Microservices Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microservices
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 84 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 105 38 52
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.37% 1.63% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 1.90% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 23 35
10th Percentile £307 £322 £404
25th Percentile £402 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -26.92% +23.81%
75th Percentile £552 £518 £688
90th Percentile £650 £545 £715
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%

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 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 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
West Midlands +17 78 £525 +5.00% 64
East Midlands -9 27 £402 -12.37% 46
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 9 (8.57%) Confluence
1 9 (8.57%) JBoss
1 9 (8.57%) WebLogic
2 8 (7.62%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) Anypoint
3 3 (2.86%) Mule
3 3 (2.86%) nginx
4 2 (1.90%) Drupal
4 2 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.95%) Camunda
5 1 (0.95%) CMS
5 1 (0.95%) Documentum
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) FrameMaker
2 1 (0.95%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.29%) AWS
2 26 (24.76%) Azure
2 26 (24.76%) Serverless
3 21 (20.00%) GitHub
4 20 (19.05%) GCP
5 14 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.81%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.86%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.86%) Lucidchart
11 3 (2.86%) SaaS
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon EventBridge
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (1.90%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) SSL
1 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.71%) MongoDB
2 22 (20.95%) NoSQL
2 22 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.52%) Redis
4 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) MySQL
6 3 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.90%) Aerospike
7 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.95%) Big Data
8 1 (0.95%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.95%) Metadata
8 1 (0.95%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (23.81%) Git
1 25 (23.81%) GitLab
2 23 (21.90%) JUnit
3 20 (19.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (17.14%) JIRA
5 16 (15.24%) Selenium
6 10 (9.52%) Liquibase
7 9 (8.57%) Cucumber
8 8 (7.62%) Eclipse
8 8 (7.62%) IntelliJ
8 8 (7.62%) Mockito
9 7 (6.67%) Maven
9 7 (6.67%) SonarQube
10 6 (5.71%) Bitbucket
11 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (2.86%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (2.86%) Postman
13 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.95%) CA Release Automation
14 1 (0.95%) GoCD
General
1 52 (49.52%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.90%) Banking
3 22 (20.95%) Finance
4 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 8 (7.62%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.95%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.95%) Legal
10 1 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.95%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (35.24%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 18 (17.14%) Software Engineer
4 17 (16.19%) Architect
5 16 (15.24%) Senior
6 10 (9.52%) Java Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Backend Developer
7 9 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Python Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.29%) REST
2 35 (33.33%) Spring
3 25 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 24 (22.86%) RESTful
5 18 (17.14%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (17.14%) Kafka
6 16 (15.24%) HTML
6 16 (15.24%) JSON
7 12 (11.43%) SOAP
8 11 (10.48%) Gherkin
8 11 (10.48%) Node.js
8 11 (10.48%) Play Framework
8 11 (10.48%) React
8 11 (10.48%) XML
9 10 (9.52%) Hibernate
9 10 (9.52%) J2EE
10 9 (8.57%) .NET
11 8 (7.62%) EJB
11 8 (7.62%) HTML5
11 8 (7.62%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (11.43%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.95%) Linux
2 9 (8.57%) Unix
3 5 (4.76%) Windows
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 60 (57.14%) Agile
3 51 (48.57%) DevOps
4 42 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 34 (32.38%) Software Engineering
6 27 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
7 25 (23.81%) Scrum
8 21 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (18.10%) Continuous Delivery
10 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
11 17 (16.19%) High Availability
12 16 (15.24%) Computer Science
12 16 (15.24%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (14.29%) Mentoring
14 14 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (12.38%) Root Cause Analysis
15 13 (12.38%) TDD
16 12 (11.43%) Cryptography
16 12 (11.43%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.67%) Java
2 38 (36.19%) SQL
3 27 (25.71%) Python
4 22 (20.95%) Go
5 11 (10.48%) Scala
6 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.81%) PHP
7 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.86%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.90%) C#
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Perl
9 2 (1.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) Degree
4 16 (15.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (11.43%) Master's Degree
6 8 (7.62%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) WCAG
3 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 49 (46.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (49.52%) Kubernetes
2 26 (24.76%) Grafana
3 21 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 16 (15.24%) Ansible
5 14 (13.33%) Terraform
6 10 (9.52%) Puppet
7 7 (6.67%) Kibana
8 4 (3.81%) Argo
9 2 (1.90%) Istio
9 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) Splunk
3 8 (7.62%) Google
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 8 (7.62%) webMethods
4 3 (2.86%) Checkmarx
4 3 (2.86%) Databricks
4 3 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.90%) Pega
5 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Adobe
6 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.95%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.95%) Denodo
6 1 (0.95%) OpenText
6 1 (0.95%) Veracode