Microservices Jobs in the West Midlands

Microservices
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 100 144
Rank change year-on-year -10 +44 -60
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 87 183 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.12% 2.35% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.89% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52 157 100
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,325 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £71,991 £79,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Birmingham +11 34 £72,500 +11.54% 35
Staffordshire +19 21 £60,000 +9.09% 19
Shropshire +20 10 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Warwickshire -12 7 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Herefordshire +9 4 - -
Walsall +8 4 £105,000 +13.51% 1
Solihull +11 3 £75,000 +11.11% 2
Coventry -7 2 £82,500 +83.33% 3
Worcestershire +25 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton +18 1 £85,000 +54.55% 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (18.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
2 2 (2.30%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (71.26%) AWS
1 62 (71.26%) Azure
2 27 (31.03%) GCP
3 10 (11.49%) SaaS
4 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.05%) Amazon S3
5 6 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (5.75%) AWS KMS
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.75%) Route 53
6 5 (5.75%) Serverless
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.30%) Contentful
7 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.30%) Figma
7 2 (2.30%) IaaS
7 2 (2.30%) PaaS
7 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.03%) SQL Server
2 17 (19.54%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.20%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.05%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.05%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.90%) Big Data
7 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.60%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.30%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (35.63%) Maven
2 30 (34.48%) SonarQube
3 27 (31.03%) JIRA
4 26 (29.89%) GitLab
5 24 (27.59%) Bitbucket
5 24 (27.59%) Cucumber
5 24 (27.59%) Selenium
5 24 (27.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (14.94%) Git
6 13 (14.94%) JUnit
6 13 (14.94%) Mockito
7 7 (8.05%) Eclipse
7 7 (8.05%) IntelliJ
7 7 (8.05%) Jasmine
7 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
7 7 (8.05%) Karma Test Runner
7 7 (8.05%) Protractor
8 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (5.75%) DbUnit
8 5 (5.75%) jMock
General
1 34 (39.08%) Finance
2 32 (36.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (32.18%) Banking
4 13 (14.94%) Retail
5 12 (13.79%) Investment Banking
6 11 (12.64%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
7 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Automotive
9 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Games
10 1 (1.15%) iGaming
10 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Software Engineer
2 27 (31.03%) Developer
3 17 (19.54%) Java Developer
4 13 (14.94%) Senior
5 9 (10.34%) Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Backend Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Lead
6 8 (9.20%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (8.05%) SaaS Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Development Manager
10 3 (3.45%) Java Development Manager
10 3 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 2 (2.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (55.17%) Spring
2 45 (51.72%) React
3 38 (43.68%) JPA
4 34 (39.08%) Spring Boot
5 30 (34.48%) CSS
5 30 (34.48%) Hibernate
6 28 (32.18%) HTML
6 28 (32.18%) Kafka
7 25 (28.74%) REST
8 24 (27.59%) Redux
9 23 (26.44%) AngularJS
10 22 (25.29%) RESTful
11 14 (16.09%) CSS3
11 14 (16.09%) HTML5
12 11 (12.64%) Jest
12 11 (12.64%) Sass
13 9 (10.34%) .NET
13 9 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (9.20%) Web Services
15 7 (8.05%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.59%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 5 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.45%) IoT
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.15%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (58.62%) Agile
2 49 (56.32%) Containerisation
3 47 (54.02%) DevOps
4 46 (52.87%) Software Engineering
5 45 (51.72%) CI/CD
6 37 (42.53%) TDD
7 33 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 30 (34.48%) SDLC
9 29 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 26 (29.89%) Front End Development
11 25 (28.74%) Performance Optimisation
12 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
13 17 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (18.39%) User Experience
15 15 (17.24%) Code Quality
16 14 (16.09%) Clean Code
16 14 (16.09%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (16.09%) Migration
16 14 (16.09%) Software Architecture
17 13 (14.94%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.97%) Java
2 41 (47.13%) SQL
3 38 (43.68%) JavaScript
4 21 (24.14%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.49%) C#
6 5 (5.75%) Python
7 3 (3.45%) Go
8 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.30%) Degree
3 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) QA
2 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (64.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (52.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Grafana
2 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Solace
2 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) IBM
4 5 (5.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk