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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 32 16 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.10% 3.16% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 3.68% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 5
10th Percentile £375 £353 -
25th Percentile £393 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £471 £356
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +32.37% -28.80%
75th Percentile £547 £519 £369
90th Percentile £588 £526 £391
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -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 845 435 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 81.80% 85.80% 78.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 296 409
10th Percentile £191 £200 £188
25th Percentile £362 £317 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £550
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 113 21 63
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +23.37% +3.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 23 £400 -9.91% 4
Nottinghamshire -17 6 £525 +7.14% 7
Leicestershire -6 1 £450 - 1
Derbyshire -13 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 (15.63%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub
5 6 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (15.63%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (43.75%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (25.00%) Aerospike
2 8 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 8 (25.00%) Redis
3 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
4 6 (18.75%) Parquet
4 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (9.38%) Big Data
5 3 (9.38%) Metabase
6 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) Git
2 7 (21.88%) GitLab
3 6 (18.75%) JUnit
4 5 (15.63%) JIRA
4 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
5 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.13%) Chocolatey
General
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Marketing
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Architect
4 6 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 6 (18.75%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Rust Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps Architect
7 3 (9.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Kafka
1 10 (31.25%) Node.js
2 8 (25.00%) .NET
3 7 (21.88%) REST
4 6 (18.75%) Jest
4 6 (18.75%) pytest
4 6 (18.75%) RESTful
5 4 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (9.38%) ADO
6 3 (9.38%) J2EE
6 3 (9.38%) OSGi
6 3 (9.38%) Plotly
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.13%) Express.js
7 1 (3.13%) MERN Stack
7 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.13%) React
7 1 (3.13%) Spring
7 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Cloud Native
2 11 (34.38%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) EMV
4 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) Agile
3 16 (50.00%) DevOps
4 14 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 9 (28.13%) Migration
6 8 (25.00%) Backtesting
6 8 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
7 7 (21.88%) Secure Coding
7 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Clean Code
8 6 (18.75%) Code Quality
8 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
9 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) C#
3 7 (21.88%) Rust
4 4 (12.50%) Python
5 3 (9.38%) MATLAB
5 3 (9.38%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) PSD2
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 4 (12.50%) Istio
3 4 (12.50%) Puppet
4 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Databricks
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Adobe
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow