Microservices Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microservices
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 55 41
Rank change year-on-year +20 -14 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 11 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.51% 0.90% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 1.03% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 17
10th Percentile £525 £509 £548
25th Percentile £550 £523 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £584 £668
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -12.55% +11.25%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £700
90th Percentile - - £725
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 278 390 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.82% 88.24% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 194 267
10th Percentile £225 £387 £360
25th Percentile £375 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £676 £675
90th Percentile £718 £738 £738
South West median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 53
10th Percentile £15.22 £23.05 £33.40
25th Percentile £26.00 £29.50 £48.72
Median hourly rate £34.34 £37.52 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -46.41% +54.87%
75th Percentile £68.00 £71.50 £78.36
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Gloucestershire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Cheltenham +28 8 £650 +11.35% 3
Gloucester - 6 £650 - 5
Microservices
South West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Serverless
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 5 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
6 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (18.18%) npm
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) CircleCI
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Backend Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) FastAPI
2 5 (45.45%) Flask
2 5 (45.45%) GraphQL
2 5 (45.45%) gRPC
2 5 (45.45%) WebSockets
3 2 (18.18%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) CentOS
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Centre Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (9.09%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Go
1 5 (45.45%) Python
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) C
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) DV Cleared
1 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Grafana
2 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 4 (36.36%) Ansible
4 4 (36.36%) Terraform
5 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat