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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 83 74
Rank change year-on-year -14 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 116 130 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.01% 2.67% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 3.26% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 37 71 88
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £49,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,563
90th Percentile £91,500 £93,750 £87,875
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

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 3,475 3,989 3,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 90.03% 82.01% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 2,097 2,433
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 94 £82,500 +8.20% 18
Buckinghamshire -21 13 £65,000 +6.12% 4
Oxfordshire +16 9 £62,500 -3.85% 13
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.62%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) JBoss
2 7 (6.03%) Red Hat Fuse
3 2 (1.72%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.41%) AWS
2 35 (30.17%) Serverless
3 34 (29.31%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (28.45%) Amazon EKS
4 33 (28.45%) Azure
5 31 (26.72%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (13.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 16 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 15 (12.93%) SonarCloud
9 12 (10.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 10 (8.62%) GCP
11 9 (7.76%) Amazon S3
11 9 (7.76%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (5.17%) AWS KMS
13 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.31%) Route 53
14 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Firewall
1 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (41.38%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (29.31%) Relational Database
3 24 (20.69%) RDBMS
4 15 (12.93%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 46 (39.66%) Jenkins
2 42 (36.21%) JUnit
3 35 (30.17%) Git
4 34 (29.31%) Mockito
5 24 (20.69%) JMeter
6 16 (13.79%) MSBuild
7 15 (12.93%) Maven
7 15 (12.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 15 (12.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 15 (12.93%) Visual Studio
8 13 (11.21%) SonarQube
9 10 (8.62%) JIRA
10 9 (7.76%) GitLab
11 7 (6.03%) Bitbucket
12 6 (5.17%) Cucumber
12 6 (5.17%) DbUnit
12 6 (5.17%) jMock
12 6 (5.17%) Selenium
12 6 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (4.31%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 42 (36.21%) Public Sector
2 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
3 33 (28.45%) Law
4 15 (12.93%) Retail
5 12 (10.34%) Marketing
6 9 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (6.03%) Banking
7 7 (6.03%) Finance
8 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Games
9 1 (0.86%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 50 (43.10%) Developer
2 45 (38.79%) Java Developer
3 31 (26.72%) Architect
4 27 (23.28%) Lead
5 19 (16.38%) Technical Architect
6 16 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (10.34%) Enterprise Architect
8 12 (10.34%) Salesforce Architect
9 9 (7.76%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.17%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.17%) Lead Java Developer
12 4 (3.45%) Senior
13 3 (2.59%) .NET Developer
13 3 (2.59%) Senior Developer
14 2 (1.72%) .NET Architect
14 2 (1.72%) .NET Technical Architect
14 2 (1.72%) Senior Java Developer
15 1 (0.86%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (58.62%) REST
2 54 (46.55%) Spring
2 54 (46.55%) Spring Boot
3 46 (39.66%) HTML
4 40 (34.48%) Hibernate
4 40 (34.48%) Web Services
5 32 (27.59%) ActiveMQ
5 32 (27.59%) JSON
5 32 (27.59%) XML
6 31 (26.72%) Apache Camel
7 27 (23.28%) SOAP
8 24 (20.69%) jQuery
8 24 (20.69%) WireMock
9 22 (18.97%) Bootstrap
9 22 (18.97%) CSS
10 21 (18.10%) .NET
11 19 (16.38%) RESTful
12 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET
12 15 (12.93%) gRPC
12 15 (12.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 40 (34.48%) Enterprise Software
2 38 (32.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Agile
2 60 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 56 (48.28%) DevOps
4 49 (42.24%) TDD
5 48 (41.38%) Technical Leadership
6 37 (31.90%) BDD
7 35 (30.17%) Computer Science
8 34 (29.31%) Data Modelling
9 33 (28.45%) Data Management
10 27 (23.28%) Design Patterns
10 27 (23.28%) Open Source
11 26 (22.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (22.41%) Scrum
12 24 (20.69%) Process Management
12 24 (20.69%) Workflow
13 23 (19.83%) Analytics
13 23 (19.83%) Kanban
13 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (18.10%) Decision Quality
14 21 (18.10%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (49.14%) Java
2 51 (43.97%) JavaScript
3 34 (29.31%) SQL
4 28 (24.14%) Python
5 24 (20.69%) Shell Script
6 20 (17.24%) C#
7 12 (10.34%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
9 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (30.17%) Degree
2 32 (27.59%) Security Cleared
3 22 (18.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (11.21%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) GDPR
2 12 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.90%) QA
4 7 (6.03%) SLA
5 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (60.34%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Postfix
3 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 24 (20.69%) Kibana
3 7 (6.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.59%) Grafana
4 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Dynatrace
1 24 (20.69%) Splunk
2 12 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 12 (10.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 6 (5.17%) Solace
4 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.59%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.86%) Databricks
7 1 (0.86%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) IBM
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) Oracle