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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 52 96
Rank change year-on-year -46 +44 -44
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 76 170 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.34% 4.99% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.87% 5.31% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 44 72 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +37.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,125 £91,000
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 4,067 3,203 5,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.69% 93.93% 84.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,754 1,225 3,870
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -40 51 £82,500 - 18
Buckinghamshire -6 19 £64,250 -17.52% 6
Oxfordshire -16 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 8 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.32%) JBoss
2 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 54 (71.05%) AWS
2 30 (39.47%) Azure
3 26 (34.21%) Serverless
4 25 (32.89%) Amazon EKS
5 20 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
6 14 (18.42%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (18.42%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.21%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (9.21%) SaaS
9 5 (6.58%) Apigee
9 5 (6.58%) GCP
9 5 (6.58%) Kong
9 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.95%) GitHub
10 3 (3.95%) IaaS
10 3 (3.95%) PaaS
11 2 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
1 5 (6.58%) Internet
2 3 (3.95%) RFID
3 1 (1.32%) Modbus
3 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) Relational Database
2 15 (19.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.58%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.63%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.32%) Metadata
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (35.53%) Jenkins
2 21 (27.63%) Git
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 9 (11.84%) 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
9 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.16%) Finance
5 6 (7.89%) Law
5 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.95%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.95%) Retail
8 2 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (44.74%) Developer
2 26 (34.21%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.05%) Architect
4 13 (17.11%) Senior
5 9 (11.84%) Senior Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Lead
8 6 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.58%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Integration Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Network Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Network Specialist
9 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (52.63%) REST
2 30 (39.47%) React
3 24 (31.58%) Spring Boot
4 21 (27.63%) Spring
5 20 (26.32%) JSON
6 16 (21.05%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (21.05%) Web Services
7 15 (19.74%) XML
8 14 (18.42%) Node.js
9 13 (17.11%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (15.79%) .NET
10 12 (15.79%) Kafka
10 12 (15.79%) RESTful
11 10 (13.16%) Mustache
12 9 (11.84%) Hibernate
12 9 (11.84%) YAML
13 8 (10.53%) AngularJS
13 8 (10.53%) Apache Camel
14 7 (9.21%) .NET Core
14 7 (9.21%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (42.11%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.58%) IoT
4 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.95%) Contactless
7 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.63%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.32%) CMDB
8 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 5 (6.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (61.84%) Agile
2 41 (53.95%) CI/CD
3 34 (44.74%) DevOps
4 26 (34.21%) TDD
5 24 (31.58%) Scrum
6 21 (27.63%) Containerisation
7 17 (22.37%) Computer Science
8 15 (19.74%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
9 14 (18.42%) BDD
9 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (17.11%) SDLC
10 13 (17.11%) Test Automation
11 12 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (14.47%) Event-Driven
12 11 (14.47%) Integration Patterns
12 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (13.16%) Kanban
13 10 (13.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.95%) Java
2 28 (36.84%) JavaScript
3 20 (26.32%) Python
4 19 (25.00%) SQL
5 17 (22.37%) C#
6 9 (11.84%) Shell Script
7 7 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 6 (7.89%) Groovy
9 4 (5.26%) Perl
9 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.63%) PHP
11 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.32%) C
11 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Degree
2 14 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
4 12 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 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 32 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (56.58%) 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 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.84%) AppDynamics
3 8 (10.53%) IBM
4 7 (9.21%) Dynatrace
4 7 (9.21%) Oracle
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