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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -22 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 36 43 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.80% 5.59% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 6.53% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 16
10th Percentile £375 £270 £316
25th Percentile £401 £350 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £435
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -3.45% +2.35%
75th Percentile £581 £508 £445
90th Percentile £588 £525 £453
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -8.00%

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 968 658 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.21% 85.57% 82.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 464 408
10th Percentile £235 £227 £267
25th Percentile £400 £344 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £630 £625
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 56 33
10th Percentile £12.78 £15.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.65
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +11.00% -38.18%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £50.00
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.57
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +8 27 £447 +24.17% 4
Nottinghamshire -16 5 £659 +32.36% 14
Lincolnshire -15 2 £521 +3.22%
Leicestershire - 2 £425 - 5
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 (8.33%) Apache Superset
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Azure AKS
5 6 (16.67%) Serverless
6 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (13.89%) GCP
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 6 (16.67%) Parquet
4 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
5 4 (11.11%) Big Data
5 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (8.33%) Metabase
6 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.78%) Aerospike
8 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.78%) git-flow
5 1 (2.78%) Gradle
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Maven
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Publishing
2 4 (11.11%) Retail
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 12 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 11 (30.56%) .NET Software Developer
5 7 (19.44%) Architect
6 5 (13.89%) Rust Developer
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior
8 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 11 (30.56%) RESTful
3 10 (27.78%) Kafka
3 10 (27.78%) REST
4 6 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (11.11%) Spring
5 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.33%) Node.js
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth
6 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 3 (8.33%) Plotly
7 2 (5.56%) ADO
7 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.56%) JWT
7 2 (5.56%) OpenID
7 2 (5.56%) React
7 2 (5.56%) SAML
8 1 (2.78%) pytest
8 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.78%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 14 (38.89%) Event-Driven
5 13 (36.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (19.44%) API Development
7 7 (19.44%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
8 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (11.11%) ERP
9 4 (11.11%) Service Design
9 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
9 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
10 3 (8.33%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) Java
2 8 (22.22%) Rust
3 7 (19.44%) Python
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 3 (8.33%) MATLAB
5 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) Istio
2 2 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Databricks
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) SAP