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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 114 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -33 -11
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 55 59 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.65% 1.41% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.85% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 35 44 42
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -18.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £71,625 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £77,625 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.66% -2.51%

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 2,871 3,196 2,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 86.14% 76.22% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 1,471 1,334
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,250 £37,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +7 18 £58,750 +23.68% 2
Bedfordshire - 14 £50,000 - 4
Hertfordshire +10 8 £90,000 +38.46% 25
Suffolk - 8 £65,000 - 7
Norfolk +8 4 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Essex -14 3 £62,500 +8.70% 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 13 (23.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (72.73%) Azure
2 28 (50.91%) AWS
3 14 (25.45%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (25.45%) GCP
4 12 (21.82%) Azure Logic Apps
4 12 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (21.82%) Power Automate
5 4 (7.27%) SaaS
5 4 (7.27%) Serverless
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.64%) MinIO
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.82%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.45%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.45%) Redis
3 1 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Selenium
2 16 (29.09%) GitLab
2 16 (29.09%) JIRA
3 15 (27.27%) Bitbucket
3 15 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 15 (27.27%) Maven
3 15 (27.27%) SonarQube
3 15 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (10.91%) Git
5 2 (3.64%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.64%) Snyk
6 1 (1.82%) Moq
6 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (29.09%) Finance
2 15 (27.27%) Banking
2 15 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (23.64%) Law
4 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Automotive
6 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Electronics
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Developer
3 10 (18.18%) Head of Development
3 10 (18.18%) Head of Product Development
4 9 (16.36%) .NET Developer
5 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
6 7 (12.73%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Architect
8 4 (7.27%) Lead
9 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Senior
9 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.64%) Applications Architect
10 2 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Development Team Leader
10 2 (3.64%) Product Lead
10 2 (3.64%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (61.82%) React
2 26 (47.27%) .NET
3 21 (38.18%) Kafka
4 19 (34.55%) CSS
4 19 (34.55%) HTML
5 17 (30.91%) Spring
5 17 (30.91%) Spring Boot
6 15 (27.27%) JPA
6 15 (27.27%) Redux
7 13 (23.64%) Hibernate
8 12 (21.82%) HTML5 Canvas
9 7 (12.73%) RESTful
10 5 (9.09%) CSS3
10 5 (9.09%) HTML5
10 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (9.09%) REST
11 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET
11 4 (7.27%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (5.45%) .NET Core
12 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Software
1 16 (29.09%) Product Ownership
2 12 (21.82%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.82%) Home Automation
6 1 (1.82%) IoT
6 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (74.55%) CI/CD
2 38 (69.09%) DevOps
3 35 (63.64%) Agile
4 34 (61.82%) Software Engineering
5 29 (52.73%) Test Automation
6 27 (49.09%) SDLC
7 19 (34.55%) Containerisation
7 19 (34.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (30.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (30.91%) Front End Development
9 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (25.45%) Clean Code
11 14 (25.45%) TDD
11 14 (25.45%) User Experience
12 12 (21.82%) Product Strategy
12 12 (21.82%) Scrum
13 8 (14.55%) E-Commerce
14 7 (12.73%) Machine Learning
15 6 (10.91%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) JavaScript
2 28 (50.91%) C#
3 19 (34.55%) Java
4 16 (29.09%) SQL
5 10 (18.18%) Python
6 5 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.27%) PHP
8 3 (5.45%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.64%) C++
9 2 (3.64%) Go
10 1 (1.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (30.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.82%) Firmware
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (41.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 15 (27.27%) Solace
3 2 (3.64%) BiZZdesign
3 2 (3.64%) Black Duck
3 2 (3.64%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.64%) UiPath
3 2 (3.64%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto