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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 118 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 -34 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 41 65 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.31% 1.55% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.00% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 34 46 39
10th Percentile £49,375 - £52,500
25th Percentile £54,063 £46,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -20.31% +23.08%
75th Percentile £77,375 £67,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £79,375 £96,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -3.23%

All Process and 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 2,583 3,251 1,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 82.29% 77.53% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 1,410 1,305
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -5 14 £61,250 +28.95% 24
Hertfordshire +9 11 £90,000 +38.46% 36
Suffolk - 6 £65,750 - 3
Bedfordshire - 5 £50,000 - 2
Essex -9 3 £62,500 +8.70% 10
Norfolk +9 2 £62,500 -3.85% 3
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 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.88%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 15 (36.59%) AWS
3 13 (31.71%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (26.83%) Azure Logic Apps
4 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (26.83%) Power Automate
5 4 (9.76%) SaaS
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.88%) MinIO
7 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Redis
2 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 2 (4.88%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Robot Framework
3 2 (4.88%) Snyk
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) Maven
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (29.27%) Law
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Automotive
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Electronics
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Head of Development
2 9 (21.95%) Head of Product Development
3 8 (19.51%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) C# Developer
5 5 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Lead
5 5 (12.20%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Applications Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Development Team Leader
8 2 (4.88%) Principal Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior
8 2 (4.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (58.54%) .NET
2 19 (46.34%) React
3 11 (26.83%) HTML5 Canvas
4 7 (17.07%) Kafka
5 6 (14.63%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (12.20%) CSS
6 5 (12.20%) HTML
6 5 (12.20%) RESTful
7 4 (9.76%) .NET Framework
7 4 (9.76%) CSS3
7 4 (9.76%) HTML5
7 4 (9.76%) MassTransit
8 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
8 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.32%) Entity Framework
8 3 (7.32%) LINQ
8 3 (7.32%) REST
8 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
8 3 (7.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
4 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.44%) Home Automation
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 26 (63.41%) DevOps
3 22 (53.66%) Agile
4 19 (46.34%) Software Engineering
5 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (36.59%) Test Automation
6 12 (29.27%) Scrum
6 12 (29.27%) SDLC
6 12 (29.27%) User Experience
7 11 (26.83%) Product Strategy
8 7 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (17.07%) Event-Driven
8 7 (17.07%) Machine Learning
9 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
9 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (12.20%) LLM
10 5 (12.20%) Migration
10 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C#
2 16 (39.02%) JavaScript
3 10 (24.39%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) PHP
5 4 (9.76%) Java
5 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.32%) SQL
6 3 (7.32%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Bicep
7 1 (2.44%) C++
7 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) GDPR
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.88%) QA
1 2 (4.88%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Firmware
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (4.88%) Black Duck
2 2 (4.88%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.88%) UiPath
2 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.44%) Google
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.44%) Solace