Microservices Contracts in Cheltenham

Microservices
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 21 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 3.23% - 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £519 - £678
25th Percentile £528 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £600 £300 £700
% change year-on-year +100.00% -57.14% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54 162 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 87.10% 87.10% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 90 103
10th Percentile £523 £398 £331
25th Percentile £547 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £643 £674 £700
90th Percentile £722 £739 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £48.20 £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.25 £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -4.70% +484.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £88.13
90th Percentile - £74.25 £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cheltenham

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Cheltenham

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle