Microservices Contracts in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 55 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 64 96 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.94% 4.33% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.89% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 78 112
10th Percentile £413 £400 £419
25th Percentile £458 £418 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £472 £479
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -1.41% -8.76%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £545
90th Percentile £650 £638 £696
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -3.00% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Glasgow -14 39 £581 +22.21% 30
Edinburgh 0 21 £505 +5.32% 22
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 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Camunda
2 2 (3.13%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) AWS
2 13 (20.31%) Serverless
3 12 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (17.19%) Azure
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon S3
6 8 (12.50%) GitHub
7 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (7.81%) GCP
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.25%) SaaS
9 3 (4.69%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.69%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.69%) PaaS
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) ATM
1 1 (1.56%) FTP
1 1 (1.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (15.63%) MySQL
3 8 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (9.38%) DB2
4 6 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.81%) MariaDB
5 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.13%) CockroachDB
8 2 (3.13%) GIS
8 2 (3.13%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.56%) Metadata
9 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.94%) Git
3 6 (9.38%) JIRA
3 6 (9.38%) JUnit
4 4 (6.25%) GitLab
4 4 (6.25%) Mockito
5 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.69%) Storybook
5 3 (4.69%) webpack
6 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.13%) Mercurial
6 2 (3.13%) Subversion
7 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.56%) Postman
7 1 (1.56%) Selenium
7 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.56%) Toad
General
1 20 (31.25%) Finance
2 17 (26.56%) Public Sector
3 13 (20.31%) Banking
4 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Front Office
6 2 (3.13%) Games
7 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (50.00%) Developer
2 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
3 12 (18.75%) Architect
4 10 (15.63%) Lead
5 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Designer
6 6 (9.38%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior
8 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
9 3 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.69%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.13%) Junior Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Junior Java Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (46.88%) Spring
2 26 (40.63%) Spring Boot
3 18 (28.13%) React
4 12 (18.75%) REST
4 12 (18.75%) RESTful
5 11 (17.19%) CSS
6 9 (14.06%) AWS CDK
7 8 (12.50%) AngularJS
8 7 (10.94%) Node.js
9 6 (9.38%) Middleware
10 5 (7.81%) Hibernate
10 5 (7.81%) HTML
10 5 (7.81%) SOAP
11 4 (6.25%) CSS3
11 4 (6.25%) HTML5
12 3 (4.69%) .NET
12 3 (4.69%) J2EE
12 3 (4.69%) Kafka
12 3 (4.69%) Redux
12 3 (4.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Public Cloud
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.81%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Unix
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.56%) AIX
4 1 (1.56%) CentOS
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) Agile
2 21 (32.81%) CI/CD
3 16 (25.00%) DevOps
4 13 (20.31%) Mentoring
4 13 (20.31%) TDD
5 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (15.63%) SDLC
6 10 (15.63%) Software Engineering
6 10 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
7 9 (14.06%) Knowledge Transfer
7 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (12.50%) User Experience
9 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
9 7 (10.94%) Migration
10 6 (9.38%) Front End Development
10 6 (9.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 38 (59.38%) Java
2 24 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 24 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 15 (23.44%) Python
4 12 (18.75%) SQL
5 11 (17.19%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.25%) Bash
8 3 (4.69%) C#
9 1 (1.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (3.13%) Degree
2 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.69%) WCAG
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) QA
5 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Terraform
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
2 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.13%) Puppet
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) Packer
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Oracle
2 4 (6.25%) Google
3 3 (4.69%) DocuSign
3 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.13%) Ping Identity
4 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.56%) Okta
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) Talend