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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 114 78
Rank change year-on-year -23 -36 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 38 44 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.70% 1.70% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.84% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 29 32 144
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £55,794 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,063 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -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 3,953 2,396 4,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 72.39% 92.33% 83.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 1,329 3,463
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 24 March 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 24 March 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
Hertfordshire -9 17 £85,000 +30.77% 9
Cambridgeshire -11 16 £60,100 -19.87% 6
Essex -25 4 £67,500 +17.39%
Bedfordshire +11 1 £47,500 -5.00% 2
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 (2.63%) CMS
1 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) AWS
2 20 (52.63%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) GCP
3 5 (13.16%) Serverless
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (2.63%) AMQP
2 1 (2.63%) Broadband
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Redis
1 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Law
4 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
4 5 (13.16%) Marketing
4 5 (13.16%) Retail
5 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Publishing
6 2 (5.26%) Advertising
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Billing
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Lead
2 10 (26.32%) Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Developer
4 7 (18.42%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Lead Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Principal Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior
6 4 (10.53%) Supply Chain Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Team Leader
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Development Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Development Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) .NET
2 5 (13.16%) REST
3 4 (10.53%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.89%) Node.js
4 3 (7.89%) React
5 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 2 (5.26%) JSON
6 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.63%) Django
6 1 (2.63%) Kafka
6 1 (2.63%) MassTransit
6 1 (2.63%) Next.js
6 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.63%) RESTful
6 1 (2.63%) SOAP
6 1 (2.63%) Spring
6 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 22 (57.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (28.95%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (23.68%) Product Ownership
4 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (21.05%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
7 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (5.26%) IoT
7 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
8 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (2.63%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) CI/CD
2 21 (55.26%) Event-Driven
3 19 (50.00%) DevOps
4 17 (44.74%) Mentoring
4 17 (44.74%) Technical Leadership
5 16 (42.11%) Agile
5 16 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (42.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 14 (36.84%) Software Engineering
6 14 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (28.95%) Roadmaps
8 10 (26.32%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (26.32%) Migration
8 10 (26.32%) Observability
8 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (26.32%) Technical Debt
9 9 (23.68%) Design Patterns
9 9 (23.68%) Integration Patterns
10 8 (21.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) C#
2 5 (13.16%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.26%) PHP
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) DBS Check
2 7 (18.42%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Argo
3 2 (5.26%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) Typelevel