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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 79 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 -30 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 23 51 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.92% 2.29% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 2.58% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 20 37 76
10th Percentile £57,400 £50,750 £45,625
25th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,750 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,500 £85,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -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 1,989 1,976 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.85% 88.69% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 832 1,280
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,775 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -5 11 £77,500 +19.23% 15
Northamptonshire +11 6 £81,250 - 16
Leicestershire - 5 £67,500 - 16
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 3 (13.04%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 15 (65.22%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) SaaS
4 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 3 (13.04%) Kong
5 3 (13.04%) npm
5 3 (13.04%) NuGet
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
5 3 (13.04%) SonarCloud
6 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) JUnit
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
4 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
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
5 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Lead
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 6 (26.09%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Principal Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Product Architect
5 3 (13.04%) C# Architect
5 3 (13.04%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce Architect
5 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) SaaS Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Strategy Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) .NET
2 11 (47.83%) React
3 7 (30.43%) Node.js
4 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
4 3 (13.04%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
4 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 3 (13.04%) Spring
4 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 3 (13.04%) YAML
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.70%) Django
5 2 (8.70%) Playwright
5 2 (8.70%) REST
5 2 (8.70%) SOAP
6 1 (4.35%) CSS
6 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.35%) J2EE
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
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
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Event-Driven
3 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
6 6 (26.09%) Technical Debt
7 5 (21.74%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (21.74%) CRM
7 5 (21.74%) Customer Experience
7 5 (21.74%) E-Commerce
7 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (21.74%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 4 (17.39%) API Development
8 4 (17.39%) ERP
8 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Adobe
1 4 (17.39%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) MuleSoft
2 3 (13.04%) SAP
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle