Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,007 1,991 4,359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.76% 4.08% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 4.53% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 1,525 3,242
10th Percentile £400 £461 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £614 £600
% change year-on-year -10.35% +2.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 25
10th Percentile £40.08 £35.00 £47.15
25th Percentile £44.60 £62.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £75.84
90th Percentile £61.88 £81.00 £78.18
UK median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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
London -16 673 £575 -11.54% 298
North of England +5 131 £550 - 147
North West +42 99 £550 +10.00% 81
South East -16 93 £625 +12.36% 83
South West -35 36 £494 -17.71% 44
Midlands -12 30 £445 -19.09% 71
Yorkshire -19 28 £425 -26.09% 45
West Midlands -5 19 £450 -27.27% 32
East of England -7 17 £550 +4.96% 18
East Midlands +7 11 £375 -11.76% 38
North East 0 8 £413 -25.00% 22
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 28 (2.78%) Confluence
2 26 (2.58%) nginx
3 12 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.99%) Apache
5 9 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (0.89%) CMS
5 9 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.79%) IIS
6 8 (0.79%) JBoss
7 7 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.60%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.50%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.50%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.099%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (1.19%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.099%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.099%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.099%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.40%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) Maximo
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) Avolution ABACUS
4 2 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.099%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.099%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 380 (37.74%) AWS
2 279 (27.71%) Azure
3 141 (14.00%) GCP
4 136 (13.51%) Serverless
5 65 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 54 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (4.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 45 (4.47%) Azure Functions
8 45 (4.47%) OpenShift
9 42 (4.17%) SaaS
10 39 (3.87%) Amazon S3
10 39 (3.87%) GitHub
11 37 (3.67%) PaaS
12 33 (3.28%) Entra ID
13 32 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
16 23 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.07%) HTTP
2 21 (2.09%) Firewall
3 16 (1.59%) DNS
3 16 (1.59%) VPN
4 10 (0.99%) DHCP
4 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.79%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.50%) Internet
6 5 (0.50%) IPsec
7 4 (0.40%) ATM
7 4 (0.40%) SSL
7 4 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) AMQP
9 2 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.099%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.099%) MQTT
10 1 (0.099%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (13.31%) NoSQL
2 108 (10.72%) MongoDB
3 107 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
4 65 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 62 (6.16%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 25 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (2.38%) MySQL
11 23 (2.28%) Big Data
12 21 (2.09%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.39%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.39%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.39%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.39%) Redis
14 11 (1.09%) OLTP
14 11 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
15 9 (0.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 167 (16.58%) Git
2 98 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 64 (6.36%) GitLab
4 54 (5.36%) JIRA
5 51 (5.06%) JUnit
6 40 (3.97%) Mockito
7 35 (3.48%) Selenium
7 35 (3.48%) TeamCity
8 34 (3.38%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 13 (1.29%) Maven
10 13 (1.29%) NUnit
10 13 (1.29%) Postman
11 12 (1.19%) Moq
12 11 (1.09%) Gradle
12 11 (1.09%) SoapUI
12 11 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.09%) SpecFlow
13 9 (0.89%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 203 (20.16%) Finance
2 183 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 104 (10.33%) Banking
4 102 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.18%) Retail
7 25 (2.48%) Front Office
8 23 (2.28%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.09%) Legal
10 11 (1.09%) Tech for Good
11 8 (0.79%) Local Government
12 7 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.60%) Marketing
13 6 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.40%) Back Office
15 4 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (43.69%) Developer
2 213 (21.15%) Architect
3 148 (14.70%) Senior
4 140 (13.90%) Java Developer
5 83 (8.24%) Full Stack Developer
6 80 (7.94%) Lead
7 73 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
8 71 (7.05%) Software Engineer
9 69 (6.85%) Senior Developer
10 49 (4.87%) .NET Developer
11 46 (4.57%) Technical Architect
12 42 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 41 (4.07%) Scala Developer
14 40 (3.97%) C# Developer
15 38 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.38%) Azure Developer
17 31 (3.08%) Java Engineer
18 30 (2.98%) Senior Software Engineer
19 27 (2.68%) Analyst
20 25 (2.48%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.58%) .NET
2 166 (16.48%) Spring
3 164 (16.29%) Kafka
4 152 (15.09%) Spring Boot
5 145 (14.40%) RESTful
6 142 (14.10%) React
7 134 (13.31%) REST
8 111 (11.02%) Node.js
9 69 (6.85%) .NET Core
10 62 (6.16%) AngularJS
11 57 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
12 52 (5.16%) Web Services
13 50 (4.97%) CSS
13 50 (4.97%) HTML
14 49 (4.87%) Hibernate
15 48 (4.77%) JSON
16 46 (4.57%) JPA
17 42 (4.17%) Akka
18 36 (3.57%) XML
19 32 (3.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 64 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.47%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.27%) Data Structures
5 41 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 23 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.89%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.69%) Reference Data
14 16 (1.59%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.39%) Derivative
15 14 (1.39%) Mainframe
16 13 (1.29%) Fixed Income
17 10 (0.99%) Hedge funds
17 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 107 (10.63%) Linux
2 57 (5.66%) Unix
3 35 (3.48%) Windows
4 22 (2.18%) Android
5 19 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.89%) Mac OS X
6 13 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.29%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.099%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.099%) Debian
8 1 (0.099%) tvOS
8 1 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (44.59%) Agile
2 367 (36.44%) DevOps
3 315 (31.28%) CI/CD
4 202 (20.06%) TDD
5 165 (16.39%) Software Engineering
6 156 (15.49%) Test Automation
7 137 (13.60%) Containerisation
8 129 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (12.41%) Full Stack Development
10 113 (11.22%) Scrum
11 97 (9.63%) BDD
12 95 (9.43%) SDLC
13 92 (9.14%) Continuous Integration
14 91 (9.04%) Design Patterns
15 86 (8.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 77 (7.65%) Event-Driven
17 76 (7.55%) Unit Testing
18 62 (6.16%) High Availability
19 61 (6.06%) Computer Science
20 59 (5.86%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 373 (37.04%) Java
2 184 (18.27%) SQL
3 173 (17.18%) Python
4 166 (16.48%) C#
5 145 (14.40%) JavaScript
6 89 (8.84%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.65%) Go
8 58 (5.76%) Scala
9 29 (2.88%) PHP
10 19 (1.89%) C++
11 18 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.59%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.39%) Bash
14 13 (1.29%) C
14 13 (1.29%) PowerShell
15 12 (1.19%) Bicep
15 12 (1.19%) T-SQL
16 11 (1.09%) Perl
16 11 (1.09%) Ruby
17 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 166 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 147 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.05%) Degree
4 50 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.68%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.29%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.40%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.20%) CISSP
11 2 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.099%) CEH
12 1 (0.099%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.099%) OCP
12 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.28%) QA
2 24 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (0.79%) MiFID
5 7 (0.70%) GDPR
5 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.70%) NIST
6 5 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.40%) NCSC
8 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.20%) FATCA
8 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.099%) EMIR
9 1 (0.099%) GRC
9 1 (0.099%) GxP
9 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.099%) SLA
9 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 217 (21.55%) Docker
2 45 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.099%) Ceph
6 1 (0.099%) Firmware
6 1 (0.099%) NFS
Systems Management
1 321 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 129 (12.81%) Terraform
3 47 (4.67%) Grafana
4 41 (4.07%) Ansible
5 36 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.09%) Kibana
7 16 (1.59%) Argo
8 13 (1.29%) Istio
9 12 (1.19%) Consul
10 11 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.09%) Puppet
11 9 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.40%) Packer
14 3 (0.30%) logstash
14 3 (0.30%) Netcool
15 2 (0.20%) TIBCO Hawk
16 1 (0.099%) ITRS Geneos
16 1 (0.099%) Mesos
16 1 (0.099%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (10.33%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.85%) Oracle
3 59 (5.86%) Google
4 23 (2.28%) SAP
5 22 (2.18%) Splunk
6 20 (1.99%) Typelevel
7 17 (1.69%) IBM
8 16 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.39%) TIBCO
10 11 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.99%) AppDynamics
11 10 (0.99%) VMware
12 9 (0.89%) SaltStack
13 6 (0.60%) Adobe
13 6 (0.60%) Databricks
13 6 (0.60%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.60%) WSO2
14 5 (0.50%) Apple
14 5 (0.50%) Atlassian