Microservices Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 79 79
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 39 63 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.65% 2.41% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 2.77% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 48
10th Percentile £340 £459 £478
25th Percentile £363 £482 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £563
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £675
90th Percentile £643 £740 £700
South East median daily rate £463 £620 £556
% change year-on-year -25.32% +11.46% +1.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,366 2,273 2,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.93% 87.09% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,262 1,763
10th Percentile £295 £213 £319
25th Percentile £401 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.99%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £602
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 167 64
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.30 £19.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £27.76 £45.00 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% -11.85% +200.29%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.19 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 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
Berkshire +4 24 £450 -28.00% 344
Buckinghamshire +23 15 £463 -38.27% 137
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (10.26%) Camunda
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Serverless
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (10.26%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.69%) PaaS
6 3 (7.69%) SaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) MPLS
2 3 (7.69%) 4G
2 3 (7.69%) 5G
2 3 (7.69%) DOCSIS
2 3 (7.69%) GPON
2 3 (7.69%) LTE
2 3 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (7.69%) VoIP
2 3 (7.69%) VSAN
2 3 (7.69%) xDSL
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (5.13%) Converged Networks
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) NGFW
3 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.13%) VLAN
3 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Big Data
3 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.69%) MS Access
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) HBase
5 1 (2.56%) HDInsight
5 1 (2.56%) Impala
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) GitLab
3 3 (7.69%) JUnit
3 3 (7.69%) Mockito
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) JMeter
4 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.56%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.56%) jMock
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.82%) Billing
5 4 (10.26%) Finance
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Architect
2 14 (35.90%) Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Designer
4 5 (12.82%) Python Developer
4 5 (12.82%) React Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Solutions Designer
4 5 (12.82%) Technical Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) OSS Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Java Technical Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) Web Services
2 8 (20.51%) REST
3 7 (17.95%) JSON
3 7 (17.95%) React
3 7 (17.95%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.38%) RESTful
5 5 (12.82%) Spring
6 4 (10.26%) Hibernate
6 4 (10.26%) HTML
6 4 (10.26%) Kafka
7 3 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.69%) Django
7 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
7 3 (7.69%) Flask
7 3 (7.69%) Middleware
7 3 (7.69%) Node.js
8 2 (5.13%) JPA
8 2 (5.13%) jQuery
8 2 (5.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) TM Forum
2 5 (12.82%) Frameworx
3 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (7.69%) PKI
4 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) IoT
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) DevSecOps
4 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 9 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (23.08%) TOGAF
5 8 (20.51%) ITIL
5 8 (20.51%) Migration
6 6 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (12.82%) Business Strategy
7 5 (12.82%) CRM
7 5 (12.82%) Customer Experience
7 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
7 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
7 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) UML
8 4 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
4 3 (7.69%) CISSP
4 3 (7.69%) MCSE
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.56%) CCSP
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) OSCP
6 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) NCSC
2 2 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) OASIS TOSCA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Flume
4 1 (2.56%) Postfix
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (5.13%) Kibana
3 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) Salesforce
3 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco
4 3 (7.69%) Citrix
4 3 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.69%) VMware
5 2 (5.13%) Amdocs
5 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (5.13%) Ericsson
5 2 (5.13%) Huawei
5 2 (5.13%) NetCracker
5 2 (5.13%) Nokia
5 2 (5.13%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (2.56%) New Relic
6 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat