Microservices Contracts in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 74 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 -41 +18
Contract jobs citing Microservices 132 170 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.82% 2.99% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.30% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 140 314
10th Percentile £375 £415 £402
25th Percentile £445 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £704 £713 £711
England median daily rate £558 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.80% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 £35.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% -26.12% -
75th Percentile £48.43 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% +2.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +34 100 £550 +7.32% 80
Yorkshire -17 28 £425 -26.09% 45
North East -1 8 £413 -35.04% 15
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (3.79%) Confluence
1 5 (3.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.27%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) Mule
3 1 (0.76%) nginx
3 1 (0.76%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (3.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.91%) AWS
2 33 (25.00%) Azure
3 7 (5.30%) GCP
3 7 (5.30%) Serverless
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Stack
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (4.55%) SaaS
5 5 (3.79%) Apigee
5 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.79%) Kong
6 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.03%) GitHub
7 3 (2.27%) BrowserStack
7 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) Firewall
1 12 (9.09%) VPN
2 3 (2.27%) HTTP
2 3 (2.27%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.76%) MongoDB
2 17 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.85%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (3.79%) MySQL
5 5 (3.79%) OLAP
5 5 (3.79%) OLTP
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.27%) DB2
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.76%) Power BI
8 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.91%) GitLab
2 19 (14.39%) Git
3 17 (12.88%) JUnit
4 11 (8.33%) JIRA
5 6 (4.55%) Mockito
6 5 (3.79%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.03%) Maven
8 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.52%) Gradle
9 2 (1.52%) Selenium
10 1 (0.76%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.76%) Log4j
10 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.76%) TestNG
General
1 25 (18.94%) Public Sector
2 22 (16.67%) Finance
3 18 (13.64%) Banking
4 17 (12.88%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 54 (40.91%) Developer
2 39 (29.55%) Architect
3 31 (23.48%) Java Developer
4 21 (15.91%) Senior
5 20 (15.15%) Software Engineer
6 19 (14.39%) Lead
7 14 (10.61%) Technical Architect
8 12 (9.09%) Lead Architect
8 12 (9.09%) Technical Leader
9 10 (7.58%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Data Architect
12 6 (4.55%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.79%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.79%) AWS Architect
13 5 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 4 (3.03%) Digital Architect
14 4 (3.03%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (29.55%) Node.js
2 34 (25.76%) Spring
3 28 (21.21%) REST
4 26 (19.70%) RESTful
4 26 (19.70%) Spring Boot
5 25 (18.94%) React
6 15 (11.36%) JPA
7 14 (10.61%) .NET
8 13 (9.85%) Hibernate
9 11 (8.33%) Kafka
10 10 (7.58%) .NET Framework
10 10 (7.58%) JSON
11 7 (5.30%) J2EE
12 6 (4.55%) Web Services
12 6 (4.55%) XML
13 5 (3.79%) IBM Integration Bus
13 5 (3.79%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.79%) SOAP
14 4 (3.03%) Entity Framework
14 4 (3.03%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.39%) Public Cloud
2 16 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 6 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.79%) DataPower
5 5 (3.79%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.03%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.52%) Derivative
8 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.76%) Clustering
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) PKI
9 1 (0.76%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Android
1 16 (12.12%) Apple iOS
2 13 (9.85%) Windows
3 12 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.79%) Linux
4 5 (3.79%) Unix
5 2 (1.52%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (63.64%) Agile
2 59 (44.70%) DevOps
3 55 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 48 (36.36%) Design Patterns
5 32 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 19 (14.39%) Test Automation
7 17 (12.88%) Risk Management
7 17 (12.88%) Scrum
8 15 (11.36%) Containerisation
8 15 (11.36%) Mentoring
9 14 (10.61%) Event-Driven
9 14 (10.61%) Front End Development
9 14 (10.61%) OO
9 14 (10.61%) Unit Testing
10 13 (9.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (9.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (9.85%) Mobile Device Management
10 13 (9.85%) Security Architecture
10 13 (9.85%) TDD
11 12 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.48%) Java
2 20 (15.15%) TypeScript
3 14 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.09%) SQL
5 9 (6.82%) C#
6 7 (5.30%) Python
7 4 (3.03%) Go
8 3 (2.27%) C
9 1 (0.76%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) Ruby
9 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.30%) Degree
6 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) NCSC
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 21 (15.91%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (21.21%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.67%) Terraform
3 4 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.27%) Ansible
4 3 (2.27%) Grafana
5 2 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.76%) Consul
6 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.76%) Graphite
6 1 (0.76%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.76%) Istio
6 1 (0.76%) linkerd
6 1 (0.76%) Packer
6 1 (0.76%) Podman
6 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.76%) Puppet
6 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (7.58%) Oracle
2 8 (6.06%) IBM
3 7 (5.30%) Google
4 6 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.79%) Apple
5 5 (3.79%) TSYS
6 3 (2.27%) Nintex
6 3 (2.27%) Pega
6 3 (2.27%) SAP
6 3 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.76%) Confluent
7 1 (0.76%) New Relic
7 1 (0.76%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk