Microservices Contracts in the West Midlands

Microservices
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 97 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 22 48 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.15% 1.97% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 2.24% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 84
10th Percentile £381 £535 £383
25th Percentile £444 £581 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £611 £722 £600
90th Percentile - £731 £675
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £48.43 £71.34 £56.95
% change year-on-year -32.11% +25.27% +0.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,610 2,139 3,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.85% 87.99% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,471 2,430
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +6.72% +16.42%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £575
90th Percentile £728 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 45 71
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.64
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £40.81 £23.22 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham +3 13 £450 -33.33% 6
Warwickshire +3 5 £607 +21.40% 4
Coventry +11 3 £450 -37.93% 6
Shropshire +30 1 - - 1
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Azure AKS
3 5 (22.73%) Azure App Service
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) IPsec
1 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) NUnit
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Angular Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Developer in Test
7 1 (4.55%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Development Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Software Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) .NET
2 8 (36.36%) AngularJS
3 7 (31.82%) Spring
4 5 (22.73%) RESTful
5 3 (13.64%) .NET Framework
5 3 (13.64%) ADO
5 3 (13.64%) ARM Templates
5 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 3 (13.64%) Castle Windsor
5 3 (13.64%) Entity Framework
5 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.64%) NHibernate
5 3 (13.64%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (13.64%) React
5 3 (13.64%) WCF
6 1 (4.55%) Flask
6 1 (4.55%) jQuery
6 1 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) BDD
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (22.73%) SOA
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
5 5 (22.73%) UX Design
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) TDD
7 3 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
7 3 (13.64%) MVC
7 3 (13.64%) OO
7 3 (13.64%) OOP
7 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Bicep
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (18.18%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) SAP