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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 65 114
Rank change year-on-year -36 +49 -51
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 79 147 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.36% 4.35% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 4.69% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 48 50 101
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £81,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% +35.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,875 - £91,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -14.29%

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 4,162 3,137 5,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.70% 92.81% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,884 1,212 4,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -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 June 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 June 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 -32 50 £82,500 - 15
Buckinghamshire 0 22 £63,500 -7.64% 6
Oxfordshire -13 7 £40,000 -27.27% 2
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 (6.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
3 1 (1.27%) JBoss
3 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 57 (72.15%) AWS
2 34 (43.04%) Azure
3 25 (31.65%) Serverless
4 22 (27.85%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (21.52%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (17.72%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
8 10 (12.66%) SaaS
9 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.33%) Apigee
10 5 (6.33%) GitHub
10 5 (6.33%) Kong
10 5 (6.33%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.80%) GCP
12 3 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.80%) IaaS
12 3 (3.80%) PaaS
13 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 4 (5.06%) RFID
3 2 (2.53%) Internet
4 1 (1.27%) Modbus
4 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.99%) Relational Database
2 14 (17.72%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.33%) RDBMS
6 4 (5.06%) MySQL
7 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (2.53%) Redis
9 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) Jenkins
2 19 (24.05%) Git
3 14 (17.72%) GitLab
4 9 (11.39%) JIRA
5 8 (10.13%) JUnit
6 7 (8.86%) JMeter
6 7 (8.86%) Mockito
7 6 (7.59%) SonarQube
8 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
9 4 (5.06%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.53%) Mocha
10 2 (2.53%) Selenium
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Finance
2 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.59%) Retail
4 6 (7.59%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.06%) Law
5 4 (5.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.80%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.53%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.99%) Architect
4 13 (16.46%) Senior
5 10 (12.66%) .NET Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.39%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Integration Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Network Specialist
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Telecoms Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (44.30%) REST
2 32 (40.51%) React
3 20 (25.32%) JSON
4 19 (24.05%) Node.js
5 18 (22.78%) Spring Boot
6 17 (21.52%) Spring
7 15 (18.99%) .NET
7 15 (18.99%) XML
8 14 (17.72%) Web Services
9 13 (16.46%) Elastic Stack
9 13 (16.46%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (15.19%) .NET Core
11 11 (13.92%) RESTful
12 9 (11.39%) AngularJS
12 9 (11.39%) HTML
12 9 (11.39%) Kafka
12 9 (11.39%) YAML
13 8 (10.13%) Apache Camel
13 8 (10.13%) ASP.NET
13 8 (10.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 29 (36.71%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (16.46%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.33%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.06%) Contactless
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) IoT
7 1 (1.27%) CMDB
7 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.27%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.92%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.09%) Agile
2 39 (49.37%) CI/CD
3 34 (43.04%) DevOps
4 26 (32.91%) TDD
5 24 (30.38%) Scrum
6 22 (27.85%) Containerisation
7 19 (24.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (21.52%) Computer Science
8 17 (21.52%) Software Engineering
9 15 (18.99%) BDD
10 14 (17.72%) Event-Driven
11 13 (16.46%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (15.19%) Roadmaps
12 12 (15.19%) Test Automation
13 11 (13.92%) Integration Patterns
13 11 (13.92%) Kanban
14 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
14 10 (12.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.57%) Java
2 29 (36.71%) JavaScript
3 25 (31.65%) SQL
4 24 (30.38%) C#
5 22 (27.85%) Python
6 12 (15.19%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.39%) Shell Script
8 6 (7.59%) Groovy
9 4 (5.06%) Perl
9 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.53%) PHP
11 1 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.27%) C
11 1 (1.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Degree
2 13 (16.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (16.46%) Security Cleared
3 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.59%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (40.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (50.63%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.92%) Ansible
2 11 (13.92%) Kibana
3 10 (12.66%) Terraform
4 4 (5.06%) Packer
5 1 (1.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) AppDynamics
3 8 (10.13%) IBM
3 8 (10.13%) Oracle
4 7 (8.86%) Dynatrace
4 7 (8.86%) Splunk
5 5 (6.33%) Cisco
5 5 (6.33%) F5
5 5 (6.33%) Juniper
5 5 (6.33%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow