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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Microservices 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.66% - 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.23% - 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £438 - £417
25th Percentile £456 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £444
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.25%
75th Percentile £488 - £461
90th Percentile - - £466
South Wales median daily rate £475 - £444
% change year-on-year - - -19.32%

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 172 191 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 89.12% 72.62% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 146 168
10th Percentile £226 £143 £188
25th Percentile £303 £212 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +4.17% -5.26%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £554
90th Percentile £650 £609 £625
South Wales median daily rate £400 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -8.57% -12.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 7
10th Percentile £12.21 £14.73 £15.40
25th Percentile - £15.48 £19.13
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% -17.47% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.06 £25.60 £25.50
90th Percentile £24.20 £25.98 £26.20
South Wales median hourly rate £16.00 £25.27 £19.49
% change year-on-year -36.68% +29.66% -2.33%

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 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) JBoss
1 3 (33.33%) nginx
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 3 (33.33%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) dbt
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 4 (44.44%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Flutter
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (11.11%) JWT
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (11.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Code Quality
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) API Design
4 3 (33.33%) API Management
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
6 1 (11.11%) BDD
6 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
1 3 (33.33%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) IBM