Microservices Contracts in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 39 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +29 +13 -49
Contract jobs citing Microservices 167 134 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.07% 2.81% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 3.28% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 93 136
10th Percentile £393 £375 £425
25th Percentile £458 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £712 £681 £720
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.47% +31.09% -26.12%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.43 -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
England median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North of England 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
North West +7 90 £525 -4.55% 177
Yorkshire +40 67 £550 +37.50% 74
North East +6 14 £475 +15.15% 28
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (10.78%) Confluence
2 16 (9.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.59%) JBoss
4 2 (1.20%) Camunda
4 2 (1.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.60%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (32.93%) AWS
2 28 (16.77%) Azure
3 18 (10.78%) Serverless
4 13 (7.78%) GCP
5 11 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.39%) GitHub
6 9 (5.39%) Slack
7 8 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (4.79%) OpenShift
8 7 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.59%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.59%) Kong
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.99%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.99%) Collibra
10 5 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.78%) DNS
2 9 (5.39%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) Firewall
3 1 (0.60%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.15%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (20.36%) MongoDB
3 26 (15.57%) Relational Database
4 19 (11.38%) MySQL
5 17 (10.18%) Oracle Database
6 15 (8.98%) NoSQL
7 12 (7.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.59%) DynamoDB
9 6 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.80%) Redis
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.20%) DocumentDB
12 2 (1.20%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.60%) Big Data
13 1 (0.60%) Power BI
13 1 (0.60%) Presto
Development Applications
1 40 (23.95%) Jenkins
2 30 (17.96%) GitLab
2 30 (17.96%) JIRA
3 26 (15.57%) Git
4 24 (14.37%) JUnit
5 12 (7.19%) Gradle
6 11 (6.59%) Mockito
6 11 (6.59%) SonarQube
7 10 (5.99%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.99%) Liquibase
7 10 (5.99%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.39%) Jasmine
9 8 (4.79%) Maven
10 6 (3.59%) CA Release Automation
11 5 (2.99%) Artifactory
11 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.99%) gulp
11 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.80%) CircleCI
13 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (22.16%) Public Sector
2 36 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.57%) Finance
4 16 (9.58%) Banking
5 12 (7.19%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.99%) Electronics
6 10 (5.99%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.99%) Marketing
7 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.40%) Military
9 4 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.40%) Retail
10 2 (1.20%) French Language
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.60%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (35.33%) Developer
2 33 (19.76%) Architect
3 28 (16.77%) Java Developer
3 28 (16.77%) Senior
4 18 (10.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (8.38%) Lead
5 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Java Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Engineering Specialist
9 9 (5.39%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 9 (5.39%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.39%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.79%) Java Architect
10 8 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (4.19%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.74%) Spring Boot
2 40 (23.95%) Kafka
3 39 (23.35%) Spring
4 32 (19.16%) RESTful
5 25 (14.97%) Node.js
6 24 (14.37%) React
7 23 (13.77%) Swagger
8 22 (13.17%) OpenAPI
9 15 (8.98%) AngularJS
10 14 (8.38%) .NET
11 10 (5.99%) Spring Security
12 9 (5.39%) Express.js
12 9 (5.39%) Spring Batch
13 8 (4.79%) CSS
13 8 (4.79%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (4.79%) Hibernate
13 8 (4.79%) HTML
14 7 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.59%) REST
16 5 (2.99%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (4.79%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.80%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.20%) EMV
8 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) IoT
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 51 (30.54%) Linux
2 28 (16.77%) Windows
3 17 (10.18%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.50%) Agile
2 83 (49.70%) CI/CD
3 51 (30.54%) DevOps
4 50 (29.94%) Containerisation
5 44 (26.35%) TDD
6 41 (24.55%) Event-Driven
7 33 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (19.16%) Software Engineering
9 30 (17.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 29 (17.37%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (16.77%) BDD
11 28 (16.77%) Migration
12 24 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 24 (14.37%) Test Automation
13 21 (12.57%) Mentoring
14 20 (11.98%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 18 (10.78%) Observability
16 18 (10.78%) SOA
17 17 (10.18%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (48.50%) Java
2 59 (35.33%) SQL
3 37 (22.16%) Bash
4 28 (16.77%) Python
5 26 (15.57%) JavaScript
6 20 (11.98%) Perl
7 18 (10.78%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.58%) PL/SQL
8 16 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.59%) C#
10 6 (3.59%) Scala
11 2 (1.20%) Groovy
11 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 55 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 47 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.59%) Degree
5 5 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.40%) QA
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.20%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.20%) PSD2
2 2 (1.20%) SEPA
3 1 (0.60%) COBIT
3 1 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (40.72%) Docker
2 21 (12.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (31.74%) Kubernetes
2 23 (13.77%) Terraform
3 11 (6.59%) Grafana
3 11 (6.59%) Kibana
4 10 (5.99%) Progress Chef
5 9 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.59%) Ansible
7 2 (1.20%) Control-M
7 2 (1.20%) Istio
7 2 (1.20%) Kiali
7 2 (1.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.60%) Graylog
8 1 (0.60%) logstash
8 1 (0.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 25 (14.97%) Oracle
2 17 (10.18%) Cisco
3 12 (7.19%) Splunk
4 10 (5.99%) SAP
4 10 (5.99%) Virgin Media
5 7 (4.19%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.59%) Google
6 6 (3.59%) Microsoft
6 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.80%) Cloudera
7 3 (1.80%) New Relic
8 2 (1.20%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.20%) xMatters
9 1 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.60%) Confluent
9 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.60%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Sitecore