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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 50 94
Rank change year-on-year -56 +44 -40
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 66 173 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.17% 5.24% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 5.62% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 37 79 119
10th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +33.06% -11.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% -7.69%

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 4,098 3,080 5,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.38% 93.36% 84.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,689 1,235 3,989
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,673 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +13.35% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -45 45 £82,500 - 18
Buckinghamshire -16 17 £68,750 -1.79% 11
Oxfordshire -11 4 £40,000 -27.27% 6
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 7 (10.61%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 45 (68.18%) AWS
2 26 (39.39%) Azure
3 23 (34.85%) Serverless
4 21 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (24.24%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (21.21%) Amazon S3
7 11 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (12.12%) SaaS
10 7 (10.61%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (9.09%) GCP
12 5 (7.58%) Apigee
12 5 (7.58%) Kong
12 5 (7.58%) OpenShift
13 3 (4.55%) IaaS
13 3 (4.55%) PaaS
14 2 (3.03%) GitHub
14 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
15 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
15 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
1 5 (7.58%) Internet
2 2 (3.03%) RFID
3 1 (1.52%) Modbus
3 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Relational Database
2 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.55%) MySQL
5 2 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.52%) Metadata
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (30.30%) Git
3 11 (16.67%) GitLab
4 7 (10.61%) JIRA
5 6 (9.09%) JUnit
5 6 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.06%) Artifactory
7 4 (6.06%) JMeter
7 4 (6.06%) Mockito
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.52%) git-flow
General
1 19 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
4 6 (9.09%) Law
4 6 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.55%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 23 (34.85%) Java Developer
3 15 (22.73%) Architect
4 14 (21.21%) Senior
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Lead
8 5 (7.58%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Automation Specialist
8 5 (7.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Integration Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Network Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Network Specialist
8 5 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Telecoms Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Telecoms Specialist
9 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (56.06%) REST
2 27 (40.91%) React
3 20 (30.30%) Spring Boot
4 19 (28.79%) JSON
5 17 (25.76%) Spring
6 15 (22.73%) Elastic Stack
7 14 (21.21%) RabbitMQ
7 14 (21.21%) Web Services
7 14 (21.21%) XML
8 12 (18.18%) Kafka
9 10 (15.15%) RESTful
10 9 (13.64%) Node.js
10 9 (13.64%) YAML
11 8 (12.12%) .NET
12 7 (10.61%) Mustache
12 7 (10.61%) SOAP
13 6 (9.09%) AngularJS
13 6 (9.09%) Middleware
14 5 (7.58%) HTML
14 5 (7.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (19.70%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.58%) IoT
4 5 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.03%) Contactless
7 2 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.03%) Low-Code
7 2 (3.03%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.52%) CMDB
8 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) Agile
2 36 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 32 (48.48%) DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) TDD
5 18 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
6 16 (24.24%) Scrum
7 15 (22.73%) Enterprise Architecture
7 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (21.21%) Software Engineering
9 12 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (18.18%) Event-Driven
9 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.15%) Integration Patterns
11 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
11 10 (15.15%) SDLC
12 9 (13.64%) BDD
12 9 (13.64%) Secrets Management
13 8 (12.12%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) Java
2 22 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 16 (24.24%) Python
4 14 (21.21%) SQL
5 13 (19.70%) C#
6 6 (9.09%) Groovy
6 6 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.06%) Perl
8 4 (6.06%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.03%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Degree
2 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 11 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (53.03%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.67%) Ansible
3 10 (15.15%) Terraform
4 8 (12.12%) Kibana
5 4 (6.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (13.64%) AppDynamics
2 8 (12.12%) IBM
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.09%) Oracle
5 5 (7.58%) Cisco
5 5 (7.58%) F5
5 5 (7.58%) Juniper
5 5 (7.58%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.58%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 4 (6.06%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.52%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow