Microservices Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 76 80 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 68 70 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.54% 2.38% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.60% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 48 64
10th Percentile £432 £454 £433
25th Percentile £475 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £563 £543
Median % change year-on-year +11.56% +3.54% +20.72%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £617
South East median daily rate £613 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +11.36% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,690 3,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.16% 91.56% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,868 2,093
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 85
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -3 51 £569 +3.41% 14
Buckinghamshire +27 15 £750 +15.38% 9
Oxfordshire 0 2 £675 - 3
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (8.82%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) JBoss
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.71%) Azure
2 20 (29.41%) AWS
3 17 (25.00%) Serverless
4 16 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 15 (22.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 15 (22.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (22.06%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (14.71%) Azure Functions
6 10 (14.71%) OpenShift
7 9 (13.24%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.35%) IaaS
9 5 (7.35%) PaaS
9 5 (7.35%) SaaS
10 4 (5.88%) Azure AKS
10 4 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (2.94%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) VPN
2 2 (2.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (29.41%) NoSQL
2 19 (27.94%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.29%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (10.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.82%) Redis
5 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.47%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.47%) MySQL
6 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (32.35%) Git
2 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.35%) JUnit
4 3 (4.41%) Selenium
4 3 (4.41%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) JMeter
6 1 (1.47%) Mockito
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.94%) Legal
8 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 37 (54.41%) Developer
2 22 (32.35%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (20.59%) Architect
3 14 (20.59%) Azure Developer
4 11 (16.18%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 8 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) Python Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.41%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior
10 2 (2.94%) .NET Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Consultant
10 2 (2.94%) Lead Developer
11 1 (1.47%) C# Developer
11 1 (1.47%) IT Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.41%) React
2 14 (20.59%) Kafka
3 13 (19.12%) Spring
3 13 (19.12%) Spring Boot
4 11 (16.18%) Node.js
5 9 (13.24%) REST
5 9 (13.24%) Web Services
6 7 (10.29%) AngularJS
7 6 (8.82%) .NET
7 6 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.88%) RESTful
8 4 (5.88%) SOAP
8 4 (5.88%) Symfony
9 3 (4.41%) J2EE
10 2 (2.94%) Apache Camel
10 2 (2.94%) HTML
10 2 (2.94%) jQuery
10 2 (2.94%) Mustache
11 1 (1.47%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Product Ownership
2 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
3 7 (10.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) IoT
6 1 (1.47%) iPad
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) DevOps
2 28 (41.18%) Agile
3 23 (33.82%) Full Stack Development
4 19 (27.94%) CI/CD
5 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 16 (23.53%) SDLC
6 15 (22.06%) Change Management
6 15 (22.06%) TDD
7 13 (19.12%) Product Backlog
8 10 (14.71%) Domain-Driven Design
8 10 (14.71%) ITSM
8 10 (14.71%) Unit Testing
9 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (13.24%) Scrum
9 9 (13.24%) TOGAF
10 8 (11.76%) ArchiMate
10 8 (11.76%) BDD
10 8 (11.76%) GitOps
10 8 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.29%) Java
2 22 (32.35%) Python
3 14 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.29%) PHP
5 6 (8.82%) C#
6 5 (7.35%) SQL
7 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) Scala
9 2 (2.94%) C
9 2 (2.94%) Ruby
10 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CCNP
4 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.47%) MCSE
4 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) FATCA
2 2 (2.94%) MiFID
3 1 (1.47%) NCSC
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (19.12%) Docker
3 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.29%) Grafana
2 7 (10.29%) Kibana
2 7 (10.29%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.82%) Argo
3 6 (8.82%) Istio
4 4 (5.88%) Ansible
5 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.94%) Terraform
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.35%) VMware
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Calypso
3 2 (2.94%) Concur
3 2 (2.94%) Murex
3 2 (2.94%) PeopleSoft
3 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.94%) SAP
3 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.94%) Wallstreet Suite
3 2 (2.94%) Workday
4 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle
4 1 (1.47%) Splunk