MicroProfile Contract Job Trends

Eclipse MicroProfile
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MicroProfile skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MicroProfile 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MicroProfile falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,325 6,599 8,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.21% 22.71% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,218 4,498 6,258
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £496 £495
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.20% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 190
10th Percentile £35.25 £26.25 £20.74
25th Percentile £52.50 £39.06 £37.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

MicroProfile
Job Vacancy Trend

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

MicroProfile job vacancy trend in the UK

MicroProfile
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MicroProfile.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MicroProfile

MicroProfile
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MicroProfile within the UK over the 6 months to 26 March 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
London - 1 - -
England - 1 - -

MicroProfile
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (100.00%) RESTEasy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Blocking Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM