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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 38 52
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 25 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.70% 2.33% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.69% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 11
10th Percentile £277 £435 -
25th Percentile £335 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £483 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% -25.77% +25.00%
75th Percentile £417 £510 £688
90th Percentile £497 £528 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.70%

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 792 484 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.44% 86.74% 83.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 289 428
10th Percentile £190 £246 £213
25th Percentile £350 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £563
90th Percentile £625 £637 £673
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 23 46
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.48 £11.52
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.36 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -6 18 £360 -18.92% 12
Nottinghamshire -12 4 £488 -2.50% 15
Derbyshire -5 1 - - 12
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 11
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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Mule
3 1 (4.00%) Alfresco
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Documentum
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) FrameMaker
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (48.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) GitHub
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (16.00%) Azure
5 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) GCP
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (24.00%) Aerospike
2 6 (24.00%) Redis
3 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) GitLab
2 6 (24.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) Git
3 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 4 (16.00%) JUnit
5 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.00%) Postman
5 2 (8.00%) Selenium
5 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Developer
4 4 (16.00%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native Developer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) Kafka
2 9 (36.00%) Node.js
3 6 (24.00%) Spring
4 5 (20.00%) Jest
4 5 (20.00%) REST
5 4 (16.00%) pytest
5 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (12.00%) RAML
6 3 (12.00%) React
6 3 (12.00%) Swagger
7 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (8.00%) Express.js
7 2 (8.00%) J2EE
7 2 (8.00%) MERN Stack
7 2 (8.00%) Playwright
7 2 (8.00%) Spring Batch
7 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (4.00%) .NET
8 1 (4.00%) ADO
8 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.00%) EMV
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) Code Quality
3 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
4 7 (28.00%) Migration
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Backtesting
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Fraud Detection
5 6 (24.00%) Integration Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Secure Coding
7 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.00%) PSD2
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Istio
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Databricks
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Checkmarx
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) OpenText
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle