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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 29 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 11.37% 10.05% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.30% 10.77% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 12
10th Percentile £375 £270 £356
25th Percentile £393 £333 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £358 £435
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% -17.70% -
75th Percentile £575 £490 £445
90th Percentile £588 £537 -
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £433 £425
% change year-on-year +3.17% +1.94% -

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 218 195 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 85.49% 93.30% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 167 172
10th Percentile £340 £259 £310
25th Percentile £393 £324 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £391 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.09% -12.13% +11.25%
75th Percentile £540 £450 £538
90th Percentile £588 £525 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £455 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +7.06% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £20.52 £17.57 £10.90
25th Percentile - - £12.45
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.39 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.21% +52.79% -72.55%
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile £48.45 £38.20 £54.79
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.51 £16.82
% change year-on-year -2.76% +10.08% -26.89%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -2 24 £402 +12.29% 2
Brackley - 3 £575 -
Kettering - 1 - -
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 (10.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (34.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (27.59%) Relational Database
4 7 (24.14%) Aerospike
4 7 (24.14%) DynamoDB
4 7 (24.14%) Redis
5 6 (20.69%) Parquet
6 3 (10.34%) Big Data
6 3 (10.34%) Metabase
7 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Developer
2 16 (55.17%) Software Developer
3 9 (31.03%) .NET Developer
3 9 (31.03%) .NET Software Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Rust Developer
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Lead
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Consultant
9 1 (3.45%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.45%) Database Consultant
9 1 (3.45%) Database Developer
9 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Kafka
2 9 (31.03%) .NET
2 9 (31.03%) RESTful
3 8 (27.59%) REST
4 7 (24.14%) Node.js
5 5 (17.24%) Jest
5 5 (17.24%) pytest
6 3 (10.34%) J2EE
6 3 (10.34%) OSGi
6 3 (10.34%) Plotly
6 3 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (6.90%) OAuth
7 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
7 2 (6.90%) OpenID
7 2 (6.90%) SAML
7 2 (6.90%) Spring
7 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (41.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (3.45%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 14 (48.28%) DevOps
4 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Backtesting
6 7 (24.14%) Fraud Detection
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Clean Code
7 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
7 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
7 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 5 (17.24%) Secure Coding
7 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
8 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) C#
3 8 (27.59%) Rust
4 7 (24.14%) Python
5 5 (17.24%) SQL
6 3 (10.34%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) PSD2
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (55.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Databricks
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) SAP