Microservices Contracts in Shropshire

Microservices
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 25 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 7 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 5.38% - 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% - 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £455 - £535
25th Percentile £456 - £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - £595
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.74%
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £528 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 125 83 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 96.15% 61.94% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 51 125
10th Percentile £311 £260 £410
25th Percentile £403 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £378 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
75th Percentile £537 £497 £540
90th Percentile £544 £519 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%
75th Percentile - £11.32 £57.50
90th Percentile - £14.26 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Shropshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Shropshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Shropshire 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
Telford - 7 £485 - 26
Microservices
West Midlands

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) IDMS
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) CA Gen
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) Next.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) Quarkus
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
4 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Time Management
5 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) COBOL
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Rancher