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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 48 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 58 16 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.32% 2.14% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 2.58% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 55 15 19
10th Percentile £40,500 £48,996 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,057 £49,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £72,259
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1,635 620 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.30% 83.11% 66.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,183 459 853
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,950 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £32,951 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 2 August 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 2 August 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 - 35 £70,000 - 3
South Wales -41 19 £53,171 +2.25% 11
North Wales - 4 £45,000 - 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 5 (8.62%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (75.86%) AWS
2 37 (63.79%) Azure
3 24 (41.38%) Serverless
4 22 (37.93%) GCP
5 18 (31.03%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (25.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (25.86%) GitHub
7 15 (25.86%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (15.52%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.34%) CloudFront
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Functions
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (6.90%) Power Automate
10 4 (6.90%) Power Platform
10 4 (6.90%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.45%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.24%) MySQL
3 9 (15.52%) MongoDB
3 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.62%) Redis
5 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.45%) Looker
9 1 (1.72%) Adabas
9 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) Git
2 15 (25.86%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.24%) JIRA
4 7 (12.07%) JUnit
4 7 (12.07%) Selenium
5 6 (10.34%) Cypress.io
5 6 (10.34%) GitLab
6 5 (8.62%) RSpec
7 4 (6.90%) minitest
7 4 (6.90%) Postman
7 4 (6.90%) REST Assured
7 4 (6.90%) Zephyr
8 3 (5.17%) Newman
8 3 (5.17%) TestRail
9 1 (1.72%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.72%) Gatling
9 1 (1.72%) JMeter
9 1 (1.72%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.72%) Mocha
General
1 29 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Banking
4 8 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (10.34%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Law
7 2 (3.45%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Developer
2 19 (32.76%) Senior
3 17 (29.31%) Senior Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Software Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Lead
6 7 (12.07%) SEO Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (6.90%) .NET Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Ruby Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Principal Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Principal Software Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (51.72%) Spring Boot
2 28 (48.28%) Node.js
3 25 (43.10%) React
4 23 (39.66%) Spring
5 21 (36.21%) RESTful
5 21 (36.21%) Ruby on Rails
6 12 (20.69%) REST
7 11 (18.97%) GraphQL
7 11 (18.97%) Kafka
8 10 (17.24%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (15.52%) JPA
10 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
10 8 (13.79%) Next.js
11 7 (12.07%) Jest
12 6 (10.34%) AWS CDK
12 6 (10.34%) HTML
12 6 (10.34%) HTML5
12 6 (10.34%) Playwright
13 5 (8.62%) CSS
13 5 (8.62%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 30 (51.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (31.03%) Product Ownership
3 16 (27.59%) Mainframe
4 12 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (18.97%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (12.07%) Digital Wallet
7 6 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (8.62%) Virtual Team
9 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) AIX
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) Agile
2 40 (68.97%) DevOps
3 39 (67.24%) CI/CD
4 35 (60.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 32 (55.17%) Scrum
6 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
7 20 (34.48%) Event-Driven
8 19 (32.76%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (31.03%) Containerisation
9 18 (31.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 17 (29.31%) AI
10 17 (29.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (27.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (25.86%) Design Patterns
12 15 (25.86%) Observability
13 14 (24.14%) Domain-Driven Design
14 13 (22.41%) Performance Optimisation
14 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (58.62%) Java
2 21 (36.21%) Ruby
3 19 (32.76%) JavaScript
4 11 (18.97%) C#
4 11 (18.97%) TypeScript
5 9 (15.52%) Python
5 9 (15.52%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) COBOL
7 3 (5.17%) Bicep
7 3 (5.17%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Natural
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
2 7 (12.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) QA
2 9 (15.52%) Accessibility
2 9 (15.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 9 (15.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (15.52%) WCAG
3 6 (10.34%) Government Security Classifications
3 6 (10.34%) NCSC
4 2 (3.45%) GRC
4 2 (3.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (39.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (37.93%) Terraform
2 21 (36.21%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.07%) Grafana
4 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) Google
3 7 (12.07%) OneLogin
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle
4 5 (8.62%) Splunk
5 2 (3.45%) GoldenSource
5 2 (3.45%) PagerDuty