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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 115 96
Rank change year-on-year -31 -19 -21
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 40 55 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.64% 1.87% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 2.00% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 31 35 141
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,321 2,744 4,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 68.90% 93.24% 79.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,767 1,407 3,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £25,809
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,214 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,500 £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 19 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 19 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 -27 20 £60,100 +4.52% 5
Hertfordshire -17 15 £77,500 +24.00% 5
Essex -27 3 £67,500 +17.39% 1
Suffolk +14 1 - - 6
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 25 (62.50%) AWS
2 17 (42.50%) 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%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.50%) AMQP
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) Metadata
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 5 (12.50%) Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Law
5 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Lead
2 15 (37.50%) 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
5 5 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Supply Chain Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Technical Leader
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (10.00%) Node.js
3 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (7.50%) React
3 3 (7.50%) Vue
4 2 (5.00%) gRPC
4 2 (5.00%) REST
5 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.50%) Blazor
5 1 (2.50%) Django
5 1 (2.50%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.50%) Flask
5 1 (2.50%) Kafka
5 1 (2.50%) Pyramid
5 1 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (65.00%) Cloud Native
2 14 (35.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (32.50%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (32.50%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (5.00%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
7 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (57.50%) Event-Driven
3 22 (55.00%) Mentoring
4 20 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (50.00%) DevOps
4 20 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 20 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 18 (45.00%) Agile
6 15 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (35.00%) Migration
7 14 (35.00%) Observability
8 13 (32.50%) AI
8 13 (32.50%) Architectural Patterns
8 13 (32.50%) Design Patterns
8 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (30.00%) Coaching
10 11 (27.50%) Machine Learning
11 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (25.00%) Roadmaps
11 10 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 4 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) Java
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) DBS Check
2 10 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) IFRS
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Ansible
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Argo
2 1 (2.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.00%) Typelevel
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle