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 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 41 48 74
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 -47
Contract jobs citing Microservices 90 101 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 4.57% 3.67% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 4.25% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 71 75
10th Percentile £391 £406 £416
25th Percentile £405 £486 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £563 £625 £644
90th Percentile £615 £850 £700
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 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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 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 1 May 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 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
Manchester -1 50 £530 -3.64% 124
Cheshire +10 27 £402 -16.60% 28
Lancashire +1 9 £588 -6.00% 46
Merseyside - 2 £444 - 12
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 10 (11.11%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) JBoss
3 2 (2.22%) Camunda
3 2 (2.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.11%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.78%) AWS
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) Serverless
4 10 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.89%) OpenShift
6 7 (7.78%) GCP
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (5.56%) GitHub
8 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.33%) Apigee
11 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.11%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 13 (14.44%) MongoDB
4 10 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.67%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.56%) MySQL
7 5 (5.56%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 32 (35.56%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.00%) GitLab
2 18 (20.00%) JIRA
3 16 (17.78%) JUnit
4 12 (13.33%) Gradle
5 11 (12.22%) Git
5 11 (12.22%) Mockito
6 10 (11.11%) Liquibase
7 6 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
7 6 (6.67%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (5.56%) TeamCity
9 4 (4.44%) Maven
10 3 (3.33%) CircleCI
10 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
11 2 (2.22%) Jasmine
12 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 1 (1.11%) Hudson
12 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (25.56%) Public Sector
2 15 (16.67%) Finance
3 12 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Electronics
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 10 (11.11%) Marketing
4 10 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.67%) Banking
6 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Military
7 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
9 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.11%) Billing
9 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (31.11%) Developer
2 20 (22.22%) Architect
3 17 (18.89%) Senior
4 16 (17.78%) Java Developer
5 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.89%) Java Architect
7 8 (8.89%) Lead
7 8 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (8.89%) Technical Architect
8 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (7.78%) Java Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (6.67%) React Developer
9 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Applications Architect
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (34.44%) Kafka
2 29 (32.22%) Spring Boot
3 22 (24.44%) Spring
4 18 (20.00%) RESTful
5 16 (17.78%) React
6 15 (16.67%) Node.js
6 15 (16.67%) OpenAPI
6 15 (16.67%) Swagger
7 11 (12.22%) .NET
8 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
9 7 (7.78%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (5.56%) Express.js
10 5 (5.56%) OAuth
11 4 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (4.44%) Hibernate
12 3 (3.33%) CSS
12 3 (3.33%) HTML
12 3 (3.33%) HTML5
12 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.78%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.22%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.22%) EMV
4 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) PKI
4 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 7 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 41 (45.56%) Agile
3 37 (41.11%) DevOps
4 35 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 34 (37.78%) Event-Driven
6 25 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 23 (25.56%) TDD
8 20 (22.22%) Software Engineering
9 19 (21.11%) Migration
10 17 (18.89%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (14.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.22%) Scrum
13 10 (11.11%) Build Automation
13 10 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
13 10 (11.11%) Programme Management
13 10 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
14 9 (10.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 58 (64.44%) Java
2 26 (28.89%) SQL
3 20 (22.22%) Python
4 17 (18.89%) TypeScript
5 11 (12.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.89%) C#
7 6 (6.67%) Bash
8 5 (5.56%) Perl
9 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
1 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
1 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.22%) PSD2
1 2 (2.22%) SEPA
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.11%) COBIT
System Software
1 50 (55.56%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.56%) Terraform
3 10 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.67%) Ansible
5 5 (5.56%) Kibana
6 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.33%) Grafana
8 2 (2.22%) Puppet
9 1 (1.11%) Graylog
9 1 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) SAP
1 10 (11.11%) Virgin Media
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.56%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.56%) Splunk
5 4 (4.44%) Google
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.33%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.22%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.11%) Adobe
8 1 (1.11%) BMC
8 1 (1.11%) IBM
8 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.11%) New Relic
8 1 (1.11%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.11%) Remedy
8 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.11%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.11%) VMware