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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 30 59
Rank change year-on-year -30 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 22 20 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.20% 3.50% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 4.00% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 5
10th Percentile £311 £356 -
25th Percentile £393 £444 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £490 £363
Median % change year-on-year -17.96% +35.17% -27.50%
75th Percentile £450 £523 £406
90th Percentile £538 £535 £568
England median daily rate £525 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -5.58% +1.09% -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 842 500 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.03% 87.41% 80.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 310 441
10th Percentile £192 £201 £188
25th Percentile £359 £325 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £538
90th Percentile £625 £600 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 62
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.81 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%
75th Percentile £24.86 £24.66 £28.19
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -16 15 £393 -1.75% 3
Nottinghamshire -12 5 £525 +5.00% 11
Derbyshire -7 1 - - 11
Lincolnshire - 1 £700 - 6
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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) GitHub
3 5 (22.73%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.55%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) DynamoDB
2 7 (31.82%) Aerospike
2 7 (31.82%) Redis
3 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) GitLab
3 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 5 (22.73%) JUnit
4 4 (18.18%) Git
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
6 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (9.09%) Postman
6 2 (9.09%) Selenium
7 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
7 1 (4.55%) Chocolatey
7 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.55%) JMeter
7 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native Developer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Node.js
2 9 (40.91%) Kafka
3 6 (27.27%) Jest
4 5 (22.73%) pytest
5 4 (18.18%) REST
6 3 (13.64%) J2EE
6 3 (13.64%) OSGi
6 3 (13.64%) RESTful
6 3 (13.64%) Spring
7 2 (9.09%) .NET
7 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (9.09%) Playwright
7 2 (9.09%) React
8 1 (4.55%) Enzyme
8 1 (4.55%) Express.js
8 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
8 1 (4.55%) MERN Stack
8 1 (4.55%) Redux
8 1 (4.55%) Sass
8 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) EMV
4 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 16 (72.73%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
5 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
6 7 (31.82%) Backtesting
6 7 (31.82%) Code Quality
6 7 (31.82%) Fraud Detection
6 7 (31.82%) Migration
7 6 (27.27%) Clean Code
7 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (27.27%) Secure Coding
7 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
8 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (18.18%) Integration Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) PSD2
2 1 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Istio
3 2 (9.09%) Puppet
3 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Databricks
2 4 (18.18%) Adobe
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow