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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 34 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +48
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 8 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 1.88% 4.38% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 4.95% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 15
10th Percentile £59,250 £58,750 £50,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,625 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £71,750 £77,000 £76,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -11.11%

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 312 283 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 73.24% 88.44% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 222 144 253
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,950 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,363 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,375 £77,050
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Burgess Hill -2 7 £67,500 +8.00% 3
Gatwick - 1 £70,000 - 5
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 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
5 1 (12.50%) Redis
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (12.50%) Appium
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
4 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (12.50%) mountebank
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Advertising
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Java Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Vert.x
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) Memcached
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
4 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) API Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) SDET
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Asynchronous Programming
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (12.50%) High Availability
6 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle