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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 93 58
Rank change year-on-year +49 -35 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 166 173 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.41% 2.57% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 3.02% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 78 122 174
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £60,125 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £61,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -12.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £97,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% -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 2,849 5,732 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.92% 85.12% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 4,012 3,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,087 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +40 130 £82,500 +26.92% 21
Oxfordshire +33 18 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Buckinghamshire +22 18 £70,000 +21.74% 18
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 (7.23%) JBoss
1 12 (7.23%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (3.61%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
3 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.96%) AWS
2 58 (34.94%) Serverless
3 45 (27.11%) Azure
4 37 (22.29%) Amazon EKS
5 36 (21.69%) Amazon ECS
6 31 (18.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (16.27%) Azure Service Bus
9 26 (15.66%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (15.66%) SonarCloud
10 21 (12.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 12 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
11 12 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (5.42%) Amazon S3
13 7 (4.22%) SaaS
14 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.01%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.41%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (2.41%) AWS KMS
15 4 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.81%) Internet
2 1 (0.60%) Broadband
2 1 (0.60%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (32.53%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (24.70%) Relational Database
3 26 (15.66%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (10.84%) RDBMS
5 11 (6.63%) DynamoDB
6 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.61%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.01%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.41%) MySQL
10 2 (1.20%) Redis
11 1 (0.60%) Big Data
11 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 56 (33.73%) Git
2 47 (28.31%) Jenkins
3 41 (24.70%) JUnit
4 27 (16.27%) Mockito
5 26 (15.66%) MSBuild
5 26 (15.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 26 (15.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 26 (15.66%) Visual Studio
6 18 (10.84%) JMeter
7 6 (3.61%) GitLab
8 5 (3.01%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.41%) DbUnit
9 4 (2.41%) jMock
9 4 (2.41%) Maven
10 3 (1.81%) JIRA
11 2 (1.20%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.20%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.20%) Mocha
11 2 (1.20%) Moq
11 2 (1.20%) Selenium
General
1 59 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 42 (25.30%) Law
3 38 (22.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (15.06%) Retail
5 21 (12.65%) Marketing
6 7 (4.22%) Finance
6 7 (4.22%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 64 (38.55%) Developer
2 62 (37.35%) Architect
3 47 (28.31%) Java Developer
4 30 (18.07%) Technical Architect
5 24 (14.46%) Enterprise Architect
6 23 (13.86%) Lead
7 21 (12.65%) Salesforce Architect
8 15 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (9.04%) Senior
9 11 (6.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.02%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (5.42%) Software Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.61%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (3.61%) Principal Software Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
14 5 (3.01%) Azure Developer
15 4 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (56.63%) REST
2 48 (28.92%) HTML
3 45 (27.11%) Spring
4 41 (24.70%) Spring Boot
4 41 (24.70%) Web Services
5 38 (22.89%) SOAP
6 36 (21.69%) .NET
7 33 (19.88%) JSON
8 32 (19.28%) XML
9 31 (18.67%) Apache Camel
9 31 (18.67%) React
10 30 (18.07%) CSS
11 27 (16.27%) Hibernate
12 26 (15.66%) ASP.NET
12 26 (15.66%) Bootstrap
12 26 (15.66%) gRPC
13 23 (13.86%) RESTful
14 22 (13.25%) ActiveMQ
14 22 (13.25%) Middleware
15 21 (12.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.51%) Enterprise Software
2 43 (25.90%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.60%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.60%) PKI
6 1 (0.60%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (50.00%) Agile
2 80 (48.19%) DevOps
3 66 (39.76%) CI/CD
4 64 (38.55%) Technical Leadership
5 50 (30.12%) Design Patterns
6 46 (27.71%) Computer Science
7 43 (25.90%) Data Modelling
8 42 (25.30%) Data Management
8 42 (25.30%) Event-Driven
8 42 (25.30%) TDD
9 40 (24.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 39 (23.49%) Kanban
11 37 (22.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (22.29%) Scrum
12 35 (21.08%) BDD
13 30 (18.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (18.07%) TOGAF
14 29 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (16.87%) Enterprise Architecture
16 27 (16.27%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.53%) JavaScript
2 52 (31.33%) Java
3 41 (24.70%) SQL
4 38 (22.89%) Python
5 33 (19.88%) C#
6 21 (12.65%) Apex Code
7 19 (11.45%) Shell Script
8 13 (7.83%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.63%) Go
10 7 (4.22%) Perl
10 7 (4.22%) Rust
11 6 (3.61%) C
11 6 (3.61%) C++
11 6 (3.61%) Ruby
12 3 (1.81%) PHP
13 1 (0.60%) Groovy
13 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (27.71%) Degree
2 33 (19.88%) Security Cleared
3 32 (19.28%) SC Cleared
4 25 (15.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (13.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) MCSE
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.66%) GDPR
2 21 (12.65%) Data Quality
3 12 (7.23%) SLA
4 5 (3.01%) QA
5 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) CDISC
6 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (48.80%) Docker
2 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.20%) Postfix
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (30.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.84%) Kibana
3 13 (7.83%) Ansible
4 12 (7.23%) Terraform
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Packer
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) Salesforce
1 21 (12.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 18 (10.84%) Dynatrace
2 18 (10.84%) Splunk
3 4 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco
5 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.60%) VMware