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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 126
Rank change year-on-year -54 +36 -74
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 31 56 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.49% 2.41% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 2.84% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 42
10th Percentile £49,125 £51,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -25.42%
75th Percentile £69,250 £79,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £100,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -13.97%

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 4,452 1,974 3,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.18% 84.94% 75.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 1,089 1,600
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.27%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -1 15 £65,000 -11.86% 14
Leicestershire -36 8 £67,500 -1.82% 5
Derbyshire -14 4 £52,500 -4.55% 4
Northamptonshire -31 4 - - 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 4 (12.90%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
3 8 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) SonarCloud
5 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) npm
5 4 (12.90%) NuGet
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (6.45%) IaaS
7 2 (6.45%) PaaS
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (9.68%) Internet
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (29.03%) MongoDB
1 9 (29.03%) NoSQL
2 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) NUnit
General
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.45%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) .NET Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Senior
4 6 (19.35%) Architect
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Automation Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Software Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (70.97%) .NET
2 16 (51.61%) ASP.NET
3 15 (48.39%) React
4 14 (45.16%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (41.94%) .NET Core
6 11 (35.48%) Blazor
7 10 (32.26%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (22.58%) Node.js
8 7 (22.58%) Terraform
9 6 (19.35%) LINQ
9 6 (19.35%) YAML
10 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
11 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
12 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (6.45%) CSS
13 2 (6.45%) Django
13 2 (6.45%) HTML
13 2 (6.45%) MassTransit
13 2 (6.45%) REST
13 2 (6.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Robotics
1 2 (6.45%) Tandem
2 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
3 11 (35.48%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
4 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
6 6 (19.35%) DevSecOps
6 6 (19.35%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 6 (19.35%) Event-Driven
6 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Coaching
7 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
7 4 (12.90%) Observability
7 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
7 4 (12.90%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (83.87%) C#
2 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 10 (32.26%) Python
4 9 (29.03%) TypeScript
5 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
6 6 (19.35%) Bash
7 4 (12.90%) Java
8 1 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) CISM
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) IFS
4 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.45%) Veracode
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAI