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

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 72 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 -10 -26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microservices 1,205 1,010 1,516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.37% 3.03% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 3.54% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 713 1,150
10th Percentile £355 £376 £450
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £647 £675 £725
90th Percentile £738 £765 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 14
10th Percentile £50.00 £38.00 £47.87
25th Percentile £55.00 £40.29 £70.02
Median hourly rate £67.00 £41.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.45% -42.76% +10.25%
75th Percentile £77.50 £56.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £41.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +61.45% -42.76% +13.06%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,036 28,551 39,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.84% 85.75% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,948 18,472 27,365
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,457 1,573 1,370
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.80 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +4.05% +51.39%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £40.69
% change year-on-year -37.90% -0.47% +53.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
DemandTrendContract 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 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +6 675 £575 -2.38% 456
North of England +21 225 £500 -4.76% 251
North West +21 121 £469 -10.67% 148
Midlands +40 96 £469 +10.29% 81
South East +17 88 £438 -16.67% 213
Yorkshire +24 84 £531 -3.41% 75
West Midlands +25 48 £500 +11.11% 55
East Midlands +14 48 £420 -1.18% 23
South West +33 34 £531 -2.30% 67
North East +8 21 £525 +12.00% 29
East of England +12 20 £450 +12.50% 48
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 81 (6.72%) Confluence
2 28 (2.32%) JBoss
3 21 (1.74%) CMS
4 17 (1.41%) Apache
5 16 (1.33%) Camunda
6 13 (1.08%) Tomcat
7 12 (1.00%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.91%) Apache Spark
8 11 (0.91%) Mule
8 11 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.66%) nginx
10 6 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.50%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.41%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
13 2 (0.17%) Drupal
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (1.16%) Oracle BPM
1 14 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.58%) Endur
4 6 (0.50%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.41%) Avolution ABACUS
5 5 (0.41%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.33%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.083%) Eikon
8 1 (0.083%) Finacle
8 1 (0.083%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.083%) RMDS
8 1 (0.083%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 557 (46.22%) AWS
2 302 (25.06%) Azure
3 159 (13.20%) GCP
3 159 (13.20%) Serverless
4 131 (10.87%) GitHub
5 80 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 64 (5.31%) Amazon SQS
7 64 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (3.49%) OpenShift
11 39 (3.24%) SaaS
12 37 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
13 35 (2.90%) Azure AKS
14 25 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (1.99%) PaaS
16 23 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
17 22 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.16%) HTTP
2 25 (2.07%) DNS
3 24 (1.99%) SSL
4 22 (1.83%) Firewall
5 8 (0.66%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.58%) FTP
6 7 (0.58%) HTTPS
6 7 (0.58%) SMTP
7 6 (0.50%) MPLS
8 5 (0.41%) 4G
8 5 (0.41%) 5G
8 5 (0.41%) Internet
8 5 (0.41%) LAN
8 5 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.33%) SAN
9 4 (0.33%) VoIP
9 4 (0.33%) VPN
10 3 (0.25%) BGP
10 3 (0.25%) DOCSIS
10 3 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (16.35%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (10.62%) NoSQL
3 122 (10.12%) MongoDB
4 109 (9.05%) Relational Database
5 70 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 59 (4.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 46 (3.82%) MySQL
8 44 (3.65%) Redis
9 42 (3.49%) DynamoDB
10 40 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
11 34 (2.82%) Big Data
12 29 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
13 26 (2.16%) Oracle Database
14 24 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
15 23 (1.91%) RDBMS
16 21 (1.74%) Hadoop
17 15 (1.24%) BigQuery
18 11 (0.91%) DocumentDB
19 10 (0.83%) Power BI
20 9 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 229 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 205 (17.01%) Git
3 163 (13.53%) JIRA
4 125 (10.37%) GitLab
5 115 (9.54%) JUnit
6 76 (6.31%) SonarQube
7 74 (6.14%) Mockito
8 66 (5.48%) Maven
9 54 (4.48%) Gradle
10 42 (3.49%) Bitbucket
11 40 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 39 (3.24%) Liquibase
13 37 (3.07%) Postman
14 32 (2.66%) Cucumber
15 30 (2.49%) TeamCity
16 27 (2.24%) Cypress.io
17 26 (2.16%) Selenium
18 23 (1.91%) Artifactory
19 21 (1.74%) Bitbucket Server
20 16 (1.33%) REST Assured
General
1 324 (26.89%) Social Skills
2 302 (25.06%) Finance
3 215 (17.84%) Banking
4 160 (13.28%) Public Sector
5 103 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 37 (3.07%) Investment Banking
8 35 (2.90%) Front Office
8 35 (2.90%) Military
9 30 (2.49%) Marketing
10 28 (2.32%) Retail
11 25 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.83%) Financial Institution
13 21 (1.74%) Electronics
14 16 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.08%) Back Office
17 11 (0.91%) Legal
18 9 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 464 (38.51%) Developer
2 248 (20.58%) Architect
3 217 (18.01%) Senior
4 208 (17.26%) Java Developer
5 102 (8.46%) Senior Developer
6 96 (7.97%) Lead
7 89 (7.39%) Software Engineer
8 75 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 50 (4.15%) Senior Java Developer
11 46 (3.82%) Technical Architect
12 43 (3.57%) Java Engineer
13 42 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (3.40%) Senior Architect
15 38 (3.15%) C# Developer
16 36 (2.99%) Lead Developer
17 32 (2.66%) .NET Developer
17 32 (2.66%) SC Cleared Java Developer
17 32 (2.66%) Software Developer
18 31 (2.57%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 286 (23.73%) Kafka
2 262 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 255 (21.16%) Spring
4 222 (18.42%) React
5 208 (17.26%) REST
6 190 (15.77%) RESTful
7 163 (13.53%) Node.js
8 161 (13.36%) .NET
9 142 (11.78%) AngularJS
10 107 (8.88%) HTML
11 87 (7.22%) Web Services
12 79 (6.56%) CSS
13 78 (6.47%) gRPC
14 70 (5.81%) Swagger
15 64 (5.31%) SOAP
16 60 (4.98%) RabbitMQ
17 57 (4.73%) JSON
18 56 (4.65%) Hibernate
19 53 (4.40%) OpenAPI
20 49 (4.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.44%) Cloud Native
2 153 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (5.64%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 21 (1.74%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.41%) Derivative
10 17 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.33%) PKI
12 15 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 116 (9.63%) Linux
2 53 (4.40%) Windows
3 42 (3.49%) Unix
4 20 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.83%) Android
7 6 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.33%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.083%) AIX
10 1 (0.083%) CentOS
10 1 (0.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (48.05%) Agile
2 528 (43.82%) CI/CD
3 460 (38.17%) DevOps
4 266 (22.07%) Software Engineering
5 250 (20.75%) Containerisation
6 232 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 211 (17.51%) TDD
8 169 (14.02%) Scrum
9 167 (13.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 161 (13.36%) Event-Driven
10 161 (13.36%) Test Automation
11 133 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
12 123 (10.21%) Continuous Integration
12 123 (10.21%) Migration
13 109 (9.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 109 (9.05%) Roadmaps
14 104 (8.63%) Design Patterns
15 99 (8.22%) Mentoring
16 97 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence
17 92 (7.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 533 (44.23%) Java
2 276 (22.90%) SQL
3 231 (19.17%) Python
4 207 (17.18%) JavaScript
5 163 (13.53%) TypeScript
6 159 (13.20%) C#
7 100 (8.30%) Go
8 43 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 41 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 40 (3.32%) Bash
11 29 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 25 (2.07%) C++
13 23 (1.91%) Perl
14 22 (1.83%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.24%) Bicep
15 15 (1.24%) Groovy
16 13 (1.08%) PHP
17 9 (0.75%) Ruby
18 8 (0.66%) Scala
19 5 (0.41%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 262 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 218 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 87 (7.22%) Degree
4 53 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 23 (1.91%) DV Cleared
7 22 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.58%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.41%) CISSP
11 13 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.50%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.33%) CEH
16 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.25%) CISM
16 3 (0.25%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (8.30%) QA
2 19 (1.58%) GDPR
3 16 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.00%) WCAG
6 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.50%) NIST
6 6 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.41%) MiFID
8 4 (0.33%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.33%) NCSC
9 3 (0.25%) HL7
10 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.17%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.17%) OASIS TOSCA
10 2 (0.17%) PSD2
10 2 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 400 (33.20%) Docker
2 39 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.58%) Postfix
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.083%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 423 (35.10%) Kubernetes
2 174 (14.44%) Terraform
3 77 (6.39%) Grafana
4 64 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 56 (4.65%) Ansible
6 24 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.24%) Kibana
8 15 (1.24%) Puppet
9 14 (1.16%) Istio
10 9 (0.75%) Argo
11 6 (0.50%) Control-M
12 4 (0.33%) Kiali
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
14 2 (0.17%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.17%) WMI
15 1 (0.083%) Consul
15 1 (0.083%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.083%) Rancher
Vendors
1 92 (7.63%) Oracle
2 90 (7.47%) Microsoft
3 66 (5.48%) Splunk
4 56 (4.65%) Google
5 39 (3.24%) ServiceNow
6 30 (2.49%) SAP
7 26 (2.16%) Red Hat
8 24 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.83%) Dynatrace
10 19 (1.58%) AppDynamics
11 18 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.49%) HP
11 18 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
12 17 (1.41%) IBM
13 15 (1.24%) Cloudera
14 14 (1.16%) BMC
14 14 (1.16%) Remedy
15 13 (1.08%) Ivanti
16 12 (1.00%) Cisco