Microservices Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 71 112 88
Rank change year-on-year +41 -24 -38
Contract jobs citing Microservices 421 404 676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.30% 1.95% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 2.30% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 294 524
10th Percentile £376 £363 £425
25th Percentile £450 £418 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -8.26% +0.93%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £699 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -3.00% -10.20% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £60.00 £39.00 £40.25
25th Percentile £67.50 - £64.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.47% -36.72% +46.46%
75th Percentile £77.50 £48.43 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £56.25 -
UK median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +29 167 £530 -3.64% 279
North West +7 90 £525 -4.55% 179
South East +29 80 £550 -10.20% 270
Yorkshire +40 67 £550 +37.50% 74
Scotland -12 64 £525 +11.17% 71
Midlands +47 61 £483 +8.43% 130
West Midlands +30 37 £500 +11.11% 68
East Midlands +23 24 £471 +25.67% 53
South West +26 19 £550 +7.32% 74
East of England +29 16 £450 -18.18% 82
North East +6 14 £475 +15.15% 28
Northern Ireland - 12 £475 - 15
Wales - 6 £558 - 14
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 32 (7.60%) Confluence
2 16 (3.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (3.09%) JBoss
4 6 (1.43%) Camunda
5 5 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.19%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.95%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.95%) Apache
6 4 (0.95%) Mule
6 4 (0.95%) nginx
6 4 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.71%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (0.48%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) GemFire
8 2 (0.48%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Avolution ABACUS
2 2 (0.48%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 166 (39.43%) AWS
2 103 (24.47%) Azure
3 54 (12.83%) Serverless
4 45 (10.69%) GCP
5 29 (6.89%) GitHub
5 29 (6.89%) SaaS
6 28 (6.65%) Amazon S3
7 27 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (5.23%) OpenShift
9 21 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (3.80%) PaaS
12 14 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (2.85%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.75%) DNS
2 10 (2.38%) VSAN
3 9 (2.14%) HTTP
4 6 (1.43%) SSL
5 5 (1.19%) NGFW
6 4 (0.95%) Network Security
7 3 (0.71%) Firewall
8 2 (0.48%) 3GPP
8 2 (0.48%) 4G
8 2 (0.48%) BGP
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.48%) MPLS
8 2 (0.48%) OSPF
8 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.48%) VLAN
8 2 (0.48%) VPN
8 2 (0.48%) WAN
8 2 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (22.09%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (14.73%) Relational Database
3 54 (12.83%) MongoDB
4 45 (10.69%) MySQL
5 39 (9.26%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 20 (4.75%) Oracle Database
7 19 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (4.51%) DynamoDB
8 17 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (4.04%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.56%) RDBMS
10 14 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.61%) Redis
12 7 (1.66%) DB2
13 5 (1.19%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.95%) Big Data
15 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.71%) Flink
Development Applications
1 81 (19.24%) Jenkins
2 77 (18.29%) Git
3 61 (14.49%) JIRA
4 46 (10.93%) JUnit
5 45 (10.69%) GitLab
6 27 (6.41%) Mockito
7 25 (5.94%) SonarQube
8 21 (4.99%) Maven
9 16 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 15 (3.56%) Bitbucket Server
11 14 (3.33%) Cucumber
11 14 (3.33%) Gradle
12 12 (2.85%) CA Release Automation
13 10 (2.38%) Cypress.io
13 10 (2.38%) Liquibase
14 9 (2.14%) Bitbucket
14 9 (2.14%) Jasmine
14 9 (2.14%) Postman
14 9 (2.14%) Selenium
14 9 (2.14%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 76 (18.05%) Finance
4 36 (8.55%) Banking
5 28 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.70%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.61%) Electronics
8 11 (2.61%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.61%) Marketing
9 9 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.90%) Retail
11 6 (1.43%) Billing
12 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.95%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.95%) Legal
13 4 (0.95%) Military
14 3 (0.71%) Front Office
14 3 (0.71%) Law
Job Titles
1 167 (39.67%) Developer
2 92 (21.85%) Architect
3 70 (16.63%) Java Developer
4 63 (14.96%) Senior
5 39 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 33 (7.84%) Solutions Architect
7 32 (7.60%) Lead
8 30 (7.13%) Software Engineer
9 27 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 21 (4.99%) Technical Architect
11 18 (4.28%) Java Engineer
12 17 (4.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.56%) Senior Java Developer
14 14 (3.33%) Applications Architect
14 14 (3.33%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.33%) Python Developer
15 13 (3.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 13 (3.09%) Java Software Engineer
15 13 (3.09%) Lead Developer
15 13 (3.09%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (26.60%) Spring Boot
2 99 (23.52%) Spring
3 78 (18.53%) RESTful
4 70 (16.63%) React
5 66 (15.68%) Kafka
6 53 (12.59%) REST
7 43 (10.21%) Node.js
8 36 (8.55%) AngularJS
8 36 (8.55%) Web Services
9 35 (8.31%) .NET
10 34 (8.08%) CSS
11 33 (7.84%) Hibernate
12 31 (7.36%) Swagger
13 30 (7.13%) OpenAPI
14 27 (6.41%) HTML
15 20 (4.75%) SOAP
16 19 (4.51%) ActiveMQ
17 17 (4.04%) Spring Batch
18 15 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
19 14 (3.33%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.18%) Public Cloud
2 22 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.28%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.85%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.85%) PKI
8 8 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 8 (1.90%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.66%) Blockchain
9 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.66%) IoT
9 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.19%) TM Forum
11 5 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 84 (19.95%) Linux
2 43 (10.21%) Windows
3 22 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) AIX
6 1 (0.24%) CentOS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (52.26%) Agile
2 202 (47.98%) CI/CD
3 131 (31.12%) DevOps
4 103 (24.47%) Containerisation
5 82 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (19.48%) TDD
6 70 (16.63%) Continuous Integration
7 69 (16.39%) Software Engineering
8 67 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 61 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 58 (13.78%) Migration
11 57 (13.54%) Event-Driven
12 53 (12.59%) Scrum
12 53 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
13 49 (11.64%) BDD
14 45 (10.69%) SDLC
15 44 (10.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 42 (9.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 42 (9.98%) SOA
17 41 (9.74%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 185 (43.94%) Java
2 119 (28.27%) SQL
3 87 (20.67%) JavaScript
4 83 (19.71%) Python
5 60 (14.25%) TypeScript
6 43 (10.21%) Bash
7 31 (7.36%) C#
8 27 (6.41%) Perl
9 24 (5.70%) PowerShell
10 21 (4.99%) PL/SQL
11 16 (3.80%) Shell Script
12 9 (2.14%) Go
12 9 (2.14%) PHP
13 6 (1.43%) Scala
14 5 (1.19%) Ruby
15 4 (0.95%) DataWeave
16 3 (0.71%) COBOL
17 2 (0.48%) C++
17 2 (0.48%) Groovy
17 2 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 105 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 91 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.94%) Degree
4 22 (5.23%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (3.33%) MCSE
7 12 (2.85%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.90%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.66%) CISSP
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.95%) CCNP
14 3 (0.71%) CISM
14 3 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.94%) QA
2 17 (4.04%) NCSC
3 14 (3.33%) NIST
4 11 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (1.19%) WCAG
8 4 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.48%) GDPR
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.48%) PSD2
10 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 2 (0.48%) SLA
11 1 (0.24%) COBIT
11 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 134 (31.83%) Docker
2 38 (9.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.19%) Postfix
6 3 (0.71%) LXC
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.24%) HDFS
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (28.50%) Kubernetes
2 41 (9.74%) Terraform
3 23 (5.46%) Grafana
4 19 (4.51%) Ansible
4 19 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.28%) Progress Chef
6 17 (4.04%) Kibana
7 6 (1.43%) Puppet
8 5 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.71%) logstash
10 2 (0.48%) Control-M
10 2 (0.48%) Istio
10 2 (0.48%) Kiali
10 2 (0.48%) Packer
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Graylog
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Identity Management
11 1 (0.24%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 55 (13.06%) Oracle
2 30 (7.13%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.41%) Cisco
4 23 (5.46%) Splunk
5 20 (4.75%) Google
6 18 (4.28%) VMware
7 14 (3.33%) Red Hat
8 13 (3.09%) SAP
9 12 (2.85%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.38%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.38%) Virgin Media
11 9 (2.14%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.90%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.66%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.66%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
15 5 (1.19%) New Relic
16 4 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
16 4 (0.95%) ForgeRock