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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 36 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 43 27 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 5.06% 3.54% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 4.22% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 20 24
10th Percentile £270 £321 £300
25th Percentile £313 £361 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +4.71% -18.43%
75th Percentile £508 £460 £650
90th Percentile £525 £510 £693
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 738 640 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.93% 83.99% 84.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 392 522
10th Percentile £219 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -9.00% +2.95%
75th Percentile £519 £550 £602
90th Percentile £630 £613 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 28 50
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +5.65% +27.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.19
90th Percentile - £51.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +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 21 October 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 21 October 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%
Nottinghamshire -3 5 £505 +1.00% 14
Derbyshire -6 1 - - 8
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 3
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 (11.63%) Confluence
2 4 (9.30%) Mule
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (2.33%) Alfresco
4 1 (2.33%) Camunda
4 1 (2.33%) CMS
4 1 (2.33%) Documentum
4 1 (2.33%) JBoss
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) AWS CodeBuild
3 4 (9.30%) GCP
3 4 (9.30%) GitHub
3 4 (9.30%) Serverless
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.65%) ChatGPT
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
1 3 (6.98%) HTTPS
1 3 (6.98%) SSL
2 2 (4.65%) DMZ
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
1 7 (16.28%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.98%) MariaDB
4 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.33%) Big Data
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Git
2 11 (25.58%) Jenkins
3 10 (23.26%) JIRA
4 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
5 6 (13.95%) Bitbucket
5 6 (13.95%) Maven
6 5 (11.63%) Cucumber
6 5 (11.63%) Selenium
6 5 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (9.30%) JUnit
8 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (6.98%) GitLab
8 3 (6.98%) Gradle
8 3 (6.98%) Mockito
9 2 (4.65%) Postman
10 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.33%) JMeter
General
1 16 (37.21%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Banking
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Legal
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Military
6 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Developer
2 15 (34.88%) Architect
3 13 (30.23%) Java Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (13.95%) Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Business Analyst
5 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (9.30%) ETL Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Payments Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Payments Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) REST
1 13 (30.23%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.91%) Spring
3 11 (25.58%) React
4 9 (20.93%) Kafka
4 9 (20.93%) RESTful
5 7 (16.28%) RAML
6 6 (13.95%) .NET
6 6 (13.95%) CSS
6 6 (13.95%) HTML
6 6 (13.95%) JPA
6 6 (13.95%) Spring Batch
6 6 (13.95%) Web Services
7 5 (11.63%) Node.js
7 5 (11.63%) Spring Cloud
8 4 (9.30%) Hibernate
8 4 (9.30%) J2EE
8 4 (9.30%) Jest
8 4 (9.30%) Redux
8 4 (9.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.98%) State Machine
3 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
2 19 (44.19%) Agile
3 12 (27.91%) ETL
4 10 (23.26%) Design Patterns
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.28%) Business Strategy
6 7 (16.28%) Domain-Driven Design
6 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
6 7 (16.28%) Scrum
6 7 (16.28%) Technical Debt
6 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
7 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
7 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (13.95%) Customer Experience
7 6 (13.95%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
7 6 (13.95%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (13.95%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (53.49%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) PHP
6 2 (4.65%) Python
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.65%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (4.65%) GDPR
1 2 (4.65%) NIST
1 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Checkmarx
4 3 (6.98%) Veracode
5 2 (4.65%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) Adobe
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) OpenText
6 1 (2.33%) Solace