Microservices Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 119 63
Rank change year-on-year +50 -56 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 150 132 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.18% 1.87% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 2.26% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 51 96 150
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,250 £45,000 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,813 £82,188
90th Percentile - £91,250 £100,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Process and 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 3,281 5,828 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.47% 82.41% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 3,842 2,978
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £87,500
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

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 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
Berkshire +55 119 £82,500 +22.22% 20
Oxfordshire +47 17 £60,000 - 13
Buckinghamshire +2 14 £67,500 +14.89% 13
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (8.00%) JBoss
1 12 (8.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 11 (7.33%) Confluence
3 6 (4.00%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (45.33%) AWS
2 49 (32.67%) Serverless
3 44 (29.33%) Azure
4 37 (24.67%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
6 29 (19.33%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (15.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (15.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 22 (14.67%) SonarCloud
10 21 (14.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 13 (8.67%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.67%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (6.67%) GCP
13 7 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (4.00%) AWS KMS
15 5 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (3.33%) Route 53
16 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (36.00%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (28.00%) Relational Database
3 22 (14.67%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (12.00%) RDBMS
5 10 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.00%) MySQL
9 2 (1.33%) Redis
10 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.67%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (36.00%) Git
2 53 (35.33%) Jenkins
3 43 (28.67%) JUnit
4 28 (18.67%) Mockito
5 23 (15.33%) MSBuild
6 22 (14.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 22 (14.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 22 (14.67%) Visual Studio
7 18 (12.00%) JMeter
8 15 (10.00%) Maven
9 14 (9.33%) SonarQube
10 13 (8.67%) JIRA
11 11 (7.33%) GitLab
12 8 (5.33%) Selenium
13 7 (4.67%) Cucumber
14 6 (4.00%) Bitbucket
14 6 (4.00%) DbUnit
14 6 (4.00%) jMock
14 6 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 51 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (28.00%) Law
3 40 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 21 (14.00%) Marketing
4 21 (14.00%) Retail
5 9 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.33%) Banking
7 7 (4.67%) Finance
8 6 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (39.33%) Developer
2 49 (32.67%) Java Developer
3 48 (32.00%) Architect
4 27 (18.00%) Lead
5 26 (17.33%) Technical Architect
6 21 (14.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (14.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 13 (8.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Senior
10 9 (6.00%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Developer
12 5 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Lead Java Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
12 5 (3.33%) Software Developer
13 4 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
13 4 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (60.00%) REST
2 57 (38.00%) Spring
3 56 (37.33%) Spring Boot
4 49 (32.67%) HTML
5 43 (28.67%) Web Services
6 41 (27.33%) SOAP
7 34 (22.67%) Hibernate
7 34 (22.67%) JSON
8 33 (22.00%) XML
9 31 (20.67%) CSS
10 30 (20.00%) .NET
10 30 (20.00%) Apache Camel
11 29 (19.33%) Bootstrap
12 26 (17.33%) ActiveMQ
13 24 (16.00%) React
13 24 (16.00%) RESTful
14 22 (14.67%) ASP.NET
14 22 (14.67%) gRPC
15 21 (14.00%) Lightning Web Components
15 21 (14.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (28.67%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.33%) IoT
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (57.33%) Agile
2 83 (55.33%) DevOps
3 72 (48.00%) CI/CD
4 63 (42.00%) Technical Leadership
5 52 (34.67%) TDD
6 47 (31.33%) Computer Science
7 43 (28.67%) Data Modelling
7 43 (28.67%) Design Patterns
8 42 (28.00%) Data Management
9 37 (24.67%) BDD
10 36 (24.00%) Scrum
11 33 (22.00%) Event-Driven
12 32 (21.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 32 (21.33%) Kanban
13 31 (20.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 31 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (18.67%) Open Source
14 28 (18.67%) Performance Optimisation
15 27 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (41.33%) Java
2 57 (38.00%) JavaScript
3 41 (27.33%) SQL
4 31 (20.67%) Python
5 30 (20.00%) C#
6 21 (14.00%) Apex Code
7 19 (12.67%) Shell Script
8 9 (6.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.33%) Go
10 3 (2.00%) PHP
11 1 (0.67%) Bash
11 1 (0.67%) Groovy
11 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.67%) Perl
11 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 47 (31.33%) Degree
2 32 (21.33%) Security Cleared
3 27 (18.00%) SC Cleared
4 26 (17.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (15.33%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.00%) GDPR
2 21 (14.00%) Data Quality
3 12 (8.00%) SLA
4 11 (7.33%) QA
5 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) CDISC
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 85 (56.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Postfix
3 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.00%) Kibana
3 13 (8.67%) Ansible
4 5 (3.33%) Terraform
5 4 (2.67%) Grafana
5 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) Salesforce
1 21 (14.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 18 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 18 (12.00%) Splunk
3 6 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.00%) Solace
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.00%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.67%) Databricks
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle