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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 45 71
Rank change year-on-year -82 +26 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 43 192 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.08% 5.44% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 5.96% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 17 104 74
10th Percentile £47,300 £54,500 £49,125
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +24.53% -5.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,800 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,250 £112,500 £90,875
South East median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

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 3,247 3,224 2,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 81.83% 91.33% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 1,526 2,130
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.48% -1.82%

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 24 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 24 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 -66 33 £80,000 -3.03% 83
Buckinghamshire -15 8 £65,000 -18.75% 33
Oxfordshire -2 2 £83,750 +45.65% 25
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 6 (13.95%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (76.74%) AWS
2 26 (60.47%) Serverless
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (46.51%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (32.56%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (30.23%) Azure
7 12 (27.91%) Amazon S3
8 11 (25.58%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (16.28%) GCP
10 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (13.95%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (13.95%) GitHub
10 6 (13.95%) SaaS
11 5 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
13 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
13 1 (2.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (51.16%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (46.51%) Relational Database
3 14 (32.56%) RDBMS
4 8 (18.60%) NoSQL
5 6 (13.95%) DynamoDB
6 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (11.63%) MySQL
7 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.33%) Metadata
8 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 15 (34.88%) JUnit
3 14 (32.56%) JMeter
3 14 (32.56%) Mockito
4 10 (23.26%) Git
5 5 (11.63%) git-flow
6 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.33%) JIRA
7 1 (2.33%) MSBuild
7 1 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (41.86%) Public Sector
2 13 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.65%) Law
4 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.33%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Games
5 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (76.74%) Developer
2 25 (58.14%) Java Developer
3 24 (55.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (39.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (32.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (25.58%) Senior
7 8 (18.60%) Senior Developer
8 5 (11.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (9.30%) Architect
10 3 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
11 2 (4.65%) Lead
11 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
12 1 (2.33%) AWS Developer
12 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 1 (2.33%) Lead DevOps
12 1 (2.33%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) REST
1 26 (60.47%) Spring Boot
2 23 (53.49%) Spring
3 19 (44.19%) HTML
3 19 (44.19%) React
3 19 (44.19%) Web Services
4 15 (34.88%) Hibernate
4 15 (34.88%) JSON
4 15 (34.88%) XML
5 14 (32.56%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (32.56%) Apache Camel
5 14 (32.56%) jQuery
5 14 (32.56%) WireMock
6 13 (30.23%) Kafka
7 12 (27.91%) .NET
8 7 (16.28%) Node.js
9 6 (13.95%) CSS
9 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (13.95%) Mustache
10 5 (11.63%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (55.81%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.98%) IoT
4 3 (6.98%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (81.40%) Agile
2 32 (74.42%) CI/CD
3 28 (65.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (58.14%) TDD
5 18 (41.86%) SDLC
6 17 (39.53%) DevOps
7 14 (32.56%) BDD
7 14 (32.56%) Process Management
7 14 (32.56%) Workflow
8 10 (23.26%) Scrum
9 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven
9 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (11.63%) B2B
12 5 (11.63%) Data Modelling
12 5 (11.63%) MVC
12 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Java
2 24 (55.81%) JavaScript
3 16 (37.21%) Python
4 14 (32.56%) Shell Script
5 12 (27.91%) C#
6 8 (18.60%) SQL
7 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.65%) C
9 1 (2.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (39.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (32.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (32.56%) Dynatrace
1 14 (32.56%) Splunk
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce