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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 10 9 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.69% 1.74% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.99% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 36
10th Percentile £50,448 - £40,000
25th Percentile £50,468 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,185 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £58,874 £64,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £64,647 £71,858 £70,224
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%

All Process & 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 987 452 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 68.49% 87.26% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 618 273 1,022
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +12.22% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,800 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Microservices job vacancy trend 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 8 April 2026.

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 8 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
South Wales -24 9 £53,171 +4.26% 12
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Datadog
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) Google Sheets
4 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) git-flow
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
1 6 (60.00%) Senior
1 6 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (30.00%) SEO Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (20.00%) Next.js
1 2 (20.00%) Node.js
1 2 (20.00%) React
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Flask
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) pytest
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (40.00%) AI
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (40.00%) SEO
4 4 (40.00%) SOA
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
6 2 (20.00%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Delphi
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (20.00%) SEPA
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Opsgenie
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) GoldenSource
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle