Microservices Contracts in Birmingham

Microservices
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 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 49 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 24 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.60% 2.73% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 3.10% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 36
10th Percentile £369 £566 £372
25th Percentile £416 £623 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £466 £731 £625
90th Percentile £494 - £688
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £619 £495
% change year-on-year -27.27% +25.00% +14.12%
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 - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 620 773 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.67% 87.94% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 515 865
10th Percentile £250 £276 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £595
90th Percentile £685 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 29 22
10th Percentile £13.19 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.29 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -5.54% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £19.87
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
% change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Birmingham

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) IPsec
1 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (8.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (25.00%) React
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) Flask
3 1 (8.33%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) SOA
2 4 (33.33%) BDD
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (8.33%) ArchiMate
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Kanban
4 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP