Microservices Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microservices
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.17% - 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% - 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +65.08%
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59 73 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 81.94% 70.19% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 34 99
10th Percentile £140 £301 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -10.00% +5.51%
75th Percentile £456 £519 £575
90th Percentile £575 £591 £678
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £34.06 £23.93 -
90th Percentile £39.58 £39.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 3 £338 - 18
Microservices
West Midlands

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Kong
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) SignalR
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes