Microservices Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Microservices
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing Microservices 22 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 8.09% - 8.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.59% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £562 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £475 £663
% change year-on-year +10.53% -28.30% +22.69%

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 256 92 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 94.12% 81.42% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 68 22
10th Percentile £364 £278 £313
25th Percentile £431 £358 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £477 £478
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -0.10% -9.91%
75th Percentile £538 £520 £528
90th Percentile £557 £567 £586
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £27.59 - -
Median hourly rate £31.31 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% - -
75th Percentile £36.30 - -
90th Percentile £38.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.66% -12.07% +55.19%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Shropshire over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 November 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 - 21 £500 - 5
Microservices
West Midlands

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) JBoss
2 8 (36.36%) Apache
2 8 (36.36%) WebLogic
3 2 (9.09%) nginx
4 1 (4.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Kong
5 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
4 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Git
2 14 (63.64%) JUnit
3 13 (59.09%) Selenium
4 8 (36.36%) Eclipse
4 8 (36.36%) IntelliJ
5 6 (27.27%) Cucumber
5 6 (27.27%) Mockito
6 5 (22.73%) GitLab
6 5 (22.73%) Maven
7 2 (9.09%) JIRA
8 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
8 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (4.55%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
8 1 (4.55%) Postman
8 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Scala Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Messaging Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Open Source Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Open Source Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
2 14 (63.64%) HTML
2 14 (63.64%) JSON
3 11 (50.00%) Play Framework
4 10 (45.45%) SOAP
5 9 (40.91%) REST
5 9 (40.91%) XML
6 8 (36.36%) EJB
6 8 (36.36%) Hibernate
6 8 (36.36%) HTML5
6 8 (36.36%) J2EE
6 8 (36.36%) J2SE
6 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
7 6 (27.27%) OAuth
7 6 (27.27%) OAuth2
8 5 (22.73%) Gherkin
8 5 (22.73%) JDBC
8 5 (22.73%) JPA
8 5 (22.73%) OpenID
8 5 (22.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 14 (63.64%) DevOps
3 14 (63.64%) Scrum
3 14 (63.64%) Software Engineering
4 12 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 11 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (45.45%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (36.36%) Lean Software Development
8 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
8 8 (36.36%) Open Source
9 6 (27.27%) OO
10 5 (22.73%) Coaching
10 5 (22.73%) OOD
10 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (22.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) Scala
3 9 (40.91%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) WCAG
2 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 8 (36.36%) Puppet
2 6 (27.27%) Kibana
3 5 (22.73%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) Consul
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) webMethods
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.55%) Denodo
4 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 1 (4.55%) Pega
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat