Microservices Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microservices
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Microservices 7 17 23
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.51% 5.56% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 6.46% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 15
10th Percentile £424 £414 £455
25th Percentile £497 £476 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £511 £715
Median % change year-on-year +17.37% -28.51% +37.83%
75th Percentile £656 £608 £750
90th Percentile £668 £630 £859
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £511 £715
% change year-on-year +17.37% -28.51% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 248 263 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 88.89% 85.95% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 189 423
10th Percentile £230 £249 £275
25th Percentile £346 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -7.77% +5.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £640 £632 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.83 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.12 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +50.00% +42.86%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Milton Keynes

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (14.29%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) MS Access
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Storybook
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) General Ledger
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Electronics
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JPA
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Vitest
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) ArchiMate
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
2 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Logistics
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) JDA
1 1 (14.29%) SAP