Microservices Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Microservices
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 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 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 15.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £338 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +65.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14 19 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 73.68% 57.58% 79.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 39
10th Percentile £200 £369 £375
25th Percentile £260 £374 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -22.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £444 £488 £575
90th Percentile £638 £521 £625
Staffordshire median daily rate £325 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -27.78% -10.00% +5.51%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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