Microservices Job Trends in the East of England

Microservices
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -39 -8 -59
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 40 55 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.53% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 1.82% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 33 35 57
10th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% -3.85% -1.89%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £81,750 £76,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,291 3,030 3,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.29% 87.35% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,842 1,639 2,152
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microservices
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Hertfordshire -17 17 £60,000 -29.41% 5
Cambridgeshire -32 15 £67,500 +17.39% 9
Suffolk +8 2 £45,000 -30.77%
Bedfordshire -16 2 £42,500 -15.00%
Essex -22 2 - - 1
Norfolk -32 1 £42,500 -32.00%
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (2.50%) CMS
1 1 (2.50%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) GitHub
3 6 (15.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (35.00%) MongoDB
2 13 (32.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (27.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) MLflow
General
1 14 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) .NET Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Principal Developer
4 6 (15.00%) Team Leader
5 5 (12.50%) Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Digital Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) .NET
2 13 (32.50%) .NET Core
2 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET
2 13 (32.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 13 (32.50%) Node.js
3 11 (27.50%) .NET Framework
3 11 (27.50%) React
4 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (17.50%) Blazor
4 7 (17.50%) Vue
5 4 (10.00%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) Django
6 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 2 (5.00%) Flask
6 2 (5.00%) LINQ
6 2 (5.00%) Middleware
6 2 (5.00%) REST
6 2 (5.00%) Spring
6 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.50%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) IoT
4 2 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 20 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
4 14 (35.00%) DevOps
5 12 (30.00%) Scrum
5 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (27.50%) Machine Learning
7 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 10 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 9 (22.50%) Coaching
8 9 (22.50%) Design Patterns
8 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (22.50%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (20.00%) AI
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) TDD
10 7 (17.50%) Asset Management
10 7 (17.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) C#
2 16 (40.00%) SQL
3 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.50%) Python
6 5 (12.50%) Java
7 2 (5.00%) Go
7 2 (5.00%) PHP
7 2 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) DBS Check
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) IFRS
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.50%) Databricks
3 1 (2.50%) Google