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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 119 121
Rank change year-on-year -43 +2 -38
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 42 56 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.50% 1.69% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.96% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 34 36 44
10th Percentile £43,250 - -
25th Percentile £46,875 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.92% -18.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £84,375 £77,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.66%

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 5,949 2,851 3,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.59% 86.03% 76.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,351 1,549 1,479
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -18.18% +0.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -34 18 £67,500 +17.39% 37
Hertfordshire -22 16 £63,750 -29.17% 19
Bedfordshire -32 3 £42,500 -15.00% 7
Suffolk +4 2 £68,750 +5.77% 3
Essex -23 2 - - 2
Norfolk -32 1 £42,500 -32.00% 4
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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) Camunda
1 1 (2.38%) Ethereum
1 1 (2.38%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) MongoDB
2 12 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.76%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (4.76%) Redis
6 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.76%) Spatial Data
7 1 (2.38%) Big Data
7 1 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (2.38%) Metadata
7 1 (2.38%) MySQL
7 1 (2.38%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) GitLab
2 3 (7.14%) MLflow
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Retail
4 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Lead
3 7 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Digital Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Digital Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.52%) E-Commerce Architect
6 4 (9.52%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
6 4 (9.52%) Lead Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Principal Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Team Leader
7 3 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) .NET
2 12 (28.57%) .NET Core
2 12 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 12 (28.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 12 (28.57%) Node.js
3 10 (23.81%) .NET Framework
3 10 (23.81%) React
4 7 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 7 (16.67%) Blazor
4 7 (16.67%) RESTful
5 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 6 (14.29%) Vue
6 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
6 4 (9.52%) Flask
6 4 (9.52%) Middleware
7 2 (4.76%) PostGIS
7 2 (4.76%) Redux
7 2 (4.76%) REST
7 2 (4.76%) Spring
7 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.90%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.76%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.38%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.38%) Life Science
6 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 13 (30.95%) DevOps
4 13 (30.95%) Software Engineering
5 12 (28.57%) Scrum
6 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
7 9 (21.43%) Design Patterns
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.43%) TDD
8 8 (19.05%) AI
8 8 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven
8 8 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 6 (14.29%) Fintech
10 6 (14.29%) Kanban
11 5 (11.90%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) C#
2 16 (38.10%) SQL
3 10 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.81%) Python
4 7 (16.67%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.76%) PHP
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) Scala
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) DBS Check
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Google