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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 15 36 12
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.70% 11.76% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.65% 12.20% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 9
10th Percentile £400 £268 £411
25th Percentile £402 £312 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £358 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.86% -19.55% +11.25%
75th Percentile £500 £451 -
90th Percentile £588 £532 £462
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £395 £445
% change year-on-year +26.58% -11.24% +4.71%

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 196 295 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 74.52% 96.41% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 264 178
10th Percentile £285 £277 £321
25th Percentile £381 £350 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £390 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -8.24% -15.00%
75th Percentile £537 £450 £523
90th Percentile £600 £537 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £478 £415 £445
% change year-on-year +15.18% -6.74% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.56 - £23.10
Median hourly rate £14.78 £21.39 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year -30.90% -11.61% -43.74%
75th Percentile £21.22 - £25.30
90th Percentile £44.87 £41.56 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.96
% change year-on-year -5.30% -5.44% -12.29%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +4 15 £447 +24.86% 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) git-flow
2 1 (6.67%) Gradle
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (26.67%) Publishing
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) IAM Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) RESTful
2 7 (46.67%) Kafka
3 5 (33.33%) .NET
4 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
5 3 (20.00%) OAuth
5 3 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 3 (20.00%) REST
6 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
6 2 (13.33%) JWT
6 2 (13.33%) OpenID
6 2 (13.33%) SAML
7 1 (6.67%) CSS
7 1 (6.67%) HTML
7 1 (6.67%) Middleware
7 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
7 1 (6.67%) React
7 1 (6.67%) SOAP
7 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (26.67%) Reference Data
4 1 (6.67%) Chip and PIN
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Event-Driven
3 10 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (60.00%) DevOps
5 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
6 7 (46.67%) API Development
6 7 (46.67%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (40.00%) Agile
8 5 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
9 4 (26.67%) Service Design
10 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
11 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
11 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
12 1 (6.67%) Design Patterns
12 1 (6.67%) SQL Optimisation
12 1 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) SAP