Microservices Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microservices
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 17 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 6.34% 4.90% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 5.34% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 5
10th Percentile £337 £338 -
25th Percentile £375 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £444 £356
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% +24.72% -31.80%
75th Percentile £402 £490 £369
90th Percentile £440 £518 £391
East Midlands median daily rate £401 £490 £359
% change year-on-year -18.16% +36.40% -28.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 131 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.79% 91.61% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 111 115
10th Percentile £313 £311 £256
25th Percentile £375 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £443
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -9.71% +18.13%
75th Percentile £519 £475 £503
90th Percentile £575 £538 £587
East Midlands median daily rate £446 £425 £417
% change year-on-year +4.94% +1.98% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 23
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -58.57% +40.96%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £17.71
% change year-on-year -14.40% +24.46% +5.24%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Northamptonshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 19 March 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
Northampton -12 15 £393 -11.49% 3
Brackley - 1 £375 -
Microservices
East Midlands

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (17.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
3 6 (35.29%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (47.06%) Aerospike
2 8 (47.06%) DynamoDB
2 8 (47.06%) Redis
3 2 (11.76%) Parquet
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Metabase
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) GitLab
2 6 (35.29%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Software Developer
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native Developer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Database Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Rust Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Kafka
1 8 (47.06%) Node.js
2 6 (35.29%) Jest
2 6 (35.29%) pytest
3 4 (23.53%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) J2EE
4 3 (17.65%) OSGi
4 3 (17.65%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) Spring
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) Playwright
6 1 (5.88%) Plotly
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (47.06%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.88%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Backtesting
3 8 (47.06%) Fraud Detection
3 8 (47.06%) Migration
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Clean Code
5 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) Secure Coding
5 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
6 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (29.41%) Integration Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (17.65%) Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Rust
3 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.88%) PSD2
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft