Microservices Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microservices
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 36 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 44 22 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 6.96% 4.91% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 5.58% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 17 18
10th Percentile £280 £345 £560
25th Percentile £329 £480 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.32% -13.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £688
90th Percentile £711 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -23.08% +23.81%

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 603 394 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.41% 87.95% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 207 269
10th Percentile £287 £250 £375
25th Percentile £370 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £675
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 +4 44 £463 -17.32% 5
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 5 (11.36%) Mule
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) GCP
2 25 (56.82%) AWS
3 15 (34.09%) Serverless
4 10 (22.73%) GitHub
5 6 (13.64%) Azure
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.82%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Hazelcast
3 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) Power BI
4 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (40.91%) GitLab
3 15 (34.09%) Liquibase
4 6 (13.64%) JIRA
5 5 (11.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (9.09%) Git
7 3 (6.82%) Jaeger
8 2 (4.55%) JUnit
8 2 (4.55%) Selenium
8 2 (4.55%) TestNG
9 1 (2.27%) CircleCI
General
1 23 (52.27%) Banking
2 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (45.45%) Finance
4 13 (29.55%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (22.73%) Software Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 7 (15.91%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Service Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) RESTful
2 16 (36.36%) REST
3 15 (34.09%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (15.91%) Node.js
5 4 (9.09%) CSS
5 4 (9.09%) HTML
5 4 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.82%) .NET
6 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 3 (6.82%) CSS3
6 3 (6.82%) HTML5
6 3 (6.82%) Jest
6 3 (6.82%) Kafka
6 3 (6.82%) Spring
7 2 (4.55%) Express.js
7 2 (4.55%) gRPC
7 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.55%) MEAN Stack
7 2 (4.55%) NestJS
7 2 (4.55%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (31.82%) Public Cloud
3 13 (29.55%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.36%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (11.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 3 (6.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 30 (68.18%) DevOps
3 26 (59.09%) Agile
4 22 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (40.91%) Change Management
7 17 (38.64%) Software Engineering
8 14 (31.82%) Computer Science
8 14 (31.82%) Continuous Delivery
8 14 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (29.55%) Cost Optimisation
9 13 (29.55%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (29.55%) Data Security
9 13 (29.55%) High Availability
9 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (29.55%) Non-Functional Testing
9 13 (29.55%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (27.27%) Cryptography
11 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 6 (13.64%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Python
2 22 (50.00%) Java
3 15 (34.09%) Go
4 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.82%) Bash
6 3 (6.82%) C#
6 3 (6.82%) Groovy
6 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
2 14 (31.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (31.82%) Master's Degree
3 11 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) QA
System Software
1 22 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 21 (47.73%) Terraform
3 19 (43.18%) Grafana
4 16 (36.36%) Prometheus
5 15 (34.09%) Ansible
6 3 (6.82%) Control-M
6 3 (6.82%) Istio
6 3 (6.82%) Kiali
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Splunk
2 17 (38.64%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) xMatters
4 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) SAP