Microservices Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 34 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 +33
Contract jobs citing Microservices 301 221 116
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.02% 5.55% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 6.23% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 157 83
10th Percentile £400 £337 £375
25th Percentile £447 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -10.41%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £622
90th Percentile £653 £711 £818
England median daily rate £530 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.95% -6.25% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £69.00 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £71.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £75.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +42.86% +21.80%
75th Percentile £72.25 £77.81 £56.25
90th Percentile £84.20 £78.38 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,225 3,549 3,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.16% 89.10% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,682 2,262 2,084
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £402 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £558 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 210 238
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.48 £14.22
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £26.76
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -15.43% -3.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £69.83
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the North of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 August 2026. 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
Yorkshire -2 137 £523 -0.48% 41
North West -34 134 £525 +11.82% 96
North East -23 40 £450 -14.29% 38
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 16 (5.32%) Confluence
2 5 (1.66%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.66%) Camunda
4 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) Mule
5 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 155 (51.50%) AWS
2 80 (26.58%) GCP
3 79 (26.25%) Azure
4 49 (16.28%) GitHub
5 45 (14.95%) Serverless
6 29 (9.63%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (6.31%) Amazon SQS
9 17 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.32%) Google Gemini
11 13 (4.32%) Kong
12 12 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (3.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (2.99%) Cloud Run
15 7 (2.33%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.33%) Apigee
15 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.33%) Network Security
2 2 (0.66%) Firewall
2 2 (0.66%) HTTP
2 2 (0.66%) NAS
2 2 (0.66%) SAN
2 2 (0.66%) VPN
2 2 (0.66%) VSAN
3 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.95%) MongoDB
2 39 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.64%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.31%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.65%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.32%) MySQL
8 9 (2.99%) Redis
9 8 (2.66%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.66%) Hazelcast
10 5 (1.66%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.33%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.00%) Flink
12 3 (1.00%) Power BI
13 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.66%) DocumentDB
14 1 (0.33%) Firebird
14 1 (0.33%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 52 (17.28%) Git
2 49 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 29 (9.63%) GitLab
4 26 (8.64%) JIRA
5 20 (6.64%) Selenium
6 18 (5.98%) Mockito
7 16 (5.32%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.32%) JUnit
8 13 (4.32%) REST Assured
9 8 (2.66%) Maven
10 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.33%) Gradle
10 7 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
11 6 (1.99%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.99%) Gatling
11 6 (1.99%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.66%) Postman
12 5 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.33%) Snyk
14 3 (1.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 69 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.93%) Finance
3 51 (16.94%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.96%) Banking
5 23 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.98%) Retail
7 10 (3.32%) Military
8 7 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.33%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.33%) Games
11 3 (1.00%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Marketing
12 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (37.87%) Developer
2 69 (22.92%) Java Developer
3 64 (21.26%) Senior
4 62 (20.60%) Architect
5 43 (14.29%) Lead
6 35 (11.63%) Senior Developer
7 31 (10.30%) Software Engineer
8 23 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 22 (7.31%) Java Engineer
10 21 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (6.31%) Test Engineer
12 18 (5.98%) Backend Developer
13 17 (5.65%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
16 13 (4.32%) Lead Developer
16 13 (4.32%) Lead Test Engineer
16 13 (4.32%) Software Developer
17 12 (3.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (28.90%) Spring
2 79 (26.25%) Kafka
3 78 (25.91%) Spring Boot
4 70 (23.26%) REST
5 51 (16.94%) React
6 49 (16.28%) RESTful
7 40 (13.29%) Node.js
8 26 (8.64%) OAuth
9 23 (7.64%) AngularJS
10 22 (7.31%) .NET
11 20 (6.64%) JWT
11 20 (6.64%) OAuth2
12 17 (5.65%) HTML
12 17 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.99%) ActiveMQ
13 12 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
14 11 (3.65%) JAX-RS
14 11 (3.65%) Nunjucks
14 11 (3.65%) OpenID
15 10 (3.32%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 51 (16.94%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (7.97%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.32%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.32%) AI Agents
7 10 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.33%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.33%) NHS
9 4 (1.33%) Sports Betting
9 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.00%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.98%) Linux
2 14 (4.65%) Unix
3 6 (1.99%) Mac OS X
4 3 (1.00%) AIX
5 2 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (63.79%) CI/CD
2 139 (46.18%) Agile
3 120 (39.87%) DevOps
4 105 (34.88%) Test Automation
5 84 (27.91%) Event-Driven
6 81 (26.91%) Software Engineering
7 75 (24.92%) Containerisation
8 71 (23.59%) Observability
9 65 (21.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 65 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 58 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (16.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 49 (16.28%) TDD
14 48 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
15 45 (14.95%) Code Quality
16 38 (12.62%) AI
17 37 (12.29%) API Development
17 37 (12.29%) Architectural Patterns
17 37 (12.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 174 (57.81%) Java
2 59 (19.60%) SQL
3 49 (16.28%) Python
4 36 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 27 (8.97%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.31%) Kotlin
7 13 (4.32%) C#
8 9 (2.99%) Scala
9 5 (1.66%) Bash
10 4 (1.33%) Go
10 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.00%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.66%) PromQL
13 1 (0.33%) ABAP
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) COBOL
13 1 (0.33%) PHP
13 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 38 (12.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (3.65%) Degree
4 10 (3.32%) CISSP
5 9 (2.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 9 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.66%) CEH
6 8 (2.66%) CISM
7 7 (2.33%) CCSP
7 7 (2.33%) OSCP
8 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) GIAC
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.66%) NCDA
9 2 (0.66%) NCIE
9 2 (0.66%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.97%) QA
2 19 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 11 (3.65%) NIST
4 8 (2.66%) WCAG
5 7 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.99%) COBIT
7 5 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.66%) GDPR
9 2 (0.66%) HL7
9 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.66%) SEPA
10 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) ISA99
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 113 (37.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.66%) NFS
3 2 (0.66%) SRDF
3 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (36.54%) Kubernetes
2 63 (20.93%) Terraform
3 31 (10.30%) Prometheus
4 28 (9.30%) Grafana
5 12 (3.99%) Ansible
6 7 (2.33%) Argo
7 5 (1.66%) Istio
7 5 (1.66%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.66%) Consul
8 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (0.66%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (0.66%) Kibana
8 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.66%) SnapMirror
8 2 (0.66%) SnapVault
8 2 (0.66%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.66%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.33%) Control-M
9 1 (0.33%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 22 (7.31%) Google
2 12 (3.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.99%) Oracle
4 7 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (1.99%) Databricks
5 6 (1.99%) Splunk
5 6 (1.99%) VMware
6 5 (1.66%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.33%) Okta
8 3 (1.00%) Cisco
8 3 (1.00%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.66%) 3PAR
9 2 (0.66%) Dell
9 2 (0.66%) EMC
9 2 (0.66%) NetApp
9 2 (0.66%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.66%) SAP
9 2 (0.66%) Solace
9 2 (0.66%) SolarWinds