Microservices Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Microservices
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset 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 13 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 7 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 6.86% 5.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.87% 5.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £259 - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 103 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 87.25% 88.03% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 58 138
10th Percentile £195 £307 £176
25th Percentile £270 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -9.30% +8.59%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £638
90th Percentile £570 £709 £729
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 48
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.41 £18.87
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £47.84
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +15.87%
75th Percentile £15.75 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £22.06 £43.84 £69.62
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 Dorset

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Dorset

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Dorset 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
Bournemouth +3 5 £270 - 5
Poole - 1 - -
Microservices
South West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) CockroachDB
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Django Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Python/Django Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior C++ Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) React
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Compact Framework
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) OpenID
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) SOLID
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Android Development
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) BDD
5 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Xamarin