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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 48 16 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.08% 2.32% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 2.76% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 45 15 33
10th Percentile £40,500 £48,996 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,468 £49,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £73,250 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.03% +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 1,495 580 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 64.63% 84.06% 70.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 407 1,125
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,393 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +11.98% -
75th Percentile £65,750 £66,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,224 £77,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 13 July 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 13 July 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 - 27 £72,500 - 7
South Wales -35 17 £53,171 +2.25% 12
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 4 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 36 (75.00%) AWS
2 29 (60.42%) Azure
3 24 (50.00%) Serverless
4 16 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 16 (33.33%) GCP
5 13 (27.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (22.92%) GitHub
7 11 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (18.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (12.50%) Azure Functions
9 6 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 6 (12.50%) CloudFront
9 6 (12.50%) Power Automate
9 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 6 (12.50%) PowerApps
10 2 (4.17%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) MongoDB
1 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (8.33%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (4.17%) Looker
7 1 (2.08%) Adabas
7 1 (2.08%) Redis
7 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 9 (18.75%) JIRA
4 7 (14.58%) JUnit
4 7 (14.58%) Selenium
5 4 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (8.33%) GitLab
5 4 (8.33%) Postman
5 4 (8.33%) REST Assured
5 4 (8.33%) Zephyr
6 3 (6.25%) Newman
6 3 (6.25%) TestRail
7 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) Gatling
7 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.08%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (2.08%) Mocha
7 1 (2.08%) Pa11y
7 1 (2.08%) RSpec
General
1 25 (52.08%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Law
5 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.08%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 26 (54.17%) Developer
2 16 (33.33%) Senior
3 14 (29.17%) Senior Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Architect
5 7 (14.58%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Lead
5 7 (14.58%) SEO Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.33%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Test Leader
9 2 (4.17%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Incident Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (54.17%) Spring Boot
2 24 (50.00%) Node.js
3 19 (39.58%) Spring
4 15 (31.25%) React
4 15 (31.25%) Ruby on Rails
5 12 (25.00%) REST
6 9 (18.75%) RESTful
7 7 (14.58%) GraphQL
7 7 (14.58%) JPA
7 7 (14.58%) Kafka
8 6 (12.50%) AWS CDK
8 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 6 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (10.42%) HTML
9 5 (10.42%) HTML5
9 5 (10.42%) Jest
10 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
10 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (8.33%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (56.25%) Cloud Native
2 15 (31.25%) Mainframe
3 10 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (20.83%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (20.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (12.50%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 3 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (97.92%) Agile
2 32 (66.67%) DevOps
3 31 (64.58%) CI/CD
4 27 (56.25%) Scrum
4 27 (56.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 19 (39.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (35.42%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (33.33%) Event-Driven
9 15 (31.25%) AI
9 15 (31.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 14 (29.17%) Containerisation
10 14 (29.17%) Software Engineering
11 13 (27.08%) Project Delivery
11 13 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
12 12 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 12 (25.00%) Migration
12 12 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Java
2 15 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 15 (31.25%) Ruby
3 13 (27.08%) C#
4 11 (22.92%) Python
4 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
5 9 (18.75%) SQL
6 6 (12.50%) COBOL
7 3 (6.25%) Bicep
7 3 (6.25%) Go
8 1 (2.08%) Bash
8 1 (2.08%) Natural
8 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) AWS Certification
2 7 (14.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 4 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Accessibility
1 7 (14.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 7 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (14.58%) WCAG
2 6 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 6 (12.50%) NCSC
3 4 (8.33%) QA
4 2 (4.17%) GRC
4 2 (4.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 17 (35.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (41.67%) Terraform
2 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.17%) Opsgenie
6 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Google
3 5 (10.42%) OneLogin
4 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 3 (6.25%) Splunk
6 2 (4.17%) GoldenSource
6 2 (4.17%) PagerDuty