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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 33 24 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.81% 3.27% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 3.87% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 18 20
10th Percentile £268 £318 £300
25th Percentile £312 £370 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +4.71% -19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £476 £650
90th Percentile £525 £510 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 748 620 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.37% 84.35% 83.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 377 488
10th Percentile £206 £265 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Microservices job vacancy trend 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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +3 27 £364 -18.20% 4
Nottinghamshire -3 2 £471 -4.95% 23
Derbyshire -5 1 - - 9
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (12.12%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Mule
3 1 (3.03%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.03%) Camunda
3 1 (3.03%) CMS
3 1 (3.03%) Documentum
3 1 (3.03%) JBoss
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) GitHub
4 2 (6.06%) ChatGPT
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.03%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DMZ
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) NoSQL
2 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.03%) Big Data
5 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Metadata
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) JIRA
3 5 (15.15%) Maven
3 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
4 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
4 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
4 4 (12.12%) Selenium
4 4 (12.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (9.09%) Gradle
5 3 (9.09%) JUnit
6 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (6.06%) GitLab
6 2 (6.06%) Mockito
6 2 (6.06%) Postman
7 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.03%) JMeter
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Banking
3 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Architect
2 12 (36.36%) Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (15.15%) Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Business Analyst
5 5 (15.15%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (12.12%) ETL Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Payments Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Payments Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Payments Business Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Lead
8 1 (3.03%) Senior
8 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Spring
1 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 8 (24.24%) REST
3 6 (18.18%) Kafka
4 5 (15.15%) React
4 5 (15.15%) RESTful
5 4 (12.12%) Node.js
5 4 (12.12%) RAML
5 4 (12.12%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (12.12%) Web Services
6 3 (9.09%) .NET
6 3 (9.09%) CSS
6 3 (9.09%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.09%) HTML
6 3 (9.09%) J2EE
6 3 (9.09%) Jest
6 3 (9.09%) JPA
6 3 (9.09%) Redux
6 3 (9.09%) Spring Batch
6 3 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 12 (36.36%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) ETL
3 9 (27.27%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) Design Patterns
5 7 (21.21%) Business Strategy
5 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
5 7 (21.21%) Technical Debt
6 6 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (18.18%) Data Transformation
6 6 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (18.18%) High Availability
6 6 (18.18%) IT Strategy
6 6 (18.18%) Scrum
6 6 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 5 (15.15%) Code Quality
7 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Java
2 12 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
1 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Checkmarx
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Veracode
5 1 (3.03%) Adobe
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) OpenText
5 1 (3.03%) Solace