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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 54 59
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 70 13 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.15% 1.53% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 1.83% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 65 13 14
10th Percentile £37,500 £48,827 £37,853
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,500 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £55,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £74,875
UK median annual salary £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -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 2,095 712 984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.26% 83.57% 67.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,459 524 595
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,066 £48,311 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.77% +5.02% +0.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 27 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 - 48 £70,000 - 8
South Wales -47 18 £53,171 +2.25% 14
North Wales - 4 £45,000 -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (80.00%) AWS
2 46 (65.71%) Azure
3 29 (41.43%) GCP
4 28 (40.00%) Serverless
5 24 (34.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (31.43%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (27.14%) GitHub
7 19 (27.14%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (12.86%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (8.57%) CloudFront
11 4 (5.71%) Azure Functions
11 4 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
11 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
12 2 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (27.14%) MySQL
3 18 (25.71%) MongoDB
3 18 (25.71%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (7.14%) Redis
5 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.29%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.43%) Adabas
8 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (45.71%) Git
2 19 (27.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.14%) JIRA
4 10 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 7 (10.00%) JUnit
5 7 (10.00%) Selenium
6 6 (8.57%) GitLab
7 5 (7.14%) RSpec
8 4 (5.71%) minitest
8 4 (5.71%) Postman
8 4 (5.71%) REST Assured
8 4 (5.71%) Zephyr
9 3 (4.29%) Newman
9 3 (4.29%) TestRail
10 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.43%) Gatling
10 1 (1.43%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.43%) Mocha
10 1 (1.43%) Pa11y
General
1 42 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.43%) Banking
4 11 (15.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 4 (5.71%) Finance
7 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.43%) Aviation
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 49 (70.00%) Developer
2 24 (34.29%) Senior
3 22 (31.43%) Senior Developer
4 18 (25.71%) Java Developer
5 12 (17.14%) Software Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Lead
7 8 (11.43%) Architect
8 7 (10.00%) SEO Developer
9 6 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (7.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (7.14%) Senior Software Developer
11 4 (5.71%) .NET Developer
11 4 (5.71%) Ruby Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Principal Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Principal Software Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (61.43%) Spring Boot
2 36 (51.43%) Spring
3 34 (48.57%) RESTful
4 31 (44.29%) Terraform
5 29 (41.43%) React
6 28 (40.00%) Node.js
7 25 (35.71%) Ruby on Rails
8 20 (28.57%) Kafka
9 19 (27.14%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (25.71%) JPA
11 17 (24.29%) Hibernate
12 12 (17.14%) Next.js
12 12 (17.14%) REST
13 11 (15.71%) GraphQL
13 11 (15.71%) Jest
14 10 (14.29%) Playwright
15 8 (11.43%) HTML
15 8 (11.43%) HTML5
16 7 (10.00%) CSS
16 7 (10.00%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 39 (55.71%) Cloud Native
2 31 (44.29%) Product Ownership
3 21 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (25.71%) Mainframe
5 15 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (20.00%) Virtual Team
7 13 (18.57%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (12.86%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) AIX
2 5 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (98.57%) Agile
2 53 (75.71%) CI/CD
3 48 (68.57%) DevOps
4 45 (64.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 43 (61.43%) Scrum
6 33 (47.14%) Software Engineering
7 32 (45.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (41.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 29 (41.43%) Event-Driven
8 29 (41.43%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (40.00%) Containerisation
10 27 (38.57%) Observability
11 26 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 23 (32.86%) Domain-Driven Design
13 23 (32.86%) Mentoring
14 22 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (30.00%) Project Delivery
16 19 (27.14%) API Integration
16 19 (27.14%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (67.14%) Java
2 25 (35.71%) Ruby
3 23 (32.86%) JavaScript
4 15 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 11 (15.71%) C#
6 9 (12.86%) Python
6 9 (12.86%) SQL
7 6 (8.57%) COBOL
8 3 (4.29%) Bicep
8 3 (4.29%) Go
9 1 (1.43%) Bash
9 1 (1.43%) Natural
9 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 16 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 7 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (8.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (5.71%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.71%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.71%) QA
2 13 (18.57%) Accessibility
2 13 (18.57%) WCAG
3 9 (12.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 9 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (8.57%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (8.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (45.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.00%) Grafana
2 14 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Splunk
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) OneLogin
3 8 (11.43%) Google
4 7 (10.00%) Oracle