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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 47 79
Rank change year-on-year -76 +32 -32
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 46 194 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.17% 5.29% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 5.84% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 19 106 76
10th Percentile £47,650 £55,000 £49,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £81,875 £85,800 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £112,500 £90,625
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 3,248 3,322 2,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.27% 90.62% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 1,597 2,095
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.50% -0.91%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -67 35 £80,000 -3.03% 27
Buckinghamshire -19 8 £65,000 -21.59% 11
Oxfordshire +1 3 £60,000 +4.35% 8
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 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (73.91%) AWS
2 27 (58.70%) Serverless
3 22 (47.83%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (45.65%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (32.61%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (32.61%) Azure
6 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
7 11 (23.91%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (17.39%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (15.22%) GCP
10 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (13.04%) GitHub
10 6 (13.04%) SaaS
11 5 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
13 2 (4.35%) SonarCloud
14 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
14 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (45.65%) Relational Database
3 15 (32.61%) RDBMS
4 9 (19.57%) NoSQL
5 6 (13.04%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.87%) MySQL
7 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (2.17%) Metadata
10 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.78%) JUnit
3 15 (32.61%) JMeter
3 15 (32.61%) Mockito
4 12 (26.09%) Git
5 5 (10.87%) git-flow
6 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.35%) MSBuild
6 2 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 19 (41.30%) Public Sector
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.35%) Law
4 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (76.09%) Developer
2 26 (56.52%) Java Developer
3 24 (52.17%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (36.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (30.43%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 12 (26.09%) Senior
7 9 (19.57%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.87%) Architect
8 5 (10.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Technical Architect
10 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Lead
11 2 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
12 1 (2.17%) AWS Developer
12 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 1 (2.17%) Lead DevOps
12 1 (2.17%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (60.87%) REST
2 27 (58.70%) Spring Boot
3 24 (52.17%) Spring
4 21 (45.65%) HTML
5 20 (43.48%) React
5 20 (43.48%) Web Services
6 17 (36.96%) JSON
6 17 (36.96%) XML
7 16 (34.78%) Hibernate
8 15 (32.61%) ActiveMQ
8 15 (32.61%) Apache Camel
8 15 (32.61%) jQuery
8 15 (32.61%) WireMock
9 14 (30.43%) .NET
10 13 (28.26%) Kafka
11 7 (15.22%) CSS
11 7 (15.22%) Node.js
12 6 (13.04%) ASP.NET
12 6 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (13.04%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 26 (56.52%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.52%) IoT
4 3 (6.52%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) Agile
2 34 (73.91%) CI/CD
3 30 (65.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (56.52%) TDD
5 19 (41.30%) DevOps
6 18 (39.13%) SDLC
7 15 (32.61%) BDD
7 15 (32.61%) Process Management
7 15 (32.61%) Workflow
8 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven
8 11 (23.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (21.74%) Scrum
10 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.22%) Software Engineering
12 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (13.04%) MVC
13 5 (10.87%) B2B
13 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
13 5 (10.87%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Java
2 27 (58.70%) JavaScript
3 17 (36.96%) Python
4 15 (32.61%) Shell Script
5 14 (30.43%) C#
6 9 (19.57%) SQL
7 7 (15.22%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.35%) C
9 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (58.70%) Kubernetes
2 15 (32.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Dynatrace
1 15 (32.61%) Splunk
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce