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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 23 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +41 -27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 36 64 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 4.74% 7.53% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 8.14% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 17
10th Percentile £375 £400 £432
25th Percentile £472 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £650
90th Percentile £709 £619 £709
Scotland median daily rate £525 £463 £479
% change year-on-year +13.51% -3.44% -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 710 786 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.42% 92.47% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 501 602
10th Percentile £303 £275 £351
25th Percentile £399 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £603 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 38 31
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.11 -
25th Percentile £16.79 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £27.88 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +95.63% -64.37%
75th Percentile £45.08 £50.55 £29.38
90th Percentile £75.24 £66.25 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £19.34 £16.50
% change year-on-year +8.30% +17.18% -57.38%

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 13 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 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.78%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) BlazeMeter
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (8.33%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) GitHub
4 3 (8.33%) PaaS
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) FTP
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.22%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (11.11%) MariaDB
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.33%) DB2
5 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (5.56%) CockroachDB
6 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (27.78%) JUnit
2 7 (19.44%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.67%) GitLab
3 6 (16.67%) Mockito
4 3 (8.33%) webpack
5 2 (5.56%) Gradle
5 2 (5.56%) Maven
5 2 (5.56%) Mercurial
5 2 (5.56%) Subversion
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (2.78%) Selenium
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.78%) Toad
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Banking
4 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Designer
4 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Junior
7 2 (5.56%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Junior Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Designer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (5.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) Spring
2 16 (44.44%) React
3 11 (30.56%) Spring Boot
4 10 (27.78%) CSS
4 10 (27.78%) RESTful
5 9 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (16.67%) Node.js
7 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
7 5 (13.89%) HTML
7 5 (13.89%) REST
8 4 (11.11%) CSS3
8 4 (11.11%) HTML5
9 3 (8.33%) JPA
9 3 (8.33%) Redux
9 3 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (5.56%) Django
10 2 (5.56%) Kafka
10 2 (5.56%) Spring Batch
10 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
10 2 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) CentOS
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 8 (22.22%) SDLC
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
6 7 (19.44%) TDD
6 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Operational Stability
8 5 (13.89%) Community of Practice
8 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
8 5 (13.89%) Micro Frontends
8 5 (13.89%) SOLID
8 5 (13.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 11 (30.56%) TypeScript
4 8 (22.22%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (8.33%) WCAG
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Grafana
2 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
5 1 (2.78%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Dynatrace
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.56%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe
5 1 (2.78%) Okta
5 1 (2.78%) Talend