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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 43 60
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Microservices 23 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.39% 2.29% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.65% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 7
10th Percentile £311 £356 £413
25th Percentile £393 £446 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £483 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% -25.77% +25.00%
75th Percentile £449 £510 £688
90th Percentile £523 £528 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%

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 816 491 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.82% 86.60% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 293 451
10th Percentile £185 £250 £198
25th Percentile £352 £350 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £436 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.13% -1.11%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £625 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 20 59
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.81 £11.15
25th Percentile £16.33 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +27.05% +5.23%
75th Percentile £23.90 £30.44 £31.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -10 16 £393 -1.75%
Nottinghamshire -16 4 £488 -2.50% 5
Lincolnshire - 2 £603 - 4
Derbyshire -4 1 - - 2
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 (21.74%) Confluence
2 3 (13.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Alfresco
3 1 (4.35%) CMS
3 1 (4.35%) Documentum
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) FrameMaker
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.35%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) DynamoDB
2 6 (26.09%) Aerospike
2 6 (26.09%) Redis
3 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data
5 1 (4.35%) Metadata
5 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) GitLab
3 5 (21.74%) JIRA
4 4 (17.39%) JUnit
5 3 (13.04%) Git
6 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
6 2 (8.70%) Postman
6 2 (8.70%) Selenium
6 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.35%) JMeter
7 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Banking
2 3 (13.04%) Marketing
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.35%) Agriculture
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Military
3 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (8.70%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Node.js
2 8 (34.78%) Kafka
3 5 (21.74%) Jest
4 4 (17.39%) pytest
5 3 (13.04%) J2EE
5 3 (13.04%) OSGi
5 3 (13.04%) React
5 3 (13.04%) REST
5 3 (13.04%) RESTful
5 3 (13.04%) Spring
6 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.70%) Express.js
6 2 (8.70%) MERN Stack
6 2 (8.70%) Playwright
7 1 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.35%) Enzyme
7 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.35%) Redux
7 1 (4.35%) Sass
7 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) EMV
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 15 (65.22%) Agile
3 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
3 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
4 7 (30.43%) Code Quality
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (26.09%) Analytics
5 6 (26.09%) Backtesting
5 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Fraud Detection
5 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
6 5 (21.74%) Secure Coding
6 5 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) PSD2
2 1 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Istio
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Databricks
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Adobe
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) OpenText
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle