Microservices Contracts in Glasgow

Microservices
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 42 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 39 62 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.89% 7.07% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 7.69% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 18
10th Percentile £391 £400 £453
25th Percentile £442 £413 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.21% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £612 £550 £650
90th Percentile £687 £629 £707
Scotland median daily rate £525 £472 £479
% change year-on-year +11.17% -1.41% -8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Glasgow

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Glasgow

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Glasgow

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Serverless
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.69%) BlazeMeter
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) PaaS
4 3 (7.69%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.56%) Figma
6 1 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) FTP
1 1 (2.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) MySQL
2 6 (15.38%) DB2
2 6 (15.38%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.82%) MariaDB
4 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.13%) CockroachDB
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JUnit
2 5 (12.82%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 4 (10.26%) Mockito
4 3 (7.69%) webpack
5 2 (5.13%) Mercurial
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.56%) Toad
General
1 13 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 8 (20.51%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Lead
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Designer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Lead Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Solutions Designer
7 3 (7.69%) Team Leader
8 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Head of Engineering
8 2 (5.13%) Junior Java Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Designer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior UX Designer
8 2 (5.13%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) Spring
2 17 (43.59%) Spring Boot
3 11 (28.21%) React
4 8 (20.51%) CSS
4 8 (20.51%) REST
4 8 (20.51%) RESTful
5 6 (15.38%) Node.js
6 5 (12.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (12.82%) HTML
7 4 (10.26%) CSS3
7 4 (10.26%) HTML5
7 4 (10.26%) Middleware
8 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
8 3 (7.69%) J2EE
8 3 (7.69%) Kafka
8 3 (7.69%) Redux
8 3 (7.69%) SOAP
8 3 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (5.13%) JDBC
9 2 (5.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 5 (12.82%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) TDD
4 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
5 9 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
5 9 (23.08%) SDLC
5 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (20.51%) DevOps
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (15.38%) Cost Reduction
8 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Service Design
9 5 (12.82%) SOLID
9 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.82%) User Experience
9 5 (12.82%) UX Design
9 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
9 5 (12.82%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) Java
2 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 13 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 12 (30.77%) SQL
5 10 (25.64%) Shell Script
6 8 (20.51%) Python
7 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.69%) WCAG
4 1 (2.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.56%) NCSC
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
4 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.56%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.26%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.56%) Packer
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) DocuSign
2 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Okta
4 1 (2.56%) Talend