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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 110 88
Rank change year-on-year -32 -22 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 39 41 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.67% 1.59% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 1.72% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 29 30 143
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £54,881 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -18.17%

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 4,184 2,384 4,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.68% 92.33% 82.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,454 1,399 3,565
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -13 17 £85,000 +30.77% 8
Cambridgeshire -21 15 £60,100 -19.87% 5
Essex -27 4 £67,500 +17.39% 1
Bedfordshire +8 1 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Suffolk - 1 - - 2
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 (2.56%) CMS
1 1 (2.56%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.82%) Serverless
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Broadband
1 2 (5.13%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) AMQP
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Redis
1 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) MySQL
2 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
General
1 9 (23.08%) Finance
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Law
3 5 (12.82%) Manufacturing
3 5 (12.82%) Marketing
3 5 (12.82%) Retail
4 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Publishing
5 2 (5.13%) Advertising
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Billing
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Lead
2 11 (28.21%) Architect
3 8 (20.51%) Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Principal Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 4 (10.26%) Supply Chain Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Team Leader
6 4 (10.26%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Development Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 5 (12.82%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.69%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.13%) gRPC
5 2 (5.13%) JSON
5 2 (5.13%) React
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.56%) Django
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka
6 1 (2.56%) MassTransit
6 1 (2.56%) Next.js
6 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) Spring
6 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) Vue
6 1 (2.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (56.41%) Cloud Native
2 11 (28.21%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (20.51%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (20.51%) Legacy Applications
3 8 (20.51%) Product Ownership
4 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (5.13%) IoT
6 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (5.13%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) CI/CD
2 21 (53.85%) Event-Driven
3 20 (51.28%) DevOps
4 17 (43.59%) Mentoring
4 17 (43.59%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (41.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (41.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 15 (38.46%) Agile
7 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
7 14 (35.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
9 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (25.64%) Migration
9 10 (25.64%) Observability
9 10 (25.64%) Technical Debt
10 9 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (23.08%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
11 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (15.38%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) SQL
4 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.69%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 2 (5.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) DBS Check
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) IFRS
3 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Argo
3 2 (5.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle