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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 66 14 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.10% 1.69% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 2.06% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 62 14 15
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,911 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,188 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £72,750 £73,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% +13.08% -13.33%

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 2,046 681 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.10% 82.35% 65.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,421 509 650
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £29,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +4.30% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,324
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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
West Wales - 44 £70,000 - 8
South Wales -36 18 £53,171 +2.25% 12
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 1
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 7 (10.61%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (78.79%) AWS
2 43 (65.15%) Azure
3 27 (40.91%) Serverless
4 26 (39.39%) GCP
5 21 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (27.27%) GitHub
6 18 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
9 6 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (9.09%) CloudFront
10 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
10 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.06%) Power Automate
10 4 (6.06%) Power Platform
10 4 (6.06%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.24%) MySQL
3 15 (22.73%) MongoDB
3 15 (22.73%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.58%) Redis
5 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Adabas
8 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (43.94%) Git
2 18 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 12 (18.18%) JIRA
4 9 (13.64%) Cypress.io
5 7 (10.61%) JUnit
5 7 (10.61%) Selenium
6 6 (9.09%) GitLab
7 5 (7.58%) RSpec
8 4 (6.06%) minitest
8 4 (6.06%) Postman
8 4 (6.06%) REST Assured
8 4 (6.06%) Zephyr
9 3 (4.55%) Newman
9 3 (4.55%) TestRail
10 1 (1.52%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.52%) Gatling
10 1 (1.52%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.52%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.52%) Mocha
General
1 38 (57.58%) Public Sector
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.18%) Banking
4 10 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 9 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.06%) Finance
7 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.52%) Aviation
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (68.18%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Senior
3 20 (30.30%) Senior Developer
4 15 (22.73%) Java Developer
5 12 (18.18%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Architect
6 8 (12.12%) Lead
7 7 (10.61%) SEO Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (7.58%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (6.06%) .NET Developer
10 4 (6.06%) Ruby Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Principal Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Principal Software Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (59.09%) Spring Boot
2 32 (48.48%) Spring
3 30 (45.45%) RESTful
4 28 (42.42%) Node.js
4 28 (42.42%) React
4 28 (42.42%) Terraform
5 24 (36.36%) Ruby on Rails
6 17 (25.76%) Kafka
7 16 (24.24%) RabbitMQ
8 15 (22.73%) JPA
9 14 (21.21%) Hibernate
10 12 (18.18%) REST
11 11 (16.67%) GraphQL
11 11 (16.67%) Next.js
12 10 (15.15%) Jest
13 9 (13.64%) Playwright
14 8 (12.12%) HTML
14 8 (12.12%) HTML5
15 7 (10.61%) CSS
15 7 (10.61%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 35 (53.03%) Cloud Native
2 27 (40.91%) Product Ownership
3 18 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (25.76%) Mainframe
5 12 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (16.67%) Virtual Team
7 8 (12.12%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) AIX
2 5 (7.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (98.48%) Agile
2 49 (74.24%) CI/CD
3 45 (68.18%) DevOps
4 42 (63.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 40 (60.61%) Scrum
6 29 (43.94%) Software Engineering
7 28 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (39.39%) Event-Driven
8 26 (39.39%) Technical Leadership
9 25 (37.88%) Containerisation
9 25 (37.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 23 (34.85%) Observability
10 23 (34.85%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 20 (30.30%) Domain-Driven Design
13 19 (28.79%) Mentoring
13 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (28.79%) Project Delivery
14 18 (27.27%) AI
15 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (65.15%) Java
2 24 (36.36%) Ruby
3 22 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.21%) TypeScript
5 11 (16.67%) C#
6 9 (13.64%) Python
6 9 (13.64%) SQL
7 6 (9.09%) COBOL
8 3 (4.55%) Bicep
8 3 (4.55%) Go
9 1 (1.52%) Bash
9 1 (1.52%) Natural
9 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 15 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) AWS Certification
2 7 (10.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (10.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.06%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (31.82%) QA
2 12 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 12 (18.18%) WCAG
3 9 (13.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 9 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (9.09%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (43.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.67%) Grafana
2 11 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.52%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 11 (16.67%) Splunk
2 10 (15.15%) OneLogin
3 8 (12.12%) Google
4 6 (9.09%) Oracle