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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 67 49
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 +20
Contract jobs citing Microservices 16 30 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.95% 2.53% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.85% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 29
10th Percentile - £463 £481
25th Percentile £350 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +15.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £623
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £453 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -27.60% +11.11% +7.14%

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 497 1,053 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.70% 88.64% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 555 603
10th Percentile £328 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 51 24
10th Percentile £67.34 £14.50 £45.75
25th Percentile £68.99 £52.21 £60.73
Median hourly rate £72.35 £61.60 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -6.67% +120.00%
75th Percentile £75.08 £80.69 £75.19
90th Percentile £76.35 £87.53 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £60.80 £63.84
% change year-on-year +1.14% -4.76% +203.63%

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 30 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) npm
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) Converged Networks
1 1 (6.25%) DOCSIS
1 1 (6.25%) GPON
1 1 (6.25%) LTE
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (6.25%) VoIP
1 1 (6.25%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) JUnit
3 3 (18.75%) Mockito
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
5 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (6.25%) DbUnit
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) jMock
5 1 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 4 (25.00%) Billing
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Designer
2 4 (25.00%) React Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) REST
1 7 (43.75%) Web Services
2 6 (37.50%) JSON
3 5 (31.25%) React
4 4 (25.00%) HTML
5 3 (18.75%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (18.75%) Node.js
5 3 (18.75%) Spring
5 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
6 2 (12.50%) Apache Camel
6 2 (12.50%) CSS
6 2 (12.50%) jQuery
6 2 (12.50%) Material-UI
6 2 (12.50%) Next.js
6 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
6 2 (12.50%) RESTful
6 2 (12.50%) Swagger
6 2 (12.50%) WireMock
6 2 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) TM Forum
2 4 (25.00%) Frameworx
3 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (25.00%) UML
5 3 (18.75%) API Development
5 3 (18.75%) BDD
5 3 (18.75%) Data Mapping
5 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
5 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) CCSP
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.25%) CISSP
1 1 (6.25%) OSCP
1 1 (6.25%) SANS
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) New Relic
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7