The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 26 January 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills
36,799
60,737
86,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
86.26%
85.50%
87.53%
Number of daily rates quoted
24,930
40,627
58,157
Median daily rate
£475
£475
£475
10th Percentile
£300
£281
£300
90th Percentile
£650
£650
£650
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£430
£425
% change year-on-year
-1.16%
+1.18%
+4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted
1,199
1,853
2,108
Median hourly rate
£27.50
£21.00
£22.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.95%
-4.55%
+1.27%
10th Percentile
£12.02
£12.00
£11.25
90th Percentile
£60.00
£53.00
£50.00
Median hourly rate
£24.40
£19.71
£21.50
% change year-on-year
+23.80%
-8.33%
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Microservices Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Microservices Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices.
Microservices Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 January 2021.
Microservices Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices.
Microservices Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 26 January 2021.
Microservices Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 26 January 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 26 January 2021, IT contractor jobs citing Microservices also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Microservices.
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
