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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 33 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 27 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.65% 2.98% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 3.43% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 6
10th Percentile £366 £347 -
25th Percentile £393 £422 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £479 £359
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +33.26% -28.15%
75th Percentile £456 £523 £397
90th Percentile £573 £529 £541
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%

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 843 437 590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.89% 86.71% 79.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 298 404
10th Percentile £192 £201 £186
25th Percentile £360 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.74% -7.17%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 20 62
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +25.97% +3.98%
75th Percentile £25.00 £26.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £35.38 £51.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +6.06% - -12.00%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -12 17 £393 -1.75% 5
Nottinghamshire -13 7 £525 +6.06% 8
Leicestershire -6 1 £450 - 1
Derbyshire -11 1 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 £700 - 1
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 (18.52%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 8 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) GitHub
4 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (18.52%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.70%) Google Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (29.63%) Aerospike
2 8 (29.63%) DynamoDB
2 8 (29.63%) Redis
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Parquet
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) Metabase
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) Git
2 7 (25.93%) GitLab
3 6 (22.22%) JUnit
4 5 (18.52%) JIRA
4 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
5 4 (14.81%) Bitbucket
6 3 (11.11%) Artifactory
6 3 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.70%) Chocolatey
7 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps Architect
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Node.js
2 10 (37.04%) Kafka
3 7 (25.93%) Jest
4 6 (22.22%) pytest
5 4 (14.81%) .NET
5 4 (14.81%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (14.81%) REST
5 4 (14.81%) RESTful
6 3 (11.11%) ADO
6 3 (11.11%) J2EE
6 3 (11.11%) OSGi
7 2 (7.41%) React
7 2 (7.41%) Spring
8 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.70%) Enzyme
8 1 (3.70%) Express.js
8 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (3.70%) Sass
8 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) EMV
4 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 20 (74.07%) Agile
3 15 (55.56%) DevOps
4 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 9 (33.33%) Migration
6 8 (29.63%) Backtesting
6 8 (29.63%) Fraud Detection
6 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.93%) Clean Code
7 7 (25.93%) Code Quality
7 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Secure Coding
7 7 (25.93%) Unit Testing
8 5 (18.52%) Data Protection
8 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (18.52%) Integration Testing
9 4 (14.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Java
2 5 (18.52%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) Rust
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.70%) PSD2
2 1 (3.70%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) Istio
3 4 (14.81%) Puppet
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Adobe
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow