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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 27 34 15
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 11.49% 11.15% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 11.76% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 11
10th Percentile £375 £268 £356
25th Percentile £394 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £360 £445
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -19.10% +11.25%
75th Percentile £578 £492 -
90th Percentile £588 £537 -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +19.05% -1.18% -

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 180 289 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 76.60% 94.75% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 263 186
10th Percentile £304 £268 £354
25th Percentile £381 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £375 £445
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -15.73% -6.32%
75th Percentile £538 £447 £575
90th Percentile £600 £525 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £405 £450
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 2
10th Percentile - - £25.41
25th Percentile - - £28.88
Median hourly rate £14.56 £21.39 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% -41.14% -28.75%
75th Percentile £21.22 - £44.36
90th Percentile £47.50 £41.56 £48.17
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £19.16
% change year-on-year -5.62% -1.17% -36.13%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 23 £447 +24.17% 1
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 (11.11%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
3 6 (22.22%) Parquet
4 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
5 3 (11.11%) Big Data
5 3 (11.11%) Metabase
5 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.70%) Aerospike
7 1 (3.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) git-flow
3 1 (3.70%) Gradle
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Publishing
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 16 (59.26%) Software Developer
3 11 (40.74%) .NET Developer
3 11 (40.74%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Rust Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
6 2 (7.41%) Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) .NET
1 11 (40.74%) RESTful
2 9 (33.33%) Kafka
2 9 (33.33%) REST
3 5 (18.52%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 3 (11.11%) OAuth
5 3 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 3 (11.11%) Plotly
6 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.41%) JWT
6 2 (7.41%) OpenID
6 2 (7.41%) SAML
7 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.70%) Jest
7 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.70%) pytest
7 1 (3.70%) React
7 1 (3.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Cloud Native
1 10 (37.04%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.70%) Chip and PIN
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 11 (40.74%) Agile
4 11 (40.74%) Event-Driven
5 10 (37.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (25.93%) API Development
6 7 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (18.52%) Code Quality
8 5 (18.52%) Integration Patterns
9 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
9 4 (14.81%) Service Design
9 4 (14.81%) Software Testing
10 3 (11.11%) Data Transformation
10 3 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
10 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
11 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
11 2 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) C#
2 8 (29.63%) Rust
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 6 (22.22%) SQL
5 5 (18.52%) Java
6 3 (11.11%) MATLAB
7 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) SAP