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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 35 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 11.78% 3.85% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.28% 4.35% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 2
10th Percentile £269 £404 -
25th Percentile £320 £440 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +11.25% -22.89%
75th Percentile £479 - -
90th Percentile £533 £448 -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £435 £425
% change year-on-year -3.45% +2.35% -19.05%

All Process and 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 285 253 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.96% 88.46% 94.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 188 142
10th Percentile £270 £332 £213
25th Percentile £350 £375 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £445 £489
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% -9.00% +5.16%
75th Percentile £450 £575 £544
90th Percentile £525 £620 £605
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £490
% change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.64
25th Percentile - £23.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.61% -52.55% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
% change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
Northampton +6 34 £360 -19.10%
Microservices
East Midlands

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 5 (14.29%) Confluence
2 4 (11.43%) Mule
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (5.71%) JBoss
5 1 (2.86%) Camunda
5 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Glacier
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.86%) Apigee
5 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) HTTP
1 3 (8.57%) HTTPS
1 3 (8.57%) SSL
2 2 (5.71%) DMZ
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
1 6 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.57%) DynamoDB
3 3 (8.57%) MariaDB
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 10 (28.57%) Git
3 8 (22.86%) Bitbucket
3 8 (22.86%) JIRA
3 8 (22.86%) SonarQube
4 7 (20.00%) Maven
4 7 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 5 (14.29%) GitLab
5 5 (14.29%) JUnit
5 5 (14.29%) Selenium
6 4 (11.43%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (11.43%) Mockito
7 3 (8.57%) Gradle
8 1 (2.86%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (2.86%) JMeter
8 1 (2.86%) Postman
8 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (42.86%) Finance
2 13 (37.14%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Architect
2 12 (34.29%) Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Java Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (17.14%) Analyst
5 6 (17.14%) Business Analyst
6 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (11.43%) ETL Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
8 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (5.71%) Java Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Payments Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Payments Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Payments Business Analyst
9 1 (2.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.86%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (28.57%) Spring
3 9 (25.71%) Kafka
3 9 (25.71%) REST
4 8 (22.86%) RESTful
5 7 (20.00%) CSS
5 7 (20.00%) HTML
5 7 (20.00%) JPA
5 7 (20.00%) RAML
5 7 (20.00%) React
6 6 (17.14%) Spring Batch
7 5 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 5 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (14.29%) Web Services
8 4 (11.43%) J2EE
8 4 (11.43%) Jest
8 4 (11.43%) Node.js
8 4 (11.43%) Redux
8 4 (11.43%) Swagger
9 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) State Machine
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 14 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) ETL
4 9 (25.71%) Design Patterns
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Scrum
6 6 (17.14%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (17.14%) API Development
6 6 (17.14%) Business Strategy
6 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
6 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.14%) Data Transformation
6 6 (17.14%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
6 6 (17.14%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (17.14%) Technical Debt
6 6 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
6 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Java
2 12 (34.29%) SQL
3 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) PL/SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Perl
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
1 2 (5.71%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Kibana
2 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (11.43%) Veracode
4 3 (8.57%) Checkmarx
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.86%) Solace