Microservices Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Microservices
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 5 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.87% 4.21% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 4.71% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £260 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +5.56% -23.40%
75th Percentile £504 - -
90th Percentile £520 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £523 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +10.00% -26.92% +19.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 85 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 94.25% 89.47% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 54 134
10th Percentile £263 £375 £350
25th Percentile £316 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £552 £584 £561
90th Percentile £638 £626 £648
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +4.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% +41.16%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Coventry

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Coventry over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Coventry

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus