Microservices Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 73 65
Rank change year-on-year -117 -8 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 582 926 2,567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.97% 3.59% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 3.93% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 406 667 1,829
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,757 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -4.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,526 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £102,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,015 23,547 55,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 73.23% 91.21% 84.44%
Number of salaries quoted 26,946 13,696 40,187
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,822 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,002 £38,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -7.94%
75th Percentile £69,188 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,979 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
North of England -46 269 £69,305 -3.73% 130
North West -46 124 £70,000 -1.75% 76
South East -113 119 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -37 103 £69,310 -3.72% 31
South West -79 60 £63,750 -6.97% 35
Midlands -79 58 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East -1 42 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -39 40 £63,750 +10.87% 20
West Midlands -31 34 £72,500 +1.75% 21
Scotland -73 30 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -70 23 £67,250 +3.46% 15
Wales -29 10 £54,185 +6.25% 13
Northern Ireland -39 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (2.41%) OpenStack
2 13 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (1.72%) Apache
3 10 (1.72%) IIS
4 7 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.86%) CMS
6 4 (0.69%) Confluence
6 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.52%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.34%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Appian
9 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 338 (58.08%) AWS
2 280 (48.11%) Azure
3 132 (22.68%) Serverless
4 75 (12.89%) GCP
5 61 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
5 61 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (10.31%) Amazon S3
7 59 (10.14%) SaaS
8 57 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (8.08%) GitHub
10 40 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 27 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (3.61%) OpenShift
15 20 (3.44%) Azure AKS
16 19 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (3.26%) Power Platform
17 18 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.89%) Broadband
2 7 (1.20%) AMQP
2 7 (1.20%) Internet
3 5 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (0.86%) Firewall
3 5 (0.86%) HTTP
3 5 (0.86%) MQTT
4 2 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.34%) RFID
4 2 (0.34%) SSL
5 1 (0.17%) Modbus
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.17%) TCAP
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (15.98%) NoSQL
2 84 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (10.14%) SQL Server
4 52 (8.93%) MySQL
5 42 (7.22%) DynamoDB
5 42 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 36 (6.19%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.55%) Redis
9 8 (1.37%) Big Data
9 8 (1.37%) Power BI
9 8 (1.37%) Tableau
10 7 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.20%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.69%) GIS
12 4 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 107 (18.38%) Git
2 66 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.39%) GitLab
4 29 (4.98%) JIRA
5 26 (4.47%) JUnit
6 15 (2.58%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.58%) Mockito
6 15 (2.58%) Selenium
7 14 (2.41%) Maven
8 12 (2.06%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.37%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 6 (1.03%) JMeter
12 5 (0.86%) git-flow
12 5 (0.86%) PHPUnit
13 4 (0.69%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.69%) Postman
13 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 147 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.57%) Finance
3 56 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 31 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.95%) Law
6 14 (2.41%) Retail
7 12 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.89%) Advertising
9 9 (1.55%) Banking
10 8 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.20%) Legal
11 7 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.03%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.03%) Marketing
12 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.69%) Local Government
14 4 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (36.94%) Developer
2 128 (21.99%) Senior
3 122 (20.96%) Software Engineer
4 97 (16.67%) Lead
5 83 (14.26%) Architect
6 65 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 62 (10.65%) Java Developer
8 60 (10.31%) Senior Developer
9 48 (8.25%) .NET Developer
10 28 (4.81%) C# Developer
10 28 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
11 26 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 24 (4.12%) Lead Developer
13 24 (4.12%) Software Developer
14 23 (3.95%) .NET Software Engineer
15 22 (3.78%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.44%) C# Software Engineer
17 18 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (29.55%) .NET
2 168 (28.87%) React
3 110 (18.90%) RESTful
4 105 (18.04%) REST
5 98 (16.84%) Spring
6 96 (16.49%) Spring Boot
7 95 (16.32%) Node.js
8 71 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 47 (8.08%) .NET Core
10 46 (7.90%) Kafka
11 43 (7.39%) HTML
12 41 (7.04%) Vue
13 36 (6.19%) .NET Framework
13 36 (6.19%) ASP.NET
14 35 (6.01%) CSS
15 28 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (4.81%) Web Services
16 27 (4.64%) AWS CDK
16 27 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
17 24 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 168 (28.87%) Cloud Native
2 97 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (10.14%) Product Ownership
4 52 (8.93%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.41%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.23%) IoT
9 12 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
11 8 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.03%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.86%) N-Tier
13 5 (0.86%) PKI
14 4 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.69%) Legacy Code
14 4 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.93%) Linux
2 17 (2.92%) Windows
3 8 (1.37%) Unix
4 6 (1.03%) CentOS
4 6 (1.03%) Debian
4 6 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 290 (49.83%) Agile
3 240 (41.24%) DevOps
4 200 (34.36%) Software Engineering
5 155 (26.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 147 (25.26%) Containerisation
7 136 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 132 (22.68%) Mentoring
9 122 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (19.93%) Event-Driven
11 109 (18.73%) Test Automation
12 104 (17.87%) Infrastructure as Code
13 97 (16.67%) Scrum
13 97 (16.67%) TDD
14 77 (13.23%) Architectural Patterns
15 73 (12.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 65 (11.17%) Coaching
17 64 (11.00%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (10.82%) AI
19 57 (9.79%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 202 (34.71%) Java
2 158 (27.15%) C#
3 139 (23.88%) JavaScript
4 136 (23.37%) SQL
5 135 (23.20%) Python
6 113 (19.42%) TypeScript
7 29 (4.98%) PHP
8 25 (4.30%) Go
9 22 (3.78%) Bash
10 18 (3.09%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.89%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.72%) C
13 10 (1.72%) Groovy
14 9 (1.55%) Rust
14 9 (1.55%) Scala
15 7 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.86%) R
17 4 (0.69%) Delphi
17 4 (0.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (11.00%) Degree
2 60 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 46 (7.90%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 25 (4.30%) TOGAF Certification
8 22 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (2.58%) AWS Certified Developer
11 11 (1.89%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.55%) DBS Check
13 7 (1.20%) CISM
13 7 (1.20%) CISSP
14 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 1 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (8.08%) QA
2 17 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.89%) GDPR
5 7 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (1.03%) NCSC
6 6 (1.03%) NIST
7 3 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.34%) GRC
8 2 (0.34%) SEPA
8 2 (0.34%) WCAG
9 1 (0.17%) IFRS
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 172 (29.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.69%) Firmware
3 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 163 (28.01%) Kubernetes
2 117 (20.10%) Terraform
3 52 (8.93%) Ansible
4 20 (3.44%) Grafana
5 12 (2.06%) Kibana
6 10 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.20%) Puppet
9 6 (1.03%) Argo
10 5 (0.86%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.69%) Packer
11 4 (0.69%) Rancher
12 3 (0.52%) Nagios
13 2 (0.34%) Istio
13 2 (0.34%) MIIS
13 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 54 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.67%) Oracle
3 15 (2.58%) Google
4 11 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 10 (1.72%) AppDynamics
5 10 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.55%) IBM
7 8 (1.37%) Typelevel
8 7 (1.20%) Pega
8 7 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
9 6 (1.03%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.03%) Splunk
9 6 (1.03%) WSO2
10 5 (0.86%) Cisco
10 5 (0.86%) F5
10 5 (0.86%) Juniper
10 5 (0.86%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.52%) Adobe