Microservices Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Microservices
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 9.47% 2.30% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.84% 2.78% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £463 £533 £581
25th Percentile £481 £563 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £623
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +0.40% +8.26%
75th Percentile £556 £688 £638
90th Percentile £568 £718 £663
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +9.52% +0.96% -9.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 72 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 80.00% 82.76% 85.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 90
10th Percentile £310 £208 £292
25th Percentile £406 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.35% -12.53% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £612
90th Percentile £730 £738 £675
Wiltshire median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £14.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -77.21%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.27 £12.79 £49.25
% change year-on-year +74.08% -74.03% -24.81%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Swindon

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) DataPower
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (44.44%) Zachman Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Change Management
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (22.22%) ERP
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce