Microservices Contracts in the East Midlands

Microservices
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 49 61
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 42 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.83% 2.54% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 3.22% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 22
10th Percentile £270 £322 £300
25th Percentile £355 £356 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £398 £388
Median % change year-on-year +8.99% +2.58% -25.30%
75th Percentile £511 £445 £438
90th Percentile £537 - £512
England median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%

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 626 683 883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.94% 78.78% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 450 676
10th Percentile £225 £212 £213
25th Percentile £332 £323 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £589 £623 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 61 52
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.15 £12.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -40.87% +33.72%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.15 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +9 31 £395 -9.20% 18
Nottinghamshire - 7 £490 - 44
Derbyshire +7 3 - - 29
Leicestershire +1 1 - - 17
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) JBoss
2 3 (7.14%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (2.38%) Camunda
3 1 (2.38%) Mule
3 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (52.38%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.14%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.14%) Serverless
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) Anthos
6 1 (2.38%) Apigee
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.38%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) HTTP
1 3 (7.14%) HTTPS
1 3 (7.14%) SSL
2 2 (4.76%) DMZ
2 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (4.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (38.10%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (30.95%) JIRA
4 10 (23.81%) SonarQube
5 9 (21.43%) Maven
6 7 (16.67%) JUnit
6 7 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (14.29%) Bitbucket
7 6 (14.29%) Selenium
8 5 (11.90%) GitLab
8 5 (11.90%) Gradle
9 4 (9.52%) CA Release Automation
9 4 (9.52%) Cucumber
9 4 (9.52%) Mockito
10 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (7.14%) Chocolatey
11 2 (4.76%) HP UFT
11 2 (4.76%) IntelliJ
11 2 (4.76%) Postman
11 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (35.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Architect
1 15 (35.71%) Developer
2 12 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Payments Architect
7 2 (4.76%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) Spring Boot
2 12 (28.57%) React
2 12 (28.57%) Spring
3 11 (26.19%) REST
4 9 (21.43%) .NET
4 9 (21.43%) CSS
4 9 (21.43%) HTML
4 9 (21.43%) Kafka
4 9 (21.43%) RESTful
5 7 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 7 (16.67%) JPA
5 7 (16.67%) Node.js
5 7 (16.67%) Web Services
6 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 5 (11.90%) RAML
6 5 (11.90%) Redux
7 4 (9.52%) J2EE
7 4 (9.52%) Jest
7 4 (9.52%) Spring Batch
8 3 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) State Machine
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) VMS
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 13 (30.95%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Test Automation
5 8 (19.05%) API Development
5 8 (19.05%) Data Transformation
5 8 (19.05%) ETL
6 7 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 6 (14.29%) High Availability
7 6 (14.29%) IT Strategy
7 6 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 6 (14.29%) SDLC
7 6 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
7 6 (14.29%) Technical Debt
7 6 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
8 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Java
2 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 7 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.52%) Python
6 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Progress Chef
3 3 (7.14%) Ansible
3 3 (7.14%) Terraform
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle
2 4 (9.52%) Veracode
3 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk
4 2 (4.76%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.76%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe
5 1 (2.38%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.38%) Google
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) Solace