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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 22 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 16 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 5.71% 2.74% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 3.01% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 1
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £348 £356 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £400 £398
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +0.63% -23.85%
75th Percentile £410 £456 £406
90th Percentile £441 £476 -
East Midlands median daily rate £401 £490 £650
% change year-on-year -18.16% -24.62% +25.00%

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 254 133 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 90.71% 91.10% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 104 123
10th Percentile £313 £317 £213
25th Percentile £360 £356 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £414 £453
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -8.61% +13.25%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £528
90th Percentile £575 £619 £585
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £433 £445
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.75% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 25
10th Percentile - - £10.90
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year -20.58% +27.05% +5.23%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -14 15 £393 -1.75%
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 (18.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub
2 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (18.75%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Glacier
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) DynamoDB
2 6 (37.50%) Aerospike
2 6 (37.50%) Redis
3 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
3 4 (25.00%) JUnit
4 3 (18.75%) JIRA
5 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 2 (12.50%) Postman
5 2 (12.50%) Selenium
6 1 (6.25%) JMeter
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native Developer
4 2 (12.50%) ETL Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Database Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) Node.js
3 4 (25.00%) Jest
3 4 (25.00%) pytest
4 3 (18.75%) J2EE
4 3 (18.75%) OSGi
4 3 (18.75%) RESTful
5 2 (12.50%) Playwright
5 2 (12.50%) REST
5 2 (12.50%) Spring
6 1 (6.25%) .NET
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (6.25%) SOAP
6 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) EMV
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Agile
3 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (37.50%) Backtesting
4 6 (37.50%) Fraud Detection
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Code Quality
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Secure Coding
5 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Integration Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Databricks
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Adobe
4 2 (12.50%) Salesforce