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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 117 58
Rank change year-on-year -5 -59 +22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 35 60 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.81% 1.73% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.98% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 29 37 107
10th Percentile - £47,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,250 £88,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -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 3,190 3,035 2,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.03% 87.51% 85.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,883 1,170 2,108
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 22 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 22 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
Cambridgeshire +1 14 £60,100 -17.10% 17
Hertfordshire +3 13 £90,000 +38.46% 26
Essex -16 4 £67,500 +17.39% 20
Suffolk - 3 £65,000 - 15
Bedfordshire +28 1 £47,500 -5.00% 19
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 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 17 (48.57%) Azure
3 7 (20.00%) Serverless
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) SSL
2 1 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (2.86%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
1 3 (8.57%) Redis
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Law
3 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Publishing
4 2 (5.71%) Advertising
4 2 (5.71%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Billing
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Lead
1 12 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Leader
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) .NET Development Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Product Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Development Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) React
2 8 (22.86%) .NET
3 4 (11.43%) Kafka
4 3 (8.57%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (8.57%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (5.71%) Hugging Face
5 2 (5.71%) JSON
5 2 (5.71%) Nuxt
5 2 (5.71%) Playwright
5 2 (5.71%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.71%) Vue
6 1 (2.86%) Django
6 1 (2.86%) Jest
6 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
6 1 (2.86%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (65.71%) Cloud Native
2 13 (37.14%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.43%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
5 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (5.71%) IoT
6 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) CI/CD
2 17 (48.57%) Event-Driven
2 17 (48.57%) Software Engineering
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
4 15 (42.86%) Agile
5 14 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (34.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (31.43%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (25.71%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
9 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (22.86%) Decision-Making
10 8 (22.86%) Observability
10 8 (22.86%) Technical Debt
11 7 (20.00%) Migration
11 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 6 (17.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) C#
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (17.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 3 (8.57%) PHP
5 3 (8.57%) SQL
6 2 (5.71%) Java
7 1 (2.86%) Bicep
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
1 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Istio
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto