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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 59 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 5 20 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.45% 2.14% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 2.62% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile £50,700 - £48,750
25th Percentile £51,750 £41,594 £51,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% -16.67% +1.41%
75th Percentile £58,000 £70,938 £66,875
90th Percentile £60,098 £85,825 £85,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%

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 864 764 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 78.05% 81.71% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 600 393 592
10th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £30,775
25th Percentile £30,188 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -2.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,039 £75,000 £72,493
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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
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 20 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
South Wales -14 4 £55,066 +10.13% 8
West Wales - 1 £55,200 - 2
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 (20.00%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure API Management
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) git-flow
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) Flask
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) FinOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle