Microservices Contracts in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 60 103
Rank change year-on-year +28 +43 -71
Contract jobs citing Microservices 116 80 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.50% 2.90% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 3.44% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 57 39
10th Percentile £337 £413 £413
25th Percentile £391 £445 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £548 £656 £644
90th Percentile £623 £850 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £649
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.25% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 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% -
75th Percentile £77.81 - -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +14.62%

All Process and 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 1,867 2,327 2,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.53% 84.46% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,419 1,929
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 263 151
10th Percentile £13.09 £11.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.03 £15.36 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% +29.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.18 £44.78
90th Percentile £81.00 £67.32 £59.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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
Cheshire +18 52 £393 -17.26% 17
Manchester +7 51 £530 -3.64% 161
Lancashire +3 9 £588 +19.17% 57
Merseyside - 2 £413 - 13
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 19 (16.38%) Confluence
2 17 (14.66%) JBoss
3 8 (6.90%) Tomcat
4 4 (3.45%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.72%) CMS
6 1 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.86%) Apache
6 1 (0.86%) Mule
6 1 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.86%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.52%) AWS
2 17 (14.66%) OpenShift
3 16 (13.79%) Serverless
4 15 (12.93%) Azure
5 11 (9.48%) GitHub
6 10 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.62%) GCP
7 6 (5.17%) SaaS
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.45%) Amazon Glacier
9 4 (3.45%) Apigee
9 4 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.59%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.59%) IaaS
10 3 (2.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) SAN
2 2 (1.72%) HTTP
3 1 (0.86%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) Relational Database
2 20 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (13.79%) MongoDB
4 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
5 9 (7.76%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
8 6 (5.17%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.72%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.72%) MySQL
10 1 (0.86%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (40.52%) Jenkins
2 43 (37.07%) JIRA
3 29 (25.00%) JUnit
4 26 (22.41%) Git
4 26 (22.41%) GitLab
5 20 (17.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (15.52%) Gradle
7 14 (12.07%) SonarQube
8 13 (11.21%) Maven
8 13 (11.21%) Mockito
9 10 (8.62%) Liquibase
10 9 (7.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (7.76%) CA Release Automation
10 9 (7.76%) Cucumber
10 9 (7.76%) TeamCity
11 6 (5.17%) Bitbucket
12 4 (3.45%) CircleCI
12 4 (3.45%) Selenium
13 2 (1.72%) Artifactory
13 2 (1.72%) Cypress.io
General
1 23 (19.83%) Public Sector
2 22 (18.97%) Finance
3 20 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 15 (12.93%) Banking
5 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (8.62%) Electronics
6 10 (8.62%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.62%) Marketing
6 10 (8.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (6.03%) Military
8 4 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.86%) Automotive
10 1 (0.86%) Billing
10 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (32.76%) Developer
2 28 (24.14%) Java Developer
3 23 (19.83%) Architect
4 17 (14.66%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.34%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) Senior
7 9 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.90%) Java Architect
8 8 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.90%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.03%) Engineering Manager
9 7 (6.03%) React Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (5.17%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (42.24%) Spring Boot
2 36 (31.03%) Kafka
3 35 (30.17%) Spring
4 29 (25.00%) React
5 24 (20.69%) RESTful
6 21 (18.10%) Node.js
7 15 (12.93%) REST
8 13 (11.21%) Swagger
9 12 (10.34%) OpenAPI
10 11 (9.48%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (8.62%) .NET
11 10 (8.62%) AngularJS
12 8 (6.90%) SOAP
12 8 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
13 6 (5.17%) CSS
13 6 (5.17%) Hibernate
13 6 (5.17%) HTML
13 6 (5.17%) OAuth
14 5 (4.31%) Express.js
14 5 (4.31%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.59%) PKI
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.72%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.72%) EMV
6 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.83%) Linux
2 13 (11.21%) Windows
3 12 (10.34%) Unix
4 9 (7.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (54.31%) Agile
2 58 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (43.10%) DevOps
4 36 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 31 (26.72%) TDD
6 27 (23.28%) Event-Driven
6 27 (23.28%) Migration
6 27 (23.28%) Scrum
7 26 (22.41%) Software Engineering
8 25 (21.55%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (14.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
12 13 (11.21%) Build Automation
12 13 (11.21%) SDLC
12 13 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.21%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.34%) Coaching
14 11 (9.48%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (71.55%) Java
2 36 (31.03%) SQL
3 24 (20.69%) Python
4 19 (16.38%) JavaScript
4 19 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.76%) Perl
6 7 (6.03%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.45%) Bash
7 4 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.59%) Degree
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) QA
2 2 (1.72%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.72%) ISO 8583
2 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.72%) PSD2
2 2 (1.72%) SEPA
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) COBIT
System Software
1 49 (42.24%) Docker
2 10 (8.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (25.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.21%) Terraform
3 12 (10.34%) Progress Chef
4 9 (7.76%) Kibana
5 4 (3.45%) Ansible
5 4 (3.45%) Grafana
5 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.72%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) Graylog
7 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (12.93%) Oracle
2 11 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.62%) Red Hat
3 10 (8.62%) SAP
4 9 (7.76%) AppDynamics
4 9 (7.76%) Splunk
5 8 (6.90%) Virgin Media
6 7 (6.03%) Cloudera
7 5 (4.31%) Google
8 4 (3.45%) IBM
8 4 (3.45%) VMware
9 3 (2.59%) Citrix
9 3 (2.59%) F5
9 3 (2.59%) HP
9 3 (2.59%) Veracode
10 2 (1.72%) ForgeRock
10 2 (1.72%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow