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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 76 52
Rank change year-on-year -36 -24 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 23 56 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.87% 2.64% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.99% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 20 42 86
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,750 £65,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% -1.89% -5.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,500 £87,125 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

All Process & 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 2,067 1,872 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.41% 88.22% 84.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,293 821 1,702
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,683 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +0.39% -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £70,000
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 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 25 January 2026.

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 25 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
Nottinghamshire -12 11 £77,500 +19.23% 16
Leicestershire - 6 £67,250 - 15
Northamptonshire +5 5 £100,000 +37.93% 13
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 4 (17.39%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 16 (69.57%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) SaaS
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) npm
5 4 (17.39%) NuGet
5 4 (17.39%) SonarCloud
6 3 (13.04%) Kong
6 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) JUnit
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Law
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
3 7 (30.43%) Lead
4 6 (26.09%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Lead Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Principal Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Product Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) C# Architect
6 3 (13.04%) CRM Architect
6 3 (13.04%) CRM Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce Architect
6 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 3 (13.04%) SaaS Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Strategy Architect
6 3 (13.04%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) .NET
2 12 (52.17%) React
3 8 (34.78%) Node.js
4 4 (17.39%) YAML
5 3 (13.04%) .NET Framework
5 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 3 (13.04%) Apollo GraphQL
5 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
5 3 (13.04%) Kafka
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (8.70%) Django
6 2 (8.70%) Playwright
6 2 (8.70%) Spring
6 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (4.35%) Flask
7 1 (4.35%) JPA
7 1 (4.35%) pytest
7 1 (4.35%) REST
7 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
2 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
1 11 (47.83%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Event-Driven
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
5 6 (26.09%) Technical Debt
5 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
6 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (21.74%) CRM
6 5 (21.74%) Customer Experience
6 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce
6 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
6 5 (21.74%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe
1 4 (17.39%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (17.39%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) MuleSoft
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle