Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 53 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 -19 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,013 2,130 4,369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.74% 4.22% 6.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 4.68% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 1,621 3,251
10th Percentile £400 £458 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £794
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 27
10th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £47.60
25th Percentile £45.88 £62.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £72.50 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +25.24% -0.19%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £75.55
90th Percentile £62.50 £81.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £72.50 £58.95
% change year-on-year -33.20% +23.00% +30.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London -14 671 £575 -11.54% 314
North of England +13 133 £550 - 141
North West +28 99 £550 +4.76% 78
South East -20 96 £613 +11.36% 107
South West -37 41 £500 -16.67% 45
Yorkshire +1 30 £400 -27.27% 47
Midlands -18 26 £450 -23.08% 75
West Midlands +2 20 £450 -25.00% 32
East of England -11 17 £550 +4.76% 37
North East +6 8 £413 -25.00% 18
East Midlands +3 6 £356 -16.24% 43
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (3.36%) Confluence
2 22 (2.17%) nginx
3 12 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.18%) OpenStack
4 11 (1.09%) Apache
5 9 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
6 8 (0.79%) IIS
6 8 (0.79%) JBoss
7 7 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.69%) Apache Solr
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.59%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.30%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.20%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 12 (1.18%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.099%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.099%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.39%) Avolution ABACUS
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) Maximo
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.099%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.099%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 381 (37.61%) AWS
2 271 (26.75%) Azure
3 136 (13.43%) Serverless
4 130 (12.83%) GCP
5 65 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (4.34%) OpenShift
8 43 (4.24%) Amazon S3
8 43 (4.24%) Azure Functions
8 43 (4.24%) GitHub
9 40 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 37 (3.65%) SaaS
11 36 (3.55%) PaaS
12 35 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.06%) Entra ID
14 26 (2.57%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (2.47%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.65%) HTTP
2 21 (2.07%) Firewall
3 17 (1.68%) DNS
4 15 (1.48%) VPN
5 11 (1.09%) DHCP
6 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.79%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.59%) Internet
9 5 (0.49%) IPsec
10 4 (0.39%) ATM
10 4 (0.39%) SSL
10 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.20%) Network Security
11 2 (0.20%) WAN
12 1 (0.099%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.099%) MQTT
12 1 (0.099%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (12.93%) NoSQL
2 111 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (10.76%) MongoDB
4 64 (6.32%) Relational Database
5 62 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 46 (4.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (2.76%) MySQL
10 24 (2.37%) Big Data
11 23 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 22 (2.17%) RDBMS
13 21 (2.07%) Redis
14 14 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 13 (1.28%) DynamoDB
16 12 (1.18%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.09%) OLTP
17 11 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
18 8 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 165 (16.29%) Git
2 100 (9.87%) Jenkins
3 64 (6.32%) GitLab
4 59 (5.82%) JIRA
5 57 (5.63%) JUnit
6 41 (4.05%) Mockito
7 37 (3.65%) Cucumber
7 37 (3.65%) TeamCity
8 32 (3.16%) Selenium
9 15 (1.48%) NUnit
10 14 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.38%) Moq
11 13 (1.28%) Maven
11 13 (1.28%) Postman
11 13 (1.28%) SoapUI
12 11 (1.09%) Gradle
12 11 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.09%) SpecFlow
13 10 (0.99%) Visual Studio
14 9 (0.89%) Liquibase
General
1 201 (19.84%) Finance
2 186 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 108 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 100 (9.87%) Banking
5 76 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.16%) Retail
7 22 (2.17%) Front Office
7 22 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 16 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.18%) Legal
11 11 (1.09%) Tech for Good
12 8 (0.79%) Local Government
12 8 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.69%) Marketing
14 6 (0.59%) Back Office
14 6 (0.59%) Electronics
15 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 462 (45.61%) Developer
2 209 (20.63%) Architect
3 158 (15.60%) Senior
4 150 (14.81%) Java Developer
5 77 (7.60%) Senior Developer
6 76 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
6 76 (7.50%) Lead
7 66 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 66 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 54 (5.33%) .NET Developer
9 46 (4.54%) C# Developer
10 44 (4.34%) Technical Architect
11 42 (4.15%) Senior Java Developer
12 41 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (3.85%) Scala Developer
14 31 (3.06%) Azure Developer
15 30 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (2.86%) Analyst
17 25 (2.47%) Java Engineer
18 24 (2.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (17.37%) .NET
2 170 (16.78%) Spring
3 161 (15.89%) Kafka
4 154 (15.20%) Spring Boot
5 147 (14.51%) REST
6 141 (13.92%) RESTful
7 130 (12.83%) React
8 111 (10.96%) Node.js
9 74 (7.31%) .NET Core
10 63 (6.22%) AngularJS
11 57 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
12 52 (5.13%) Web Services
13 51 (5.03%) HTML
14 50 (4.94%) Hibernate
14 50 (4.94%) JSON
15 48 (4.74%) CSS
16 47 (4.64%) JPA
17 38 (3.75%) Akka
18 37 (3.65%) SOAP
19 36 (3.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.91%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 38 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 30 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (2.76%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (2.07%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.58%) Reference Data
12 14 (1.38%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.18%) Derivative
14 11 (1.09%) Hedge funds
14 11 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (0.89%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.37%) Linux
2 57 (5.63%) Unix
3 37 (3.65%) Windows
4 19 (1.88%) Mac OS X
5 17 (1.68%) Android
6 14 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 11 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.59%) CentOS
10 1 (0.099%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.099%) Debian
10 1 (0.099%) tvOS
10 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (43.83%) Agile
2 356 (35.14%) DevOps
3 312 (30.80%) CI/CD
4 202 (19.94%) TDD
5 152 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 150 (14.81%) Test Automation
7 135 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 130 (12.83%) Scrum
9 124 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
11 97 (9.58%) Design Patterns
12 96 (9.48%) Continuous Integration
13 95 (9.38%) BDD
14 87 (8.59%) SDLC
15 83 (8.19%) Event-Driven
15 83 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 70 (6.91%) Unit Testing
17 67 (6.61%) Mentoring
18 65 (6.42%) Kanban
19 64 (6.32%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 362 (35.74%) Java
2 185 (18.26%) SQL
3 173 (17.08%) Python
4 172 (16.98%) C#
5 143 (14.12%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.49%) TypeScript
7 66 (6.52%) Go
8 55 (5.43%) Scala
9 26 (2.57%) PHP
10 19 (1.88%) C++
11 17 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.48%) PowerShell
14 14 (1.38%) Bash
14 14 (1.38%) Ruby
14 14 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.18%) Perl
16 10 (0.99%) Bicep
17 7 (0.69%) C
17 7 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 171 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 151 (14.91%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.71%) Degree
4 48 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.57%) DV Cleared
6 12 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 9 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.39%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.20%) CISSP
10 2 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.20%) ISEB
10 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.099%) CAPM
11 1 (0.099%) CEH
11 1 (0.099%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.75%) QA
2 24 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 9 (0.89%) MiFID
5 7 (0.69%) GDPR
5 7 (0.69%) NIST
6 5 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.39%) NCSC
8 3 (0.30%) FATCA
9 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) WCAG
10 1 (0.099%) EMIR
10 1 (0.099%) GRC
10 1 (0.099%) GxP
10 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.099%) SLA
System Software
1 213 (21.03%) Docker
2 42 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.099%) Ceph
7 1 (0.099%) Firmware
7 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 310 (30.60%) Kubernetes
2 126 (12.44%) Terraform
3 45 (4.44%) Grafana
4 44 (4.34%) Ansible
5 32 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.68%) Kibana
7 15 (1.48%) Argo
8 14 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.38%) Puppet
9 12 (1.18%) Consul
10 11 (1.09%) Istio
11 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.49%) Packer
14 3 (0.30%) Netcool
15 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 2 (0.20%) logstash
15 2 (0.20%) TIBCO Hawk
16 1 (0.099%) linkerd
16 1 (0.099%) Podman
Vendors
1 108 (10.66%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.80%) Oracle
3 61 (6.02%) Google
4 30 (2.96%) SAP
5 22 (2.17%) Splunk
6 19 (1.88%) Typelevel
7 17 (1.68%) IBM
8 15 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.48%) TIBCO
9 14 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.09%) VMware
11 10 (0.99%) AppDynamics
11 10 (0.99%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.79%) SaltStack
13 7 (0.69%) Adobe
14 6 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.59%) WSO2
15 5 (0.49%) New Relic
15 5 (0.49%) TSYS