Microservices Contracts in the East of England

Microservices
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 86 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 -30 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 17 36 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.90% 1.80% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.05% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 64
10th Percentile £348 £463 £416
25th Percentile £414 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £524
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.18% -0.18%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £675
90th Percentile £608 £650 £809
England median daily rate £558 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.80% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - £70.32 -
25th Percentile - £70.67 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £76.13
90th Percentile - - £77.32
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% +2.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,618 1,752 2,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.34% 87.64% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 1,021 1,277
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £322 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £555
90th Percentile £677 £700 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 338 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.31 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.60% +50.39% -15.16%
75th Percentile £60.63 £65.00 £39.51
90th Percentile £75.23 £70.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +4 7 - - 8
Essex -4 4 £520 -1.89% 2
Bedfordshire -2 3 £350 -12.50%
Hertfordshire -15 2 £550 -4.35% 5
Suffolk - 1 £625 -
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) JUnit
1 7 (41.18%) Mockito
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
1 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) RESTful
2 7 (41.18%) Drools
2 7 (41.18%) Quarkus
2 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) React
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) Akka
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) FMCG
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Decision Table
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 1 (5.88%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
5 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Domain Models
5 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Multichannel Retail
5 1 (5.88%) Personalization
5 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) R
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Typelevel