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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 63 109
Rank change year-on-year -30 +46 -54
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 76 155 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.34% 4.56% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 4.88% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 45 60 107
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +37.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,800 £91,250
South East median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,083 3,177 5,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 72.06% 93.50% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 1,193 3,940
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,640 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -34 48 £82,500 - 17
Buckinghamshire -1 22 £64,250 -8.21% 10
Oxfordshire -15 6 £40,000 -27.27% 5
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 (7.89%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.32%) JBoss
2 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 54 (71.05%) AWS
2 33 (43.42%) Azure
3 24 (31.58%) Serverless
4 23 (30.26%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (23.68%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (15.79%) Amazon S3
8 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.53%) SaaS
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (6.58%) Apigee
10 5 (6.58%) GCP
10 5 (6.58%) Kong
10 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.26%) GitHub
12 3 (3.95%) IaaS
12 3 (3.95%) PaaS
13 2 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
14 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 4 (5.26%) RFID
3 2 (2.63%) Internet
4 1 (1.32%) Modbus
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 13 (17.11%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.58%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 19 (25.00%) Git
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 8 (10.53%) JUnit
5 7 (9.21%) JIRA
5 7 (9.21%) JMeter
5 7 (9.21%) Mockito
6 6 (7.89%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.58%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.26%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
3 12 (15.79%) Finance
4 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.89%) Law
5 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.58%) Retail
7 4 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.95%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (42.11%) Developer
2 21 (27.63%) Java Developer
3 17 (22.37%) Architect
4 11 (14.47%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) .NET Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Java Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Automation Specialist
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Network Specialist
7 5 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Telecoms Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (47.37%) REST
2 30 (39.47%) React
3 20 (26.32%) JSON
4 19 (25.00%) Spring
4 19 (25.00%) Spring Boot
5 15 (19.74%) .NET
5 15 (19.74%) Web Services
5 15 (19.74%) XML
6 14 (18.42%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (18.42%) Node.js
7 13 (17.11%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (15.79%) RESTful
9 10 (13.16%) .NET Core
9 10 (13.16%) Kafka
10 9 (11.84%) Hibernate
10 9 (11.84%) YAML
11 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
11 8 (10.53%) Apache Camel
11 8 (10.53%) ASP.NET
11 8 (10.53%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 31 (40.79%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.26%) Contactless
6 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.63%) IoT
7 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.63%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.32%) CMDB
8 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) Agile
2 39 (51.32%) CI/CD
3 33 (43.42%) DevOps
4 26 (34.21%) TDD
5 24 (31.58%) Scrum
6 21 (27.63%) Containerisation
7 18 (23.68%) Computer Science
8 17 (22.37%) Software Engineering
9 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (19.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (18.42%) BDD
12 13 (17.11%) Event-Driven
12 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
13 12 (15.79%) Test Automation
14 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (14.47%) Roadmaps
14 11 (14.47%) SDLC
15 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (13.16%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) Java
2 27 (35.53%) JavaScript
3 22 (28.95%) C#
3 22 (28.95%) SQL
4 20 (26.32%) Python
5 10 (13.16%) TypeScript
6 9 (11.84%) Shell Script
7 6 (7.89%) Groovy
8 4 (5.26%) Perl
8 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.63%) PHP
10 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.32%) C
10 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (25.00%) Degree
2 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) QA
2 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (40.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (51.32%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.47%) Ansible
2 11 (14.47%) Kibana
3 10 (13.16%) Terraform
4 4 (5.26%) Packer
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) AppDynamics
3 8 (10.53%) IBM
3 8 (10.53%) Oracle
4 7 (9.21%) Dynatrace
4 7 (9.21%) Splunk
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
5 5 (6.58%) F5
5 5 (6.58%) Juniper
5 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.58%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow