Microservices Contracts in West Sussex

Microservices
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 23 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.74% 4.98% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 5.46% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £390 £283 £570
25th Percentile £450 £397 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £715 £593
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +20.57% +10.02%
75th Percentile - £775 £644
90th Percentile - £790 £743
South East median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in West Sussex

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in West Sussex

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in West Sussex

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Burgess Hill -1 4 £550 +100.00% 6
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Couchbase
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Vert.x
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CA Agile Central