Microservices Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 36 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +20
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.79% 3.30% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.99% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £286 £425 £515
25th Percentile £331 £476 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £505 £729
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -30.73% +32.55%
75th Percentile £419 £560 £769
90th Percentile £548 £675 £916
South East median daily rate £423 £515 £608
% change year-on-year -17.96% -15.23% +13.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 288 301 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 90.85% 82.69% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 213 536
10th Percentile £213 £240 £313
25th Percentile £350 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £601
90th Percentile £635 £629 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 11
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.37 £19.98 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +21.48%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.25 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £20.58 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.12% +9.24% +61.54%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Buckinghamshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +5 12 £375 -25.74% 4
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (8.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) MS Access
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (33.33%) General Ledger
4 3 (25.00%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Django
1 3 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (25.00%) Flask
1 3 (25.00%) Middleware
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 4 (33.33%) Logistics
3 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) JDA