Microservices Contracts in Cheshire

Microservices
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -14 +23 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 16 35 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.22% 6.52% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 7.10% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 9
10th Percentile £427 £413 £357
25th Percentile £445 £440 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £498 £427
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +16.51% -24.09%
75th Percentile £502 £603 £428
90th Percentile £563 £680 £529
North West median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 416 493 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.70% 91.81% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 334 257
10th Percentile £278 £288 £216
25th Percentile £400 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 27
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.29 £10.36
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.78
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +32.78% -0.54%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.03 £31.89
90th Percentile £44.13 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Cheshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
Knutsford +4 9 £445 -
Warrington +6 6 £513 -11.83%
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (25.00%) Confluence
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
4 1 (6.25%) Mule
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Temenos T24
2 2 (12.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) Apigee
3 5 (31.25%) Kong
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Stack
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) MongoDB
1 5 (31.25%) OLAP
1 5 (31.25%) OLTP
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle OLAP
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) DB2
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Liquibase
3 1 (6.25%) Log4j
3 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Pega Developer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) .NET
1 7 (43.75%) REST
2 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 6 (37.50%) Web Services
3 5 (31.25%) IBM Integration Bus
3 5 (31.25%) J2EE
3 5 (31.25%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (31.25%) SOAP
4 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (25.00%) Apache Camel
4 4 (25.00%) JSON
4 4 (25.00%) React
4 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (25.00%) Spring Integration
5 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
5 2 (12.50%) HTML
5 2 (12.50%) XHTML
5 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) DataPower
2 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
4 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
4 2 (12.50%) Reference Data
4 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Android
1 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) OO
3 7 (43.75%) API Management
3 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Event-Driven
4 6 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 6 (37.50%) SDLC
5 5 (31.25%) CQRS
5 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (31.25%) OOA/OOD
5 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
5 5 (31.25%) SOA
5 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) OOD
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Debt
6 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
7 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) C
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) TSYS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Nintex
3 2 (12.50%) Pega
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) VMware