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 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 54 86
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 -36
Contract jobs citing Microservices 39 53 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.26% 3.13% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.62% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 18
10th Percentile £350 £455 £504
25th Percentile £359 £482 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £700
90th Percentile £739 £651 £714
South East median daily rate £420 £515 £615
% change year-on-year -18.45% -16.26% +14.42%

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 1,097 1,464 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.72% 86.37% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 776 1,004
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £684 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.87% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 73 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.86 £18.10
25th Percentile £17.30 £42.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +147.42%
75th Percentile £62.24 £72.33 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.75 £57.35 £51.42
% change year-on-year -60.33% +11.53% +85.43%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Microservices

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 29 August 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 +12 25 £500 -20.00% 8
Wokingham -19 5 £513 +6.33%
Bracknell 0 4 - - 1
Windsor -5 1 £750 -
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 6 (15.38%) Camunda
2 5 (12.82%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.56%) Appian
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) Drupal
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Serverless
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.13%) npm
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) OCI
6 1 (2.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) MPLS
2 5 (12.82%) BGP
2 5 (12.82%) LAN
2 5 (12.82%) WAN
3 3 (7.69%) 4G
3 3 (7.69%) 5G
3 3 (7.69%) DOCSIS
3 3 (7.69%) GPON
3 3 (7.69%) LTE
3 3 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (7.69%) VoIP
3 3 (7.69%) xDSL
4 2 (5.13%) Converged Networks
5 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) JUnit
2 3 (7.69%) Mockito
3 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
3 2 (5.13%) JMeter
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (2.56%) jMock
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Mocha
4 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Telecoms
3 5 (12.82%) Billing
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Architect
2 11 (28.21%) Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Designer
3 5 (12.82%) IP Architect
3 5 (12.82%) IP Specialist
3 5 (12.82%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (10.26%) React Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.69%) OSS Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) REST
2 9 (23.08%) JSON
2 9 (23.08%) Web Services
3 8 (20.51%) React
4 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
4 6 (15.38%) HTML
4 6 (15.38%) NETCONF
4 6 (15.38%) RESTful
4 6 (15.38%) YANG
5 5 (12.82%) Node.js
5 5 (12.82%) Spring
5 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.26%) XML
7 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (7.69%) CSS
7 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
7 3 (7.69%) Material-UI
7 3 (7.69%) Next.js
7 3 (7.69%) OpenAPI
7 3 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (20.51%) TM Forum
3 6 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (12.82%) Frameworx
5 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) Agile
3 14 (35.90%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.64%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (20.51%) Roadmaps
6 8 (20.51%) TOGAF
7 7 (17.95%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps
8 6 (15.38%) ITIL
8 6 (15.38%) Machine Learning
8 6 (15.38%) Network Design
8 6 (15.38%) Process Management
8 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (12.82%) CRM
9 5 (12.82%) Network Architecture
9 5 (12.82%) Network Segmentation
9 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
9 5 (12.82%) UML
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 4 (10.26%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (12.82%) CCIE
2 5 (12.82%) JNCIE
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) CISSP
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.56%) CCSP
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) OSCP
6 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) OASIS TOSCA
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.08%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Amdocs
4 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.13%) Ericsson
4 2 (5.13%) Huawei
4 2 (5.13%) NetCracker
4 2 (5.13%) Nokia
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.56%) Pega
5 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.56%) Veracode