Microservices Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microservices
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 10 32 64
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 22 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 12.72% 3.08% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.58% 3.63% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 10
10th Percentile £331 £538 £615
25th Percentile £441 £631 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +44.44%
75th Percentile £658 - £675
90th Percentile £743 £773 £676
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 £750 £650
% change year-on-year -23.33% +15.38% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 331 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 93.64% 84.87% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 240 583
10th Percentile £292 £280 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £599 £590 £573
90th Percentile £650 £703 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £501 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.37% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.85 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £17.64 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.69% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile £28.81 £30.00 £10.50
90th Percentile £43.78 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £25.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -43.20% +150.00% -7.15%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 2 (9.09%) Camunda
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
3 9 (40.91%) PaaS
3 9 (40.91%) SaaS
4 7 (31.82%) IaaS
5 5 (22.73%) GitHub
6 3 (13.64%) GCP
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) VSAN
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) MPLS
2 1 (4.55%) NGFW
2 1 (4.55%) OSPF
2 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VLAN
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) Big Data
3 2 (9.09%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Architect
2 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 10 (45.45%) Technical Architect
3 8 (36.36%) Senior Architect
3 8 (36.36%) Senior Technical Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Principal Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Java Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
6 2 (9.09%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Django
1 3 (13.64%) FastAPI
1 3 (13.64%) Flask
1 3 (13.64%) RESTful
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) OpenJDK
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (36.36%) PKI
2 5 (22.73%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) TOGAF
2 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 12 (54.55%) Continuous Delivery
3 12 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (54.55%) ITIL
3 12 (54.55%) Zachman Framework
4 10 (45.45%) DevSecOps
5 9 (40.91%) IT Strategy
6 8 (36.36%) Matrix Organization
6 8 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
7 7 (31.82%) Use Case
8 6 (27.27%) Agile
8 6 (27.27%) DevOps
9 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (22.73%) Requirements Management
10 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
10 4 (18.18%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Java
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) MCSE
2 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 8 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) CCNP
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) NCSC
2 11 (50.00%) NIST
3 7 (31.82%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (36.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Citrix
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce