Microservices Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 50 26
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 +4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 437 1,077 2,909
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.90% 4.29% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 4.78% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 808 2,136
10th Percentile £400 £445 £413
25th Percentile £450 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £720 £750 £772
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 20
10th Percentile £35.58 £63.25 £48.28
25th Percentile £36.44 £70.94 £49.63
Median hourly rate £38.25 £73.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% +22.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £40.44 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £41.53 - £66.57
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microservices over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Microservices daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (4.35%) nginx
2 12 (2.75%) Confluence
3 8 (1.83%) CMS
4 6 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.14%) JBoss
6 4 (0.92%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Strapi
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.69%) Endur
3 2 (0.46%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 188 (43.02%) AWS
2 146 (33.41%) Azure
3 49 (11.21%) Serverless
4 48 (10.98%) GCP
5 32 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (5.03%) PaaS
8 18 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 17 (3.89%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.89%) SaaS
10 16 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
11 15 (3.43%) OpenShift
12 14 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (3.20%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 14 (3.20%) IaaS
13 13 (2.97%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.52%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.66%) HTTP
2 8 (1.83%) ATM
3 4 (0.92%) DNS
3 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.92%) IPsec
3 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 38 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 37 (8.47%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (3.20%) MySQL
8 11 (2.52%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (2.52%) Big Data
8 11 (2.52%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.83%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.60%) OLTP
12 7 (1.60%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.37%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.37%) DB2
Development Applications
1 54 (12.36%) Git
2 30 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.18%) JIRA
4 26 (5.95%) GitLab
5 17 (3.89%) Selenium
6 13 (2.97%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.75%) JUnit
8 11 (2.52%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.83%) Maven
9 8 (1.83%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.37%) Gradle
10 6 (1.37%) JMeter
10 6 (1.37%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.37%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (1.14%) Mockito
11 5 (1.14%) TestNG
12 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.92%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 92 (21.05%) Finance
2 88 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 57 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 51 (11.67%) Banking
5 31 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.29%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.06%) Retail
8 7 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.37%) German Language
9 6 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.92%) Front Office
11 4 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.92%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (45.08%) Developer
2 119 (27.23%) Architect
3 57 (13.04%) Senior
4 56 (12.81%) Java Developer
5 54 (12.36%) Solutions Architect
6 47 (10.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 34 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 21 (4.81%) .NET Developer
8 21 (4.81%) Lead
9 20 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.12%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.12%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (3.43%) Software Developer
12 15 (3.43%) Technical Architect
13 13 (2.97%) Analyst
13 13 (2.97%) Azure Developer
13 13 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Scala Developer
14 11 (2.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (16.02%) REST
2 69 (15.79%) React
3 68 (15.56%) .NET
4 63 (14.42%) Spring Boot
5 61 (13.96%) Kafka
5 61 (13.96%) Spring
6 49 (11.21%) RESTful
7 42 (9.61%) Node.js
8 33 (7.55%) HTML
9 32 (7.32%) CSS
9 32 (7.32%) JSON
10 27 (6.18%) AngularJS
10 27 (6.18%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (5.72%) .NET Core
11 25 (5.72%) XML
12 24 (5.49%) Web Services
13 20 (4.58%) GraphQL
14 18 (4.12%) .NET Framework
15 17 (3.89%) SOAP
15 17 (3.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.61%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.78%) Data Structures
3 33 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.49%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.97%) Mobile App
7 13 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.75%) Mainframe
8 12 (2.75%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.06%) Reference Data
11 8 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.14%) IoT
12 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.92%) DataPower
13 4 (0.92%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.04%) Linux
2 27 (6.18%) Unix
3 8 (1.83%) Windows
4 6 (1.37%) Android
4 6 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.92%) CentOS
7 3 (0.69%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.23%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (42.11%) Agile
2 146 (33.41%) DevOps
3 138 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 77 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (17.16%) Test Automation
6 64 (14.65%) TDD
7 63 (14.42%) Full Stack Development
8 62 (14.19%) SDLC
9 53 (12.13%) Software Engineering
10 46 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (8.92%) Event-Driven
12 38 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 38 (8.70%) Scrum
13 35 (8.01%) Containerisation
14 32 (7.32%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (7.32%) Kanban
15 31 (7.09%) Data Modelling
15 31 (7.09%) User Experience
16 29 (6.64%) Analytics
17 26 (5.95%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 155 (35.47%) Java
2 81 (18.54%) JavaScript
3 73 (16.70%) SQL
4 67 (15.33%) Python
5 59 (13.50%) C#
6 39 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.47%) Go
8 29 (6.64%) PHP
9 23 (5.26%) Scala
10 20 (4.58%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.52%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.29%) C++
13 8 (1.83%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.37%) Bash
14 6 (1.37%) C
15 5 (1.14%) Bicep
15 5 (1.14%) Perl
16 3 (0.69%) ABAP
16 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 51 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.41%) Degree
4 19 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) ISEB
7 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CCNP
8 1 (0.23%) CEH
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CISSP
8 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.81%) QA
3 12 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.60%) GDPR
5 6 (1.37%) NIST
6 5 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.69%) MiFID
9 2 (0.46%) PSD2
10 1 (0.23%) EMIR
10 1 (0.23%) FATCA
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (16.70%) Docker
2 16 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 99 (22.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (10.76%) Terraform
3 22 (5.03%) Grafana
4 17 (3.89%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.97%) Ansible
6 11 (2.52%) Consul
7 8 (1.83%) Kibana
8 7 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.14%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.92%) Istio
10 4 (0.92%) Puppet
11 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.69%) Zipkin
12 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.46%) Argo
12 2 (0.46%) Packer
12 2 (0.46%) TIBCO Hawk
13 1 (0.23%) FreeIPA
13 1 (0.23%) Icinga
13 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 40 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.47%) Oracle
3 16 (3.66%) Google
4 12 (2.75%) SAP
5 11 (2.52%) IBM
6 10 (2.29%) Splunk
7 9 (2.06%) SaltStack
8 6 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.92%) Databricks
9 4 (0.92%) Informatica
9 4 (0.92%) TSYS
9 4 (0.92%) VMware
10 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.69%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.46%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.46%) PayPal