Microservices Contract Job Trends in Devon

Microservices
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 34 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 1.21% 1.33% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.65% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.11% +22.17%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £688
90th Percentile - £601 -
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 182 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 86.06% 80.53% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 98 150
10th Percentile £145 £187 £324
25th Percentile £269 £346 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £478 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% -16.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £673
90th Percentile £588 £685 £707
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 15 5
10th Percentile £15.74 £40.25 £20.08
25th Percentile - £53.75 £31.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +73.33% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £40.00
90th Percentile - - £64.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Devon

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Devon region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Exeter +7 1 - - 4
Plymouth - 1 £500 - 2
Microservices
South West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Military
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ESRI
1 1 (50.00%) Rapid7