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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 13 19 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.21% 4.09% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 5.15% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 16
10th Percentile £63,750 - £51,250
25th Percentile £66,563 £53,750 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -19.30% +3.12%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,625
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -

All Process and 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 359 369 585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 88.64% 79.53% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 238 214 362
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £57,175
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.80% -0.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Crawley 0 7 - - 1
Burgess Hill +6 6 £70,000 - 3
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (53.85%) Amazon S3
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
1 7 (53.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.69%) Couchbase
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Development Manager
1 7 (53.85%) Java Development Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) React
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
3 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (30.77%) REST
4 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
4 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
5 2 (15.38%) Spring
6 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
6 1 (7.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Scrum
1 11 (84.62%) Software Engineering
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
4 7 (53.85%) Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Data Analytics
4 7 (53.85%) Multithreaded Programming
4 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
4 7 (53.85%) People Management
4 7 (53.85%) Process Improvement
4 7 (53.85%) Software Delivery
4 7 (53.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Kanban
7 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 3 (23.08%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk