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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 95 86
Rank change year-on-year +29 -9 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 16 17 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 0.89% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.03% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 23
10th Percentile £406 £348 £463
25th Percentile - £414 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £470 £588 £593
90th Percentile £613 £608 £646
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
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 £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%

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 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 May 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 May 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
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 8
Hertfordshire +31 4 £575 +4.55% 11
Suffolk -4 4 £425 -32.00% 6
Cambridgeshire +5 2 - - 26
Essex +9 1 £468 -10.10% 17
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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) SaaS
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) 3GPP
1 2 (12.50%) 4G
1 2 (12.50%) 5G
1 2 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) MSI
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Packager
5 1 (6.25%) Business Transformation Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Transformation Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Transformation Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Product Owner
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Director
5 1 (6.25%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Alpine.js
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
1 5 (31.25%) Laravel
1 5 (31.25%) RESTful
1 5 (31.25%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (18.75%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
3 2 (12.50%) Swagger
3 2 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Mapping
7 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 2 (12.50%) ERP
7 2 (12.50%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) Go
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) logstash
2 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google