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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 58 47
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 35 8 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.48% 1.01% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 1.17% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 34
10th Percentile £501 £263 £464
25th Percentile £513 £306 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £709 £450 £700
90th Percentile £780 £514 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +4.55%

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 431 686 1,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.09% 86.62% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 414 832
10th Percentile £263 £300 £364
25th Percentile £375 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.62% +8.25%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 15
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £24.27 £12.15 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -45.33% -0.10%
75th Percentile £100.28 £12.53 £66.88
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 £70.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
% change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%

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 17 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 (45.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Collibra
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
3 3 (8.57%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) npm
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (48.57%) Oracle Database
2 6 (17.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (8.57%) MySQL
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) webpack
3 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.71%) Jasmine
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Engineering Specialist
2 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (20.00%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.43%) IT Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Angular Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Scala Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Applications Architect
7 2 (5.71%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) RESTful
2 5 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (8.57%) Akka
3 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.57%) CSS
3 3 (8.57%) Flask
3 3 (8.57%) HTML
3 3 (8.57%) Play Framework
3 3 (8.57%) pytest
3 3 (8.57%) REST
3 3 (8.57%) Spring
3 3 (8.57%) Spring Batch
3 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.57%) Spring Security
3 3 (8.57%) Web Services
4 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.71%) Swagger
5 1 (2.86%) Node.js
5 1 (2.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.71%) Blockchain
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (80.00%) Linux
2 22 (62.86%) Windows
3 17 (48.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (68.57%) Agile
2 18 (51.43%) SOA
3 17 (48.57%) Security Management
4 16 (45.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (37.14%) Server Management
6 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
6 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
7 8 (22.86%) Migration
8 7 (20.00%) BDD
8 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 7 (20.00%) TDD
8 7 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 5 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
10 5 (14.29%) Observability
10 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) Bash
2 19 (54.29%) SQL
3 16 (45.71%) PL/SQL
4 15 (42.86%) Perl
5 14 (40.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.43%) Java
7 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (8.57%) Python
7 3 (8.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (48.57%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (48.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.29%) Grafana
3 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Cisco
1 17 (48.57%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk