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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 117 51
Rank change year-on-year +28 -66 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 56 56 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.41% 1.42% 4.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 1.85% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16 43 72
10th Percentile £51,875 £43,000 £52,625
25th Percentile £55,500 £46,250 £61,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -24.14% +16.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,750 £89,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.97% -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 1,973 3,020 1,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.08% 76.34% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,489 1,063
10th Percentile £26,237 £28,742 £26,800
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,450
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.93% +4.08%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 September 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 September 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 +37 28 £58,000 - 4
Leicestershire +38 8 £68,750 +44.74% 4
Nottinghamshire -5 8 £73,750 +5.36% 8
Derbyshire -7 8 £55,000 +10.00% 4
Lincolnshire - 3 £28,375 - 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (60.71%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) Apache
2 3 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.57%) JBoss
3 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (91.07%) AWS
2 47 (83.93%) Azure
3 37 (66.07%) GCP
4 8 (14.29%) SaaS
5 3 (5.36%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) dbt
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (73.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.57%) Big Data
4 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 41 (73.21%) JIRA
1 41 (73.21%) Maven
1 41 (73.21%) Sonatype Nexus
2 39 (69.64%) Bitbucket
2 39 (69.64%) Cucumber
2 39 (69.64%) GitLab
2 39 (69.64%) Selenium
2 39 (69.64%) SonarQube
3 7 (12.50%) Git
4 3 (5.36%) JUnit
5 2 (3.57%) Gradle
5 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.79%) Mockito
6 1 (1.79%) NUnit
General
1 41 (73.21%) Finance
2 39 (69.64%) Banking
2 39 (69.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (10.71%) Retail
4 5 (8.93%) Corporate Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (73.21%) Software Engineer
2 7 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Architect
3 4 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.36%) Principal Architect
4 3 (5.36%) Python Data Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (5.36%) Software Architect
5 2 (3.57%) Backend Developer
5 2 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (1.79%) C# Developer
6 1 (1.79%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Digital Transformation Architect
6 1 (1.79%) Junior Backend Developer
6 1 (1.79%) Junior Developer
6 1 (1.79%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (75.00%) Kafka
1 42 (75.00%) Spring
1 42 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 41 (73.21%) React
3 40 (71.43%) CSS
3 40 (71.43%) HTML
3 40 (71.43%) JPA
3 40 (71.43%) Redux
4 35 (62.50%) Hibernate
5 10 (17.86%) REST
6 6 (10.71%) Jest
6 6 (10.71%) RESTful
7 5 (8.93%) CSS3
7 5 (8.93%) HTML5
7 5 (8.93%) Sass
8 3 (5.36%) .NET
8 3 (5.36%) Django
8 3 (5.36%) SOAP
9 2 (3.57%) Flask
9 2 (3.57%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 41 (73.21%) Product Ownership
2 39 (69.64%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.36%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.57%) IoT
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (87.50%) Agile
2 45 (80.36%) CI/CD
3 43 (76.79%) DevOps
4 41 (73.21%) Front End Development
4 41 (73.21%) Software Engineering
5 40 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (71.43%) Test Automation
6 39 (69.64%) Containerisation
6 39 (69.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (69.64%) Performance Optimisation
6 39 (69.64%) SDLC
7 38 (67.86%) Clean Code
8 35 (62.50%) TDD
9 9 (16.07%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.93%) Migration
10 5 (8.93%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (8.93%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (8.93%) User Experience
11 4 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 42 (75.00%) Java
1 42 (75.00%) SQL
2 41 (73.21%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 6 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.36%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (71.43%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (78.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (76.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Grafana
3 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (69.64%) Solace
2 2 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.79%) Salesforce