Microservices Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Microservices
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 4.00% 4.17% 17.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.35% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £663
25th Percentile - - £665
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £689
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.99%
75th Percentile - - £711
90th Percentile - - £719
Somerset median daily rate £554 £350 £686
% change year-on-year +58.14% -49.00% +46.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 92.00% 95.83% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 30
10th Percentile £490 £455 £608
25th Percentile £510 £513 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £688
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -16.36% +19.10%
75th Percentile £715 £656 £729
90th Percentile £800 £935 £750
Somerset median daily rate £425 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.06% +5.49%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Taunton

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) MODAF
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Research
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST