Microservices Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microservices
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 46 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.89% 5.50% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 6.20% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 17 18
10th Percentile £280 £345 £560
25th Percentile £348 £480 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -13.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £688
90th Percentile £710 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £560 £650
% change year-on-year -15.18% -13.85% +18.18%

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 557 355 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.54% 88.75% 96.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 185 258
10th Percentile £293 £361 £400
25th Percentile £380 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -11.02% +12.38%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £686
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £587
% change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £14.77 £15.88 £13.90
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.87 £21.88 £22.75
90th Percentile - £22.00 £27.85
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
% change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Sheffield over the 6 months to 20 September 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 5 (10.87%) Mule
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (58.70%) GCP
2 25 (54.35%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) Serverless
4 10 (21.74%) GitHub
5 6 (13.04%) Azure
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Hazelcast
3 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 18 (39.13%) GitLab
3 15 (32.61%) Liquibase
4 6 (13.04%) JIRA
5 5 (10.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (8.70%) Git
6 4 (8.70%) Selenium
7 3 (6.52%) Jaeger
8 2 (4.35%) JUnit
8 2 (4.35%) TestNG
9 1 (2.17%) CircleCI
General
1 23 (50.00%) Banking
2 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (43.48%) Finance
4 13 (28.26%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (21.74%) Software Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 7 (15.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead
5 5 (10.87%) Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Service Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (43.48%) RESTful
2 16 (34.78%) REST
3 15 (32.61%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (19.57%) Node.js
5 4 (8.70%) CSS
5 4 (8.70%) HTML
5 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.52%) .NET
6 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.52%) CSS3
6 3 (6.52%) HTML5
6 3 (6.52%) Jest
6 3 (6.52%) Kafka
6 3 (6.52%) Spring
7 2 (4.35%) Express.js
7 2 (4.35%) gRPC
7 2 (4.35%) MEAN Stack
7 2 (4.35%) NestJS
7 2 (4.35%) NgRx
7 2 (4.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 14 (30.43%) Public Cloud
3 13 (28.26%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (10.87%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) Linux
2 3 (6.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (76.09%) CI/CD
2 30 (65.22%) DevOps
3 28 (60.87%) Agile
4 22 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 19 (41.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (39.13%) Change Management
7 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
8 14 (30.43%) Computer Science
8 14 (30.43%) Continuous Delivery
8 14 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (28.26%) Cost Optimisation
9 13 (28.26%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (28.26%) Data Security
9 13 (28.26%) High Availability
9 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (28.26%) Non-Functional Testing
9 13 (28.26%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (26.09%) Cryptography
11 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
11 8 (17.39%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Java
2 23 (50.00%) Python
3 15 (32.61%) Go
4 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.39%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) Bash
6 3 (6.52%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) Groovy
6 3 (6.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Degree
2 14 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (30.43%) Master's Degree
3 11 (23.91%) AWS Certification
4 9 (19.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) QA
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 21 (45.65%) Terraform
3 19 (41.30%) Grafana
4 16 (34.78%) Prometheus
5 15 (32.61%) Ansible
6 3 (6.52%) Control-M
6 3 (6.52%) Istio
6 3 (6.52%) Kiali
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Splunk
2 17 (36.96%) Google
3 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) xMatters
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) SAP