Microservices Contracts

Microservices
UK

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 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 72 39 31
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,343 4,534 5,584
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.94% 5.79% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 6.42% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 3,256 4,024
10th Percentile £413 £440 £424
25th Percentile £475 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £680 £703 £650
90th Percentile £745 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £561 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +1.93% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 39
10th Percentile £43.38 - £48.00
25th Percentile £63.97 £35.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £75.77 £72.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +10.69% +94.07%
75th Percentile £76.53 £75.00 £76.75
90th Percentile - - £83.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £76.53 £73.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +4.84% +30.36% +79.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 40,436 70,614 80,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.56% 90.20% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,089 48,887 56,613
10th Percentile £310 £340 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £619
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,556 1,708 1,999
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.41 £11.97
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.45 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.92 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.61% +62.79% -14.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.33 £62.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +36.12% +79.17% -20.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

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 30 November 2023. 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
England -30 1,138 £595 -0.92% 984
London -29 745 £600 -7.69% 518
Work from Home -35 534 £575 -4.17% 730
UK excluding London -61 448 £561 +1.93% 610
South East -28 135 £595 +8.78% 202
Scotland -16 95 £490 +2.30% 36
North of England -64 90 £563 -3.60% 159
North West -42 66 £550 - 89
South West -55 58 £610 +1.67% 67
Midlands -16 54 £650 +23.81% 67
West Midlands +13 43 £650 +23.81% 49
East of England -30 30 £575 -8.37% 56
Yorkshire -20 26 £650 +0.97% 53
East Midlands -10 16 £647 +23.24% 18
Wales +5 5 £463 +2.78% 21
North East -3 2 £525 -19.23% 23
Northern Ireland 0 1 £575 +16.16% 17

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 88 (6.55%) Confluence
2 38 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.01%) BizTalk Server
4 15 (1.12%) Drupal
5 14 (1.04%) CMS
5 14 (1.04%) JBoss
5 14 (1.04%) WebLogic
6 13 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
6 13 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.97%) Tomcat
6 13 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 12 (0.89%) nginx
8 11 (0.82%) Apache
9 10 (0.74%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
11 5 (0.37%) Camunda
11 5 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.30%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (0.60%) PlantUML
2 5 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.074%) InVision
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.074%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.82%) Dynamics AX
2 11 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.52%) Magento
3 7 (0.52%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.37%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.30%) Endur
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.15%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.074%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 571 (42.52%) AWS
2 459 (34.18%) Azure
3 187 (13.92%) Serverless
4 155 (11.54%) GCP
5 108 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (6.25%) GitHub
8 78 (5.81%) OpenShift
9 77 (5.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 65 (4.84%) Azure Functions
11 58 (4.32%) Amazon S3
12 56 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 56 (4.17%) PaaS
13 52 (3.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 51 (3.80%) Azure AKS
15 47 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 44 (3.28%) SaaS
17 42 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 39 (2.90%) Azure Storage
19 37 (2.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.53%) Firewall
2 24 (1.79%) VLAN
3 23 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
4 21 (1.56%) HTTP
5 16 (1.19%) Network Security
6 15 (1.12%) SAN
7 11 (0.82%) VPN
8 10 (0.74%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.45%) MQTT
9 6 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.37%) DNS
10 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.37%) SSL
11 4 (0.30%) ATM
11 4 (0.30%) Internet
12 3 (0.22%) Intranet
13 2 (0.15%) AMQP
13 2 (0.15%) DHCP
14 1 (0.074%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (8.86%) MongoDB
3 112 (8.34%) NoSQL
4 103 (7.67%) Relational Database
5 78 (5.81%) SQL Server
6 76 (5.66%) MySQL
7 43 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 38 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
9 33 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 33 (2.46%) Big Data
10 30 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 30 (2.23%) Redis
11 29 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (2.01%) RDBMS
14 24 (1.79%) DynamoDB
15 19 (1.41%) Hadoop
16 15 (1.12%) DB2
16 15 (1.12%) Power BI
17 13 (0.97%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 193 (14.37%) Git
2 160 (11.91%) Jenkins
3 109 (8.12%) JIRA
4 73 (5.44%) GitLab
5 59 (4.39%) Cucumber
6 52 (3.87%) JUnit
7 44 (3.28%) Bitbucket
8 41 (3.05%) Maven
9 32 (2.38%) NUnit
10 29 (2.16%) SonarQube
11 28 (2.08%) Gradle
12 26 (1.94%) Cypress.io
12 26 (1.94%) Selenium
13 25 (1.86%) TeamCity
14 23 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 20 (1.49%) Moq
16 14 (1.04%) SpecFlow
17 13 (0.97%) REST Assured
17 13 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
18 12 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 276 (20.55%) Finance
2 260 (19.36%) Social Skills
3 156 (11.62%) Banking
4 143 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.87%) Investment Banking
7 41 (3.05%) Front Office
8 33 (2.46%) Marketing
9 32 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 24 (1.79%) Retail
11 22 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.41%) Law
14 16 (1.19%) Back Office
14 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.97%) Electronics
16 11 (0.82%) Automotive
17 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.67%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 604 (44.97%) Developer
2 257 (19.14%) Architect
3 222 (16.53%) Senior
4 168 (12.51%) Java Developer
5 132 (9.83%) Senior Developer
6 111 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
7 101 (7.52%) Lead
8 82 (6.11%) Full Stack Developer
9 70 (5.21%) .NET Developer
10 69 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 68 (5.06%) Software Engineer
12 67 (4.99%) C# Developer
13 57 (4.24%) Backend Developer
14 40 (2.98%) Technical Architect
15 37 (2.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 33 (2.46%) Software Developer
17 32 (2.38%) Node.js Developer
18 31 (2.31%) Java Engineer
19 29 (2.16%) AWS Developer
19 29 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (21.59%) .NET
2 249 (18.54%) REST
3 196 (14.59%) Spring
4 183 (13.63%) Spring Boot
5 176 (13.10%) RESTful
6 169 (12.58%) React
7 168 (12.51%) Node.js
8 160 (11.91%) Kafka
9 135 (10.05%) .NET Core
10 119 (8.86%) AngularJS
11 93 (6.92%) Web Services
12 91 (6.78%) HTML
13 89 (6.63%) JSON
14 79 (5.88%) CSS
15 70 (5.21%) XML
16 61 (4.54%) RabbitMQ
17 60 (4.47%) SOAP
18 56 (4.17%) Middleware
18 56 (4.17%) OAuth
19 46 (3.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 58 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 51 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 34 (2.53%) Mobile App
7 28 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 21 (1.56%) Derivative
11 21 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
11 21 (1.56%) Virtual Team
12 20 (1.49%) Fixed Income
13 17 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.27%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 15 (1.12%) Credit Risk
16 14 (1.04%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 161 (11.99%) Linux
2 103 (7.67%) Windows
3 57 (4.24%) Unix
4 31 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.12%) Android
8 14 (1.04%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
9 12 (0.89%) Solaris
10 11 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.15%) Debian
14 1 (0.074%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.074%) tvOS
14 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (45.57%) Agile
2 457 (34.03%) CI/CD
3 422 (31.42%) DevOps
4 197 (14.67%) TDD
5 189 (14.07%) Test Automation
6 187 (13.92%) Software Engineering
7 161 (11.99%) Design Patterns
8 160 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
9 158 (11.76%) Full Stack Development
10 153 (11.39%) Containerisation
11 149 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 136 (10.13%) SDLC
13 126 (9.38%) Scrum
14 123 (9.16%) Continuous Delivery
15 121 (9.01%) Event-Driven
16 112 (8.34%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (6.92%) Front End Development
18 88 (6.55%) Roadmaps
19 81 (6.03%) Data Modelling
20 80 (5.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 474 (35.29%) Java
2 268 (19.96%) C#
3 267 (19.88%) JavaScript
4 251 (18.69%) Python
5 215 (16.01%) SQL
6 122 (9.08%) TypeScript
7 106 (7.89%) Go
8 59 (4.39%) Kotlin
9 56 (4.17%) Bash
10 52 (3.87%) PowerShell
11 47 (3.50%) Scala
12 46 (3.43%) PL/SQL
13 37 (2.76%) T-SQL
14 36 (2.68%) Shell Script
15 35 (2.61%) PHP
15 35 (2.61%) Ruby
16 34 (2.53%) C++
17 14 (1.04%) Groovy
18 12 (0.89%) Perl
19 9 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 186 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 161 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.47%) Degree
4 29 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 18 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.45%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.30%) CISSP
11 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.22%) ISEB
12 3 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.22%) Sun Certification
13 2 (0.15%) CAPM
13 2 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.91%) QA
2 56 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 10 (0.74%) NCSC
5 8 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (0.52%) Government Security Classifications
7 6 (0.45%) SLA
8 5 (0.37%) NIST
8 5 (0.37%) WCAG
9 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.22%) GDPR
10 3 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.15%) FATCA
11 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.15%) MiFID
12 1 (0.074%) PMO
System Software
1 345 (25.69%) Docker
2 29 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.71%) vSphere
5 10 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (0.22%) HDFS
8 1 (0.074%) Ceph
8 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.074%) LXC
8 1 (0.074%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 403 (30.01%) Kubernetes
2 171 (12.73%) Terraform
3 113 (8.41%) Ansible
4 52 (3.87%) Grafana
5 50 (3.72%) Puppet
6 45 (3.35%) Packer
7 36 (2.68%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 23 (1.71%) NetBackup
10 21 (1.56%) Istio
11 19 (1.41%) ZABBIX
12 14 (1.04%) Kibana
13 13 (0.97%) Zipkin
14 11 (0.82%) Consul
14 11 (0.82%) HP SiteScope
14 11 (0.82%) Nagios
14 11 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.74%) Data Guard
16 8 (0.60%) Argo
Vendors
1 137 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 122 (9.08%) Oracle
3 62 (4.62%) Google
4 57 (4.24%) VMware
5 51 (3.80%) MuleSoft
6 38 (2.83%) Red Hat
7 34 (2.53%) Splunk
8 30 (2.23%) Atlassian
9 29 (2.16%) SAP
10 26 (1.94%) HP
11 24 (1.79%) IBM
12 22 (1.64%) Databricks
13 15 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.04%) TIBCO
15 11 (0.82%) SaltStack
15 11 (0.82%) Veritas
16 10 (0.74%) 3PAR
16 10 (0.74%) Cisco
16 10 (0.74%) NetApp
16 10 (0.74%) Nimble Storage