Microservices Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Microservices
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 37 17 4
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 13.07% 9.71% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.55% 10.24% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 12 1
10th Percentile £313 £444 -
25th Percentile £354 £445 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £469 £505 £538
90th Percentile £521 £696 -
Cheshire median daily rate £425 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 273 166 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.47% 94.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 137 64
10th Percentile £311 £336 £450
25th Percentile £358 £360 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -20.37% +10.20%
75th Percentile £490 £538 £593
90th Percentile £537 £658 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -9.37% -3.45% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £24.81
% change year-on-year -46.09% +41.10% +54.36%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Knutsford over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Knutsford

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (29.73%) Confluence
2 10 (27.03%) JBoss
3 6 (16.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.70%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) OpenShift
3 6 (16.22%) GitHub
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.41%) Azure
6 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
1 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (72.97%) JIRA
2 21 (56.76%) Jenkins
3 19 (51.35%) Git
4 15 (40.54%) JUnit
4 15 (40.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (29.73%) GitLab
6 9 (24.32%) Cucumber
6 9 (24.32%) Maven
7 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
8 7 (18.92%) Bitbucket
9 6 (16.22%) Gradle
10 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (10.81%) TeamCity
11 3 (8.11%) CA Release Automation
11 3 (8.11%) Mockito
11 3 (8.11%) Selenium
General
1 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Banking
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Engineering Manager
3 5 (13.51%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.11%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (5.41%) Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Architect
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Java Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Payments Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (64.86%) Spring Boot
2 17 (45.95%) Spring
3 13 (35.14%) Kafka
3 13 (35.14%) REST
4 11 (29.73%) React
5 10 (27.03%) RESTful
6 7 (18.92%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (16.22%) SOAP
8 5 (13.51%) Node.js
9 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (8.11%) CSS
10 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
10 3 (8.11%) HTML
10 3 (8.11%) Jest
10 3 (8.11%) JPA
10 3 (8.11%) Redux
11 2 (5.41%) Spring MVC
12 1 (2.70%) J2EE
12 1 (2.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Unix
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) DevOps
3 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
5 11 (29.73%) Scrum
6 10 (27.03%) TDD
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (21.62%) Migration
9 7 (18.92%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
9 7 (18.92%) Design Patterns
9 7 (18.92%) SDLC
9 7 (18.92%) Sprint Planning
10 6 (16.22%) Coaching
10 6 (16.22%) Epics
10 6 (16.22%) Process Improvement
10 6 (16.22%) Release Management
10 6 (16.22%) Sprint Retrospective
10 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (91.89%) Java
2 10 (27.03%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Perl
3 6 (16.22%) Shell Script
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.41%) CBAP
2 2 (5.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 4 (10.81%) ISO 20022
2 4 (10.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (27.03%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Kibana
2 4 (10.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) AppDynamics
3 4 (10.81%) Cloudera
3 4 (10.81%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
4 3 (8.11%) Veracode
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.70%) Checkmarx