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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 50 72
Rank change year-on-year -82 +22 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 47 195 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.23% 4.93% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 5.61% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18 105 78
10th Percentile £47,475 £56,250 £49,625
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +26.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £94,625 £112,500 £91,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -7.14%

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 3,185 3,478 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.38% 87.96% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,701 1,709 2,163
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £54,763
% change year-on-year -13.04% +5.00% -0.43%

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 9 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 9 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 -58 39 £80,000 -3.03% 13
Buckinghamshire -11 5 £65,000 -18.75% 7
Oxfordshire +10 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 5 (10.64%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) AWS
2 29 (61.70%) Serverless
3 24 (51.06%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (48.94%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (38.30%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (31.91%) Azure
7 11 (23.40%) Amazon S3
8 10 (21.28%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (21.28%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (12.77%) GitHub
10 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (10.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (10.64%) GCP
10 5 (10.64%) SaaS
11 4 (8.51%) SonarCloud
12 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
13 1 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (53.19%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (48.94%) Relational Database
3 18 (38.30%) RDBMS
4 9 (19.15%) NoSQL
5 6 (12.77%) DynamoDB
6 5 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (10.64%) MySQL
7 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.13%) Metadata
9 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (53.19%) Jenkins
2 19 (40.43%) JUnit
3 18 (38.30%) JMeter
3 18 (38.30%) Mockito
4 12 (25.53%) Git
5 5 (10.64%) git-flow
6 4 (8.51%) MSBuild
6 4 (8.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (8.51%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (8.51%) Visual Studio
7 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 20 (42.55%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Retail
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Games
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (78.72%) Developer
2 28 (59.57%) Java Developer
3 26 (55.32%) Full-Stack Developer
4 20 (42.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (31.91%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 11 (23.40%) Senior
7 9 (19.15%) Senior Developer
8 5 (10.64%) Architect
8 5 (10.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Lead
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) C# .NET Developer
11 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 1 (2.13%) Lead DevOps
11 1 (2.13%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (68.09%) REST
2 29 (61.70%) Spring Boot
3 26 (55.32%) HTML
4 25 (53.19%) Spring
5 22 (46.81%) JSON
5 22 (46.81%) Web Services
5 22 (46.81%) XML
6 18 (38.30%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (38.30%) Apache Camel
6 18 (38.30%) Hibernate
6 18 (38.30%) jQuery
6 18 (38.30%) React
6 18 (38.30%) WireMock
7 14 (29.79%) .NET
8 12 (25.53%) Kafka
9 9 (19.15%) CSS
10 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET
10 6 (12.77%) Node.js
11 5 (10.64%) Mustache
11 5 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (55.32%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (23.40%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.38%) IoT
5 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.26%) N-Tier
5 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (76.60%) Agile
2 35 (74.47%) CI/CD
3 30 (63.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (57.45%) TDD
5 20 (42.55%) DevOps
6 18 (38.30%) BDD
6 18 (38.30%) Process Management
6 18 (38.30%) SDLC
6 18 (38.30%) Workflow
7 12 (25.53%) Event-Driven
7 12 (25.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.02%) Scrum
10 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (12.77%) MVC
11 5 (10.64%) API Integration
11 5 (10.64%) B2B
11 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
11 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
11 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) JavaScript
2 29 (61.70%) Java
3 20 (42.55%) Python
4 18 (38.30%) Shell Script
5 14 (29.79%) C#
6 9 (19.15%) SQL
7 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.26%) C
9 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (63.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 18 (38.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Dynatrace
1 18 (38.30%) Splunk
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) Salesforce