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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Microservices 30 19 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.36% 2.66% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.15% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 14 17
10th Percentile £269 £314 £400
25th Percentile £312 £331 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £459 £644
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% -28.77% +22.67%
75th Percentile £495 £505 £650
90th Percentile £525 £521 £700
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 768 603 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.91% 84.57% 83.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 357 479
10th Percentile £190 £265 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £518 £550 £591
90th Percentile £625 £628 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 29 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.93 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.74% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.87% -21.42% +26.76%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 +3 24 £360 -18.92% 5
Nottinghamshire -7 2 £471 -5.90% 16
Derbyshire -3 1 - - 2
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) Mule
3 1 (3.33%) Alfresco
3 1 (3.33%) Camunda
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Documentum
3 1 (3.33%) JBoss
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) ChatGPT
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospike
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 4 (13.33%) JUnit
3 4 (13.33%) Selenium
3 4 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.00%) Git
4 3 (10.00%) GitLab
4 3 (10.00%) Maven
5 2 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.67%) Mockito
5 2 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.33%) Gradle
6 1 (3.33%) JMeter
General
1 14 (46.67%) Finance
2 13 (43.33%) Banking
3 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.33%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Architect
2 10 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (16.67%) Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
6 4 (13.33%) ETL Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.67%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Payments Architect
8 2 (6.67%) Payments Business Analyst
9 1 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 1 (3.33%) Lead
9 1 (3.33%) Payments Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 7 (23.33%) Spring
3 6 (20.00%) Kafka
3 6 (20.00%) REST
4 5 (16.67%) Node.js
5 4 (13.33%) Jest
5 4 (13.33%) React
5 4 (13.33%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (10.00%) .NET
6 3 (10.00%) RAML
6 3 (10.00%) Redux
6 3 (10.00%) Swagger
7 2 (6.67%) CSS
7 2 (6.67%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.67%) HTML
7 2 (6.67%) J2EE
7 2 (6.67%) JPA
7 2 (6.67%) LDAP
7 2 (6.67%) RESTful
7 2 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) ETL
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) Roadmaps
5 7 (23.33%) Technical Debt
5 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 6 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 6 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 6 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (20.00%) High Availability
6 6 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 6 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
7 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Java
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Checkmarx
4 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.67%) Veracode
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) OpenText