Microservices Contracts in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 48 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 96 152 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.32% 5.33% 5.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 5.75% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 117 143
10th Percentile £400 £423 £413
25th Percentile £416 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -8.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £547 £545 £580
90th Percentile £638 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - -24.44% +15.80%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.43 £72.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -33.20% +29.46% +24.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,966 2,642 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.56% 92.60% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £232 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +30 61 £458 -14.84% 10
Edinburgh -12 27 £480 +0.10% 17
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (3.13%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (70.83%) AWS
2 22 (22.92%) Serverless
3 19 (19.79%) Amazon S3
4 17 (17.71%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (13.54%) OpenShift
7 12 (12.50%) Azure
8 6 (6.25%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon Cognito
11 1 (1.04%) Apigee
11 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.04%) IaaS
11 1 (1.04%) SaaS
11 1 (1.04%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) ATM
2 1 (1.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (17.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (13.54%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 8 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.21%) DB2
7 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.13%) GIS
8 3 (3.13%) MariaDB
8 3 (3.13%) MySQL
8 3 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.04%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.04%) Big Data
10 1 (1.04%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.04%) HBase
Development Applications
1 18 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.38%) Git
3 6 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 5 (5.21%) JIRA
5 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.13%) GitLab
5 3 (3.13%) Selenium
6 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.08%) JUnit
6 2 (2.08%) Subversion
7 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.04%) Maven
7 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 22 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.88%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Banking
4 11 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (65.63%) Developer
2 38 (39.58%) Java Developer
3 15 (15.63%) Architect
4 11 (11.46%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Full Stack Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Full Stack Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Lead
8 6 (6.25%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.21%) AWS Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.13%) UI Developer
12 2 (2.08%) Designer
12 2 (2.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (51.04%) Spring
2 44 (45.83%) Spring Boot
3 33 (34.38%) CSS
3 33 (34.38%) REST
4 29 (30.21%) HTML
4 29 (30.21%) React
5 21 (21.88%) AWS CDK
5 21 (21.88%) RESTful
6 20 (20.83%) Kafka
7 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 12 (12.50%) JPA
8 11 (11.46%) Node.js
8 11 (11.46%) Spring Security
9 10 (10.42%) OAuth
10 9 (9.38%) OAuth2
11 7 (7.29%) JSON
11 7 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (6.25%) Hibernate
12 6 (6.25%) Middleware
13 5 (5.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (15.63%) Public Cloud
3 10 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 10 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Android
2 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (65.63%) Agile
2 37 (38.54%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.08%) SDLC
4 22 (22.92%) Full Stack Development
5 21 (21.88%) TDD
6 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 19 (19.79%) DevOps
8 18 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.67%) Human-Centred Design
9 16 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
10 14 (14.58%) Code Quality
10 14 (14.58%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (13.54%) Analytics
11 13 (13.54%) Unit Testing
12 12 (12.50%) Data Protection
12 12 (12.50%) Pair Programming
12 12 (12.50%) User Experience
13 11 (11.46%) Architecture Roadmap
13 11 (11.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 71 (73.96%) Java
2 34 (35.42%) JavaScript
2 34 (35.42%) TypeScript
3 33 (34.38%) SQL
4 14 (14.58%) Python
5 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.38%) Bash
7 8 (8.33%) Kotlin
7 8 (8.33%) Scala
8 3 (3.13%) C#
9 2 (2.08%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.04%) C
10 1 (1.04%) Go
10 1 (1.04%) Groovy
10 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (3.13%) Degree
1 3 (3.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.04%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Grafana
2 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.17%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (1.04%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.04%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.04%) Icinga
5 1 (1.04%) Istio
5 1 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.04%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) Oracle
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) IBM
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.08%) Greenplum
4 2 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (1.04%) Adobe
5 1 (1.04%) Confluent
5 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.04%) Google
5 1 (1.04%) Teradata