Microservices Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microservices
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 58 84
Rank change year-on-year -21 +26 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 26 27 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.64% 2.37% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.82% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 18
10th Percentile £453 £300 £474
25th Percentile £494 £347 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% -7.96%
75th Percentile £638 £563 £650
90th Percentile - £588 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £40.08 £76.53
% change year-on-year +68.42% -47.63% +4.48%

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 1,340 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 184 359
10th Percentile £14.11 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.88 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.42% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices

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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Microservices

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 18 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
Hertfordshire -9 10 £500 -4.76% 11
Suffolk -9 7 £450 +20.00% 1
Bedfordshire - 6 £625 - 5
Cambridgeshire -8 2 £725 +26.09% 3
Essex -5 1 £505 +68.33% 4
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) npm
3 7 (26.92%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) Azure AI
4 6 (23.08%) Copilot Studio
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 6 (23.08%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) GitLab
1 10 (38.46%) JIRA
2 9 (34.62%) Artifactory
2 9 (34.62%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.54%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.85%) Agriculture
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Development Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Architect
6 1 (3.85%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (53.85%) React
2 13 (50.00%) .NET
3 12 (46.15%) Node.js
4 11 (42.31%) AngularJS
4 11 (42.31%) CSS
4 11 (42.31%) HTML
5 10 (38.46%) .NET Framework
5 10 (38.46%) Vue
6 9 (34.62%) Svelte
7 8 (30.77%) REST
8 7 (26.92%) PyTorch
8 7 (26.92%) scikit-learn
8 7 (26.92%) TensorFlow
9 3 (11.54%) RESTful
10 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
10 2 (7.69%) Express.js
10 2 (7.69%) MERN Stack
10 2 (7.69%) Spring
11 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
11 1 (3.85%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (34.62%) Algorithms
2 9 (34.62%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 20 (76.92%) DevOps
3 14 (53.85%) Containerisation
3 14 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (46.15%) TDD
5 11 (42.31%) Agile
6 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 10 (38.46%) OOP
6 10 (38.46%) SDLC
7 9 (34.62%) Design Patterns
7 9 (34.62%) Software Testing
8 8 (30.77%) AI
8 8 (30.77%) API Development
8 8 (30.77%) Data Science
9 7 (26.92%) Analytics
9 7 (26.92%) B2C
9 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
9 7 (26.92%) MLOps
9 7 (26.92%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 6 (23.08%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) C#
1 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 10 (38.46%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) TypeScript
4 8 (30.77%) Python
5 7 (26.92%) C++
6 4 (15.38%) Java
7 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Foundry
2 6 (23.08%) Google
2 6 (23.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media