Microservices Contracts in the Midlands

Microservices
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 54 101 96
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 61 32 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.19% 1.16% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 1.41% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 50
10th Percentile £358 £337 £360
25th Percentile £410 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £445 £585
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -23.93% +17.59%
75th Percentile £523 £475 £648
90th Percentile £537 £611 £731
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
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
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +30 37 £500 +11.11% 69
East Midlands +23 24 £471 +25.67% 53
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (13.11%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) JBoss
2 2 (3.28%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (49.18%) AWS
2 12 (19.67%) Amazon S3
3 11 (18.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (14.75%) Azure
5 6 (9.84%) AWS KMS
5 6 (9.84%) Route 53
6 5 (8.20%) AWS CodeBuild
6 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.20%) Serverless
7 4 (6.56%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.92%) GitHub
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.28%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.31%) Relational Database
3 10 (16.39%) DynamoDB
4 9 (14.75%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (8.20%) MySQL
8 4 (6.56%) NoSQL
8 4 (6.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.28%) IDMS
10 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Jenkins
2 15 (24.59%) Git
2 15 (24.59%) JIRA
3 13 (21.31%) JUnit
4 12 (19.67%) Maven
5 10 (16.39%) SonarQube
6 9 (14.75%) Mockito
7 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket
7 5 (8.20%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (8.20%) Cypress.io
7 5 (8.20%) GitLab
7 5 (8.20%) Postman
8 4 (6.56%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (6.56%) Selenium
8 4 (6.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (4.92%) Chocolatey
9 3 (4.92%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.92%) DbUnit
9 3 (4.92%) jMock
10 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (24.59%) Finance
1 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.64%) Legal
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (37.70%) Developer
2 16 (26.23%) Java Developer
3 15 (24.59%) Architect
4 10 (16.39%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Applications Architect
6 6 (9.84%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) QA Test Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Solution Architect
9 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (31.15%) Spring Boot
2 17 (27.87%) REST
3 16 (26.23%) Spring
4 13 (21.31%) Hibernate
5 12 (19.67%) .NET
6 11 (18.03%) React
6 11 (18.03%) Web Services
7 9 (14.75%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (14.75%) HTML
7 9 (14.75%) RESTful
8 8 (13.11%) JPA
9 7 (11.48%) AngularJS
9 7 (11.48%) Bootstrap
9 7 (11.48%) CSS
9 7 (11.48%) SOAP
9 7 (11.48%) Spring Integration
10 6 (9.84%) Kafka
10 6 (9.84%) Node.js
11 5 (8.20%) jQuery
11 5 (8.20%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.56%) Blockchain
2 4 (6.56%) IoT
2 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) CCTV
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
5 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (83.61%) Agile
2 34 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 22 (36.07%) Scrum
4 21 (34.43%) DevOps
5 16 (26.23%) Test Automation
6 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.31%) TDD
7 12 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (18.03%) BDD
9 10 (16.39%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (14.75%) Migration
11 8 (13.11%) Containerisation
11 8 (13.11%) ITIL
11 8 (13.11%) SDLC
12 7 (11.48%) API Testing
12 7 (11.48%) Architectural Design
12 7 (11.48%) Kanban
12 7 (11.48%) Project Planning
12 7 (11.48%) SOA
12 7 (11.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.82%) Java
2 23 (37.70%) JavaScript
3 17 (27.87%) SQL
4 12 (19.67%) C#
5 11 (18.03%) TypeScript
6 9 (14.75%) Python
7 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.92%) COBOL
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
9 2 (3.28%) Perl
9 2 (3.28%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 3 (4.92%) CISSP
4 3 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) ISEB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.31%) QA
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (42.62%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Grafana
2 4 (6.56%) Progress Chef
2 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 3 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.92%) Terraform
4 2 (3.28%) Kibana
4 2 (3.28%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Oracle
2 5 (8.20%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.92%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.28%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.28%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.28%) Veracode
5 1 (1.64%) Adobe
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft