Microservices Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microservices
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 117 45
Rank change year-on-year +34 -72 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 60 49 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 2.59% 1.33% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.00% 1.69% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 32 73
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £46,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.66% -2.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,002 2,902 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.52% 78.88% 92.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,082 1,236 1,040
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -15.49% +6.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,875 £76,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Microservices
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Northamptonshire +47 29 £60,250 -
Nottinghamshire -3 12 £77,500 +3.33% 6
Leicestershire +32 8 £68,750 +44.74% 6
Derbyshire -11 8 £55,000 +12.82% 3
Lincolnshire -1 2 - - 3
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (56.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Apache
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.33%) JBoss
3 2 (3.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.67%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 55 (91.67%) AWS
2 48 (80.00%) Azure
3 39 (65.00%) GCP
4 12 (20.00%) SaaS
5 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.67%) dbt
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub
7 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) Big Data
4 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (68.33%) JIRA
1 41 (68.33%) Maven
1 41 (68.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 39 (65.00%) Bitbucket
2 39 (65.00%) Cucumber
2 39 (65.00%) GitLab
2 39 (65.00%) Selenium
2 39 (65.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (10.00%) Git
4 3 (5.00%) JUnit
5 2 (3.33%) Gradle
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.67%) Mockito
General
1 41 (68.33%) Finance
2 39 (65.00%) Banking
2 39 (65.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (11.67%) Retail
4 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Law
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (68.33%) Software Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Principal Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Product Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Software Architect
6 2 (3.33%) .NET Architect
6 2 (3.33%) C# Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Lead
6 2 (3.33%) SaaS Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Technical Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (70.00%) Kafka
1 42 (70.00%) Spring
1 42 (70.00%) Spring Boot
2 41 (68.33%) React
3 40 (66.67%) CSS
3 40 (66.67%) HTML
3 40 (66.67%) JPA
3 40 (66.67%) Redux
4 35 (58.33%) Hibernate
5 9 (15.00%) REST
6 6 (10.00%) .NET
6 6 (10.00%) Jest
6 6 (10.00%) RESTful
7 5 (8.33%) CSS3
7 5 (8.33%) HTML5
7 5 (8.33%) Sass
8 3 (5.00%) Django
8 3 (5.00%) SOAP
9 2 (3.33%) Node.js
9 2 (3.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 42 (70.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (65.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.00%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.33%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.33%) IoT
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (83.33%) Agile
2 45 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 44 (73.33%) CI/CD
4 43 (71.67%) DevOps
5 41 (68.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 40 (66.67%) Front End Development
6 40 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (66.67%) Test Automation
7 39 (65.00%) Containerisation
7 39 (65.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 39 (65.00%) SDLC
8 38 (63.33%) Clean Code
9 35 (58.33%) TDD
10 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
11 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 7 (11.67%) Strategic Thinking
12 5 (8.33%) Migration
12 5 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
12 5 (8.33%) User Experience
13 4 (6.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 43 (71.67%) SQL
2 42 (70.00%) Java
3 41 (68.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.67%) Python
5 6 (10.00%) C#
5 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (66.67%) QA
2 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (73.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (71.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (65.00%) Solace
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce