Microservices Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microservices
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 22 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 27 13 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.24% 2.84% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.58% 3.18% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 7 6
10th Percentile £473 £375 £450
25th Percentile £513 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £628 £625
90th Percentile £780 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in South Yorkshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in South Yorkshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in South Yorkshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +10 18 £675 +22.73% 10
Microservices
Yorkshire

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (14.81%) Collibra
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Azure
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Presto
2 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) GitLab
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.41%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.70%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Front Office
5 1 (3.70%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Lead
4 5 (18.52%) Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Solutions Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 5 (18.52%) Node.js
3 4 (14.81%) Jest
3 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (14.81%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) gRPC
5 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.70%) CSS
5 1 (3.70%) CSS3
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) HTML5
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 15 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 13 (48.15%) DevOps
4 12 (44.44%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 9 (33.33%) Observability
6 7 (25.93%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (18.52%) TDD
8 5 (18.52%) Technology Strategy
8 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 4 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (14.81%) Chaos Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
9 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
9 4 (14.81%) Design Patterns
9 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
9 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (14.81%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Groovy
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
3 6 (22.22%) Grafana
4 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Control-M
5 2 (7.41%) Istio
5 2 (7.41%) Kiali
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
2 2 (7.41%) xMatters
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft