Microservices Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microservices
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 32 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.51% 0.49% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.54% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - £331 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £363 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -26.77% -3.41%
75th Percentile - £394 £634
90th Percentile - - £704
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £325 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -43.48% - +12.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 181 184 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.41% 90.20% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 87 103
10th Percentile £350 £255 £203
25th Percentile £413 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £568 £538
90th Percentile £700 £638 £585
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £520 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +14.54% -4.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £19.00 £19.80 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +162.50% -61.90%
75th Percentile £61.68 £63.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.50 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes