Microservices Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Microservices
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £334 - -
25th Percentile £342 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £376 - -
75th Percentile £402 - -
90th Percentile £405 - -
North West median daily rate £518 £443 £550
% change year-on-year +16.95% -19.55% +7.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 79 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 71.06% 74.53% 83.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 37 79
10th Percentile £318 £403 £363
25th Percentile £400 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £550
90th Percentile £698 £600 £651
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 21
10th Percentile £13.37 £25.20 £45.22
25th Percentile £17.17 £27.14 £48.60
Median hourly rate £33.22 £41.71 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% -33.07% +15.93%
75th Percentile £64.04 £58.27 £70.90
90th Percentile £73.25 £63.40 £80.59
North West median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes