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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 42 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 25 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.82% 2.52% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.91% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 13
10th Percentile £277 £325 £411
25th Percentile £335 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £471 £650
Median % change year-on-year -14.69% -27.50% +24.16%
75th Percentile £524 £510 £675
90th Percentile £535 £524 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £584
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.50% -3.51%

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 744 516 602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.88% 86.72% 83.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 319 426
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £354 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £430 £452
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -4.76% -2.90%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £573
90th Percentile £625 £640 £680
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 44
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 December 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 24 December 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 +2 16 £358 -19.37% 15
Nottinghamshire -11 5 £520 +4.00% 13
Derbyshire -5 1 - - 26
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 10
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 (16.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Mule
3 1 (4.00%) Alfresco
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) Documentum
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 6 (24.00%) GitHub
4 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) ChatGPT
5 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.00%) Aerospike
3 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (8.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (12.00%) GitLab
5 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.00%) Postman
5 2 (8.00%) Selenium
5 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) JUnit
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Agriculture
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Architect
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.00%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.00%) DevOps Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Payments Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Payments Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Kafka
2 6 (24.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
3 5 (20.00%) REST
4 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) RAML
5 3 (12.00%) React
5 3 (12.00%) Swagger
6 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (8.00%) Express.js
6 2 (8.00%) J2EE
6 2 (8.00%) Jest
6 2 (8.00%) MERN Stack
6 2 (8.00%) Playwright
6 2 (8.00%) Spring Batch
6 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (4.00%) Enzyme
7 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (4.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) ETL
4 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (24.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (24.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 5 (20.00%) Kanban
5 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
6 4 (16.00%) Epics
6 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) PHP
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Istio
2 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Checkmarx
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) OpenText