Microservices Job Trends in West Sussex

Microservices
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +46
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 29 15 36
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 3.87% 4.55% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 4.82% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28 7 34
10th Percentile £51,250 £64,250 £46,875
25th Percentile £65,313 £66,875 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £91,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 528 311 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 70.49% 94.24% 79.76%
Number of salaries quoted 362 197 414
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,300 £25,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £71,938 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,000 £73,375
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Microservices job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Microservices
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in West Sussex over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in West Sussex

Microservices
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 28 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
Burgess Hill -2 11 £70,000 -
Chichester - 9 £57,500 - 1
Worthing - 7 £87,500 -
Gatwick - 2 £62,250 -
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) SaaS
3 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Azure AKS
4 8 (27.59%) IaaS
4 8 (27.59%) PaaS
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Functions
5 7 (24.14%) Entra ID
5 7 (24.14%) Serverless
6 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (17.24%) MongoDB
1 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
1 5 (17.24%) Redis
2 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.90%) Couchbase
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) JMeter
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) MSTest
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Advertising
4 2 (6.90%) Aviation
5 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Developer
2 10 (34.48%) Backend Developer
2 10 (34.48%) Java Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
4 5 (17.24%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Lead
5 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Lead Software Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) Node.js
1 9 (31.03%) Vue
2 7 (24.14%) ARM Templates
3 6 (20.69%) .NET
4 5 (17.24%) .NET Core
4 5 (17.24%) .NET Framework
4 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET
4 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (17.24%) Entity Framework
4 5 (17.24%) Kafka
4 5 (17.24%) React
4 5 (17.24%) WinForms
4 5 (17.24%) WPF
5 4 (13.79%) Spring
5 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (13.79%) Vert.x
6 1 (3.45%) RESTful
6 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 12 (41.38%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (27.59%) Cloud Security
5 8 (27.59%) Computer Science
5 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (24.14%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (24.14%) Architecture Governance
6 7 (24.14%) Architecture Roadmap
6 7 (24.14%) BDD
6 7 (24.14%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (24.14%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
6 7 (24.14%) Roadmaps
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (24.14%) TDD
6 7 (24.14%) Technology Strategy
6 7 (24.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 10 (34.48%) Java
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (31.03%) TypeScript
4 7 (24.14%) Bicep
5 6 (20.69%) C#
6 5 (17.24%) Go
7 1 (3.45%) Bash
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 8 (27.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) QA
1 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
2 2 (6.90%) Kibana
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Splunk