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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 26 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 9.89% 5.71% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.21% 6.25% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 5
10th Percentile £375 £297 -
25th Percentile £393 £334 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £356
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +12.36% -36.99%
75th Percentile £575 £477 £369
90th Percentile £588 £512 £391
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £456 £356
% change year-on-year -1.92% +28.02% -28.80%

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 232 128 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 88.21% 91.43% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 109 119
10th Percentile £328 £267 £303
25th Percentile £381 £346 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £402 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% -13.08% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £473 £538
90th Percentile £575 £531 £620
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £441 £425
% change year-on-year +2.04% +3.76% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 21
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - £13.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £14.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +75.86% -34.90% -46.33%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.97 £21.59 £17.29
% change year-on-year +1.75% +24.91% -5.88%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -5 21 £402 +0.50% 3
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 (11.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
3 8 (30.77%) Aerospike
3 8 (30.77%) DynamoDB
3 8 (30.77%) Redis
4 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
5 6 (23.08%) Parquet
6 3 (11.54%) Big Data
6 3 (11.54%) Metabase
7 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) GitLab
2 6 (23.08%) JUnit
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Software Developer
3 8 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 8 (30.77%) .NET Software Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 5 (19.23%) Rust Developer
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Database Consultant
7 1 (3.85%) Database Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Kafka
2 8 (30.77%) .NET
2 8 (30.77%) Node.js
3 7 (26.92%) RESTful
4 6 (23.08%) Jest
4 6 (23.08%) pytest
4 6 (23.08%) REST
5 3 (11.54%) J2EE
5 3 (11.54%) OSGi
5 3 (11.54%) Plotly
5 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (42.31%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) CI/CD
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (30.77%) Backtesting
6 8 (30.77%) Fraud Detection
6 8 (30.77%) Migration
7 6 (23.08%) Clean Code
7 6 (23.08%) Code Quality
7 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 6 (23.08%) Secure Coding
7 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
8 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Integration Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
9 4 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) C#
3 8 (30.77%) Rust
4 6 (23.08%) Python
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) PSD2
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Databricks
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) Adobe