Microservices Contracts in Bristol

Microservices
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 51 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -23
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 25 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 2.37% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 2.84% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 30
10th Percentile £523 £321 £423
25th Percentile £538 £481 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.89% +14.00%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £630
90th Percentile £748 £642 £691
South West median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Bristol

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Bristol

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Bristol

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aviation
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) API Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) MLOps
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP