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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 117 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 -52 +20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 33 59 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.73% 1.73% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.95% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 136
10th Percentile - £47,500 £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 £79,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -15.63%

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 3,340 3,030 3,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.98% 88.83% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,968 1,203 2,918
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,125 £35,750
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 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,001
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -11.30%

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 February 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 5 February 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 0 14 £60,100 -18.23% 3
Hertfordshire -2 13 £90,000 +38.46% 11
Essex -12 4 £67,500 +17.39% 7
Bedfordshire +26 1 £47,500 -5.00% 8
Suffolk - 1 £77,500 - 1
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 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 16 (48.48%) Azure
3 8 (24.24%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) AMQP
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
1 3 (9.09%) Redis
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Publishing
3 3 (9.09%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Advertising
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Lead
1 11 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Principal Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Azure Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Leader
6 3 (9.09%) Developer
7 2 (6.06%) .NET Development Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Development Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Principal Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Development Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
1 7 (21.21%) React
2 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
3 4 (12.12%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.09%) Spring
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) Hugging Face
5 2 (6.06%) JSON
5 2 (6.06%) Nuxt
5 2 (6.06%) Playwright
5 2 (6.06%) Vue
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.03%) Jest
6 1 (3.03%) Material-UI
6 1 (3.03%) Next.js
6 1 (3.03%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (69.70%) Cloud Native
2 13 (39.39%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (15.15%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
4 4 (12.12%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) IoT
6 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
7 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 18 (54.55%) Event-Driven
3 17 (51.52%) Software Engineering
4 15 (45.45%) Mentoring
5 14 (42.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (39.39%) DevOps
7 12 (36.36%) Agile
7 12 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
10 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (27.27%) Technical Debt
11 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
11 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (24.24%) Observability
11 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
12 6 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
12 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) C#
2 6 (18.18%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) Java
6 2 (6.06%) PHP
7 1 (3.03%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.12%) DBS Check
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Firmware
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Istio
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.06%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto