Microservices Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 45 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Microservices 175 90 98
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 5.47% 4.64% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 5.14% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 65 69
10th Percentile £352 £391 £406
25th Percentile £400 £405 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £563 £625
90th Percentile £650 £629 £850
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £58.75 £69.00 -
25th Percentile £63.06 £71.25 -
Median hourly rate £85.50 £75.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +63.47% +31.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.81 £48.43
90th Percentile - £78.38 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £49.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +45.73% +2.73% -33.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,669 1,750 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.41% 90.30% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,659 1,125 1,547
10th Percentile £263 £286 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £653 £665 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 109 245
10th Percentile £20.91 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.31
Median hourly rate £48.40 £32.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.25% +52.38% -40.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.78 £56.10
England median hourly rate £43.61 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% -13.00% -6.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the North West

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microservices

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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
Manchester +11 124 £500 -5.66% 43
Cheshire -1 45 £402 - 6
Lancashire -15 3 £650 +10.64% 15
Merseyside -19 1 £450 +1.41% 4
Cumbria - 1 £357 - 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.86%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.14%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) Camunda
4 1 (0.57%) Mule
4 1 (0.57%) Mule ESB
4 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.57%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 112 (64.00%) AWS
2 54 (30.86%) Azure
3 35 (20.00%) Serverless
4 28 (16.00%) GCP
5 26 (14.86%) GitHub
6 20 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (6.86%) Apigee
10 9 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (4.57%) Kong
12 7 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
13 6 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (2.29%) Azure AKS
15 4 (2.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) HTTP
1 4 (2.29%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.14%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.57%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (10.29%) MongoDB
4 15 (8.57%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.43%) MySQL
6 10 (5.71%) DocumentDB
7 8 (4.57%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (2.29%) Redis
8 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.57%) Big Data
9 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.57%) DataStage
9 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 36 (20.57%) Git
2 27 (15.43%) GitLab
3 16 (9.14%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.86%) JIRA
5 10 (5.71%) JUnit
6 9 (5.14%) Cypress.io
6 9 (5.14%) Mockito
7 8 (4.57%) CircleCI
7 8 (4.57%) Mocha
7 8 (4.57%) Postman
7 8 (4.57%) Selenium
8 6 (3.43%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.29%) JMeter
10 3 (1.71%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.14%) Gatling
11 2 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.14%) Serenity BDD
12 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (30.29%) Public Sector
2 42 (24.00%) Finance
3 33 (18.86%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.00%) Banking
5 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.14%) Retail
7 3 (1.71%) Billing
7 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Military
8 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (48.57%) Developer
2 47 (26.86%) Java Developer
3 35 (20.00%) Architect
4 30 (17.14%) Senior
5 23 (13.14%) Lead
6 20 (11.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 18 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
8 16 (9.14%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.14%) Software Engineer
9 14 (8.00%) Lead Developer
10 13 (7.43%) Backend Developer
11 10 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.57%) Software Developer
13 7 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 7 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
14 6 (3.43%) Angular Developer
14 6 (3.43%) Node.js Developer
14 6 (3.43%) Senior Backend Developer
14 6 (3.43%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (40.57%) Spring
2 65 (37.14%) Spring Boot
3 47 (26.86%) React
4 39 (22.29%) Node.js
5 37 (21.14%) RESTful
6 36 (20.57%) REST
7 29 (16.57%) AngularJS
8 25 (14.29%) Kafka
9 23 (13.14%) OAuth
10 15 (8.57%) OAuth2
11 14 (8.00%) .NET
11 14 (8.00%) Jest
12 13 (7.43%) Hibernate
12 13 (7.43%) Playwright
13 12 (6.86%) JAX-RS
13 12 (6.86%) JWT
14 11 (6.29%) JSON
14 11 (6.29%) XML
15 9 (5.14%) HTML
16 8 (4.57%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (24.57%) Cloud Native
2 24 (13.71%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 14 (8.00%) Mobile App
5 12 (6.86%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.71%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.14%) NHS
10 1 (0.57%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.57%) Online Banking
10 1 (0.57%) PMI
10 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.57%) Replication
10 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.57%) Linux
2 12 (6.86%) Unix
3 8 (4.57%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (50.29%) Agile
2 84 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 66 (37.71%) DevOps
4 51 (29.14%) Test Automation
5 46 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (25.14%) Event-Driven
7 38 (21.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 38 (21.71%) TDD
8 37 (21.14%) Containerisation
9 35 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 30 (17.14%) API Design
11 28 (16.00%) Software Engineering
12 26 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (14.86%) Mentoring
13 24 (13.71%) Observability
14 21 (12.00%) BDD
14 21 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (11.43%) Code Quality
15 20 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (11.43%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 108 (61.71%) Java
2 34 (19.43%) TypeScript
3 25 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 25 (14.29%) SQL
4 14 (8.00%) Kotlin
5 10 (5.71%) C#
6 9 (5.14%) Python
7 3 (1.71%) Go
8 2 (1.14%) Bash
8 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (10.86%) Degree
4 16 (9.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.71%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) GIAC
8 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CEH
9 1 (0.57%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.57%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.86%) QA
3 8 (4.57%) WCAG
4 7 (4.00%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.71%) NIST
5 3 (1.71%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.14%) PSD2
7 1 (0.57%) COBIT
7 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) HL7
7 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 59 (33.71%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 47 (26.86%) Kubernetes
2 25 (14.29%) Terraform
3 9 (5.14%) Grafana
4 8 (4.57%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (6.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.14%) Google
2 9 (5.14%) Splunk
3 8 (4.57%) MuleSoft
4 7 (4.00%) Oracle
5 3 (1.71%) Adobe
5 3 (1.71%) Guidewire
5 3 (1.71%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.71%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.14%) Databricks
6 2 (1.14%) Foundry
6 2 (1.14%) PagerDuty
6 2 (1.14%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.57%) Informatica