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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 119 54
Rank change year-on-year -6 -65 +21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 31 63 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.74% 1.78% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 2.04% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25 40 89
10th Percentile £55,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,694 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -14.81% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -12.50%

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 3,110 3,086 2,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.01% 87.32% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,193 1,566
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,750 £83,750
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 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 15 January 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 15 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
Hertfordshire +3 12 £90,000 +38.46% 27
Cambridgeshire 0 11 £60,100 +2.12% 24
Essex -12 4 £67,500 +17.39% 17
Suffolk - 3 £65,000 - 19
Bedfordshire +32 1 £47,500 -5.00% 24
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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) SSL
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.68%) Redis
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Law
3 4 (12.90%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Publishing
4 2 (6.45%) Advertising
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Software Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Lead
3 7 (22.58%) Principal Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Principal Software Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
7 2 (6.45%) .NET Development Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Principal Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Product Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Development Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) React
2 8 (25.81%) .NET
3 4 (12.90%) Kafka
4 3 (9.68%) Node.js
4 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.68%) REST
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (6.45%) Hugging Face
5 2 (6.45%) JSON
5 2 (6.45%) Nuxt
5 2 (6.45%) Playwright
5 2 (6.45%) Spring
5 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.45%) Vue
6 1 (3.23%) Jest
6 1 (3.23%) MassTransit
6 1 (3.23%) Material-UI
6 1 (3.23%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 19 (61.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (41.94%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (12.90%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (9.68%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) IoT
6 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Event-Driven
2 17 (54.84%) Software Engineering
3 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) Mentoring
5 10 (32.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (29.03%) Architectural Patterns
6 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
7 8 (25.81%) Observability
7 8 (25.81%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
9 6 (19.35%) Domain-Driven Design
9 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) C#
2 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) Bicep
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.90%) DBS Check
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Firmware
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.68%) Istio
2 3 (9.68%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto