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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 45 68
Rank change year-on-year -87 +23 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 40 189 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.99% 5.53% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 6.04% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 17 100 95
10th Percentile £52,250 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,500 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.06% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,800 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,000 £112,500 £89,000
South East median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +12.50% -11.11%

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 3,265 3,130 3,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.76% 91.65% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,760 1,409 2,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £39,209
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £76,009 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%

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 10 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 10 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 -67 31 £80,000 -3.03% 53
Buckinghamshire -20 7 £70,000 -12.50% 21
Oxfordshire +5 2 £83,750 +52.27% 14
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 (15.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (75.00%) AWS
2 23 (57.50%) Serverless
3 18 (45.00%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (42.50%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (30.00%) Amazon S3
5 12 (30.00%) Azure
6 11 (27.50%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (27.50%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (17.50%) GCP
8 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (15.00%) SaaS
9 5 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (12.50%) GitHub
10 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (42.50%) Relational Database
3 11 (27.50%) RDBMS
4 7 (17.50%) NoSQL
5 6 (15.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (12.50%) MySQL
7 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.00%) JUnit
3 11 (27.50%) JMeter
3 11 (27.50%) Mockito
4 9 (22.50%) Git
5 5 (12.50%) git-flow
6 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 15 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Games
4 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 23 (57.50%) Java Developer
3 21 (52.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (37.50%) Senior
5 14 (35.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 12 (30.00%) Senior Developer
7 11 (27.50%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 7 (17.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (7.50%) Architect
10 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Lead
11 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
12 1 (2.50%) .NET Software Developer
12 1 (2.50%) AWS Developer
12 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
12 1 (2.50%) Lead DevOps
12 1 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (60.00%) REST
1 24 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 21 (52.50%) React
3 19 (47.50%) Spring
4 16 (40.00%) Web Services
5 15 (37.50%) HTML
6 12 (30.00%) Hibernate
6 12 (30.00%) Kafka
7 11 (27.50%) .NET
7 11 (27.50%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (27.50%) Apache Camel
7 11 (27.50%) jQuery
7 11 (27.50%) JSON
7 11 (27.50%) WireMock
7 11 (27.50%) XML
8 7 (17.50%) Node.js
9 6 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (15.00%) Mustache
10 5 (12.50%) CSS
10 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.50%) IoT
3 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.50%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Agile
2 28 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (52.50%) TDD
5 17 (42.50%) SDLC
6 15 (37.50%) DevOps
7 11 (27.50%) BDD
7 11 (27.50%) Process Management
7 11 (27.50%) Workflow
8 9 (22.50%) Scrum
9 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
9 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (12.50%) B2B
11 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 5 (12.50%) Software Delivery
12 4 (10.00%) MVC
12 4 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Java
2 20 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 13 (32.50%) Python
4 11 (27.50%) C#
4 11 (27.50%) Shell Script
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 6 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) C
7 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (27.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Dynatrace
1 11 (27.50%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce