Microservices Contracts

Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 53 34
Rank change year-on-year -18 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,227 2,509 5,418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.83% 4.20% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 4.67% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 1,879 3,944
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £723 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £543 £539
% change year-on-year -7.28% +0.65% +13.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 37
10th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £46.23
25th Percentile £45.88 £57.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £72.50 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +25.24% +28.64%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £62.50 £78.00 £77.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year -36.72% +46.46% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -19 1,012 £550 -12.00% 674
London -15 670 £575 -11.54% 286
Work from Home -20 440 £525 -8.70% 599
UK excluding London -23 402 £503 -7.28% 433
North of England +11 133 £550 +1.85% 132
North West +21 99 £550 +10.00% 70
South East -16 96 £613 +11.36% 102
Scotland +7 95 £475 -0.84% 32
South West -34 41 £500 -16.67% 45
Yorkshire -1 30 £400 -27.27% 46
Midlands -19 26 £450 -23.08% 69
West Midlands +1 20 £450 -25.00% 30
East of England -2 17 £550 +4.76% 36
North East +5 8 £413 -25.00% 18
East Midlands +3 6 £356 -16.24% 39

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (2.85%) Confluence
2 26 (2.12%) nginx
3 21 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.06%) OpenStack
5 11 (0.90%) Apache
6 9 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
7 8 (0.65%) CMS
7 8 (0.65%) IIS
7 8 (0.65%) JBoss
8 7 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.57%) Apache Solr
8 7 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.49%) Anypoint
10 5 (0.41%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.24%) Camunda
11 3 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
11 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.24%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.081%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.081%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.081%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.33%) Avolution ABACUS
2 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Endur
3 3 (0.24%) Maximo
3 3 (0.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.081%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.081%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 510 (41.56%) AWS
2 315 (25.67%) Azure
3 164 (13.37%) Serverless
4 145 (11.82%) GCP
5 85 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (5.46%) Amazon S3
7 63 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (4.73%) OpenShift
9 48 (3.91%) PaaS
10 44 (3.59%) Azure Functions
10 44 (3.59%) GitHub
11 43 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (3.34%) SaaS
14 37 (3.02%) Entra ID
15 31 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (2.36%) Amazon SQS
16 29 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
17 27 (2.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.83%) HTTP
2 21 (1.71%) Firewall
3 17 (1.39%) DNS
4 15 (1.22%) VPN
5 11 (0.90%) DHCP
6 10 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.73%) ATM
8 8 (0.65%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.49%) Internet
10 5 (0.41%) IPsec
11 4 (0.33%) SSL
11 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.16%) Network Security
12 2 (0.16%) WAN
13 1 (0.081%) Broadband
13 1 (0.081%) Kerberos
13 1 (0.081%) MQTT
13 1 (0.081%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (11.25%) NoSQL
3 122 (9.94%) MongoDB
4 78 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 65 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 48 (3.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 38 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.85%) MySQL
9 33 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
11 28 (2.28%) Big Data
12 26 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (1.96%) Redis
14 23 (1.87%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
16 19 (1.55%) DynamoDB
17 18 (1.47%) Oracle Database
18 16 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
19 14 (1.14%) Data Lake
20 13 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 183 (14.91%) Git
2 123 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 72 (5.87%) GitLab
4 69 (5.62%) JIRA
5 65 (5.30%) JUnit
6 42 (3.42%) Cucumber
7 41 (3.34%) Mockito
8 38 (3.10%) TeamCity
9 37 (3.02%) Selenium
10 23 (1.87%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.71%) Maven
12 15 (1.22%) NUnit
12 15 (1.22%) SoapUI
13 14 (1.14%) Moq
13 14 (1.14%) Postman
14 13 (1.06%) Gradle
15 11 (0.90%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.90%) SpecFlow
16 10 (0.81%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 234 (19.07%) Finance
2 209 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 142 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 123 (10.02%) Banking
5 88 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (2.77%) Retail
7 31 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.96%) Investment Banking
9 22 (1.79%) Front Office
10 21 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.98%) Legal
13 11 (0.90%) Tech for Good
14 10 (0.81%) Electronics
15 8 (0.65%) Local Government
15 8 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.57%) Marketing
17 6 (0.49%) Back Office
17 6 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 592 (48.25%) Developer
2 259 (21.11%) Architect
3 211 (17.20%) Java Developer
4 180 (14.67%) Senior
5 93 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
6 91 (7.42%) Senior Developer
7 90 (7.33%) Full Stack Developer
8 87 (7.09%) Lead
9 75 (6.11%) Software Engineer
10 56 (4.56%) .NET Developer
11 54 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
12 50 (4.07%) Scala Developer
13 47 (3.83%) C# Developer
13 47 (3.83%) Technical Architect
14 42 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.93%) Java Engineer
15 36 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (2.61%) Azure Developer
17 30 (2.44%) Analyst
18 29 (2.36%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (19.40%) Spring
2 217 (17.69%) Spring Boot
3 199 (16.22%) REST
4 189 (15.40%) Kafka
5 185 (15.08%) .NET
6 173 (14.10%) RESTful
7 168 (13.69%) React
8 138 (11.25%) Node.js
9 90 (7.33%) CSS
10 87 (7.09%) HTML
11 80 (6.52%) .NET Core
11 80 (6.52%) AngularJS
12 65 (5.30%) JSON
13 64 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
14 58 (4.73%) Web Services
15 57 (4.65%) JPA
16 54 (4.40%) Hibernate
17 50 (4.07%) XML
18 47 (3.83%) Akka
19 44 (3.59%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.93%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 64 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.65%) Data Structures
5 54 (4.40%) Public Cloud
6 38 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
6 38 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.69%) Mobile App
8 27 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 26 (2.12%) Algorithms
10 25 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.87%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.55%) Reference Data
14 14 (1.14%) Fixed Income
15 12 (0.98%) Derivative
16 11 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
16 11 (0.90%) Hedge funds
16 11 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 115 (9.37%) Linux
2 63 (5.13%) Unix
3 37 (3.02%) Windows
4 21 (1.71%) Android
5 19 (1.55%) Mac OS X
6 17 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.081%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.081%) Debian
10 1 (0.081%) tvOS
10 1 (0.081%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (44.25%) Agile
2 404 (32.93%) DevOps
3 379 (30.89%) CI/CD
4 232 (18.91%) TDD
5 184 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 180 (14.67%) Software Engineering
7 152 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
8 145 (11.82%) Scrum
9 143 (11.65%) Containerisation
9 143 (11.65%) Full Stack Development
10 122 (9.94%) SDLC
11 117 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 110 (8.96%) Continuous Integration
13 108 (8.80%) Design Patterns
14 98 (7.99%) BDD
15 97 (7.91%) Event-Driven
16 87 (7.09%) Unit Testing
17 78 (6.36%) Kanban
17 78 (6.36%) Mentoring
18 75 (6.11%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 476 (38.79%) Java
2 242 (19.72%) SQL
3 194 (15.81%) Python
4 193 (15.73%) JavaScript
5 181 (14.75%) C#
6 125 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 79 (6.44%) Scala
8 78 (6.36%) Go
9 34 (2.77%) PHP
10 33 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.87%) Bash
12 19 (1.55%) C++
12 19 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.47%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 15 (1.22%) Perl
14 15 (1.22%) Ruby
15 14 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.81%) Bicep
16 10 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 200 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.44%) Degree
4 56 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 9 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
9 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.16%) CISSP
11 2 (0.16%) ISEB
11 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.081%) CAPM
12 1 (0.081%) CEH
12 1 (0.081%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.75%) QA
2 45 (3.67%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.81%) GDPR
5 9 (0.73%) MiFID
6 7 (0.57%) NIST
7 6 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.33%) NCSC
9 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.24%) FATCA
10 3 (0.24%) WCAG
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.16%) PSD2
12 1 (0.081%) GRC
12 1 (0.081%) GxP
12 1 (0.081%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.081%) SLA
System Software
1 245 (19.97%) Docker
2 43 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.081%) Ceph
7 1 (0.081%) Firmware
7 1 (0.081%) HDFS
7 1 (0.081%) NFS
Systems Management
1 337 (27.47%) Kubernetes
2 136 (11.08%) Terraform
3 60 (4.89%) Grafana
4 45 (3.67%) Ansible
5 37 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.79%) Kibana
7 15 (1.22%) Argo
7 15 (1.22%) Puppet
8 14 (1.14%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.06%) Istio
9 13 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.98%) Consul
11 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.41%) Packer
12 5 (0.41%) Zipkin
13 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.24%) Netcool
14 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.16%) logstash
14 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 118 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.23%) Oracle
3 67 (5.46%) Google
4 37 (3.02%) SAP
5 29 (2.36%) Splunk
6 20 (1.63%) IBM
7 19 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.55%) Typelevel
8 15 (1.22%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.22%) TIBCO
9 11 (0.90%) VMware
10 10 (0.81%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.81%) Red Hat
11 9 (0.73%) New Relic
12 8 (0.65%) Adobe
12 8 (0.65%) SaltStack
13 7 (0.57%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.57%) WSO2
14 6 (0.49%) Sitecore
15 5 (0.41%) Lotus