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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 64 80
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 -45
Contract jobs citing Microservices 170 135 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 2.91% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 3.41% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 93 129
10th Percentile £391 £375 £415
25th Percentile £420 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £734 £713
England median daily rate £530 £550 £630
% change year-on-year -3.64% -12.70% +5.00%
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 £50.00 £47.16 £72.50
% change year-on-year +6.03% -34.96% +20.83%

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 2,970 3,960 5,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.44% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,421 3,492
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 365 204
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.54
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -36.35% +46.53%
75th Percentile £57.76 £45.00 £43.94
90th Percentile £81.08 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

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 19 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 19 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 +6 99 £500 -9.09% 213
Yorkshire +43 62 £550 +29.41% 120
North East 0 13 £470 +13.94% 33
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 20 (11.76%) Confluence
2 16 (9.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (4.12%) JBoss
4 2 (1.18%) Camunda
4 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.59%) Apache
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) Mule
5 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (32.94%) AWS
2 28 (16.47%) Azure
3 19 (11.18%) Serverless
4 16 (9.41%) GCP
5 12 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (7.06%) GitHub
6 8 (4.71%) OpenShift
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.94%) Collibra
8 5 (2.94%) Kong
9 4 (2.35%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (2.35%) Apigee
9 4 (2.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.59%) DNS
2 6 (3.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.59%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.41%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (18.24%) MongoDB
3 26 (15.29%) Relational Database
4 17 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 17 (10.00%) Oracle Database
5 13 (7.65%) MySQL
6 7 (4.12%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.94%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.76%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.76%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.76%) Redis
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.18%) Hazelcast
11 1 (0.59%) Big Data
11 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.59%) Presto
Development Applications
1 39 (22.94%) Jenkins
2 36 (21.18%) JIRA
3 31 (18.24%) GitLab
4 24 (14.12%) Git
5 19 (11.18%) JUnit
6 13 (7.65%) Gradle
7 12 (7.06%) SonarQube
8 11 (6.47%) Mockito
8 11 (6.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (5.88%) Liquibase
10 9 (5.29%) Maven
11 6 (3.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (3.53%) CA Release Automation
12 5 (2.94%) Artifactory
12 5 (2.94%) Cucumber
12 5 (2.94%) gulp
12 5 (2.94%) TeamCity
13 4 (2.35%) CircleCI
13 4 (2.35%) Jasmine
14 3 (1.76%) webpack
General
1 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.82%) Public Sector
3 23 (13.53%) Finance
4 18 (10.59%) Banking
5 12 (7.06%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.88%) Electronics
6 10 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.88%) Marketing
7 6 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.35%) Military
9 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.35%) Retail
10 2 (1.18%) French Language
10 2 (1.18%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Front Office
11 1 (0.59%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (33.53%) Developer
2 33 (19.41%) Architect
3 25 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 22 (12.94%) Senior
5 19 (11.18%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (8.82%) Lead
7 14 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (5.29%) Engineering Specialist
9 9 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 9 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.29%) Technical Architect
10 8 (4.71%) Java Architect
10 8 (4.71%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.71%) React Developer
11 7 (4.12%) Engineering Manager
11 7 (4.12%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.88%) Spring Boot
2 39 (22.94%) Kafka
3 34 (20.00%) Spring
4 28 (16.47%) RESTful
5 27 (15.88%) Node.js
6 26 (15.29%) React
7 18 (10.59%) Swagger
8 17 (10.00%) OpenAPI
9 16 (9.41%) AngularJS
10 15 (8.82%) .NET
11 9 (5.29%) CSS
11 9 (5.29%) Express.js
11 9 (5.29%) HTML
12 7 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (4.12%) Hibernate
12 7 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (4.12%) REST
12 7 (4.12%) Web Services
13 6 (3.53%) OAuth
13 6 (3.53%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.59%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.71%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.12%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.76%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.76%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.18%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) IoT
8 2 (1.18%) PKI
8 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (28.24%) Linux
2 28 (16.47%) Windows
3 17 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.12%) Agile
2 80 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 58 (34.12%) DevOps
4 45 (26.47%) Containerisation
5 42 (24.71%) Event-Driven
6 37 (21.76%) TDD
7 34 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (18.24%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (17.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 27 (15.88%) Migration
11 26 (15.29%) Software Engineering
12 24 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (12.35%) BDD
13 21 (12.35%) Test Automation
14 20 (11.76%) Scrum
15 18 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 18 (10.59%) Observability
15 18 (10.59%) SOA
16 17 (10.00%) Security Management
17 16 (9.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 85 (50.00%) Java
2 53 (31.18%) SQL
3 34 (20.00%) Bash
4 29 (17.06%) JavaScript
5 27 (15.88%) Python
6 20 (11.76%) Perl
7 18 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (9.41%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.47%) C#
10 6 (3.53%) Scala
11 3 (1.76%) Groovy
12 2 (1.18%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.53%) Degree
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.59%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.94%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.18%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.18%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.18%) PSD2
2 2 (1.18%) SEPA
3 1 (0.59%) COBIT
3 1 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.59%) NCSC
3 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (36.47%) Docker
2 21 (12.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 49 (28.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.12%) Terraform
3 12 (7.06%) Grafana
4 10 (5.88%) Kibana
5 9 (5.29%) Progress Chef
5 9 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.94%) Ansible
7 3 (1.76%) Control-M
7 3 (1.76%) Istio
7 3 (1.76%) Kiali
8 2 (1.18%) Puppet
9 1 (0.59%) Graylog
9 1 (0.59%) Packer
Vendors
1 24 (14.12%) Oracle
2 17 (10.00%) Cisco
3 13 (7.65%) Splunk
4 10 (5.88%) SAP
4 10 (5.88%) Virgin Media
5 8 (4.71%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.71%) Microsoft
6 7 (4.12%) Google
7 6 (3.53%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.76%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.76%) New Relic
8 3 (1.76%) xMatters
9 2 (1.18%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.18%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.59%) Confluent
10 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.59%) Ping Identity
10 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow