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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 85 113
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -70
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 30 59 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% 2.52% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.91% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 37
10th Percentile - £52,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £100,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.66%

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 4,814 2,028 2,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.46% 86.56% 78.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,260 1,075 1,307
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,225 £29,423
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 16 £65,000 -16.13% 17
Leicestershire -40 8 £71,250 +3.64% 10
Derbyshire -15 3 £52,500 -4.55% 3
Northamptonshire -36 3 - - 6
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 2 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) SonarCloud
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (6.67%) IaaS
6 2 (6.67%) npm
6 2 (6.67%) NuGet
6 2 (6.67%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (23.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) NUnit
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) .NET Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
4 6 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) .NET Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Automation Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 3 (10.00%) Software Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (73.33%) .NET
2 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET
3 12 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 12 (40.00%) React
4 11 (36.67%) .NET Core
4 11 (36.67%) Blazor
5 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (20.00%) LINQ
7 5 (16.67%) Terraform
8 4 (13.33%) .NET Framework
8 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (13.33%) Node.js
8 4 (13.33%) YAML
9 3 (10.00%) Django
10 2 (6.67%) CSS
10 2 (6.67%) HTML
10 2 (6.67%) MassTransit
10 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (6.67%) REST
10 2 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Robotics
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (6.67%) Tandem
4 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 10 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 8 (26.67%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (23.33%) Event-Driven
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.67%) Observability
7 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
8 4 (13.33%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
8 4 (13.33%) Performance Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) C#
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
4 12 (40.00%) Python
5 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
6 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (13.33%) Bash
7 4 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) CISM
2 1 (3.33%) CISSP
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (10.00%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.67%) IFS
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.67%) Veracode