Microservices Contracts in Reading

Microservices
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +25 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 33 46 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.79% 4.42% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 4.91% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 16
10th Percentile £427 £453 £463
25th Percentile £459 £472 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +2.33% +19.44%
75th Percentile £675 £611 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
Berkshire median daily rate £569 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,068 936 1,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.20% 89.91% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 620 816
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

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 28 April 2024.

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 6 (18.18%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) Serverless
3 15 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 15 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (42.42%) Entra ID
5 10 (30.30%) Azure Functions
6 7 (21.21%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (21.21%) AWS
7 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) NoSQL
2 11 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.21%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.12%) Redis
5 1 (3.03%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (63.64%) Git
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (15.15%) JUnit
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) JMeter
5 1 (3.03%) Mockito
General
1 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (93.94%) Developer
2 20 (60.61%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (42.42%) Azure Developer
4 11 (33.33%) Java Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Python Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Full Stack Java Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Automation Tester
8 1 (3.03%) Lead
8 1 (3.03%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) React
2 11 (33.33%) Spring
2 11 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 10 (30.30%) Node.js
4 7 (21.21%) REST
4 7 (21.21%) Web Services
5 6 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (18.18%) Kafka
6 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
6 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (12.12%) RESTful
6 4 (12.12%) SOAP
6 4 (12.12%) Symfony
7 3 (9.09%) J2EE
8 2 (6.06%) Apache Camel
8 2 (6.06%) Mustache
9 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
9 1 (3.03%) HTML
9 1 (3.03%) jQuery
9 1 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Product Ownership
2 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Full Stack Development
2 19 (57.58%) DevOps
3 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 17 (51.52%) Agile
5 15 (45.45%) SDLC
6 13 (39.39%) Product Backlog
7 12 (36.36%) TDD
8 9 (27.27%) Change Management
8 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (27.27%) Unit Testing
9 7 (21.21%) Scrum
10 6 (18.18%) BDD
11 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
11 5 (15.15%) Kanban
12 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
12 4 (12.12%) SOLID
13 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
14 2 (6.06%) Data Protection
15 1 (3.03%) Data Management
15 1 (3.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) PHP
4 4 (12.12%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) C
6 1 (3.03%) Scala
6 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.03%) Splunk