Microservices Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Microservices
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.07% 1.11% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 1.47% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £551 - £588
25th Percentile £552 - £618
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £350 £688
Median % change year-on-year +58.14% -49.09% +30.95%
75th Percentile £555 - £703
90th Percentile £556 - £705
South West median daily rate £575 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 136 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.61% 75.56% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 88 102
10th Percentile £169 £204 £158
25th Percentile £255 £373 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -22.11% -0.78% -12.16%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £590
90th Percentile £649 £755 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 26
10th Percentile £44.90 £12.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £59.38 £13.25 £46.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £20.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +204.88% -60.49% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.88 £62.22
90th Percentile £64.43 £57.50 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Somerset

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 21 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
Taunton -2 1 £550 -
Street - 1 £557 - 3
Microservices
South West

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (50.00%) MODAF Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) B2C
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Research
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Ivanti
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow