Microservices Job Trends in Wales

Microservices
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 14 27 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 1.69% 1.79% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.73% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 35
10th Percentile £48,911 £36,250 £42,800
25th Percentile £49,625 £47,500 £50,079
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% -3.36%
75th Percentile £65,188 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £76,500
UK median annual salary £73,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.08% -13.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 682 988 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 82.37% 65.34% 95.71%
Number of salaries quoted 509 650 749
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,700 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,324 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £71,649
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Wales

Microservices
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Wales over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Wales

Microservices
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
South Wales +4 14 £52,000 -9.57% 23
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (21.43%) CMS
1 3 (21.43%) Confluence
1 3 (21.43%) Headless CMS
2 1 (7.14%) ColdFusion
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Serverless
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 6 (42.86%) PowerApps
4 5 (35.71%) AWS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Functions
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (21.43%) Contentful
5 3 (21.43%) GCP
5 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Senior
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) Bootstrap
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) Express.js
2 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 3 (21.43%) hapi
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (21.43%) NestJS
2 3 (21.43%) OpenLayers
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) React Native
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) Vue
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) CRM
2 6 (42.86%) SOA
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (21.43%) API Development
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (21.43%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (42.86%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Atlassian
2 3 (21.43%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle