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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 71 120
Rank change year-on-year -33 +49 -56
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 88 145 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.41% 4.01% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 4.42% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 58 50 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £60,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.36% +17.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,875 - £91,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +15.70% -13.57%

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 4,451 3,278 5,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.16% 90.70% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,094 1,408 3,390
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 51 £62,500 -24.24% 11
Buckinghamshire +7 27 £62,000 -8.15% 10
Oxfordshire -21 10 £47,500 -20.83% 3
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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.14%) JBoss
2 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 59 (67.05%) AWS
2 41 (46.59%) Azure
3 22 (25.00%) Serverless
4 19 (21.59%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (15.91%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.50%) SaaS
7 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (10.23%) GitHub
8 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.95%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.68%) Apigee
10 5 (5.68%) Kong
11 4 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.41%) IaaS
12 3 (3.41%) PaaS
13 2 (2.27%) GCP
14 1 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
14 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
2 4 (4.55%) RFID
3 1 (1.14%) Modbus
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.77%) MongoDB
1 13 (14.77%) Relational Database
2 12 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.68%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.55%) MySQL
5 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) GIS
7 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (23.86%) Jenkins
2 20 (22.73%) Git
3 17 (19.32%) GitLab
4 9 (10.23%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) JUnit
6 7 (7.95%) JMeter
6 7 (7.95%) Mockito
7 6 (6.82%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.68%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.27%) Eclipse
10 2 (2.27%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (2.27%) Mocha
10 2 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.18%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Retail
6 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.41%) Law
8 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (43.18%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) .NET Developer
3 16 (18.18%) Architect
4 15 (17.05%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Senior
6 11 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Java Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Lead
10 5 (5.68%) Network Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Network Specialist
10 5 (5.68%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.68%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Telecoms Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (43.18%) React
2 34 (38.64%) REST
3 23 (26.14%) Node.js
4 21 (23.86%) .NET
5 20 (22.73%) JSON
6 16 (18.18%) .NET Core
7 15 (17.05%) Spring
7 15 (17.05%) XML
8 14 (15.91%) Spring Boot
9 13 (14.77%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (13.64%) ASP.NET
10 12 (13.64%) Blazor
11 11 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (12.50%) Web Services
12 10 (11.36%) AngularJS
12 10 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (11.36%) RESTful
13 9 (10.23%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (10.23%) Hibernate
13 9 (10.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.95%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.55%) Contactless
6 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.27%) Life Science
7 2 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.14%) CMDB
8 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (73.86%) Agile
2 39 (44.32%) CI/CD
3 35 (39.77%) DevOps
4 27 (30.68%) Scrum
4 27 (30.68%) TDD
5 23 (26.14%) Containerisation
5 23 (26.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 19 (21.59%) Event-Driven
8 18 (20.45%) Computer Science
9 16 (18.18%) BDD
10 15 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (17.05%) Roadmaps
10 15 (17.05%) Test Automation
11 14 (15.91%) AI
11 14 (15.91%) Clean Code
11 14 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (14.77%) Enterprise Architecture
12 13 (14.77%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.91%) C#
2 30 (34.09%) Java
3 29 (32.95%) JavaScript
3 29 (32.95%) SQL
4 27 (30.68%) Python
5 18 (20.45%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.23%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.82%) Groovy
8 4 (4.55%) Apex Code
8 4 (4.55%) Perl
8 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.27%) C
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) PHP
10 1 (1.14%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (22.73%) Degree
2 14 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
4 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.82%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.50%) Ansible
2 11 (12.50%) Kibana
3 10 (11.36%) Terraform
4 4 (4.55%) Packer
5 2 (2.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) AppDynamics
3 8 (9.09%) IBM
3 8 (9.09%) Oracle
4 7 (7.95%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.95%) Splunk
5 5 (5.68%) Cisco
5 5 (5.68%) F5
5 5 (5.68%) Juniper
5 5 (5.68%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.68%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow