Microservices Contracts in Reading

Microservices
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 35 57 43
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 +27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 25 34 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.19% 2.85% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.16% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 35
10th Percentile £350 £427 £453
25th Percentile £409 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £611
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £478 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -18.72% +6.82% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Reading

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Reading

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Reading

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) Serverless
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Functions
4 9 (36.00%) AWS
5 8 (32.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (28.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (28.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (16.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (16.00%) GCP
8 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (8.00%) SaaS
10 1 (4.00%) GitHub
10 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) NGFW
2 3 (12.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (16.00%) Redis
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) HBase
5 1 (4.00%) HDInsight
5 1 (4.00%) Impala
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) JUnit
3 3 (12.00%) Mockito
3 3 (12.00%) Selenium
4 2 (8.00%) JMeter
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.00%) DbUnit
5 1 (4.00%) jMock
5 1 (4.00%) Maven
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.00%) Billing
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Azure Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Python Developer
3 6 (24.00%) React Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Architect
5 4 (16.00%) Designer
5 4 (16.00%) Solutions Designer
6 3 (12.00%) Backend Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (12.00%) Security Architect
6 3 (12.00%) Senior
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) React
2 7 (28.00%) REST
2 7 (28.00%) Web Services
3 6 (24.00%) JSON
4 5 (20.00%) RESTful
5 4 (16.00%) GraphQL
5 4 (16.00%) Prisma
6 3 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (12.00%) HTML
6 3 (12.00%) Node.js
6 3 (12.00%) SAML
6 3 (12.00%) Spring
6 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (8.00%) Apache Camel
7 2 (8.00%) jQuery
7 2 (8.00%) WireMock
7 2 (8.00%) XML
8 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
8 1 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Frameworx
2 4 (16.00%) TM Forum
3 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (32.00%) SDLC
5 6 (24.00%) Product Backlog
6 5 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
7 4 (16.00%) API Design
7 4 (16.00%) Business Strategy
7 4 (16.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (16.00%) Cost Management
7 4 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Experience
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) CISSP
2 3 (12.00%) CISM
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) OSCP
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (4.00%) Postfix
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (8.00%) Kibana
3 2 (8.00%) Terraform
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.00%) StreamSets