Microservices Contracts in Manchester

Microservices
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 30 74
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 -57
Contract jobs citing Microservices 50 71 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 5.40% 4.68% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 5.37% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 50 39
10th Percentile £425 £406 £452
25th Percentile £469 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £563 £650 £688
90th Percentile £600 £850 £710
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £77.81 - -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £35.00
% change year-on-year +63.47% +31.09% -26.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Manchester

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bolton - 3 - - 23
Altrincham - 1 - - 10
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) AWS
2 14 (28.00%) Azure
3 7 (14.00%) GCP
4 6 (12.00%) Serverless
5 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.00%) Apigee
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (52.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (38.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (22.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (8.00%) MySQL
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.00%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 18 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.00%) JUnit
3 11 (22.00%) GitLab
3 11 (22.00%) Gradle
3 11 (22.00%) Mockito
4 10 (20.00%) Liquibase
5 8 (16.00%) JIRA
6 4 (8.00%) Git
7 3 (6.00%) CircleCI
7 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.00%) Maven
8 2 (4.00%) Jasmine
9 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.00%) gulp
9 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
9 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Electronics
3 10 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 10 (20.00%) Marketing
3 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Military
5 2 (4.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Java Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Senior
3 12 (24.00%) Software Engineer
4 9 (18.00%) Architect
5 7 (14.00%) Java Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) React Developer
6 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
9 3 (6.00%) IT Manager
9 3 (6.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.00%) Kafka
2 18 (36.00%) Spring Boot
3 17 (34.00%) Spring
4 14 (28.00%) OpenAPI
4 14 (28.00%) Swagger
5 13 (26.00%) React
6 11 (22.00%) Node.js
7 10 (20.00%) RESTful
8 5 (10.00%) Express.js
8 5 (10.00%) OAuth
9 4 (8.00%) .NET
10 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
10 3 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
11 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
11 2 (4.00%) Spring Batch
11 2 (4.00%) Spring Security
12 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
12 1 (2.00%) Apache CXF
12 1 (2.00%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) EMV
2 2 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.00%) Agile
3 22 (44.00%) Containerisation
4 21 (42.00%) DevOps
4 21 (42.00%) Event-Driven
5 20 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
7 18 (36.00%) TDD
8 12 (24.00%) Migration
9 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (20.00%) Programme Management
10 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven Programming
10 7 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.00%) Build Automation
12 5 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (62.00%) Java
2 23 (46.00%) SQL
3 16 (32.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.00%) Python
5 6 (12.00%) Bash
6 4 (8.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (4.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (4.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.00%) PSD2
1 2 (4.00%) SEPA
2 1 (2.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 29 (58.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Graylog
5 1 (2.00%) Packer
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) SAP
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle
3 6 (12.00%) Virgin Media
4 4 (8.00%) Google
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.00%) BMC
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) New Relic
6 1 (2.00%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.00%) Remedy
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow