Microservices Contracts in Edinburgh

Microservices
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 46 46 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 21 26 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.36% 3.19% 6.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.61% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 69
10th Percentile £454 £414 £430
25th Percentile £460 £438 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +0.10% -11.30%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £545
90th Percentile £635 £638 £735
Scotland median daily rate £525 £472 £479
% change year-on-year +11.17% -1.41% -8.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (9.52%) Camunda
1 2 (9.52%) Confluence
1 2 (9.52%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (38.10%) Serverless
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 4 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (19.05%) Azure
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) CloudFront
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (9.52%) GIS
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) Storybook
2 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
2 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Front Office
4 2 (9.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) GCP Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Unix Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Spring
1 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 8 (38.10%) AWS CDK
3 7 (33.33%) React
4 4 (19.05%) REST
4 4 (19.05%) RESTful
5 3 (14.29%) .NET
5 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 3 (14.29%) CSS
5 3 (14.29%) Jest
5 3 (14.29%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 2 (9.52%) LDAP
6 2 (9.52%) PostGIS
6 2 (9.52%) SOAP
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (4.76%) Node.js
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) AIX
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) API Development
7 4 (19.05%) Code Quality
7 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
8 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 3 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (14.29%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (14.29%) Inclusive Design
8 3 (14.29%) Investment Management
8 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) TypeScript
3 7 (33.33%) Python
4 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) C#
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) Perl
7 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) ForgeRock
3 2 (9.52%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat