Microservices Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microservices
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 44 22 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.61% 2.81% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.55% 3.40% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 16 27
10th Percentile £270 £316 £300
25th Percentile £343 £348 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £435 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +2.35% -19.05%
75th Percentile £506 £445 £647
90th Percentile £525 £453 £670
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 648 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.61% 82.65% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 402 541
10th Percentile £223 £267 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 48
10th Percentile £15.71 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +8 34 £360 -19.10% 5
Nottinghamshire - 6 £498 - 10
Derbyshire -7 1 - - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 3
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.36%) Confluence
2 4 (9.09%) Mule
3 3 (6.82%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (4.55%) JBoss
5 1 (2.27%) Alfresco
5 1 (2.27%) Camunda
5 1 (2.27%) CMS
5 1 (2.27%) Documentum
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (45.45%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 4 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 3 (6.82%) Serverless
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.55%) ChatGPT
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.27%) Apigee
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) HTTP
1 3 (6.82%) HTTPS
1 3 (6.82%) SSL
2 2 (4.55%) DMZ
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) MongoDB
1 7 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.82%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.82%) MySQL
4 3 (6.82%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.27%) Big Data
6 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Git
2 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (25.00%) JIRA
4 9 (20.45%) SonarQube
5 8 (18.18%) Bitbucket
6 7 (15.91%) Maven
6 7 (15.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (11.36%) Cucumber
7 5 (11.36%) GitLab
7 5 (11.36%) JUnit
7 5 (11.36%) Selenium
8 4 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (9.09%) Mockito
9 3 (6.82%) Gradle
10 2 (4.55%) Postman
11 1 (2.27%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (2.27%) JMeter
11 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
2 14 (31.82%) Banking
3 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
2 15 (34.09%) Architect
3 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Business Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (9.09%) ETL Analyst
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Payments Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Payments Business Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Senior
8 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.27%) React
2 12 (27.27%) REST
3 11 (25.00%) Spring
4 9 (20.45%) Kafka
4 9 (20.45%) RESTful
5 8 (18.18%) RAML
6 7 (15.91%) CSS
6 7 (15.91%) HTML
6 7 (15.91%) JPA
7 6 (13.64%) .NET
7 6 (13.64%) Node.js
7 6 (13.64%) Spring Batch
8 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
8 5 (11.36%) Redux
8 5 (11.36%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (11.36%) Swagger
8 5 (11.36%) Web Services
9 4 (9.09%) J2EE
9 4 (9.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) State Machine
3 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) CI/CD
2 19 (43.18%) Agile
3 12 (27.27%) DevOps
3 12 (27.27%) ETL
4 9 (20.45%) Design Patterns
5 8 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 8 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (15.91%) Business Strategy
6 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
6 7 (15.91%) Scrum
6 7 (15.91%) Technical Debt
6 7 (15.91%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (13.64%) Code Quality
7 6 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (13.64%) IT Strategy
7 6 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (13.64%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.36%) C#
5 4 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) Python
7 2 (4.55%) PHP
8 1 (2.27%) Perl
8 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.55%) Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Kibana
2 1 (2.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Oracle
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Checkmarx
3 4 (9.09%) Veracode
4 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Adobe
5 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.27%) Databricks
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.27%) OpenText
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.27%) Solace