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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 111 80
Rank change year-on-year 0 -31 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 94 89 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.26% 2.35% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.61% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 69 32 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £78,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +5.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £84,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,750 £94,875
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% -12.14%

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 5,308 3,416 3,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.02% 90.13% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,452 1,937
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £71,535 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -10 56 £82,500 - 28
Buckinghamshire +12 27 £62,000 -4.62% 13
Oxfordshire -28 11 £47,500 -26.92% 15
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 3 (3.19%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.06%) JBoss
3 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 60 (63.83%) AWS
2 45 (47.87%) Azure
3 26 (27.66%) Serverless
4 22 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (19.15%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (14.89%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (11.70%) GitHub
8 10 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 10 (10.64%) SaaS
9 5 (5.32%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
13 1 (1.06%) Amplience
13 1 (1.06%) Bloomreach
13 1 (1.06%) GCP
13 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) RFID
2 1 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.09%) Relational Database
2 14 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (13.83%) MongoDB
4 11 (11.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (11.70%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (6.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.19%) MySQL
7 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.13%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (2.13%) Redis
9 1 (1.06%) GIS
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (24.47%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.34%) Git
3 13 (13.83%) GitLab
4 9 (9.57%) JUnit
5 8 (8.51%) JMeter
5 8 (8.51%) Mockito
6 7 (7.45%) JIRA
7 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
8 5 (5.32%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.26%) Artifactory
10 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.19%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (2.13%) Mocha
11 2 (2.13%) Selenium
12 1 (1.06%) Claude Code
General
1 18 (19.15%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Retail
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.06%) Games
6 1 (1.06%) Law
6 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (42.55%) Developer
2 17 (18.09%) .NET Developer
3 16 (17.02%) Java Developer
4 15 (15.96%) Senior
4 15 (15.96%) Software Engineer
5 14 (14.89%) Architect
6 12 (12.77%) Java Engineer
7 11 (11.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) Lead
10 7 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.32%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Integration Architect
11 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Support Engineer
12 4 (4.26%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (4.26%) C# Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (4.26%) Platform Architect
12 4 (4.26%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (42.55%) React
2 31 (32.98%) REST
3 30 (31.91%) Node.js
4 24 (25.53%) .NET
5 17 (18.09%) Spring
6 16 (17.02%) .NET Core
6 16 (17.02%) JSON
6 16 (17.02%) Spring Boot
7 13 (13.83%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (13.83%) Terraform
7 13 (13.83%) Web Services
8 12 (12.77%) Blazor
9 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
9 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET
9 11 (11.70%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (11.70%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (11.70%) XML
10 10 (10.64%) Hibernate
10 10 (10.64%) HTML
11 9 (9.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.98%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (13.83%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) Contactless
6 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Life Science
6 3 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.13%) NHS
7 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.06%) CMDB
8 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (69.15%) Agile
2 39 (41.49%) CI/CD
3 28 (29.79%) DevOps
3 28 (29.79%) TDD
4 27 (28.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (28.72%) Scrum
5 26 (27.66%) Software Engineering
6 21 (22.34%) Event-Driven
7 17 (18.09%) AI
7 17 (18.09%) BDD
7 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
7 17 (18.09%) Test Automation
8 16 (17.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 16 (17.02%) Mentoring
9 15 (15.96%) Clean Code
10 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
10 13 (13.83%) Kanban
10 13 (13.83%) Workflow
11 12 (12.77%) Data Modelling
11 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.49%) C#
2 36 (38.30%) Java
3 32 (34.04%) SQL
4 26 (27.66%) Python
5 25 (26.60%) JavaScript
6 19 (20.21%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.64%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.38%) Groovy
9 5 (5.32%) Apex Code
10 4 (4.26%) Perl
10 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.13%) C
11 2 (2.13%) C++
11 2 (2.13%) Go
11 2 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.96%) Degree
4 11 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (35.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.77%) Kibana
3 11 (11.70%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Packer
5 3 (3.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.57%) AppDynamics
3 8 (8.51%) Dynatrace
3 8 (8.51%) IBM
3 8 (8.51%) Splunk
4 7 (7.45%) Oracle
5 6 (6.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Thales