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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 72 114
Rank change year-on-year -27 +42 -44
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 93 138 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.43% 3.85% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 4.27% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 45 61
10th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £62,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £89,500 - £87,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.80% -8.93%

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 4,618 3,229 4,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 70.82% 90.09% 81.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,210 1,437 2,691
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -6.36%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -27 54 £62,500 -24.24% 17
Buckinghamshire +1 28 £62,000 +5.53% 5
Oxfordshire -18 11 £47,500 -24.00% 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 2 (2.15%) Confluence
1 2 (2.15%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.08%) JBoss
2 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 62 (66.67%) AWS
2 45 (48.39%) Azure
3 22 (23.66%) Serverless
4 19 (20.43%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (15.05%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (15.05%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (12.90%) SaaS
7 10 (10.75%) GitHub
8 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (8.60%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.53%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.38%) Apigee
11 5 (5.38%) Kong
12 4 (4.30%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (3.23%) IaaS
13 3 (3.23%) PaaS
14 2 (2.15%) GCP
15 1 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
15 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (5.38%) Firewall
2 4 (4.30%) RFID
3 1 (1.08%) Modbus
3 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.98%) MongoDB
1 13 (13.98%) Relational Database
2 12 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.83%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.38%) MySQL
4 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.15%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (2.15%) Redis
7 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.08%) GIS
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Git
1 21 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.35%) GitLab
3 9 (9.68%) JIRA
4 8 (8.60%) JUnit
5 7 (7.53%) JMeter
5 7 (7.53%) Mockito
6 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.30%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.23%) Eclipse
9 3 (3.23%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (2.15%) Mocha
10 2 (2.15%) Selenium
General
1 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.20%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.68%) Retail
5 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.23%) Law
8 1 (1.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (41.94%) Developer
2 17 (18.28%) .NET Developer
3 16 (17.20%) Architect
4 15 (16.13%) Java Developer
5 13 (13.98%) Senior
6 12 (12.90%) Java Engineer
6 12 (12.90%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Automation Specialist
10 5 (5.38%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.38%) Integration Architect
10 5 (5.38%) Network Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Network Specialist
10 5 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.38%) Support Engineer
10 5 (5.38%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (41.94%) React
2 35 (37.63%) REST
3 23 (24.73%) Node.js
4 22 (23.66%) .NET
5 20 (21.51%) JSON
6 16 (17.20%) .NET Core
7 15 (16.13%) Spring
7 15 (16.13%) XML
8 14 (15.05%) Spring Boot
9 13 (13.98%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (12.90%) ASP.NET
10 12 (12.90%) Blazor
11 11 (11.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (11.83%) Web Services
12 10 (10.75%) AngularJS
12 10 (10.75%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (10.75%) RESTful
13 9 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web API
13 9 (9.68%) Hibernate
13 9 (9.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.30%) Contactless
6 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.23%) Life Science
7 3 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.15%) NHS
8 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.08%) CMDB
9 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) N-Tier
9 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (73.12%) Agile
2 40 (43.01%) CI/CD
3 37 (39.78%) DevOps
4 28 (30.11%) Scrum
4 28 (30.11%) TDD
5 23 (24.73%) Containerisation
5 23 (24.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (24.73%) Software Engineering
6 20 (21.51%) Event-Driven
7 19 (20.43%) Computer Science
8 17 (18.28%) AI
8 17 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (18.28%) Test Automation
9 16 (17.20%) BDD
10 15 (16.13%) Clean Code
10 15 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (16.13%) Roadmaps
11 13 (13.98%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (13.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) C#
2 32 (34.41%) Java
3 31 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 30 (32.26%) SQL
5 29 (31.18%) Python
6 19 (20.43%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.68%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.45%) Groovy
9 5 (5.38%) Apex Code
10 4 (4.30%) Perl
10 4 (4.30%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.15%) C
11 2 (2.15%) C++
11 2 (2.15%) Go
11 2 (2.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Degree
2 15 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.98%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (34.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.83%) Ansible
2 11 (11.83%) Kibana
2 11 (11.83%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Packer
4 3 (3.23%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) AppDynamics
3 8 (8.60%) IBM
3 8 (8.60%) Oracle
4 7 (7.53%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.53%) Splunk
5 5 (5.38%) Cisco
5 5 (5.38%) F5
5 5 (5.38%) Juniper
5 5 (5.38%) Palo Alto
5 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow