Microservices Contracts in Birmingham

Microservices
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 48 54 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.38% 1.68% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 2.02% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 15
10th Percentile - £369 £568
25th Percentile £453 £416 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -33.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £458 £466 £731
90th Percentile - £494 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (50.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) jMock
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Mockito
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft