Microservices Job Trends in Leicestershire

Microservices
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 5 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.88% - 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £57,640 - £47,000
25th Percentile £65,500 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £69,500 - £72,500
90th Percentile £75,050 - £87,000
East Midlands median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 456 411 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 80.42% 91.74% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 320 167 287
10th Percentile £25,475 £27,300 £26,650
25th Percentile £33,688 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.63% -4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Microservices
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Leicestershire

Microservices
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Leicester - 5 £67,500 - 14
Microservices
East Midlands

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 3 (60.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) npm
2 3 (60.00%) NuGet
2 3 (60.00%) SonarCloud
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 3 (60.00%) YAML
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) pytest
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) SEO
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Delphi
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle