Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 57 73 53
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 -20
Contract jobs citing Microservices 915 1,020 2,127
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.76% 2.74% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.17% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 737 1,620
10th Percentile £385 £396 £458
25th Percentile £450 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £755 £788
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -3.00% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 17
10th Percentile £25.38 £40.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £27.25 £45.88 £62.50
Median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%
75th Percentile £75.63 £56.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £62.50 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London -1 524 £575 - 656
North of England +29 167 £530 -3.64% 277
North West +7 90 £525 -4.55% 177
South East +29 80 £550 -10.20% 269
Yorkshire +40 67 £550 +37.50% 74
Midlands +47 61 £483 +8.43% 131
West Midlands +30 37 £500 +11.11% 69
East Midlands +23 24 £471 +25.67% 53
South West +26 19 £550 +7.32% 74
East of England +29 16 £450 -18.18% 82
North East +6 14 £475 +15.15% 28
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 52 (5.68%) Confluence
2 19 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 15 (1.64%) JBoss
5 10 (1.09%) Apache
5 10 (1.09%) Camunda
6 6 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.55%) CMS
7 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
8 4 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.22%) Alfresco
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.66%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (0.55%) Endur
3 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle TCA
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 409 (44.70%) AWS
2 228 (24.92%) Azure
3 124 (13.55%) Serverless
4 96 (10.49%) GCP
5 61 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 55 (6.01%) Amazon S3
7 54 (5.90%) GitHub
8 46 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (3.72%) SaaS
10 33 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (3.61%) PaaS
11 32 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (3.50%) OpenShift
12 29 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (3.17%) Azure AKS
13 26 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (2.62%) Azure Functions
15 22 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.28%) DNS
1 30 (3.28%) HTTP
2 23 (2.51%) Firewall
3 14 (1.53%) SSL
4 10 (1.09%) VSAN
5 9 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.77%) FTP
6 7 (0.77%) SMTP
6 7 (0.77%) VPN
7 6 (0.66%) NGFW
8 5 (0.55%) Network Security
9 2 (0.22%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.22%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (0.22%) IPsec
9 2 (0.22%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.22%) MPLS
9 2 (0.22%) OSPF
9 2 (0.22%) VLAN
9 2 (0.22%) WAN
9 2 (0.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (18.69%) PostgreSQL
2 116 (12.68%) MongoDB
3 105 (11.48%) Relational Database
4 91 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 65 (7.10%) MySQL
6 61 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 44 (4.81%) SQL Server
8 37 (4.04%) Redis
9 31 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (3.17%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (2.30%) Oracle Database
13 18 (1.97%) Big Data
13 18 (1.97%) Hadoop
13 18 (1.97%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.75%) Tableau
15 14 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (1.09%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 162 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 137 (14.97%) Git
3 89 (9.73%) JIRA
4 88 (9.62%) GitLab
4 88 (9.62%) JUnit
5 48 (5.25%) Maven
5 48 (5.25%) Mockito
6 42 (4.59%) Gradle
6 42 (4.59%) SonarQube
7 28 (3.06%) Cucumber
8 27 (2.95%) Bitbucket
8 27 (2.95%) Liquibase
9 26 (2.84%) TeamCity
10 21 (2.30%) Postman
11 20 (2.19%) Bitbucket Server
11 20 (2.19%) Cypress.io
12 16 (1.75%) Jasmine
12 16 (1.75%) Selenium
12 16 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 224 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 196 (21.42%) Finance
3 147 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 111 (12.13%) Banking
5 88 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.15%) Telecoms
7 31 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 31 (3.39%) Marketing
8 26 (2.84%) Front Office
9 22 (2.40%) Electronics
9 22 (2.40%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.64%) Retail
12 13 (1.42%) Military
13 11 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
15 8 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Billing
17 6 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 357 (39.02%) Developer
2 162 (17.70%) Architect
3 152 (16.61%) Senior
4 145 (15.85%) Java Developer
5 66 (7.21%) Lead
5 66 (7.21%) Senior Developer
6 59 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 59 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 58 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 45 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 42 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (4.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 38 (4.15%) Java Engineer
11 37 (4.04%) Technical Architect
12 31 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (3.17%) React Developer
14 27 (2.95%) C# Developer
14 27 (2.95%) Lead Developer
15 25 (2.73%) Python Developer
16 24 (2.62%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (21.75%) Kafka
2 195 (21.31%) Spring Boot
3 191 (20.87%) Spring
4 151 (16.50%) React
5 122 (13.33%) RESTful
6 118 (12.90%) .NET
7 90 (9.84%) Node.js
8 73 (7.98%) REST
9 67 (7.32%) AngularJS
9 67 (7.32%) Swagger
10 64 (6.99%) HTML
11 61 (6.67%) OpenAPI
12 58 (6.34%) Web Services
13 53 (5.79%) CSS
14 46 (5.03%) gRPC
15 37 (4.04%) Hibernate
16 34 (3.72%) GraphQL
17 30 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
18 27 (2.95%) .NET Core
18 27 (2.95%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
2 67 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 42 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.73%) PKI
6 19 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 18 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 17 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.75%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.75%) Derivative
10 12 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 9 (0.98%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.98%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.87%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.46%) Linux
2 68 (7.43%) Windows
3 48 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 23 (2.51%) Unix
6 3 (0.33%) Android
6 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (44.92%) CI/CD
2 405 (44.26%) Agile
3 355 (38.80%) DevOps
4 223 (24.37%) Containerisation
5 203 (22.19%) Software Engineering
6 168 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
7 158 (17.27%) TDD
8 142 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 135 (14.75%) Test Automation
10 119 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
10 119 (13.01%) Event-Driven
11 100 (10.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 94 (10.27%) Migration
13 93 (10.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 90 (9.84%) Scrum
15 78 (8.52%) BDD
16 73 (7.98%) Technical Leadership
17 66 (7.21%) Mentoring
18 64 (6.99%) Continuous Delivery
19 62 (6.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 383 (41.86%) Java
2 257 (28.09%) SQL
3 189 (20.66%) Python
4 174 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 121 (13.22%) C#
6 102 (11.15%) TypeScript
7 66 (7.21%) Bash
8 58 (6.34%) Go
9 47 (5.14%) PowerShell
10 38 (4.15%) PL/SQL
11 30 (3.28%) Perl
12 21 (2.30%) Scala
13 19 (2.08%) C++
14 18 (1.97%) Bicep
15 13 (1.42%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.31%) PHP
17 11 (1.20%) Kotlin
18 10 (1.09%) Ruby
19 7 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
19 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 272 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 253 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.23%) Degree
4 30 (3.28%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.84%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 17 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.53%) MCSE
12 11 (1.20%) CISSP
12 11 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 5 (0.55%) CISM
17 4 (0.44%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.36%) QA
2 17 (1.86%) NCSC
3 15 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.42%) NIST
5 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.44%) GDPR
8 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.22%) PSD2
8 2 (0.22%) SEPA
8 2 (0.22%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 326 (35.63%) Docker
2 44 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.55%) Postfix
6 4 (0.44%) Lustre
7 3 (0.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.22%) RACF
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 376 (41.09%) Kubernetes
2 143 (15.63%) Terraform
3 67 (7.32%) Grafana
4 57 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 49 (5.36%) Ansible
6 23 (2.51%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.97%) Kibana
8 13 (1.42%) Puppet
9 12 (1.31%) Istio
10 11 (1.20%) Argo
11 7 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.66%) Podman
13 5 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.55%) Control-M
14 4 (0.44%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.44%) Packer
14 4 (0.44%) Perfmon
15 3 (0.33%) logstash
15 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 78 (8.52%) Oracle
2 64 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 44 (4.81%) Google
4 43 (4.70%) Splunk
5 28 (3.06%) SAP
6 27 (2.95%) Cisco
7 23 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.08%) VMware
9 16 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 16 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 16 (1.75%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.75%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.42%) Virgin Media
11 12 (1.31%) IBM
12 11 (1.20%) Databricks
12 11 (1.20%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.98%) New Relic
14 7 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
14 7 (0.77%) Cloudera