Microservices Contracts in South Wales

Microservices
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 45
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Microservices 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.00% - 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% - 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £441 - £417
25th Percentile £458 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £444
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.48%
75th Percentile £488 - £461
90th Percentile £514 - £466
Wales median daily rate £475 - £444
% change year-on-year - - -15.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 260 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.60% 79.75% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 148 272
10th Percentile £190 £142 £190
25th Percentile £266 £197 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £488 £540 £600
90th Percentile £637 £600 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £412 £475
% change year-on-year -2.97% -13.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.94 £19.50 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.50 £25.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +4.54% +20.12%
75th Percentile £20.75 £48.13 £38.75
90th Percentile £22.21 £54.00 £50.00
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £23.21
% change year-on-year -8.89% -3.05% +28.93%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in South Wales

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in South Wales

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Cardiff - 9 £475 - 16
Gwent - 1 £540 -
Microservices
Wales

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) JBoss
1 3 (30.00%) nginx
1 3 (30.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (30.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
1 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (30.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Flutter
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (10.00%) Node.js
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) API Design
4 3 (30.00%) API Management
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Kanban
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) IBM