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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 62 69
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 9 26 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.04% 1.98% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.86% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 27
10th Percentile £48,210 £41,594 £42,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £49,053
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £54,500 £63,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £59,200 £75,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 725 909 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 83.91% 69.39% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 534 536 738
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £26,349
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,700 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -2.62% -7.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £61,455
90th Percentile £74,106 £73,722 £72,453
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 October 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 October 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 +1 9 £52,000 -3.26% 8
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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) ColdFusion
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 4 (44.44%) PowerApps
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Contentful
6 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Express.js
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) hapi
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) NestJS
3 1 (11.11%) OpenLayers
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) React Native
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) CRM
2 4 (44.44%) SOA
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle