Microservices Contracts in Lancashire

Microservices
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 34 20
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 +10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 11 1 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 5.70% 0.41% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.19% 0.48% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 16
10th Percentile £599 - £410
25th Percentile £616 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +36.84%
75th Percentile - - £738
90th Percentile - - £750
North West median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £47.38
75th Percentile £48.43 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 £35.00 £47.38
% change year-on-year +31.09% -26.12% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 210 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.27% 87.14% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 116 150
10th Percentile £313 £313 £229
25th Percentile £413 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +10.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £588
90th Percentile £734 £700 £711
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 43 42
10th Percentile - £24.32 £13.78
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.30 £16.87
Median hourly rate £22.39 £42.50 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -47.32% +19.30% +39.71%
75th Percentile £45.96 £51.19 £46.21
90th Percentile £47.82 £55.79 £62.32
North West median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
% change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Lancashire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Lancashire

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Lancashire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Blackpool +14 6 £625 - 2
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (36.36%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) HTTP
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
2 3 (27.27%) Bitbucket
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Node.js
2 6 (54.55%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) JDBC
3 3 (27.27%) JPA
3 3 (27.27%) JWT
3 3 (27.27%) WebSockets
4 2 (18.18%) J2EE
4 2 (18.18%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Design Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
5 3 (27.27%) Multithreading
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) API Management
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle