Microservices Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Microservices
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 27 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 3.21% 1.55% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £436 £313 -
25th Percentile £464 £369 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - -
75th Percentile - £494 -
90th Percentile - £498 -
Merseyside median daily rate £510 £475 -
% change year-on-year +7.37% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 140 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 91.98% 72.54% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 68 77
10th Percentile £157 £150 £220
25th Percentile £185 £184 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £406 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -9.72% -5.26%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Merseyside median daily rate £363 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -14.71% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 13
10th Percentile - £18.75 £13.56
25th Percentile £12.21 £21.31 £16.25
Median hourly rate £15.18 £22.88 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.64% +8.93% +20.00%
75th Percentile £51.02 £32.88 £29.00
90th Percentile - £38.00 £50.00
Merseyside median hourly rate £16.24 £22.44 £20.00
% change year-on-year -27.62% +12.19% +13.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Firebase
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JUnit
1 4 (66.67%) Postman
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) AngularJS
1 5 (83.33%) JSON
1 5 (83.33%) React
1 5 (83.33%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) POJO
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Thymeleaf
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) D3.js
3 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Flask
3 1 (16.67%) Flutter
3 1 (16.67%) Next.js
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React Native
3 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) API Development
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) User Research
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Netlify
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAI