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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 41 67
Rank change year-on-year -85 +26 -12
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 41 189 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.00% 5.55% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 6.04% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 18 97 103
10th Percentile £60,625 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,813 £60,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,800 £83,750
90th Percentile £99,000 £112,500 £89,750
South East median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%

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 3,282 3,131 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.32% 91.95% 88.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,788 1,386 2,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.10% -0.01%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,190 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -69 31 £80,000 -3.03% 71
Buckinghamshire -13 8 £75,000 -9.53% 28
Oxfordshire -4 2 £83,750 +52.27% 21
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 (14.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (75.61%) AWS
2 23 (56.10%) Serverless
3 18 (43.90%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (41.46%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (34.15%) Azure
6 12 (29.27%) Amazon S3
7 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (26.83%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (19.51%) GCP
9 7 (17.07%) SaaS
10 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (12.20%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (12.20%) GitHub
12 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
13 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
13 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) PostgreSQL
1 17 (41.46%) Relational Database
2 11 (26.83%) RDBMS
3 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
4 5 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
4 5 (12.20%) MySQL
5 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (43.90%) Jenkins
2 12 (29.27%) JUnit
3 11 (26.83%) JMeter
3 11 (26.83%) Mockito
4 9 (21.95%) Git
5 5 (12.20%) git-flow
6 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (39.02%) Public Sector
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.32%) Law
4 2 (4.88%) Digital Healthcare
4 2 (4.88%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (75.61%) Developer
2 24 (58.54%) Java Developer
3 20 (48.78%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (39.02%) Senior
5 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 13 (31.71%) Senior Developer
7 11 (26.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 8 (19.51%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (12.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (9.76%) Architect
11 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
11 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
12 2 (4.88%) Lead
12 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
13 1 (2.44%) .NET Developer
13 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 1 (2.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 1 (2.44%) Lead DevOps
13 1 (2.44%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (58.54%) REST
1 24 (58.54%) Spring Boot
2 20 (48.78%) React
3 19 (46.34%) Spring
4 16 (39.02%) Web Services
5 15 (36.59%) HTML
6 12 (29.27%) .NET
6 12 (29.27%) Hibernate
6 12 (29.27%) Kafka
7 11 (26.83%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (26.83%) Apache Camel
7 11 (26.83%) jQuery
7 11 (26.83%) JSON
7 11 (26.83%) WireMock
7 11 (26.83%) XML
8 6 (14.63%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (14.63%) Mustache
8 6 (14.63%) Node.js
9 5 (12.20%) CSS
9 5 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (53.66%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (29.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.20%) IoT
3 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (7.32%) N-Tier
6 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (73.17%) Agile
2 29 (70.73%) CI/CD
3 24 (58.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (51.22%) TDD
5 17 (41.46%) SDLC
6 15 (36.59%) DevOps
7 11 (26.83%) BDD
7 11 (26.83%) Process Management
7 11 (26.83%) Workflow
8 9 (21.95%) Scrum
9 8 (19.51%) Event-Driven
9 8 (19.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.07%) Software Engineering
11 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 5 (12.20%) B2B
12 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
12 5 (12.20%) OO
12 5 (12.20%) Software Delivery
13 4 (9.76%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 28 (68.29%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) JavaScript
3 13 (31.71%) Python
4 12 (29.27%) C#
5 11 (26.83%) Shell Script
6 7 (17.07%) SQL
7 5 (12.20%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.88%) C
9 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Dynatrace
1 11 (26.83%) Splunk
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Salesforce