Microservices Contracts in Berkshire

Microservices
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 72 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 30 52 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.56% 2.62% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.95% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 35
10th Percentile £350 £429 £453
25th Percentile £409 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £611
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +22 25 £525 -16.00% 31
Wokingham -19 3 £450 -9.37% 1
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) Serverless
3 12 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 10 (33.33%) AWS
5 9 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (26.67%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (23.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (13.33%) Azure AKS
8 4 (13.33%) GCP
9 3 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (6.67%) SaaS
11 1 (3.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 3 (10.00%) NGFW
2 3 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Redis
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) HBase
5 1 (3.33%) HDInsight
5 1 (3.33%) Impala
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) JUnit
3 3 (10.00%) Mockito
3 3 (10.00%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) JMeter
5 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (3.33%) DbUnit
5 1 (3.33%) jMock
5 1 (3.33%) Maven
5 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Billing
4 4 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Azure Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 6 (20.00%) React Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Designer
4 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
5 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Applications Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) React
2 8 (26.67%) REST
2 8 (26.67%) Web Services
3 7 (23.33%) JSON
4 5 (16.67%) RESTful
5 4 (13.33%) GraphQL
5 4 (13.33%) Prisma
6 3 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (10.00%) HTML
6 3 (10.00%) Node.js
6 3 (10.00%) SAML
6 3 (10.00%) Spring
6 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (6.67%) Apache Axis
7 2 (6.67%) Apache Camel
7 2 (6.67%) jQuery
7 2 (6.67%) WireMock
7 2 (6.67%) XML
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (16.67%) Frameworx
2 5 (16.67%) TM Forum
3 3 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) IoT
5 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) DevOps
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 10 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 8 (26.67%) SDLC
6 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
7 6 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 5 (16.67%) Business Strategy
8 5 (16.67%) CRM
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Experience
8 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 5 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 5 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (16.67%) UML
9 4 (13.33%) Migration
9 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.67%) Ruby
7 1 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) CISSP
2 3 (10.00%) CISM
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.33%) CCSP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) OSCP
4 1 (3.33%) SANS
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (33.33%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.33%) Apache Flume
4 1 (3.33%) Postfix
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (6.67%) Kibana
3 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (3.33%) New Relic
4 1 (3.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
4 1 (3.33%) Zscaler