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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 28 51 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.35% 6.69% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 7.79% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 19
10th Percentile £375 £270 £320
25th Percentile £400 £348 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -1.18% +0.59%
75th Percentile £588 £511 £445
90th Percentile - £533 £451
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.07%

All Process & 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 889 655 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.77% 85.96% 79.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 448 412
10th Percentile £235 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £334 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £653 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 59 36
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.83 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £17.87 £14.82
Median hourly rate £17.97 £18.87 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% -9.06% -37.86%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.80
90th Percentile £36.99 £25.42 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +1 21 £500 +38.89% 2
Nottinghamshire -20 3 £650 +30.65% 21
Leicestershire -7 2 £425 - 3
Lincolnshire - 2 £521 - 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 3 (10.71%) Apache Superset
2 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
7 2 (7.14%) Serverless
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 6 (21.43%) Parquet
5 4 (14.29%) Big Data
6 3 (10.71%) Metabase
6 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.57%) Aerospike
8 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.57%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) JUnit
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.57%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.57%) Aviation
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (64.29%) Developer
2 16 (57.14%) Software Developer
3 11 (39.29%) .NET Developer
3 11 (39.29%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Rust Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (14.29%) Lead
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior
7 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) .NET
2 10 (35.71%) REST
3 9 (32.14%) Kafka
4 6 (21.43%) RESTful
5 5 (17.86%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (14.29%) Node.js
7 3 (10.71%) Plotly
8 2 (7.14%) ADO
8 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (7.14%) OAuth
8 2 (7.14%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.14%) OpenID
8 2 (7.14%) SAML
8 2 (7.14%) Spring
8 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.57%) Middleware
9 1 (3.57%) pytest
9 1 (3.57%) React
9 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (39.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Containerisation
4 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 8 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 4 (14.29%) ERP
5 4 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.71%) Data Transformation
6 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
7 2 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (28.57%) Rust
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) Java
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Istio
2 2 (7.14%) Puppet
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) SAP