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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 62 86
Rank change year-on-year -73 +24 -23
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 23 40 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 2.79% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 3.13% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20 40 81
10th Percentile £52,490 £51,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69,313 £74,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,703 £91,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -18.17%

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 2,906 1,276 3,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 73.66% 88.98% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 884 2,388
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £56,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,875 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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
Leicestershire -14 11 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Nottinghamshire -39 6 £70,500 +8.46% 7
Northamptonshire -12 4 £120,000 +65.52% 4
Derbyshire -29 2 £53,750 -10.42% 2
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 10 (43.48%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) npm
3 10 (43.48%) NuGet
3 10 (43.48%) SonarCloud
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) Kong
5 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
2 10 (43.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Senior
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (26.09%) Architect
6 5 (21.74%) Lead
7 4 (17.39%) Developer
7 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (13.04%) CRM Architect
8 3 (13.04%) CRM Solutions Architect
8 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Lead Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Principal Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Principal Solutions Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
8 3 (13.04%) Strategy Architect
8 3 (13.04%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (78.26%) .NET
1 18 (78.26%) React
2 14 (60.87%) Node.js
3 10 (43.48%) YAML
4 8 (34.78%) .NET Framework
5 7 (30.43%) .NET Core
6 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET
6 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (17.39%) Kafka
8 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
8 3 (13.04%) Apollo GraphQL
8 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
9 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (8.70%) Playwright
10 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (4.35%) Blazor
10 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (4.35%) Flask
10 1 (4.35%) pytest
10 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
1 10 (43.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) DevOps
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
4 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 10 (43.48%) DevSecOps
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
6 7 (30.43%) Migration
7 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
8 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
8 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (13.04%) Architecture Governance
10 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
10 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 3 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
10 3 (13.04%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) C#
2 10 (43.48%) Bash
2 10 (43.48%) PowerShell
3 7 (30.43%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
6 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) MuleSoft
2 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle