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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 54 56
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 14 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.71% 1.44% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.79% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 14
10th Percentile £455 £363 £558
25th Percentile £475 £406 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £681
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -33.94% +15.22%
75th Percentile - £456 £731
90th Percentile - £468 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £675
% change year-on-year +11.11% -33.33% +22.73%
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 452 613 767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.43% 80.03% 86.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 410 521
10th Percentile £163 £231 £270
25th Percentile £363 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 39 30
10th Percentile - £13.85 £12.45
25th Percentile £12.62 £18.50 £12.80
Median hourly rate £18.87 £26.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +15.63% +34.24%
75th Percentile £26.51 £47.13 £29.69
90th Percentile £28.02 £56.25 £58.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +47.06%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (42.86%) AWS KMS
4 6 (42.86%) Route 53
5 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (50.00%) DynamoDB
3 5 (35.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) JUnit
2 8 (57.14%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (50.00%) Maven
4 6 (42.86%) SonarQube
5 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (28.57%) DbUnit
5 4 (28.57%) jMock
5 4 (28.57%) Mockito
6 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
1 14 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) Spring
2 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
3 8 (57.14%) REST
3 8 (57.14%) SOAP
3 8 (57.14%) Web Services
4 7 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (50.00%) RESTful
5 6 (42.86%) Hibernate
5 6 (42.86%) JPA
5 6 (42.86%) Kafka
5 6 (42.86%) Spring Batch
5 6 (42.86%) Spring Integration
6 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
7 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
7 4 (28.57%) Bootstrap
7 4 (28.57%) PowerMock
7 4 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
8 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) TDD
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) Scrum
3 6 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (42.86%) SDLC
4 5 (35.71%) BDD
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Kanban
5 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 1 (7.14%) API Development
8 1 (7.14%) API Integration
8 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
8 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 4 (28.57%) Jaspersoft