Microservices Contracts in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 54 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 96 134 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.42% 4.77% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 5.16% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 103 155
10th Percentile £400 £425 £413
25th Percentile £418 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% -8.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.76% +1.58% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - -24.44% +15.80%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,599 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.52% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,869 2,319
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £558 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Glasgow +28 63 £475 -14.61% 20
Edinburgh 0 26 £480 -0.98% 11
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (7.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (3.13%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.83%) AWS
2 22 (22.92%) Serverless
3 20 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 17 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (14.58%) Azure
7 12 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 8 (8.33%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.04%) Apigee
10 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.04%) IaaS
10 1 (1.04%) PaaS
10 1 (1.04%) SaaS
10 1 (1.04%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) ATM
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.79%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (13.54%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 8 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.21%) DB2
7 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.13%) GIS
8 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.13%) MySQL
8 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.04%) Big Data
10 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.04%) HBase
10 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.38%) Git
3 6 (6.25%) JIRA
4 5 (5.21%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.13%) GitLab
5 3 (3.13%) JUnit
6 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.08%) Subversion
7 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.04%) Maven
7 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.04%) Selenium
7 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 22 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.88%) Finance
3 15 (15.63%) Banking
4 11 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (69.79%) Developer
2 42 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 15 (15.63%) Architect
4 11 (11.46%) Full Stack Developer
4 11 (11.46%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Backend Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Full Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 6 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Lead
8 5 (5.21%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.13%) UI Developer
11 2 (2.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 2 (2.08%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (53.13%) Spring
2 47 (48.96%) Spring Boot
3 32 (33.33%) CSS
4 30 (31.25%) REST
5 29 (30.21%) React
6 28 (29.17%) HTML
7 22 (22.92%) RESTful
8 21 (21.88%) Kafka
9 20 (20.83%) AWS CDK
10 13 (13.54%) AngularJS
11 11 (11.46%) Node.js
11 11 (11.46%) Spring Security
12 10 (10.42%) JPA
12 10 (10.42%) OAuth
13 9 (9.38%) OAuth2
14 7 (7.29%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (6.25%) Middleware
15 6 (6.25%) OpenTracing
16 5 (5.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (14.58%) Public Cloud
3 12 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (10.42%) Cloud Native
5 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
6 5 (5.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (2.08%) Android
2 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (63.54%) Agile
2 39 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.21%) SDLC
4 22 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
5 21 (21.88%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.83%) TDD
7 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (18.75%) DevOps
8 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.63%) Human-Centred Design
9 15 (15.63%) Inclusive Design
10 14 (14.58%) Code Quality
11 13 (13.54%) Analytics
12 12 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
12 12 (12.50%) Pair Programming
12 12 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 11 (11.46%) User Experience
14 10 (10.42%) End-to-End Testing
14 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (76.04%) Java
2 33 (34.38%) TypeScript
3 32 (33.33%) SQL
4 31 (32.29%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.63%) Python
6 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 10 (10.42%) Kotlin
7 10 (10.42%) Scala
8 9 (9.38%) Bash
9 3 (3.13%) C#
10 1 (1.04%) C
10 1 (1.04%) Go
10 1 (1.04%) Groovy
10 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.13%) Degree
1 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (12.50%) Grafana
2 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 6 (6.25%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.04%) Icinga
5 1 (1.04%) Istio
5 1 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.04%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Oracle
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.08%) Google
4 2 (2.08%) Greenplum
4 2 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.04%) Adobe
5 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.04%) Confluent
5 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.04%) Teradata