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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 4 19 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.38% 2.10% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 2.54% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile £50,720 - £41,250
25th Percentile £51,800 £41,594 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,916 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% -6.98% -9.15%
75th Percentile £58,874 £66,250 £66,563
90th Percentile £60,447 £88,600 £85,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +10.71% -0.82% -8.93%

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 807 748 805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 76.28% 82.65% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 553 369 598
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +3.38% -1.02%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £61,445
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3 January 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
South Wales -12 3 £56,631 +13.26% 30
West Wales - 1 £55,200 - 3
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 (25.00%) ColdFusion
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) git-flow
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CQRS
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Delphi
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle