Microservices Contracts in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 72 26
Rank change year-on-year +21 -46 +26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 98 96 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.53% 2.97% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.27% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 81 224
10th Percentile £406 £413 £407
25th Percentile £489 £440 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £850 £700 £725
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 £48.43 £72.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -33.20% +29.46% -2.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,398 2,935 3,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.92% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,090 2,574
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.28 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.80 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester +37 71 £550 +2.09% 52
Cheshire -18 13 £489 -0.43% 6
Lancashire +15 11 £625 - 4
Cumbria -28 1 £575 +34.98% 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.10%) Confluence
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.06%) IIS
3 1 (1.02%) Mule
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (5.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.06%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.88%) AWS
2 19 (19.39%) Azure
3 6 (6.12%) Azure Stack
3 6 (6.12%) Kong
3 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.10%) Apigee
4 5 (5.10%) Serverless
5 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.08%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.06%) GCP
6 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.02%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Firewall
1 12 (12.24%) VPN
2 3 (3.06%) HTTP
2 3 (3.06%) SSL
3 1 (1.02%) DNS
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.59%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (5.10%) OLAP
5 5 (5.10%) OLTP
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle OLAP
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.04%) MySQL
7 2 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.02%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.02%) Power BI
8 1 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (21.43%) GitLab
2 12 (12.24%) Git
3 10 (10.20%) JIRA
3 10 (10.20%) JUnit
4 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.08%) Maven
6 3 (3.06%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.06%) Mockito
6 3 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.04%) Gradle
8 1 (1.02%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.02%) Log4j
8 1 (1.02%) Selenium
8 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (18.37%) Public Sector
2 14 (14.29%) Finance
2 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Banking
4 6 (6.12%) Legal
5 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.02%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Developer
2 29 (29.59%) Architect
3 19 (19.39%) Java Developer
4 18 (18.37%) Lead
4 18 (18.37%) Senior
5 14 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 14 (14.29%) Technical Architect
6 13 (13.27%) Lead Architect
6 13 (13.27%) Technical Leader
7 8 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) AWS Architect
10 5 (5.10%) React Developer
11 4 (4.08%) Digital Architect
11 4 (4.08%) Digital Technical Architect
11 4 (4.08%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (36.73%) Node.js
2 25 (25.51%) Spring
3 22 (22.45%) REST
3 22 (22.45%) RESTful
4 16 (16.33%) Spring Boot
5 13 (13.27%) React
6 10 (10.20%) JSON
7 9 (9.18%) JPA
7 9 (9.18%) Kafka
8 7 (7.14%) .NET
8 7 (7.14%) .NET Framework
8 7 (7.14%) Hibernate
8 7 (7.14%) J2EE
9 6 (6.12%) Web Services
9 6 (6.12%) XML
10 5 (5.10%) IBM Integration Bus
10 5 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.10%) SOAP
11 4 (4.08%) Apache Camel
11 4 (4.08%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.33%) Public Cloud
2 15 (15.31%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.16%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.12%) Reference Data
5 5 (5.10%) DataPower
5 5 (5.10%) Mobile App
5 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.06%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.06%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.04%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.04%) Derivative
8 1 (1.02%) Clustering
8 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.02%) PKI
8 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.27%) Android
1 13 (13.27%) Apple iOS
1 13 (13.27%) Windows
2 12 (12.24%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.06%) Linux
3 3 (3.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) CentOS
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (67.35%) Agile
2 44 (44.90%) DevOps
3 42 (42.86%) Design Patterns
4 41 (41.84%) CI/CD
5 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 17 (17.35%) Risk Management
7 14 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 14 (14.29%) OO
8 13 (13.27%) Mobile Device Management
8 13 (13.27%) Security Architecture
9 12 (12.24%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 12 (12.24%) Threat Intelligence
9 12 (12.24%) Zero Trust
10 11 (11.22%) Scrum
11 10 (10.20%) API Management
11 10 (10.20%) Containerisation
11 10 (10.20%) Continuous Deployment
11 10 (10.20%) Front End Development
12 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) Java
2 11 (11.22%) TypeScript
3 9 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.16%) SQL
5 7 (7.14%) Python
6 6 (6.12%) C#
7 4 (4.08%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) Bash
8 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) Degree
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (22.45%) Terraform
2 16 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.08%) Ansible
3 4 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.02%) Consul
5 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.02%) Graphite
5 1 (1.02%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.02%) Istio
5 1 (1.02%) linkerd
5 1 (1.02%) Packer
5 1 (1.02%) Podman
5 1 (1.02%) Puppet
5 1 (1.02%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Oracle
2 8 (8.16%) IBM
3 6 (6.12%) Google
4 5 (5.10%) Apple
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.10%) TSYS
5 4 (4.08%) VMware
6 3 (3.06%) Nintex
6 3 (3.06%) Pega
6 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.02%) Confluent
7 1 (1.02%) New Relic
7 1 (1.02%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.02%) Splunk