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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 95 142
Rank change year-on-year -16 +47 -54
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 84 185 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.91% 2.51% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.03% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 47 159 108
10th Percentile £51,250 £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 £81,250 £71,991 £78,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £74,870 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.18% -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 4,019 6,107 6,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.42% 82.86% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,565 3,200
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,025
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 9 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 9 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 -5 34 £72,500 +11.54% 37
Staffordshire +19 20 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Warwickshire -17 12 £58,750 -9.62% 6
Shropshire +18 7 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Walsall +4 4 £105,000 +13.51% 1
Herefordshire +10 3 - -
Worcestershire +23 1 - - 3
Wolverhampton +14 1 £85,000 +54.55% 2
Solihull +6 1 - - 1
Coventry -4 1 - - 3
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 13 (15.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
2 2 (2.38%) Headless CMS
2 2 (2.38%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 62 (73.81%) Azure
2 53 (63.10%) AWS
3 24 (28.57%) GCP
4 12 (14.29%) SaaS
5 6 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 6 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.95%) Serverless
7 3 (3.57%) IaaS
7 3 (3.57%) PaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.38%) Contentful
8 2 (2.38%) Figma
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.52%) SQL Server
2 17 (20.24%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.14%) Big Data
4 6 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.19%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.19%) MySQL
8 1 (1.19%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 23 (27.38%) GitLab
1 23 (27.38%) Maven
2 22 (26.19%) SonarQube
3 21 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 21 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 21 (25.00%) JIRA
3 21 (25.00%) Selenium
3 21 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 8 (9.52%) Git
4 8 (9.52%) JUnit
4 8 (9.52%) Mockito
5 7 (8.33%) Eclipse
5 7 (8.33%) IntelliJ
5 7 (8.33%) Jasmine
5 7 (8.33%) Karma Test Runner
5 7 (8.33%) Protractor
6 6 (7.14%) Visual Studio
6 6 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.38%) Storybook
General
1 31 (36.90%) Finance
2 29 (34.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 25 (29.76%) Banking
4 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
5 10 (11.90%) Retail
6 9 (10.71%) Investment Banking
7 8 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Automotive
8 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.19%) Games
9 1 (1.19%) iGaming
9 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 21 (25.00%) Developer
3 14 (16.67%) Architect
4 13 (15.48%) Senior
5 12 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
7 8 (9.52%) Backend Developer
8 7 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.14%) Java Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Architect
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Designer
11 4 (4.76%) Lead
12 3 (3.57%) Development Manager
12 3 (3.57%) Java Development Manager
12 3 (3.57%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (53.57%) React
2 35 (41.67%) Spring
3 32 (38.10%) CSS
4 30 (35.71%) JPA
5 26 (30.95%) HTML
6 25 (29.76%) Kafka
6 25 (29.76%) Spring Boot
7 24 (28.57%) Hibernate
8 21 (25.00%) Redux
9 19 (22.62%) REST
10 17 (20.24%) AngularJS
11 15 (17.86%) RESTful
12 11 (13.10%) CSS3
12 11 (13.10%) HTML5
13 9 (10.71%) .NET
14 8 (9.52%) Jest
14 8 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (9.52%) Sass
15 6 (7.14%) ADO
16 5 (5.95%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 21 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.71%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
4 6 (7.14%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Cyberattack
8 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.38%) IoT
8 2 (2.38%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.38%) Replication
9 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.14%) Agile
2 44 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 44 (52.38%) DevOps
3 41 (48.81%) Software Engineering
4 38 (45.24%) Containerisation
5 31 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (32.14%) SDLC
7 26 (30.95%) TDD
8 23 (27.38%) Front End Development
8 23 (27.38%) Test Automation
9 22 (26.19%) Performance Optimisation
10 19 (22.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (20.24%) User Experience
12 16 (19.05%) Migration
13 15 (17.86%) Mentoring
14 13 (15.48%) Clean Code
14 13 (15.48%) Code Quality
15 11 (13.10%) API Management
16 10 (11.90%) Software Architecture
16 10 (11.90%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.95%) Java
2 41 (48.81%) JavaScript
3 37 (44.05%) SQL
4 21 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 15 (17.86%) C#
6 5 (5.95%) Python
7 2 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.57%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (25.00%) QA
2 8 (9.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (52.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Grafana
2 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Solace
2 16 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.52%) IBM
4 2 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle