Microservices Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microservices
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside 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 30 30 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Microservices 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.51% 1.32% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.83% -
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 -
North West median daily rate £435 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -7.73% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 217 164 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 90.79% 71.93% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 79 95
10th Percentile £129 £152 £222
25th Percentile £160 £206 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £507 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £595
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 14
10th Percentile £12.21 £16.12 £13.77
25th Percentile £14.44 £19.27 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.24 £22.44 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +12.19% +13.90%
75th Percentile £46.46 £26.65 £28.86
90th Percentile £51.02 £37.20 £50.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +1.03% +55.56%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Liverpool 0 6 £510 +7.37% 7
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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