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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 28 51
Rank change year-on-year -18 +23 +10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 40 29 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.62% 5.06% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.86% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 13
10th Percentile £375 £279 £356
25th Percentile £393 £348 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £445
90th Percentile £588 £534 -
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -12.70%

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 860 495 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.83% 86.39% 78.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 332 414
10th Percentile £200 £205 £200
25th Percentile £388 £322 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £425 £419
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% +1.55% -9.51%
75th Percentile £545 £520 £550
90th Percentile £619 £588 £625
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 36 55
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.24
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +18.79% -23.63%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.15 £37.99 £35.00
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -4 29 £402 +12.29%
Nottinghamshire -23 6 £525 +7.14% 13
Lincolnshire - 3 £538 -
Leicestershire -7 1 £450 - 1
Derbyshire -10 1 - - 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Avolution ABACUS
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) AWS
3 13 (32.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) Azure AKS
4 7 (17.50%) GitHub
5 6 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
7 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (20.00%) Aerospike
3 8 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 8 (20.00%) Redis
3 8 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (15.00%) Parquet
5 4 (10.00%) Big Data
5 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (7.50%) Metabase
6 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (20.00%) Git
3 7 (17.50%) GitLab
4 6 (15.00%) JUnit
5 5 (12.50%) JIRA
5 5 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
7 3 (7.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.50%) Chocolatey
General
1 20 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 11 (27.50%) Architect
4 9 (22.50%) .NET Developer
4 9 (22.50%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Rust Developer
6 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps Architect
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) Kafka
2 12 (30.00%) Node.js
3 11 (27.50%) .NET
4 10 (25.00%) REST
5 9 (22.50%) RESTful
6 6 (15.00%) Jest
6 6 (15.00%) pytest
7 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.50%) ADO
8 3 (7.50%) J2EE
8 3 (7.50%) OSGi
8 3 (7.50%) Plotly
8 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.50%) Spring
9 2 (5.00%) MERN Stack
9 2 (5.00%) OAuth
9 2 (5.00%) OpenID
9 2 (5.00%) React
9 2 (5.00%) SAML
9 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (47.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) EMV
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (62.50%) Agile
3 21 (52.50%) DevOps
4 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
5 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (22.50%) Migration
6 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (20.00%) Backtesting
7 8 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 8 (20.00%) Fraud Detection
7 8 (20.00%) Secure Coding
8 7 (17.50%) Code Quality
8 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
9 6 (15.00%) Clean Code
9 6 (15.00%) Unit Testing
10 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 5 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (12.50%) Integration Testing
10 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 13 (32.50%) C#
3 8 (20.00%) Rust
4 7 (17.50%) Python
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) MATLAB
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.50%) PSD2
3 1 (2.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 4 (10.00%) Istio
3 4 (10.00%) Puppet
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Databricks
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow