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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 117 46
Rank change year-on-year +8 -71 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 26 41 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.16% 1.20% 4.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.51% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23 25 70
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -3.23%

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 1,879 2,715 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.51% 79.67% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 1,137 1,041
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.50%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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
Nottinghamshire +3 14 £77,500 +3.33% 21
Northamptonshire +34 6 £60,250 - 3
Leicestershire +21 3 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Derbyshire -15 2 £55,000 +2.33% 4
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 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.69%) JBoss
1 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) AWS
2 14 (53.85%) Azure
3 12 (46.15%) SaaS
4 6 (23.08%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (7.69%) Kong
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Big Data
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Git
2 4 (15.38%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) Selenium
4 2 (7.69%) Gradle
4 2 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (7.69%) Maven
4 2 (7.69%) Postman
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 5 (19.23%) Principal Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Product Architect
5 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Architect
6 3 (11.54%) C# Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Lead Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Python Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) SaaS Architect
6 3 (11.54%) Software Architect
7 2 (7.69%) CRM Architect
7 2 (7.69%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Principal Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.69%) QA Leader
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) React
3 4 (15.38%) Django
3 4 (15.38%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) Node.js
3 4 (15.38%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.54%) Flask
4 3 (11.54%) SOAP
5 2 (7.69%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.69%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.69%) Playwright
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.85%) JPA
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) IoT
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Code
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 8 (30.77%) Event-Driven
3 8 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) API Development
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 5 (19.23%) Technical Debt
6 4 (15.38%) AI
6 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
6 4 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Product Management
6 4 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.85%) Delphi
7 1 (3.85%) Go
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
1 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) Informatica
2 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft