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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 44 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microservices 32 26 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.99% 3.22% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 3.80% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 52
10th Percentile £418 £414 £401
25th Percentile £428 £434 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £487 £479
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +1.67% -4.20%
75th Percentile £541 £628 £530
90th Percentile £600 £644 £572
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 600 685 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.60% 84.88% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 369 668
10th Percentile £313 £206 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £588 £639 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 5
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £24.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% -65.71% +196.28%
75th Percentile £39.40 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £55.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £19.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +3.12% +1.04% -3.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 August 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 (6.25%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Serverless
3 13 (40.63%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (34.38%) GCP
5 10 (31.25%) Amazon S3
6 9 (28.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (21.88%) Azure
8 6 (18.75%) GitHub
9 5 (15.63%) AWS CodePipeline
9 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
10 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (9.38%) Amazon Cognito
12 2 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
12 2 (6.25%) CloudFront
13 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (3.13%) Firebase
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (31.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.25%) GIS
4 2 (6.25%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 7 (21.88%) Git
4 4 (12.50%) Storybook
5 3 (9.38%) GitLab
6 2 (6.25%) git-flow
6 2 (6.25%) JIRA
6 2 (6.25%) Liquibase
6 2 (6.25%) Subversion
6 2 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Lead
3 6 (18.75%) Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
7 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.25%) GCP Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) GCP Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) React
1 15 (46.88%) Spring
1 15 (46.88%) Spring Boot
2 12 (37.50%) AWS CDK
3 11 (34.38%) RESTful
4 8 (25.00%) REST
5 7 (21.88%) CSS
6 4 (12.50%) Jest
6 4 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (9.38%) GraphQL
7 3 (9.38%) HTML
7 3 (9.38%) Next.js
7 3 (9.38%) OAuth
7 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
7 3 (9.38%) Playwright
8 2 (6.25%) Node.js
8 2 (6.25%) PostGIS
8 2 (6.25%) SOAP
8 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
8 2 (6.25%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 6 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.38%) Legacy Code
5 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 19 (59.38%) DevOps
3 15 (46.88%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
5 9 (28.13%) Unit Testing
6 8 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
7 7 (21.88%) API Development
7 7 (21.88%) User Experience
8 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 6 (18.75%) Front End Development
8 6 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) TDD
9 5 (15.63%) Migration
10 4 (12.50%) Change Management
10 4 (12.50%) Kanban
10 4 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Java
2 15 (46.88%) TypeScript
3 10 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 8 (25.00%) Python
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
6 3 (9.38%) Perl
7 2 (6.25%) C++
7 2 (6.25%) Go
8 1 (3.13%) Bash
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.25%) Splunk