Microservices Contracts in Cardiff

Microservices
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 25 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.13% - 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% - 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £558 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cardiff

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Cardiff

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 3 (60.00%) Apache
1 3 (60.00%) JBoss
1 3 (60.00%) nginx
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) Express.js
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) JWT
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) NestJS
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) API Management
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
1 3 (60.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) IBM