Microservices Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microservices
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 20 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.55% - 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.16% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £400 - £452
25th Percentile £463 - £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £508
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.37%
75th Percentile £488 - £537
90th Percentile £535 - £537
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -3.00% -10.20% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 113 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.45% 75.84% 76.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 80
10th Percentile £154 £212 £165
25th Percentile £295 £350 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £406
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £532 £575 £504
90th Percentile £625 £660 £624
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 14
10th Percentile £15.60 - £13.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £26.59 £13.94 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.75% -8.59% -3.11%
75th Percentile £48.48 £23.54 £16.78
90th Percentile £78.47 £31.88 £18.12
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Northern Ireland

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Northern Ireland

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Northern Ireland

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 12 £475 - 12
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 4 (33.33%) Anypoint
1 4 (33.33%) Mule
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) GemFire
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Flink
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) DB2
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (25.00%) Law
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) MuleSoft Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Core Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 4 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 4 (33.33%) RAML
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (33.33%) Swagger
2 4 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (8.33%) JMS
4 1 (8.33%) JWT
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth
4 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (25.00%) Equities
1 3 (25.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) API Development
2 4 (33.33%) API Management
2 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Low Latency
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) DataWeave
4 3 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase