) IaaS
12 2 (2.25%) PaaS
13 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (1.12%) Amplience
13 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.12%) Bloomreach
13 1 (1.12%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) RFID
2 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) Relational Database
2 13 (14.61%) MongoDB
2 13 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (12.36%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.74%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.37%) MySQL
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.25%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.25%) Redis
8 1 (1.12%) GIS
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 20 (22.47%) Git
3 13 (14.61%) GitLab
4 9 (10.11%) JUnit
5 8 (8.99%) JMeter
5 8 (8.99%) Mockito
6 7 (7.87%) JIRA
7 6 (6.74%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.62%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.49%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.37%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.37%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (2.25%) Mocha
11 2 (2.25%) Selenium
General
1 16 (17.98%) Finance
2 13 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.48%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.24%) Retail
5 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.25%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (42.70%) Developer
2 17 (19.10%) .NET Developer
3 16 (17.98%) Java Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Architect
5 13 (14.61%) Senior
5 13 (14.61%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Java Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Lead
9 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Integration Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Support Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (4.49%) C# Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (4.49%) React Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (41.57%) React
2 30 (33.71%) REST
3 29 (32.58%) Node.js
4 20 (22.47%) .NET
5 16 (17.98%) JSON
5 16 (17.98%) Spring
6 15 (16.85%) .NET Core
6 15 (16.85%) Spring Boot
7 13 (14.61%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (13.48%) Blazor
8 12 (13.48%) Terraform
8 12 (13.48%) Web Services
9 11 (12.36%) ASP.NET
9 11 (12.36%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (12.36%) XML
10 10 (11.24%) AngularJS
10 10 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (11.24%) Hibernate
10 10 (11.24%) HTML
11 9 (10.11%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.58%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.48%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Contactless
6 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.37%) Life Science
7 3 (3.37%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) NHS
8 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.12%) CMDB
9 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (73.03%) Agile
2 34 (38.20%) CI/CD
3 29 (32.58%) DevOps
4 28 (31.46%) TDD
5 25 (28.09%) Scrum
6 24 (26.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 22 (24.72%) Software Engineering
8 19 (21.35%) Event-Driven
9 18 (20.22%) Containerisation
10 17 (19.10%) BDD
10 17 (19.10%) Test Automation
11 16 (17.98%) AI
12 15 (16.85%) Clean Code
13 14 (15.73%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (15.73%) Mentoring
14 13 (14.61%) Data Modelling
14 13 (14.61%) Kanban
14 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (14.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.45%) C#
2 33 (37.08%) Java
3 29 (32.58%) SQL
4 25 (28.09%) Python
5 24 (26.97%) JavaScript
6 19 (21.35%) TypeScript
7 10 (11.24%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.74%) Groovy
9 5 (5.62%) Apex Code
10 4 (4.49%) Perl
10 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.25%) C
11 2 (2.25%) C++
11 2 (2.25%) Go
12 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (17.98%) Degree
2 15 (16.85%) Security Cleared
3 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
4 11 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (35.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (50.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.48%) Kibana
3 11 (12.36%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Packer
5 3 (3.37%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) AppDynamics
3 8 (8.99%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.99%) IBM
3 8 (8.99%) Oracle
3 8 (8.99%) Splunk
4 6 (6.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.12%) Thales