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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 54 70
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 61 15 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.24% 1.84% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.19% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 59 14 18
10th Percentile £39,500 £48,911 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,188 £63,125
90th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,914
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 1,782 684 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.42% 83.93% 65.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 511 812
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £27,550
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £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% - -8.71%

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 16 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 16 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 - 40 £70,000 - 1
South Wales -42 17 £53,171 +2.25% 4
North Wales - 4 £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 7 (11.48%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (6.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (77.05%) AWS
2 39 (63.93%) Azure
3 27 (44.26%) Serverless
4 22 (36.07%) GCP
5 21 (34.43%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (29.51%) GitHub
6 18 (29.51%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (27.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (26.23%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (14.75%) Amazon S3
10 6 (9.84%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (9.84%) CloudFront
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Functions
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (6.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (6.56%) Power Automate
11 4 (6.56%) Power Platform
11 4 (6.56%) PowerApps
12 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (19.67%) MySQL
3 11 (18.03%) MongoDB
3 11 (18.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.20%) Redis
5 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.64%) Adabas
8 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (40.98%) Git
2 18 (29.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.67%) JIRA
4 9 (14.75%) Cypress.io
5 7 (11.48%) JUnit
5 7 (11.48%) Selenium
6 6 (9.84%) GitLab
7 5 (8.20%) RSpec
8 4 (6.56%) minitest
8 4 (6.56%) Postman
8 4 (6.56%) REST Assured
8 4 (6.56%) Zephyr
9 3 (4.92%) Newman
9 3 (4.92%) TestRail
10 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
10 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.64%) Gatling
10 1 (1.64%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (1.64%) Mocha
10 1 (1.64%) Pa11y
General
1 34 (55.74%) Public Sector
2 12 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (13.11%) Banking
6 4 (6.56%) Finance
7 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 41 (67.21%) Developer
2 20 (32.79%) Senior
3 18 (29.51%) Senior Developer
4 12 (19.67%) Software Developer
5 11 (18.03%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Architect
6 7 (11.48%) Lead
6 7 (11.48%) SEO Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.20%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Ruby Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Principal Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Principal Software Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (57.38%) Spring Boot
2 28 (45.90%) Node.js
2 28 (45.90%) React
2 28 (45.90%) Spring
3 26 (42.62%) RESTful
4 24 (39.34%) Ruby on Rails
5 13 (21.31%) Kafka
6 12 (19.67%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (19.67%) REST
7 11 (18.03%) GraphQL
7 11 (18.03%) JPA
7 11 (18.03%) Next.js
8 10 (16.39%) Hibernate
8 10 (16.39%) Jest
9 9 (14.75%) Playwright
10 8 (13.11%) HTML
10 8 (13.11%) HTML5
11 7 (11.48%) CSS
11 7 (11.48%) CSS3
12 6 (9.84%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 31 (50.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (37.70%) Product Ownership
3 17 (27.87%) Mainframe
4 14 (22.95%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (19.67%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (13.11%) Digital Wallet
6 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (11.48%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (11.48%) Virtual Team
8 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) AIX
2 5 (8.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (98.36%) Agile
2 44 (72.13%) CI/CD
3 40 (65.57%) DevOps
3 40 (65.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 36 (59.02%) Scrum
5 24 (39.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (39.34%) Software Engineering
6 22 (36.07%) Event-Driven
7 21 (34.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 21 (34.43%) Technical Leadership
8 20 (32.79%) Containerisation
9 19 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (29.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 18 (29.51%) Observability
11 17 (27.87%) AI
11 17 (27.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (26.23%) Domain-Driven Design
13 15 (24.59%) Mentoring
13 15 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (24.59%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (63.93%) Java
2 24 (39.34%) Ruby
3 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
4 14 (22.95%) TypeScript
5 11 (18.03%) C#
6 9 (14.75%) Python
6 9 (14.75%) SQL
7 6 (9.84%) COBOL
8 3 (4.92%) Bicep
8 3 (4.92%) Go
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) Natural
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) AWS Certification
2 7 (11.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (11.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (9.84%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (6.56%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.87%) QA
2 12 (19.67%) Accessibility
2 12 (19.67%) WCAG
3 9 (14.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 9 (14.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (9.84%) Government Security Classifications
4 6 (9.84%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (40.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (39.34%) Terraform
2 23 (37.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (11.48%) Grafana
3 7 (11.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) OneLogin
3 8 (13.11%) Google
4 7 (11.48%) Splunk
5 6 (9.84%) Oracle