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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 118 84
Rank change year-on-year -8 -34 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 81 80 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.07% 2.11% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 2.34% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59 27 65
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,950 £43,500
25th Percentile £49,688 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +6.45% +10.71%
75th Percentile £80,625 £83,750 £85,800
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,250 £99,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

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 5,385 3,419 3,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.31% 90.23% 83.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,828 1,483 1,819
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -8 47 £76,250 -7.58% 23
Buckinghamshire +9 25 £62,000 -11.43% 8
Oxfordshire -38 9 £55,000 -15.38% 10
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 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 50 (61.73%) AWS
2 38 (46.91%) Azure
3 15 (18.52%) Serverless
4 13 (16.05%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (14.81%) GitHub
6 11 (13.58%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (12.35%) SaaS
8 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.41%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (2.47%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.47%) GCP
14 1 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
14 1 (1.23%) Bloomreach
14 1 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.47%) RFID
2 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) MongoDB
1 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (16.05%) Relational Database
2 11 (13.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (13.58%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.17%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.94%) Redis
5 3 (3.70%) MySQL
5 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Git
1 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.88%) JUnit
3 7 (8.64%) GitLab
3 7 (8.64%) JMeter
3 7 (8.64%) Mockito
4 3 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.70%) Eclipse RCP
5 2 (2.47%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) Mocha
5 2 (2.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (19.75%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Retail
4 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.23%) Games
8 1 (1.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) Developer
2 19 (23.46%) Software Engineer
3 16 (19.75%) .NET Developer
4 14 (17.28%) Senior
5 11 (13.58%) Architect
5 11 (13.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Java Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Lead
6 10 (12.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Platform Architect
8 5 (6.17%) Software Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.94%) Integration Architect
10 3 (3.70%) Azure Developer
10 3 (3.70%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (3.70%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.70%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.21%) React
2 33 (40.74%) Node.js
3 24 (29.63%) .NET
4 20 (24.69%) REST
5 17 (20.99%) .NET Core
6 12 (14.81%) Blazor
7 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
7 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (13.58%) Spring
7 11 (13.58%) Spring Boot
8 9 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
8 9 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 9 (11.11%) HTML
8 9 (11.11%) JSON
8 9 (11.11%) XML
9 8 (9.88%) Apache Camel
9 8 (9.88%) Web Services
10 7 (8.64%) .NET Framework
10 7 (8.64%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (8.64%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.69%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.64%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.70%) Life Science
6 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.47%) Contactless
7 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.47%) NHS
7 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (65.43%) Agile
2 34 (41.98%) CI/CD
3 29 (35.80%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (35.80%) Software Engineering
4 22 (27.16%) Event-Driven
4 22 (27.16%) Scrum
4 22 (27.16%) TDD
5 18 (22.22%) DevOps
5 18 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 17 (20.99%) Mentoring
7 16 (19.75%) AI
8 13 (16.05%) Clean Code
9 12 (14.81%) API Design
9 12 (14.81%) Workflow
10 11 (13.58%) BDD
10 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.35%) Data Modelling
12 9 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 9 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) C#
2 31 (38.27%) SQL
3 24 (29.63%) JavaScript
4 23 (28.40%) Java
5 20 (24.69%) TypeScript
6 19 (23.46%) Python
7 7 (8.64%) Shell Script
8 5 (6.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.47%) C
9 2 (2.47%) C++
9 2 (2.47%) Go
9 2 (2.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Kibana
3 3 (3.70%) Argo
4 1 (1.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (32.10%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Dynatrace
2 7 (8.64%) Splunk
3 6 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.47%) Google
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle
6 1 (1.23%) Thales