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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 16 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 6.18% 1.86% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 2.00% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £282 £374 -
25th Percentile £312 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £444 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.37% +11.00% -23.37%
75th Percentile £427 £467 -
90th Percentile £534 £481 -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £471 £644
% change year-on-year -14.69% -26.82% +21.22%

All Process and 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 238 150 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.89% 93.17% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 112
10th Percentile £323 £307 £224
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -16.23% +7.98%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £424 £436 £461
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
% change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -6 16 £358 -19.37% 3
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%) Mule
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
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%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) Aerospike
2 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
2 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Postman
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) JUnit
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
1 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) J2EE
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) Playwright
4 2 (12.50%) RAML
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Batch
4 2 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Swagger
5 1 (6.25%) .NET
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (6.25%) Jest
5 1 (6.25%) pytest
5 1 (6.25%) SOAP
5 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 4 (25.00%) Epics
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (18.75%) Business Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
5 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Checkmarx
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Google