Microservices Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Microservices
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 17 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 2.31% 3.49% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 4.38% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £441 £454 -
25th Percentile £487 £459 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £528 £525 £700
90th Percentile £534 £540 -
East Midlands median daily rate £399 £459 £647
% change year-on-year -13.13% -29.10% +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 137 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 77.46% 79.65% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 70 111
10th Percentile £182 £313 £290
25th Percentile £380 £407 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £650
90th Percentile £836 £613 £745
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £442 £475
% change year-on-year -4.87% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 7 11
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.83 £15.71
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.10 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -45.09% +150.00%
75th Percentile £17.87 £46.25 £88.75
90th Percentile £17.87 £82.05 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Nottingham -4 4 £523 +4.50% 6
Microservices
East Midlands

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (25.00%) ChatGPT
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
2 1 (25.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle