Microservices Contracts in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 118 74
Rank change year-on-year +26 -44 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 19 39 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.13% 1.22% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.47% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 96
10th Percentile £389 £302 £481
25th Percentile £494 £397 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £695
90th Percentile £719 £649 £724
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +38 7 £585 -7.87% 28
Gloucestershire +20 4 £600 +100.00% 65
Bristol -2 4 £575 +9.52% 52
Dorset -2 3 £394 -1.63% 28
Devon - 1 £500 - 54
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) CockroachDB
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Gatling
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
3 1 (5.26%) NUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Postman
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Aviation
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Middleware
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) CSS3
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) HTML5
2 2 (10.53%) Jest
2 2 (10.53%) Redux
2 2 (10.53%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTracing
3 1 (5.26%) Playwright
3 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
1 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
1 7 (36.84%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Containerisation
3 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
5 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) TDD
5 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.79%) Zachman Framework
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.53%) SOA
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MCITP
3 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (5.26%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) ESRI
3 1 (5.26%) New Relic
3 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) VMware