Microservices Contract Job Trends in Chester

Microservices
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 3.39% - 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% - 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £668 - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £756 - -
90th Percentile £760 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £402 £458 £488
% change year-on-year -12.13% -6.15% +10.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 59 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 75.42% 88.06% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 9
10th Percentile £190 £416 £388
25th Percentile £413 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £617 £591 £600
90th Percentile £688 £663 £712
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £19.00 - £17.03
25th Percentile £21.70 £16.00 £17.17
Median hourly rate £23.50 £20.00 £20.56
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -2.70% +27.91%
75th Percentile £34.17 £29.60 £34.50
90th Percentile £78.25 £86.00 £40.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Chester

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (50.00%) Mule
1 2 (50.00%) Mule ESB
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft