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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 50 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 35 15 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.66% 2.54% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.01% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 32 14 36
10th Percentile £40,125 £48,911 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,451 £49,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -3.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,375 £66,063
90th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%

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 1,361 498 1,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.41% 84.26% 70.97%
Number of salaries quoted 969 327 1,167
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,438 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £32,951 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,398 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% +14.22% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 - 20 £73,750 - 4
South Wales -43 12 £53,171 +2.25% 11
North Wales - 3 £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 3 (8.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (11.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (71.43%) AWS
2 20 (57.14%) Azure
3 19 (54.29%) Serverless
4 12 (34.29%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (28.57%) GCP
6 9 (25.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (22.86%) GitHub
7 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
9 5 (14.29%) Azure Functions
9 5 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (14.29%) Power Automate
9 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 5 (14.29%) PowerApps
10 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (11.43%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (11.43%) CloudFront
11 2 (5.71%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.57%) MySQL
4 2 (5.71%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.71%) Looker
5 1 (2.86%) Adabas
5 1 (2.86%) Redis
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
1 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (14.29%) JUnit
3 5 (14.29%) Selenium
4 3 (8.57%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.57%) GitLab
4 3 (8.57%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) REST Assured
4 3 (8.57%) Zephyr
5 2 (5.71%) Newman
5 2 (5.71%) TestRail
6 1 (2.86%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.86%) Gatling
6 1 (2.86%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.86%) JMeter
6 1 (2.86%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (2.86%) Mocha
6 1 (2.86%) RSpec
General
1 18 (51.43%) Public Sector
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Law
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 9 (25.71%) Senior Developer
4 6 (17.14%) SEO Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Architect
5 5 (14.29%) Lead
6 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Incident Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Principal Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Principal Software Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Manager
8 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (51.43%) Node.js
2 16 (45.71%) Spring Boot
3 12 (34.29%) React
4 11 (31.43%) Ruby on Rails
4 11 (31.43%) Spring
5 8 (22.86%) REST
6 7 (20.00%) RESTful
7 5 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 5 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
7 5 (14.29%) JPA
7 5 (14.29%) Kafka
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CDK
8 4 (11.43%) Hibernate
8 4 (11.43%) HTML
8 4 (11.43%) HTML5
8 4 (11.43%) Jest
8 4 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (8.57%) .NET
9 3 (8.57%) ASP.NET
9 3 (8.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Cloud Native
2 11 (31.43%) Mainframe
3 8 (22.86%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (22.86%) Product Ownership
4 7 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (11.43%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) AIX
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Agile
2 22 (62.86%) DevOps
3 21 (60.00%) Scrum
4 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 20 (57.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (34.29%) AI
7 11 (31.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 11 (31.43%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (28.57%) Project Delivery
8 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
9 9 (25.71%) Event-Driven
9 9 (25.71%) Migration
9 9 (25.71%) Observability
9 9 (25.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 9 (25.71%) Software Engineering
10 8 (22.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Java
2 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (31.43%) Ruby
4 10 (28.57%) C#
5 9 (25.71%) Python
5 9 (25.71%) TypeScript
6 7 (20.00%) SQL
7 4 (11.43%) COBOL
8 2 (5.71%) Bicep
8 2 (5.71%) Go
9 1 (2.86%) Bash
9 1 (2.86%) Natural
9 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (8.57%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 6 (17.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (14.29%) WCAG
3 4 (11.43%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (11.43%) NCSC
4 3 (8.57%) QA
5 2 (5.71%) GRC
5 2 (5.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 10 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Opsgenie
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Google
3 4 (11.43%) OneLogin
4 3 (8.57%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) GoldenSource
5 2 (5.71%) PagerDuty
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk