Microservices Contracts in Manchester

Microservices
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 70 17
Rank change year-on-year +37 -53 +15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 72 47 250
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.70% 2.48% 9.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 2.70% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 42 197
10th Percentile £406 £420 £406
25th Percentile £500 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -2.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £650
90th Percentile £850 £706 £705
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 £35.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year +31.09% -26.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Stockport +1 1 £550 -21.43%
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) nginx
1 1 (1.39%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 33 (45.83%) AWS
2 12 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (5.56%) Azure Stack
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.17%) GCP
4 3 (4.17%) Serverless
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.39%) Datadog
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) Kong
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Firewall
1 12 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.78%) MySQL
7 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.39%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.39%) Power BI
7 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) GitLab
2 10 (13.89%) Git
2 10 (13.89%) JUnit
3 4 (5.56%) Maven
4 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.17%) Mockito
5 2 (2.78%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.39%) JIRA
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
6 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Legal
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (40.28%) Developer
2 21 (29.17%) Architect
3 16 (22.22%) Lead
4 15 (20.83%) Java Developer
5 14 (19.44%) Senior
5 14 (19.44%) Technical Architect
6 13 (18.06%) Lead Architect
6 13 (18.06%) Technical Leader
7 9 (12.50%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.94%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.94%) React Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.56%) Data Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Digital Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Digital Technical Architect
10 4 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.06%) Node.js
2 16 (22.22%) RESTful
3 14 (19.44%) Spring
4 12 (16.67%) React
4 12 (16.67%) REST
4 12 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.33%) Hibernate
5 6 (8.33%) JPA
6 5 (6.94%) JSON
7 4 (5.56%) XML
8 3 (4.17%) .NET
8 3 (4.17%) Kafka
9 2 (2.78%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.78%) WireMock
10 1 (1.39%) CSS
10 1 (1.39%) Django
10 1 (1.39%) GWT
10 1 (1.39%) HTML
10 1 (1.39%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Public Cloud
2 11 (15.28%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.94%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.56%) Reference Data
6 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.78%) Derivative
7 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.39%) Clustering
8 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.06%) Android
1 13 (18.06%) Apple iOS
2 12 (16.67%) Windows
2 12 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.17%) Linux
4 2 (2.78%) Unix
5 1 (1.39%) CentOS
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) Agile
2 35 (48.61%) CI/CD
3 33 (45.83%) Design Patterns
3 33 (45.83%) DevOps
4 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 13 (18.06%) Mobile Device Management
5 13 (18.06%) Security Architecture
6 12 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 12 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 12 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 12 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 10 (13.89%) Front End Development
7 10 (13.89%) Scrum
8 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 9 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
9 8 (11.11%) User Experience
10 7 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Java
2 11 (15.28%) TypeScript
3 7 (9.72%) SQL
4 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.56%) Go
6 3 (4.17%) Python
7 1 (1.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.39%) C#
7 1 (1.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.94%) Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (15.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) Terraform
2 14 (19.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.78%) Ansible
3 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) Consul
4 1 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.39%) Graphite
4 1 (1.39%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.39%) Istio
4 1 (1.39%) linkerd
4 1 (1.39%) Packer
4 1 (1.39%) Podman
4 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.39%) Puppet
4 1 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Google
2 5 (6.94%) Apple
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) VMware
4 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.39%) Confluent
4 1 (1.39%) New Relic
4 1 (1.39%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.39%) Splunk