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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 116 82
Rank change year-on-year +25 -34 -41
Contract jobs citing Microservices 20 40 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.17% 1.23% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.50% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 73
10th Percentile £372 £304 £491
25th Percentile £491 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +8.29%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £694
90th Percentile £644 £641 £725
England median daily rate £530 £550 £638
% change year-on-year -3.64% -13.73% +6.25%

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 1,557 2,668 3,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.84% 82.32% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 1,694 2,209
10th Percentile £220 £227 £313
25th Percentile £381 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 358 318
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £29.75 £15.29
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -8.33% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.23
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.74
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +41 7 £550 -13.39% 1
Bristol +6 7 £575 +9.52% 41
Gloucestershire +20 3 £563 -10.71% 33
Dorset -1 2 - - 4
Devon - 1 £500 - 1
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 2 (10.00%) Alfresco
1 2 (10.00%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) CockroachDB
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
1 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Gatling
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Django Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Python/Django Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) JPA
5 2 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (10.00%) Django
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) Kafka
5 2 (10.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (5.00%) .NET
6 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) TDD
2 6 (30.00%) SOLID
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) BDD
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Build Automation
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Master Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) OOP
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) ESRI
3 1 (5.00%) Genesys
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) New Relic
3 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk