Microservices Contracts in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 91 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -27 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 96 149 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.74% 2.56% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.86% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 106 193
10th Percentile £407 £453 £450
25th Percentile £461 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £672 £650
90th Percentile £750 £719 £700
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 8
10th Percentile - £60.50 £45.88
25th Percentile - £70.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +25.00% -8.42%
75th Percentile - - £63.81
90th Percentile - - £65.51
England median hourly rate £48.43 £72.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -33.20% +27.32% -1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +5 68 £628 +11.56% 27
Berkshire -5 51 £569 +3.41% 13
Buckinghamshire +26 15 £750 +15.38% 10
West Sussex +6 13 £715 +20.57% 7
Hampshire -23 6 £470 -14.55% 16
Surrey -15 3 £375 -26.11% 15
Oxfordshire +1 2 £675 - 4
East Sussex - 2 £550 - 8
Sussex - 1 £450 - 1
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.17%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.79%) Azure
2 27 (28.13%) AWS
3 17 (17.71%) Serverless
4 16 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 15 (15.63%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (11.46%) OpenShift
7 10 (10.42%) Azure Functions
8 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (6.25%) GitHub
10 6 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
11 5 (5.21%) IaaS
11 5 (5.21%) PaaS
11 5 (5.21%) SaaS
12 4 (4.17%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (2.08%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) VPN
2 2 (2.08%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.96%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.29%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.25%) Redis
5 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.08%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.08%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) Ataccama
7 1 (1.04%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (29.17%) Git
2 13 (13.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.29%) JIRA
4 6 (6.25%) JUnit
5 4 (4.17%) GitLab
6 3 (3.13%) Selenium
6 3 (3.13%) Subversion
6 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.08%) JMeter
8 1 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.04%) Gradle
8 1 (1.04%) Mockito
General
1 23 (23.96%) Finance
2 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (7.29%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.08%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 45 (46.88%) Developer
2 22 (22.92%) Full Stack Developer
3 21 (21.88%) Architect
4 14 (14.58%) Azure Developer
5 12 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 8 (8.33%) Lead
6 8 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Full Stack Python Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior
9 5 (5.21%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.13%) Consultant
10 3 (3.13%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.13%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) Kafka
2 20 (20.83%) React
3 18 (18.75%) .NET
3 18 (18.75%) REST
4 15 (15.63%) Spring
5 14 (14.58%) Spring Boot
6 13 (13.54%) AngularJS
7 12 (12.50%) Node.js
7 12 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (11.46%) RESTful
9 9 (9.38%) Web Services
10 6 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (5.21%) .NET Core
12 4 (4.17%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.17%) SOAP
12 4 (4.17%) Symfony
13 3 (3.13%) gRPC
13 3 (3.13%) HTML
13 3 (3.13%) J2EE
14 2 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) iPad
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.04%) Android
2 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Agile
2 36 (37.50%) DevOps
3 24 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 23 (23.96%) Full Stack Development
5 22 (22.92%) TDD
6 17 (17.71%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.67%) SDLC
8 15 (15.63%) Change Management
8 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 14 (14.58%) Domain-Driven Design
10 13 (13.54%) Product Backlog
10 13 (13.54%) Scrum
11 11 (11.46%) BDD
12 10 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.42%) ITSM
12 10 (10.42%) Kanban
12 10 (10.42%) Unit Testing
13 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (9.38%) SOLID
13 9 (9.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.08%) Java
2 23 (23.96%) Python
3 18 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 17 (17.71%) C#
5 10 (10.42%) SQL
6 9 (9.38%) Go
7 7 (7.29%) PHP
8 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.17%) Scala
8 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.08%) C
9 2 (2.08%) Ruby
10 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.04%) CCNP
5 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.04%) MCSE
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) FATCA
2 2 (2.08%) MiFID
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) GxP
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (18.75%) Docker
2 17 (17.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Grafana
2 7 (7.29%) Kibana
2 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
3 6 (6.25%) Argo
3 6 (6.25%) Istio
4 4 (4.17%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.08%) Terraform
6 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle
1 5 (5.21%) VMware
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.08%) Calypso
4 2 (2.08%) Concur
4 2 (2.08%) Murex
4 2 (2.08%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.08%) SAP
4 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.08%) Wallstreet Suite
4 2 (2.08%) Workday
5 1 (1.04%) Databricks
5 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.04%) Palantir
5 1 (1.04%) Splunk
5 1 (1.04%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.04%) Talend