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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 44 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 -51
Contract jobs citing Microservices 61 44 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.09% 3.68% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 4.24% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 27
10th Percentile £416 £445 £325
25th Percentile £495 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +26.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £576 £850 £619
90th Percentile £656 - £695
North West median daily rate £470 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% -8.33%
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 - £40.33

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 890 1,037 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.82% 86.63% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 655 1,173
10th Percentile £306 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £456 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.80% - +0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 48 59
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.98 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £86.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £34.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.44% -2.26% +60.70%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 - 4 £425 - 3
Altrincham - 1 - -
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 4 (6.56%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
3 1 (1.64%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) AWS
2 19 (31.15%) GCP
3 16 (26.23%) Azure
4 15 (24.59%) Serverless
5 13 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (19.67%) Amazon SQS
7 11 (18.03%) GitHub
7 11 (18.03%) SaaS
8 10 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (16.39%) Apigee
9 9 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (14.75%) Amazon EventBridge
10 7 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (11.48%) PaaS
11 6 (9.84%) Datadog
12 5 (8.20%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (8.20%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (8.20%) Loggly
12 5 (8.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (36.07%) Relational Database
3 14 (22.95%) NoSQL
4 13 (21.31%) MongoDB
5 10 (16.39%) DynamoDB
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (13.11%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (11.48%) MySQL
8 6 (9.84%) Redis
9 5 (8.20%) BigQuery
9 5 (8.20%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.28%) DocumentDB
10 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (45.90%) Jenkins
2 16 (26.23%) Gradle
3 12 (19.67%) GitLab
4 11 (18.03%) Git
4 11 (18.03%) JUnit
5 10 (16.39%) JIRA
5 10 (16.39%) Liquibase
5 10 (16.39%) Mockito
6 7 (11.48%) Maven
6 7 (11.48%) SonarQube
7 5 (8.20%) SonarLint
8 4 (6.56%) CircleCI
9 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.64%) gulp
General
1 22 (36.07%) Public Sector
2 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Finance
4 11 (18.03%) Manufacturing
5 10 (16.39%) Electronics
5 10 (16.39%) Marketing
5 10 (16.39%) Telecoms
6 6 (9.84%) Banking
6 6 (9.84%) Military
7 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Architect
2 17 (27.87%) Software Engineer
3 16 (26.23%) Developer
4 11 (18.03%) Technical Architect
5 10 (16.39%) Java Architect
5 10 (16.39%) Java Developer
5 10 (16.39%) Java Technical Architect
6 9 (14.75%) Lead
7 7 (11.48%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (11.48%) Senior
8 6 (9.84%) Java Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 6 (9.84%) React Developer
8 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (4.92%) IT Manager
10 3 (4.92%) IT Project Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.70%) Spring Boot
2 22 (36.07%) Kafka
3 17 (27.87%) RESTful
3 17 (27.87%) Spring
4 15 (24.59%) React
5 12 (19.67%) Node.js
5 12 (19.67%) OpenAPI
5 12 (19.67%) Swagger
6 8 (13.11%) OAuth
7 7 (11.48%) Dropwizard
7 7 (11.48%) GraphQL
8 6 (9.84%) J2EE
8 6 (9.84%) JWT
8 6 (9.84%) Micronaut
9 5 (8.20%) Celery
9 5 (8.20%) Express.js
10 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
10 4 (6.56%) OAuth2
10 4 (6.56%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (4.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.84%) N-Tier
2 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.92%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.28%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) EMV
4 2 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Unix
2 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (59.02%) Agile
2 32 (52.46%) CI/CD
3 30 (49.18%) Containerisation
4 25 (40.98%) Event-Driven
4 25 (40.98%) Software Engineering
5 23 (37.70%) DevOps
5 23 (37.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 20 (32.79%) TDD
7 14 (22.95%) Clean Code
8 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
9 12 (19.67%) Migration
9 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (16.39%) Design Patterns
10 10 (16.39%) Digital Marketing
10 10 (16.39%) Programme Management
10 10 (16.39%) Scrum
11 9 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (14.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (67.21%) Java
2 23 (37.70%) SQL
3 17 (27.87%) TypeScript
4 10 (16.39%) Python
5 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.64%) PHP
7 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (37.70%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) ISO 20022
1 2 (3.28%) ISO 8583
1 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.28%) PSD2
1 2 (3.28%) SEPA
2 1 (1.64%) COBIT
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 33 (54.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 17 (27.87%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) SAP
2 6 (9.84%) Gigya
2 6 (9.84%) Google
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) Virgin Media
5 3 (4.92%) Citrix
5 3 (4.92%) F5
5 3 (4.92%) HP
5 3 (4.92%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) VMware
6 2 (3.28%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.64%) BMC
7 1 (1.64%) Pega
7 1 (1.64%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.64%) Remedy
7 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow