Microservices Contracts in Cheshire

Microservices
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 32 42 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +20
Contract jobs citing Microservices 27 16 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.01% 3.17% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 3.76% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 28
10th Percentile £360 £427 £413
25th Percentile £391 £445 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £482 £491
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% -1.86% +15.02%
75th Percentile £519 £502 £595
90th Percentile £617 £563 £680
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Knutsford +6 23 £398 -10.67% 6
Chester - 3 £410 - 13
Macclesfield - 1 £625 -
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (22.22%) JBoss
2 4 (14.81%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) CMS
3 1 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Kinesis
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) HTTP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
1 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) JIRA
3 6 (22.22%) CA Release Automation
3 6 (22.22%) Git
4 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
4 5 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (18.52%) TeamCity
5 4 (14.81%) GitLab
6 3 (11.11%) JUnit
7 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.70%) Gradle
7 1 (3.70%) HP UFT
7 1 (3.70%) Hudson
7 1 (3.70%) IntelliJ
7 1 (3.70%) Maven
7 1 (3.70%) NetBeans
7 1 (3.70%) Selenium
7 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 4 (14.81%) Banking
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
1 4 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Legal
3 1 (3.70%) Billing
3 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Architect
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Solution Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Kafka
2 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
3 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (22.22%) RESTful
4 5 (18.52%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.81%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (11.11%) CSS
6 3 (11.11%) HTML
6 3 (11.11%) HTML5
6 3 (11.11%) React
6 3 (11.11%) Spring
7 2 (7.41%) Ajax
7 2 (7.41%) CSS3
7 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
7 2 (7.41%) J2EE
7 2 (7.41%) jQuery
7 2 (7.41%) Node.js
7 2 (7.41%) REST
7 2 (7.41%) Spring MVC
7 2 (7.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 11 (40.74%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 7 (25.93%) Containerisation
4 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (25.93%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 6 (22.22%) Observability
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) SDLC
6 5 (18.52%) Build Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
6 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.81%) Analytics
7 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) Perl
4 2 (7.41%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Docker
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Progress Chef
2 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Kibana
3 5 (18.52%) Terraform
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Grafana
5 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
2 5 (18.52%) AppDynamics
2 5 (18.52%) Splunk
3 3 (11.11%) Cloudera
4 2 (7.41%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.70%) Adobe
5 1 (3.70%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (3.70%) VMware