Microservices Jobs in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 101 58
Rank change year-on-year +51 -43 0
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 178 161 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.24% 2.40% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 2.82% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 80 113 170
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £91,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.43% -5.36%

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 3,188 5,701 5,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.90% 84.81% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,246 3,924 3,074
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 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 11 May 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 +40 135 £82,500 +26.92% 27
Buckinghamshire +25 22 £70,000 +33.33% 15
Oxfordshire +32 21 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.30%) JBoss
1 13 (7.30%) Red Hat Fuse
2 9 (5.06%) Confluence
3 6 (3.37%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.38%) AWS
2 60 (33.71%) Serverless
3 52 (29.21%) Azure
4 39 (21.91%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (21.35%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (16.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 29 (16.29%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (15.17%) Azure Service Bus
10 26 (14.61%) SonarCloud
11 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (6.74%) Amazon S3
15 11 (6.18%) GCP
16 7 (3.93%) SaaS
17 5 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (2.81%) AWS KMS
17 5 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
18 4 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.56%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.71%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (24.72%) Relational Database
3 26 (14.61%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (10.67%) RDBMS
5 13 (7.30%) DynamoDB
6 11 (6.18%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.06%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.25%) MySQL
10 2 (1.12%) Redis
11 1 (0.56%) Big Data
11 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 59 (33.15%) Git
2 52 (29.21%) Jenkins
3 46 (25.84%) JUnit
4 30 (16.85%) Mockito
5 26 (14.61%) MSBuild
5 26 (14.61%) Octopus Deploy
5 26 (14.61%) Team Foundation Server
5 26 (14.61%) Visual Studio
6 19 (10.67%) JMeter
7 13 (7.30%) Maven
7 13 (7.30%) SonarQube
8 12 (6.74%) GitLab
9 10 (5.62%) JIRA
10 8 (4.49%) Selenium
11 7 (3.93%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket
12 6 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (2.81%) DbUnit
13 5 (2.81%) jMock
14 2 (1.12%) IntelliJ
General
1 59 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.60%) Law
2 42 (23.60%) Public Sector
3 25 (14.04%) Retail
4 21 (11.80%) Marketing
5 13 (7.30%) Finance
6 9 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (3.93%) Banking
7 7 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (38.20%) Developer
2 62 (34.83%) Architect
3 51 (28.65%) Java Developer
4 31 (17.42%) Technical Architect
5 26 (14.61%) Lead
6 24 (13.48%) Enterprise Architect
7 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Architect
8 17 (9.55%) Software Engineer
9 16 (8.99%) Senior
10 14 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.18%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (5.06%) Senior Software Developer
13 9 (5.06%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
14 6 (3.37%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
15 5 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
15 5 (2.81%) Azure Developer
16 4 (2.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (55.06%) REST
2 56 (31.46%) Spring
3 55 (30.90%) HTML
4 53 (29.78%) Spring Boot
5 45 (25.28%) Web Services
6 42 (23.60%) SOAP
7 37 (20.79%) React
8 36 (20.22%) CSS
8 36 (20.22%) Hibernate
9 35 (19.66%) .NET
10 34 (19.10%) JSON
11 33 (18.54%) Apache Camel
11 33 (18.54%) XML
12 30 (16.85%) Bootstrap
13 26 (14.61%) ActiveMQ
13 26 (14.61%) ASP.NET
13 26 (14.61%) gRPC
14 25 (14.04%) RESTful
15 22 (12.36%) Middleware
16 21 (11.80%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.09%) Enterprise Software
2 45 (25.28%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.56%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.56%) PKI
6 1 (0.56%) TM Forum
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (52.25%) Agile
2 90 (50.56%) DevOps
3 76 (42.70%) CI/CD
4 65 (36.52%) Technical Leadership
5 53 (29.78%) TDD
6 49 (27.53%) Design Patterns
7 47 (26.40%) Computer Science
8 44 (24.72%) Data Modelling
9 42 (23.60%) Data Management
9 42 (23.60%) Event-Driven
10 41 (23.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (23.03%) Kanban
10 41 (23.03%) Scrum
11 40 (22.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 38 (21.35%) BDD
13 36 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (17.98%) Performance Optimisation
15 30 (16.85%) TOGAF
16 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (15.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.96%) Java
2 61 (34.27%) JavaScript
3 48 (26.97%) SQL
4 40 (22.47%) Python
5 33 (18.54%) C#
6 21 (11.80%) Apex Code
7 20 (11.24%) Shell Script
8 13 (7.30%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.18%) Go
10 7 (3.93%) Perl
10 7 (3.93%) Rust
11 6 (3.37%) C
11 6 (3.37%) C++
11 6 (3.37%) Ruby
12 3 (1.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (26.40%) Degree
2 36 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 34 (19.10%) SC Cleared
4 26 (14.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (12.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) MCSE
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.17%) GDPR
2 21 (11.80%) Data Quality
3 13 (7.30%) SLA
4 12 (6.74%) QA
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.56%) CDISC
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (52.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) Postfix
4 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (33.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (10.67%) Kibana
3 14 (7.87%) Ansible
4 12 (6.74%) Terraform
5 4 (2.25%) Grafana
5 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Argo
6 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) Salesforce
1 21 (11.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 19 (10.67%) Dynatrace
2 19 (10.67%) Splunk
3 6 (3.37%) Solace
4 4 (2.25%) IBM
5 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco
7 1 (0.56%) Databricks
7 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.56%) VMware