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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 90 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 -24 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 95 146 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.71% 2.53% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.83% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 104 194
10th Percentile £408 £453 £440
25th Percentile £462 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £721 £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% -8.45%
75th Percentile - - £63.81
90th Percentile - - £65.51
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £58.95
% change year-on-year -34.96% +23.00% +1.63%

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 4,700 5,156 6,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.75% 89.24% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,740 3,588 4,724
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £593
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 224 288
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.72 £48.62
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.55 £62.48
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 May 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 +3 66 £625 +11.11% 29
Berkshire -9 52 £569 +3.41% 16
Buckinghamshire +24 13 £750 +15.38% 8
West Sussex +6 13 £715 +22.01% 6
Hampshire -27 6 £470 -17.54% 14
Surrey -11 3 £375 -26.11% 9
East Sussex - 3 £575 - 5
Oxfordshire +4 1 £675 - 5
Sussex - 1 £450 -
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 (6.32%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.21%) Confluence
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) JBoss
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 46 (48.42%) Azure
2 25 (26.32%) AWS
3 18 (18.95%) Entra ID
3 18 (18.95%) Serverless
4 17 (17.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 17 (17.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (16.84%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (11.58%) Azure Functions
6 11 (11.58%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (7.37%) PaaS
8 7 (7.37%) SaaS
9 6 (6.32%) GitHub
9 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (6.32%) IaaS
10 5 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.16%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) VPN
2 3 (3.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.37%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (25.26%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.37%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.32%) Redis
5 3 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
7 1 (1.05%) Ataccama
7 1 (1.05%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (30.53%) Git
2 13 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.37%) JIRA
4 6 (6.32%) JUnit
5 4 (4.21%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.16%) GitLab
6 3 (3.16%) Selenium
6 3 (3.16%) Subversion
7 2 (2.11%) JMeter
8 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.05%) Gradle
8 1 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 21 (22.11%) Finance
2 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.05%) Banking
7 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.05%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (49.47%) Developer
2 24 (25.26%) Full Stack Developer
3 19 (20.00%) Architect
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Developer
5 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Lead
7 8 (8.42%) Site Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (7.37%) .NET Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Architect
9 6 (6.32%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 5 (5.26%) Senior
10 5 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.21%) Lead Developer
12 3 (3.16%) Consultant
12 3 (3.16%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) Kafka
2 21 (22.11%) React
3 20 (21.05%) .NET
4 18 (18.95%) REST
5 15 (15.79%) Spring
6 14 (14.74%) Spring Boot
7 13 (13.68%) AngularJS
8 12 (12.63%) Node.js
8 12 (12.63%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (11.58%) RESTful
10 10 (10.53%) Web Services
11 6 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (5.26%) .NET Core
13 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
13 4 (4.21%) SOAP
13 4 (4.21%) Symfony
14 3 (3.16%) gRPC
14 3 (3.16%) HTML
14 3 (3.16%) J2EE
15 2 (2.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) IoT
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Android
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (42.11%) Agile
2 38 (40.00%) DevOps
3 25 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 24 (25.26%) Full Stack Development
5 22 (23.16%) TDD
6 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
6 17 (17.89%) SDLC
7 16 (16.84%) Change Management
8 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.68%) Domain-Driven Design
9 13 (13.68%) Product Backlog
10 12 (12.63%) Scrum
11 11 (11.58%) BDD
11 11 (11.58%) ITSM
11 11 (11.58%) Unit Testing
12 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (9.47%) Kanban
13 9 (9.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 9 (9.47%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.37%) Java
2 25 (26.32%) Python
3 19 (20.00%) C#
4 17 (17.89%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.53%) SQL
6 9 (9.47%) Go
7 8 (8.42%) PHP
8 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.21%) Scala
8 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) C
11 1 (1.05%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.37%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.05%) CCNP
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) MCSE
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) FATCA
3 1 (1.05%) GxP
3 1 (1.05%) MiFID
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (18.95%) Docker
3 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.37%) Kibana
3 6 (6.32%) Argo
3 6 (6.32%) Grafana
3 6 (6.32%) Istio
3 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.21%) Ansible
5 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.26%) Oracle
1 5 (5.26%) VMware
2 3 (3.16%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.05%) Calypso
4 1 (1.05%) Concur
4 1 (1.05%) Databricks
4 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.05%) Murex
4 1 (1.05%) Palantir
4 1 (1.05%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (1.05%) SAP
4 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.05%) Splunk
4 1 (1.05%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.05%) Talend
4 1 (1.05%) Wallstreet Suite
4 1 (1.05%) Workday