Microservices Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 91 49
Rank change year-on-year -16 -42 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 397 575 1,382
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.87% 2.53% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.84% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 435 1,009
10th Percentile £375 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 £471 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £532
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +3.38% +9.13%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £705 £723 £701
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 25
10th Percentile £39.00 £42.00 £45.50
25th Percentile - £66.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% +6.19%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £56.25 - £76.30
UK median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% +13.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,598 20,227 27,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 89.09% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 13,876 18,976
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,188 1,246 1,331
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.40 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 June 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 of England +22 127 £525 -4.55% 142
Scotland +5 94 £472 -1.41% 28
South East -9 93 £575 - 108
North West +35 85 £550 - 89
South West -27 39 £525 -9.68% 39
Midlands -14 36 £445 -19.09% 61
Yorkshire -19 36 £475 -17.39% 32
East Midlands +3 18 £425 +6.25% 29
West Midlands -13 18 £450 -32.08% 32
East of England -17 17 £508 -1.26% 35
North East +5 10 £413 -21.43% 22
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (4.03%) Confluence
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.76%) JBoss
4 6 (1.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.26%) nginx
6 4 (1.01%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.76%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.76%) IIS
8 2 (0.50%) Apache
8 2 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.25%) Camunda
9 1 (0.25%) Mule
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 11 (2.77%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (1.76%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.76%) Maximo
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 147 (37.03%) AWS
2 122 (30.73%) Azure
3 49 (12.34%) Serverless
4 38 (9.57%) OpenShift
5 35 (8.82%) GCP
6 24 (6.05%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 21 (5.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.29%) Entra ID
9 20 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (5.04%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (5.04%) SaaS
10 19 (4.79%) Azure Functions
11 14 (3.53%) PaaS
12 12 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (3.02%) GitHub
13 11 (2.77%) IaaS
14 10 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (2.27%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.03%) VPN
2 14 (3.53%) Firewall
3 6 (1.51%) DNS
4 5 (1.26%) ATM
4 5 (1.26%) IPsec
4 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.01%) HTTP
5 4 (1.01%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.01%) Network Security
5 4 (1.01%) SSL
6 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.62%) NoSQL
2 54 (13.60%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (9.07%) Relational Database
4 29 (7.30%) MongoDB
5 27 (6.80%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.53%) MySQL
6 14 (3.53%) SQL Server
7 13 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.02%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (1.76%) OLAP
10 7 (1.76%) OLTP
10 7 (1.76%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.51%) Couchbase
11 6 (1.51%) Oracle OLAP
11 6 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.26%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.01%) CockroachDB
13 4 (1.01%) DB2
Development Applications
1 71 (17.88%) Git
2 42 (10.58%) Jenkins
3 41 (10.33%) JIRA
4 31 (7.81%) JUnit
5 15 (3.78%) Mockito
6 11 (2.77%) Selenium
7 10 (2.52%) GitLab
8 9 (2.27%) TeamCity
9 8 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 8 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.76%) Maven
10 7 (1.76%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.26%) CA Release Automation
12 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.01%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.01%) JMeter
12 4 (1.01%) Subversion
12 4 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (19.14%) Finance
2 55 (13.85%) Banking
3 52 (13.10%) Social Skills
4 48 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.52%) Legal
8 9 (2.27%) Retail
9 6 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.50%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.25%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 194 (48.87%) Developer
2 98 (24.69%) Architect
3 94 (23.68%) Java Developer
4 37 (9.32%) Solutions Architect
5 36 (9.07%) Senior
6 35 (8.82%) Full Stack Developer
7 32 (8.06%) Lead
8 25 (6.30%) Technical Architect
9 22 (5.54%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.29%) Azure Developer
10 21 (5.29%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
12 18 (4.53%) .NET Developer
13 17 (4.28%) Python Developer
14 16 (4.03%) Full Stack Engineer
15 14 (3.53%) Lead Architect
15 14 (3.53%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 14 (3.53%) Technical Leader
16 11 (2.77%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (30.73%) Spring
2 110 (27.71%) Spring Boot
3 81 (20.40%) React
4 78 (19.65%) Kafka
5 69 (17.38%) REST
6 59 (14.86%) RESTful
7 52 (13.10%) .NET
8 39 (9.82%) Node.js
9 33 (8.31%) CSS
10 32 (8.06%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (7.81%) AngularJS
12 30 (7.56%) HTML
13 27 (6.80%) JPA
14 20 (5.04%) Web Services
15 19 (4.79%) AWS CDK
15 19 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (4.79%) Hibernate
16 18 (4.53%) JSON
17 14 (3.53%) .NET Framework
18 12 (3.02%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 37 (9.32%) Cloud Native
3 36 (9.07%) Public Cloud
4 26 (6.55%) Data Structures
5 23 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.76%) DataPower
9 7 (1.76%) Mainframe
9 7 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.51%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.51%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 3 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.55%) Linux
2 19 (4.79%) Android
2 19 (4.79%) Windows
3 18 (4.53%) Apple iOS
4 12 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.77%) Unix
6 6 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.01%) CentOS
8 3 (0.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (49.12%) Agile
2 160 (40.30%) DevOps
3 134 (33.75%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.40%) Software Engineering
5 72 (18.14%) SDLC
6 70 (17.63%) TDD
7 63 (15.87%) Full Stack Development
8 61 (15.37%) Containerisation
9 59 (14.86%) Test Automation
10 52 (13.10%) Design Patterns
11 43 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (9.82%) Unit Testing
13 37 (9.32%) Scrum
14 36 (9.07%) Change Management
14 36 (9.07%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.06%) Event-Driven
16 29 (7.30%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (6.55%) High Availability
17 26 (6.55%) Mentoring
18 25 (6.30%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 196 (49.37%) Java
2 77 (19.40%) SQL
3 66 (16.62%) JavaScript
4 65 (16.37%) Python
5 53 (13.35%) TypeScript
6 43 (10.83%) C#
7 20 (5.04%) Scala
8 14 (3.53%) Bash
8 14 (3.53%) Go
9 13 (3.27%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.02%) PHP
11 10 (2.52%) Shell Script
12 8 (2.02%) C
13 7 (1.76%) Perl
14 5 (1.26%) Bicep
15 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.76%) Groovy
16 3 (0.76%) Ruby
17 2 (0.50%) C++
17 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 53 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.79%) Degree
4 17 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.50%) PMP
9 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.04%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.53%) QA
3 6 (1.51%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.26%) GDPR
4 5 (1.26%) NIST
5 4 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (20.65%) Docker
2 31 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.76%) Firmware
4 3 (0.76%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 101 (25.44%) Kubernetes
2 29 (7.30%) Grafana
3 21 (5.29%) Kibana
4 20 (5.04%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.79%) Terraform
6 12 (3.02%) Istio
7 11 (2.77%) Ansible
7 11 (2.77%) Argo
8 10 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.02%) Zipkin
10 7 (1.76%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.50%) Control-M
12 1 (0.25%) Kiali
12 1 (0.25%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 1 (0.25%) Podman
12 1 (0.25%) Puppet
12 1 (0.25%) rkt
Vendors
1 39 (9.82%) Oracle
2 30 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.53%) Google
4 13 (3.27%) IBM
5 12 (3.02%) Splunk
6 8 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.76%) AppDynamics
7 7 (1.76%) TSYS
7 7 (1.76%) VMware
8 6 (1.51%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.26%) Apple
10 4 (1.01%) SAP
11 3 (0.76%) Nintex
11 3 (0.76%) Pega
12 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.50%) Confluent
12 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.25%) Databricks
13 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.25%) Typelevel