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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 59 83
Rank change year-on-year -75 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 49 181 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.34% 4.21% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 4.89% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 21 91 76
10th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £95,000
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 3,111 3,698 3,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.14% 86.06% 93.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,810 2,182
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,106 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,701 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.42% +2.28% -

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -64 38 £81,250 -1.52% 15
Buckinghamshire -3 7 £65,000 -5.45% 5
Oxfordshire +15 4 £65,000 - 9
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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
1 2 (4.08%) JBoss
1 2 (4.08%) OpenStack
1 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) AWS
2 28 (57.14%) Serverless
3 23 (46.94%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (44.90%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (38.78%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (36.73%) Azure
7 11 (22.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (18.37%) Amazon S3
9 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (12.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (12.24%) GitHub
12 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (10.20%) GCP
12 5 (10.20%) SaaS
12 5 (10.20%) SonarCloud
13 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
13 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
1 1 (2.04%) Internet
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (53.06%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (44.90%) Relational Database
3 18 (36.73%) RDBMS
4 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
5 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.20%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (10.20%) MySQL
7 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (2.04%) Metadata
9 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (53.06%) Jenkins
2 21 (42.86%) JUnit
3 19 (38.78%) Mockito
4 18 (36.73%) JMeter
5 14 (28.57%) Git
6 6 (12.24%) MSBuild
7 5 (10.20%) git-flow
7 5 (10.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (10.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
8 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.08%) JIRA
8 2 (4.08%) Maven
9 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (2.04%) DbUnit
9 1 (2.04%) jMock
9 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 22 (44.90%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Retail
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Games
5 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (71.43%) Developer
2 26 (53.06%) Java Developer
3 23 (46.94%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (34.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (30.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 10 (20.41%) Senior
7 7 (14.29%) Senior Developer
8 6 (12.24%) Architect
8 6 (12.24%) Technical Architect
9 5 (10.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (6.12%) Lead
10 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
11 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
11 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
11 2 (4.08%) Lead Java Developer
11 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
12 1 (2.04%) C# .NET Developer
12 1 (2.04%) Lead DevOps
12 1 (2.04%) Senior DevOps
12 1 (2.04%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (63.27%) REST
2 28 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 27 (55.10%) HTML
4 26 (53.06%) Spring
5 23 (46.94%) JSON
5 23 (46.94%) Web Services
5 23 (46.94%) XML
6 20 (40.82%) Apache Camel
7 19 (38.78%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (38.78%) Hibernate
8 18 (36.73%) jQuery
8 18 (36.73%) WireMock
9 16 (32.65%) .NET
10 13 (26.53%) React
11 10 (20.41%) CSS
11 10 (20.41%) Kafka
12 7 (14.29%) ASP.NET
13 6 (12.24%) Bootstrap
13 6 (12.24%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (10.20%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (53.06%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) N-Tier
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) Agile
2 34 (69.39%) CI/CD
3 27 (55.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 27 (55.10%) TDD
4 24 (48.98%) DevOps
5 21 (42.86%) BDD
6 18 (36.73%) Process Management
6 18 (36.73%) Workflow
7 15 (30.61%) SDLC
8 13 (26.53%) Event-Driven
8 13 (26.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (18.37%) Scrum
11 7 (14.29%) API Integration
11 7 (14.29%) MVC
12 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (12.24%) Kanban
13 5 (10.20%) Data Encryption
13 5 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
13 5 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) JavaScript
2 28 (57.14%) Java
3 22 (44.90%) Python
4 18 (36.73%) Shell Script
5 16 (32.65%) C#
6 11 (22.45%) SQL
7 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.08%) C
9 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.04%) Bash
9 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 6 (12.24%) GDPR
3 2 (4.08%) SLA
4 1 (2.04%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (53.06%) Kubernetes
2 18 (36.73%) Kibana
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Dynatrace
1 18 (36.73%) Splunk
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Salesforce