Microservices Contracts in the East of England

Microservices
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 96 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 14 16 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.29% 0.83% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.98% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 21
10th Percentile £356 £404 £425
25th Percentile £441 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -12.78%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £530
90th Percentile £604 - £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £70.32
25th Percentile - - £70.67
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +14.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 971 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.16% 84.46% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 651 1,015
10th Percentile £211 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% -12.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 609 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £66.13 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Hertfordshire +26 5 £538 -2.27% 64
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 16
Cambridgeshire +7 2 £325 - 45
Essex +10 1 £468 -10.10% 45
Suffolk - 1 £425 - 12
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) SaaS
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) 3GPP
1 2 (14.29%) 4G
1 2 (14.29%) 5G
1 2 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
1 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Packager
3 1 (7.14%) Business Transformation Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) CSS
1 6 (42.86%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (35.71%) Alpine.js
2 5 (35.71%) Laravel
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
4 3 (21.43%) REST
5 2 (14.29%) .NET
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Entity Framework
5 2 (14.29%) OpenAPI
5 2 (14.29%) Swagger
6 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
6 1 (7.14%) Blazor
6 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
6 1 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (7.14%) jQuery
6 1 (7.14%) Spring
6 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (7.14%) Vue
6 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Design Patterns
4 5 (35.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (7.14%) Application Packaging
6 1 (7.14%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Data Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Pair Programming
6 1 (7.14%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (14.29%) C++
4 2 (14.29%) Go
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft