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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 36 42 21
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.17% 5.99% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 6.81% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 36 16
10th Percentile £375 £270 £339
25th Percentile £397 £355 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £433 £411
Median % change year-on-year +3.87% +5.35% +6.13%
75th Percentile £581 £511 £445
90th Percentile £588 £537 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%

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 876 617 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.11% 88.02% 78.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 415 442
10th Percentile £208 £224 £205
25th Percentile £400 £332 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £565
90th Percentile £650 £592 £623
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 52 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.89 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.29 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.94 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +11.38% -35.80%
75th Percentile £25.56 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £35.37 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -34.02% +1.65%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +2 27 £447 +13.16% 3
Nottinghamshire -26 3 £650 +32.65% 6
Lincolnshire - 3 £538 -
Leicestershire -6 2 £425 - 3
Derbyshire -8 1 - - 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 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Superset
1 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Azure AKS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub
6 3 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (36.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
3 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 6 (16.67%) Parquet
5 4 (11.11%) Big Data
6 3 (8.33%) Aerospike
6 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (8.33%) Metabase
6 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 3 (8.33%) Redis
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) JUnit
2 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.56%) GitLab
3 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) Chocolatey
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Marketing
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.78%) Aviation
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 11 (30.56%) .NET Developer
3 11 (30.56%) .NET Software Developer
4 9 (25.00%) Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Rust Developer
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
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%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 11 (30.56%) Kafka
3 10 (27.78%) REST
4 9 (25.00%) RESTful
5 6 (16.67%) Node.js
6 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (8.33%) J2EE
7 3 (8.33%) Jest
7 3 (8.33%) OSGi
7 3 (8.33%) Plotly
7 3 (8.33%) pytest
8 2 (5.56%) ADO
8 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.56%) OAuth
8 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.56%) OpenID
8 2 (5.56%) SAML
8 2 (5.56%) Spring
8 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.78%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (36.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (2.78%) EMV
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
1 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) DevOps
3 18 (50.00%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 8 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
9 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
9 5 (13.89%) Secure Coding
10 4 (11.11%) Analytics
10 4 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (11.11%) ERP
10 4 (11.11%) Migration
10 4 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (8.33%) Backtesting
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) C#
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) Rust
4 7 (19.44%) Python
5 6 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (8.33%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
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 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.78%) PSD2
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Istio
3 2 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Databricks
3 3 (8.33%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) SAP
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow