Microservices Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microservices
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 59 39
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 +59
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 84 108 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.40% 3.51% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 3.85% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 52 66 170
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,467 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.97% -2.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,375 £84,056
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,001 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,722 2,805 3,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 77.70% 91.07% 88.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,592 1,085 2,623
10th Percentile £27,775 £29,450 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,988 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £83,950
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Microservices
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Yorkshire

Microservices
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
West Yorkshire -9 83 £75,000 +11.11% 31
South Yorkshire -24 1 £70,932 +1.33% 17
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.90%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 77 (91.67%) AWS
2 65 (77.38%) Serverless
3 50 (59.52%) Azure
4 37 (44.05%) Amazon S3
5 26 (30.95%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (27.38%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (22.62%) Amazon SQS
8 17 (20.24%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (20.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (20.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 14 (16.67%) GitHub
10 13 (15.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (15.48%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (15.48%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (9.52%) GCP
11 8 (9.52%) SaaS
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (4.76%) Apigee
13 2 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) DynamoDB
2 25 (29.76%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.57%) MySQL
7 2 (2.38%) Big Data
7 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (27.38%) Git
2 15 (17.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.76%) GitLab
3 4 (4.76%) Maven
3 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.19%) JUnit
4 1 (1.19%) Mockito
General
1 36 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (2.38%) Law
4 2 (2.38%) Retail
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Games
5 1 (1.19%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Developer
2 29 (34.52%) Architect
3 15 (17.86%) Senior
4 14 (16.67%) Applications Architect
5 12 (14.29%) .NET Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
6 11 (13.10%) Software Architect
6 11 (13.10%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.90%) Lead
8 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.95%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
11 3 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Lead Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Serverless Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (48.81%) React
2 24 (28.57%) Node.js
3 23 (27.38%) RESTful
4 19 (22.62%) REST
5 17 (20.24%) .NET
5 17 (20.24%) Spring
6 16 (19.05%) Spring Boot
7 13 (15.48%) .NET Core
7 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET
7 13 (15.48%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (15.48%) AWS CDK
7 13 (15.48%) Blazor
8 12 (14.29%) Kafka
9 10 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (10.71%) Web Services
11 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
11 7 (8.33%) Mustache
12 4 (4.76%) Gherkin
12 4 (4.76%) Jest
13 3 (3.57%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Enterprise Software
2 22 (26.19%) Cloud Native
3 20 (23.81%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 45 (53.57%) Agile
3 41 (48.81%) Mentoring
4 37 (44.05%) Application Security
4 37 (44.05%) DevOps
5 33 (39.29%) Architectural Patterns
6 26 (30.95%) Enterprise Architecture
6 26 (30.95%) Migration
7 25 (29.76%) Computer Science
7 25 (29.76%) Data Modelling
8 24 (28.57%) EAI
8 24 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (28.57%) TOGAF
9 22 (26.19%) Software Engineering
10 21 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (22.62%) Containerisation
12 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.95%) JavaScript
1 47 (55.95%) TypeScript
2 44 (52.38%) Java
3 31 (36.90%) Python
4 30 (35.71%) C#
5 20 (23.81%) SQL
6 4 (4.76%) Bash
6 4 (4.76%) Groovy
7 2 (2.38%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 25 (29.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (29.76%) Degree
3 24 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 24 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 24 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
4 11 (13.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 35 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (38.10%) Terraform
2 15 (17.86%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.76%) Ansible
3 4 (4.76%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.57%) Google
2 3 (3.57%) Pega
2 3 (3.57%) WSO2