Microservices Contracts in Sheffield

Microservices
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 32 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 18 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.64% 3.43% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 3.70% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 6
10th Percentile £403 £375 £450
25th Percentile £517 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -6.38% +7.80%
75th Percentile £729 £628 £625
90th Percentile £780 £650 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Sheffield

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Sheffield

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Sheffield

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 4 (22.22%) Collibra
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 2 (11.11%) Hazelcast
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Presto
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) React Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.11%) gRPC
3 2 (11.11%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) CSS3
4 1 (5.56%) HTML
4 1 (5.56%) HTML5
4 1 (5.56%) Jest
4 1 (5.56%) React
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (50.00%) Observability
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Technology Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Chaos Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Monte Carlo Method
6 3 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
7 2 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Control-M
4 2 (11.11%) Istio
4 2 (11.11%) Kiali
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 2 (11.11%) xMatters
3 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft