Microservices Contracts in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 111 77 43
Rank change year-on-year -34 -34 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 41 109 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.29% 2.99% 4.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.34% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 98 137
10th Percentile £300 £484 £425
25th Percentile £361 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £638
90th Percentile £649 £723 £680
England median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
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 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 27 April 2024.

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 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
Bristol +15 27 £525 -7.89% 22
Dorset +11 9 £400 -36.00% 3
Somerset 0 1 £300 -50.76% 2
Gloucestershire -20 1 £300 -57.14% 7
Wiltshire -35 1 £635 +10.43%
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 4 (9.76%) Apache Solr
1 4 (9.76%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) GCP
2 8 (19.51%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) AWS
4 4 (9.76%) Azure Stack
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (9.76%) OCI
5 3 (7.32%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.44%) Apigee
7 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.44%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.44%) IaaS
7 1 (2.44%) PaaS
7 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) DNS
1 4 (9.76%) HTTPS
1 4 (9.76%) IPsec
1 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.20%) CockroachDB
4 4 (9.76%) Couchbase
4 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.76%) MySQL
4 4 (9.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 3 (7.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (7.32%) SAP HANA
5 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.44%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.32%) Octopus Deploy
1 3 (7.32%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.88%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Legal
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) .NET Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Python/Django Developer
6 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.83%) REST
2 8 (19.51%) .NET
2 8 (19.51%) JSON
3 7 (17.07%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (14.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (9.76%) jQuery
5 4 (9.76%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (9.76%) OpenID
5 4 (9.76%) XML
5 4 (9.76%) YAML
6 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (7.32%) Blazor
6 3 (7.32%) JPA
6 3 (7.32%) Kafka
6 3 (7.32%) MassTransit
6 3 (7.32%) React
6 3 (7.32%) Spring
6 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.88%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
1 7 (17.07%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Blockchain
2 4 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.76%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) CentOS
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Agile
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps
2 11 (26.83%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
3 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
5 7 (17.07%) SDLC
6 6 (14.63%) Architectural Design
6 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
6 6 (14.63%) TDD
7 5 (12.20%) Domain-Driven Design
7 5 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (12.20%) MVC
8 4 (9.76%) Analytics
8 4 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (9.76%) Data Lineage
8 4 (9.76%) Data Strategy
8 4 (9.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) SQL
2 5 (12.20%) C#
2 5 (12.20%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) Java
3 4 (9.76%) PHP
4 3 (7.32%) Go
4 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
1 4 (9.76%) GDPR
1 4 (9.76%) HIPAA
1 4 (9.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.76%) NIST
1 4 (9.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.07%) Terraform
3 4 (9.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) rkt
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) VMware