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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 40 76
Rank change year-on-year -87 +36 -27
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 42 182 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.96% 5.66% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 6.07% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 18 95 127
10th Percentile £59,750 £52,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £62,813 £60,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £82,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,800 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,250 £112,500 £91,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%

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 3,394 2,999 4,727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 77.83% 93.31% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 1,250 3,459
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 February 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 February 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 -61 33 £80,000 -3.03% 6
Buckinghamshire -25 7 £76,250 -11.13% 15
Oxfordshire -9 2 £83,750 +52.27% 3
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 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) AWS
2 22 (52.38%) Serverless
3 17 (40.48%) Amazon ECS
4 15 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (35.71%) Azure
5 13 (30.95%) Amazon S3
6 11 (26.19%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (23.81%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (19.05%) GCP
9 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (16.67%) SaaS
10 6 (14.29%) GitHub
11 5 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (11.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
13 1 (2.38%) Apigee
13 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.38%) Kong
13 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 9 (21.43%) RDBMS
3 7 (16.67%) MySQL
4 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 5 (11.90%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (11.90%) DynamoDB
6 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (2.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) JUnit
3 9 (21.43%) JMeter
3 9 (21.43%) Mockito
4 5 (11.90%) git-flow
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 14 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Health Technology
2 3 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.14%) Law
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Games
4 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Developer
2 22 (52.38%) Java Developer
3 18 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (40.48%) Senior
5 14 (33.33%) Senior Developer
6 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (21.43%) Mid-Level Java Developer
8 8 (19.05%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (11.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
11 3 (7.14%) Architect
11 3 (7.14%) Lead
12 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
12 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
13 1 (2.38%) .NET Developer
13 1 (2.38%) Lead Developer
13 1 (2.38%) Principal Software Engineer
13 1 (2.38%) Senior Software Developer
13 1 (2.38%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (54.76%) React
1 23 (54.76%) REST
2 22 (52.38%) Spring Boot
3 17 (40.48%) Spring
4 14 (33.33%) Web Services
5 13 (30.95%) HTML
6 12 (28.57%) .NET
6 12 (28.57%) Kafka
7 10 (23.81%) Hibernate
7 10 (23.81%) JSON
7 10 (23.81%) XML
8 9 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (21.43%) Apache Camel
8 9 (21.43%) jQuery
8 9 (21.43%) WireMock
9 6 (14.29%) CSS
9 6 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (14.29%) Mustache
9 6 (14.29%) Node.js
10 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (26.19%) Cloud Native
3 5 (11.90%) IoT
3 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (7.14%) N-Tier
6 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (71.43%) Agile
2 29 (69.05%) CI/CD
3 22 (52.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (45.24%) TDD
5 15 (35.71%) DevOps
5 15 (35.71%) SDLC
6 11 (26.19%) Scrum
7 9 (21.43%) BDD
7 9 (21.43%) Process Management
7 9 (21.43%) Workflow
8 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
9 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
9 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.90%) B2B
10 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
10 5 (11.90%) OO
10 5 (11.90%) Software Delivery
11 4 (9.52%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Java
2 23 (54.76%) JavaScript
3 12 (28.57%) C#
3 12 (28.57%) Python
4 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 7 (16.67%) SQL
6 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) C
7 2 (4.76%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.43%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Dynatrace
1 9 (21.43%) Splunk
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) F5
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Juniper
3 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce