Microservices Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Microservices
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 9 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 15.22% 8.62% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.50% 9.43% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £262 £385 -
25th Percentile - £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £394 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.39% - -
75th Percentile £675 £399 -
90th Percentile £713 £400 -
Dorset median daily rate £270 £394 -
% change year-on-year -31.39% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40 53 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 86.96% 91.38% 84.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 49
10th Percentile £204 £370 £139
25th Percentile £270 £419 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £363
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +34.48% -26.77%
75th Percentile £563 £506 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £825
Dorset median daily rate £525 £488 £538
% change year-on-year +7.69% -9.30% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 15
10th Percentile - - £15.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £15.38
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -10.74% -11.21%
75th Percentile £15.75 - £20.31
90th Percentile - £21.36 £24.95
Dorset median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
% change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +175.56%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Bournemouth

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) CockroachDB
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Django Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) API Design
3 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SOLID
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle