Microservices Contracts in Essex

Microservices
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 19 28 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 1.25% 1.80% 6.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 2.22% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £393 £500
25th Percentile £459 £439 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -1.89% +1.31%
75th Percentile £476 £588 £570
90th Percentile - - £630
East of England median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.09
Median hourly rate - - £70.18
75th Percentile - - £70.26
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 180 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 95.00% 81.08% 82.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 125
10th Percentile £227 £250 £191
25th Percentile £315 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £538
90th Percentile £538 £600 £622
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 46 15
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.42 £21.78
25th Percentile £17.13 £14.57 £24.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +27.91% +59.38%
75th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £200.00 - £67.55
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Essex

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Essex

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Essex

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Essex 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
Brentwood +7 1 £468 +24.67%
Microservices
East of England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes