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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 134 95
Rank change year-on-year -14 -39 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 40 37 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.63% 1.26% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.36% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 30 31 142
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -18.75%

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 4,477 2,728 4,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.33% 93.07% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,637 1,414 3,686
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,945 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4 May 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 4 May 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
Cambridgeshire -20 19 £60,100 -8.24% 8
Hertfordshire -11 13 £85,000 +30.77% 13
Essex -33 6 £67,500 +17.39% 9
Suffolk +11 1 - - 9
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 4 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.50%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Broadband
2 2 (5.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) AMQP
3 1 (2.50%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.00%) MySQL
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.50%) Metadata
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Redis
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Law
4 5 (12.50%) Marketing
4 5 (12.50%) Retail
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.00%) Publishing
6 2 (5.00%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Lead
2 12 (30.00%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 9 (22.50%) Lead Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Principal Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Team Leader
4 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Supply Chain Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Leader
7 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.50%) CloudOps Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
1 4 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (7.50%) Node.js
3 2 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.00%) gRPC
3 2 (5.00%) React
4 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.50%) Django
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) Next.js
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) Vue
4 1 (2.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (67.50%) Cloud Native
2 14 (35.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (32.50%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (32.50%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (2.50%) IoT
8 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) CI/CD
2 25 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 22 (55.00%) DevOps
4 21 (52.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 21 (52.50%) Mentoring
4 21 (52.50%) Technical Leadership
5 20 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (42.50%) Agile
7 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (37.50%) Observability
9 14 (35.00%) Migration
10 13 (32.50%) AI
10 13 (32.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 13 (32.50%) Design Patterns
10 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
12 11 (27.50%) Coaching
12 11 (27.50%) Machine Learning
13 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (25.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) C#
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) DBS Check
2 11 (27.50%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) IFRS
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Argo
3 2 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle