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 15 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 59 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 191 170 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.63% 4.04% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 4.49% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 99 98 213
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,800 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £89,125 £92,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +8.33%

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 3,114 3,782 5,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.80% 89.86% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 2,435 3,156
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £76,005 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +13 142 £82,500 +10.00% 7
Buckinghamshire +12 30 £82,900 +44.17% 3
Oxfordshire -8 19 £55,000 -8.33% 2
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 10 (5.24%) JBoss
1 10 (5.24%) OpenStack
1 10 (5.24%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.09%) Apache
3 4 (2.09%) IIS
3 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 89 (46.60%) AWS
2 75 (39.27%) Azure
3 60 (31.41%) Serverless
4 45 (23.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 39 (20.42%) Amazon EKS
5 39 (20.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 36 (18.85%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (17.28%) Amazon ECS
7 33 (17.28%) SonarCloud
8 23 (12.04%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (12.04%) Amazon S3
9 20 (10.47%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (7.33%) SaaS
11 8 (4.19%) Azure Functions
11 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.66%) Entra ID
13 6 (3.14%) GitHub
13 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
14 5 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.57%) Wireless
2 2 (1.05%) HTTP
3 1 (0.52%) Broadband
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) NGFW
3 1 (0.52%) SSL
3 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (35.08%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (19.90%) Relational Database
3 35 (18.32%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (9.95%) SQL Server
5 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
6 12 (6.28%) RDBMS
7 10 (5.24%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.14%) MySQL
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.05%) Big Data
10 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.05%) Power BI
10 2 (1.05%) Redis
11 1 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 84 (43.98%) Git
2 46 (24.08%) Jenkins
3 35 (18.32%) Octopus Deploy
4 33 (17.28%) MSBuild
4 33 (17.28%) Team Foundation Server
4 33 (17.28%) Visual Studio
5 30 (15.71%) JUnit
6 19 (9.95%) Mockito
7 12 (6.28%) JMeter
8 11 (5.76%) GitLab
8 11 (5.76%) SonarQube
9 10 (5.24%) JIRA
10 7 (3.66%) Cucumber
11 6 (3.14%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.62%) DbUnit
12 5 (2.62%) jMock
12 5 (2.62%) Maven
13 4 (2.09%) NUnit
14 3 (1.57%) Selenium
15 2 (1.05%) Mocha
General
1 35 (18.32%) Retail
2 32 (16.75%) Public Sector
3 31 (16.23%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.28%) Finance
5 7 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.66%) Financial Institution
5 7 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Automotive
6 5 (2.62%) Banking
7 4 (2.09%) Digital Health
7 4 (2.09%) Police
8 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Publishing
9 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 78 (40.84%) Developer
2 50 (26.18%) Architect
3 46 (24.08%) Java Developer
4 40 (20.94%) Senior
5 32 (16.75%) Technical Architect
6 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
7 26 (13.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 18 (9.42%) Principal Engineer
8 18 (9.42%) Principal Software Engineer
8 18 (9.42%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 15 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (5.76%) Lead
12 8 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Java Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Java Team Leader
13 6 (3.14%) Senior Java Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Team Leader
14 5 (2.62%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (45.55%) REST
2 60 (31.41%) .NET
3 56 (29.32%) HTML
4 47 (24.61%) Spring
5 44 (23.04%) ASP.NET
5 44 (23.04%) CSS
5 44 (23.04%) JSON
5 44 (23.04%) Web Services
6 40 (20.94%) React
6 40 (20.94%) Spring Boot
7 38 (19.90%) XML
8 34 (17.80%) RESTful
9 33 (17.28%) Bootstrap
9 33 (17.28%) gRPC
10 23 (12.04%) Apache Camel
11 22 (11.52%) Node.js
12 19 (9.95%) Hibernate
12 19 (9.95%) SOAP
13 18 (9.42%) Flutter
14 17 (8.90%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.47%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.19%) IoT
4 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.62%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.52%) PKI
8 1 (0.52%) SCADA
8 1 (0.52%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.33%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) VMS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (44.50%) Agile
2 71 (37.17%) DevOps
3 54 (28.27%) TDD
4 53 (27.75%) CI/CD
5 50 (26.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (25.13%) Design Patterns
7 44 (23.04%) Event-Driven
7 44 (23.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 42 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (20.94%) Collaborative Working
9 40 (20.94%) Software Engineering
10 39 (20.42%) API Integration
11 38 (19.90%) MVC
12 37 (19.37%) Scrum
13 32 (16.75%) Code Quality
13 32 (16.75%) Performance Optimisation
14 31 (16.23%) Data Encryption
14 31 (16.23%) Performance Testing
15 30 (15.71%) Unit Testing
16 29 (15.18%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 84 (43.98%) JavaScript
2 78 (40.84%) Java
3 66 (34.55%) SQL
4 59 (30.89%) Python
5 58 (30.37%) C#
6 24 (12.57%) Perl
7 21 (10.99%) Go
8 19 (9.95%) Ruby
8 19 (9.95%) Rust
9 18 (9.42%) C
9 18 (9.42%) C++
9 18 (9.42%) Shell Script
10 13 (6.81%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.14%) Groovy
12 3 (1.57%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.57%) Bicep
13 2 (1.05%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.52%) PHP
14 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.33%) Degree
4 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) MCSE
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.28%) GDPR
2 16 (8.38%) QA
3 7 (3.66%) SLA
4 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 102 (53.40%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Postfix
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (39.79%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.14%) Terraform
3 19 (9.95%) Ansible
4 12 (6.28%) Kibana
5 6 (3.14%) Packer
6 4 (2.09%) Grafana
6 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.52%) Argo
7 1 (0.52%) Consul
Vendors
1 18 (9.42%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) Splunk
3 11 (5.76%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.19%) IBM
5 6 (3.14%) AppDynamics
5 6 (3.14%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.62%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.57%) WSO2
8 2 (1.05%) SAP
8 2 (1.05%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco
9 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto