Microservices Contracts in the West Midlands

Microservices
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 60 90 90
Rank change year-on-year +30 0 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 37 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.75% 1.08% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 1.28% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 29
10th Percentile £410 £300 £505
25th Percentile £450 £384 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £519 £611 £713
90th Percentile £536 - £731
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +8 10 £500 -17.63% 3
Shropshire - 7 £485 - 6
Solihull - 6 £420 -
Coventry +8 3 £488 +62.50% 2
Birmingham +6 2 £455 +1.11% 34
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 26
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.81%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (16.22%) AWS KMS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure
4 6 (16.22%) Route 53
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.41%) Boomi
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.41%) OCI
6 2 (5.41%) PaaS
6 2 (5.41%) SaaS
6 2 (5.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (21.62%) Relational Database
4 7 (18.92%) DynamoDB
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
7 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.41%) IDMS
8 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.70%) MySQL
9 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (24.32%) JUnit
3 8 (21.62%) Maven
4 7 (18.92%) Mockito
5 6 (16.22%) Git
6 5 (13.51%) JIRA
7 4 (10.81%) Cypress.io
8 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (8.11%) DbUnit
8 3 (8.11%) jMock
8 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
9 2 (5.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
9 2 (5.41%) CA Gen
9 2 (5.41%) GitLab
9 2 (5.41%) Postman
10 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
3 6 (16.22%) Finance
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Java Developer
3 10 (27.03%) Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Applications Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Lead
4 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.41%) QA Leader
7 2 (5.41%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) REST
1 11 (29.73%) Spring
1 11 (29.73%) Spring Boot
2 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
2 9 (24.32%) Web Services
3 7 (18.92%) SOAP
4 6 (16.22%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (16.22%) JPA
4 6 (16.22%) RESTful
5 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
5 5 (13.51%) Bootstrap
5 5 (13.51%) HTML
5 5 (13.51%) Spring Batch
5 5 (13.51%) Spring Integration
6 4 (10.81%) React
6 4 (10.81%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (8.11%) .NET
7 3 (8.11%) CSS
7 3 (8.11%) PowerMock
7 3 (8.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Blockchain
1 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
1 4 (10.81%) IoT
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) CCTV
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
2 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (86.49%) Agile
2 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
2 18 (48.65%) Scrum
3 12 (32.43%) DevOps
4 11 (29.73%) BDD
4 11 (29.73%) TDD
5 10 (27.03%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.03%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (18.92%) Architectural Design
6 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) SOA
6 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
7 6 (16.22%) Cost Reduction
7 6 (16.22%) Kanban
7 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
8 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.51%) ITIL
8 5 (13.51%) Software Delivery
8 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) Java
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 13 (35.14%) JavaScript
4 7 (18.92%) Python
5 5 (13.51%) C#
6 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.11%) COBOL
7 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.11%) Ruby
8 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 14 (37.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.41%) ISEB
5 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Postfix
3 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) Grafana
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.70%) Google