Microservices Contracts in Leeds

Microservices
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 22 54 65
Rank change year-on-year +32 +11 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 41 9 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.82% 1.13% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 1.30% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 8 23
10th Percentile £513 - £464
25th Percentile £519 £263 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -31.82% -
75th Percentile £775 £450 £688
90th Percentile £780 £498 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Leeds

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Leeds

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Leeds

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (39.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (17.07%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) Slack
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (12.20%) Collibra
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (7.32%) AWS
4 3 (7.32%) Azure
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 16 (39.02%) DNS
2 7 (17.07%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) Oracle Database
2 12 (29.27%) MongoDB
3 9 (21.95%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (21.95%) MySQL
3 9 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) JIRA
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 7 (17.07%) Cucumber
3 7 (17.07%) Jasmine
3 7 (17.07%) JUnit
4 2 (4.88%) GitLab
4 2 (4.88%) webpack
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 8 (19.51%) Java Developer
5 7 (17.07%) Architect
5 7 (17.07%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) IT Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Network Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Applications Architect
8 2 (4.88%) IP Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) RESTful
2 9 (21.95%) Spring
2 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.51%) Spring Security
4 7 (17.07%) Spring Batch
4 7 (17.07%) Swagger
5 6 (14.63%) OpenAPI
6 5 (12.20%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.32%) Akka
7 3 (7.32%) Play Framework
8 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.88%) CSS
8 2 (4.88%) Flask
8 2 (4.88%) HTML
8 2 (4.88%) pytest
8 2 (4.88%) REST
8 2 (4.88%) Web Services
9 1 (2.44%) Node.js
9 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (41.46%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (14.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (7.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (4.88%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (80.49%) Linux
2 22 (53.66%) Windows
3 17 (41.46%) Windows Server
4 9 (21.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) Agile
2 18 (43.90%) SOA
3 17 (41.46%) Security Management
4 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (34.15%) BDD
5 14 (34.15%) TDD
6 13 (31.71%) Server Management
6 13 (31.71%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
7 12 (29.27%) Containerisation
8 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
8 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
9 9 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (21.95%) Roadmaps
10 8 (19.51%) Migration
10 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
11 7 (17.07%) Coaching
11 7 (17.07%) Continuous Delivery
11 7 (17.07%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 28 (68.29%) Bash
2 25 (60.98%) SQL
3 16 (39.02%) PL/SQL
4 15 (36.59%) Perl
5 14 (34.15%) PowerShell
6 11 (26.83%) Java
7 3 (7.32%) Scala
8 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (53.66%) SC Cleared
3 17 (41.46%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.20%) Grafana
3 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Cisco
1 17 (41.46%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) Splunk