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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 51 75
Rank change year-on-year -72 +24 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 49 193 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.28% 4.81% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 5.47% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 19 103 78
10th Percentile £47,650 £56,250 £49,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £112,500 £91,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 3,203 3,528 3,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.67% 87.91% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,713 1,722 2,148
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,963
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 December 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 December 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 -59 40 £80,000 -3.03% 68
Buckinghamshire -4 5 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Oxfordshire +9 4 £65,000 +13.04% 17
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 5 (10.20%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) JBoss
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 34 (69.39%) AWS
2 30 (61.22%) Serverless
3 25 (51.02%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (48.98%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (36.73%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (32.65%) Azure
7 11 (22.45%) Amazon S3
8 10 (20.41%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (20.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (12.24%) GitHub
10 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (10.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (10.20%) GCP
10 5 (10.20%) SaaS
11 4 (8.16%) SonarCloud
12 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (55.10%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (48.98%) Relational Database
3 18 (36.73%) RDBMS
4 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
5 6 (12.24%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.20%) MySQL
7 4 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.04%) Metadata
9 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (53.06%) Jenkins
2 20 (40.82%) JUnit
3 18 (36.73%) JMeter
3 18 (36.73%) Mockito
4 13 (26.53%) Git
5 5 (10.20%) git-flow
6 4 (8.16%) MSBuild
6 4 (8.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (8.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (8.16%) Visual Studio
7 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 21 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Retail
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Finance
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (77.55%) Developer
2 29 (59.18%) Java Developer
3 26 (53.06%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (40.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (30.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (22.45%) Senior
7 9 (18.37%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.20%) Architect
8 5 (10.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (10.20%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Lead
10 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.04%) AWS Developer
11 1 (2.04%) C# .NET Developer
11 1 (2.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 1 (2.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 1 (2.04%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (69.39%) REST
2 30 (61.22%) Spring Boot
3 26 (53.06%) HTML
3 26 (53.06%) Spring
4 23 (46.94%) Web Services
5 22 (44.90%) JSON
5 22 (44.90%) XML
6 19 (38.78%) Apache Camel
7 18 (36.73%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (36.73%) Hibernate
7 18 (36.73%) jQuery
7 18 (36.73%) React
7 18 (36.73%) WireMock
8 14 (28.57%) .NET
9 12 (24.49%) Kafka
10 9 (18.37%) CSS
11 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET
11 6 (12.24%) Node.js
12 5 (10.20%) Mustache
12 5 (10.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (55.10%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) IoT
5 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.08%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) Agile
2 35 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 30 (61.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 28 (57.14%) TDD
5 22 (44.90%) DevOps
6 19 (38.78%) BDD
7 18 (36.73%) Process Management
7 18 (36.73%) SDLC
7 18 (36.73%) Workflow
8 12 (24.49%) Event-Driven
8 12 (24.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (18.37%) Scrum
11 6 (12.24%) API Integration
11 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (12.24%) MVC
12 5 (10.20%) B2B
12 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
12 5 (10.20%) Software Delivery
12 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Java
1 30 (61.22%) JavaScript
2 21 (42.86%) Python
3 18 (36.73%) Shell Script
4 14 (28.57%) C#
5 9 (18.37%) SQL
6 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.08%) C
8 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (65.31%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (59.18%) Kubernetes
2 18 (36.73%) Kibana
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Dynatrace
1 18 (36.73%) Splunk
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce