Microservices Contracts in Northamptonshire

Microservices
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 15 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 8.22% 5.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 5.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 0
10th Percentile £270 - -
25th Percentile £334 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% - -
75th Percentile £525 £445 -
90th Percentile £537 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £471 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +25.67% -11.76% -15.00%

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 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Northamptonshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 -2 12 £358 -5.79% 29
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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (25.00%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (8.33%) Apigee
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (50.00%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
3 4 (33.33%) JUnit
3 4 (33.33%) Maven
3 4 (33.33%) Selenium
3 4 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (25.00%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) Gradle
5 2 (16.67%) HP UFT
5 2 (16.67%) IntelliJ
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) NetBeans
5 2 (16.67%) Subversion
5 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Architect
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Java Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
3 1 (8.33%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (50.00%) Kafka
3 5 (41.67%) Spring
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 4 (33.33%) HTML
4 4 (33.33%) Node.js
5 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (25.00%) RESTful
6 2 (16.67%) Ajax
6 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
6 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (16.67%) HTML5
6 2 (16.67%) J2EE
6 2 (16.67%) JPA
6 2 (16.67%) jQuery
6 2 (16.67%) Spring Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Spring MVC
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Budget Control
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Veracode
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft