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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 28 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microservices 10 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.49% 2.91% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.62% 3.33% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £271 £228 £608
25th Percentile £274 £259 £680
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £325 £730
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% -55.48% +57.84%
75th Percentile £290 £369 £760
90th Percentile £351 £388 -
South East median daily rate £420 £518 £615
% change year-on-year -18.84% -15.85% +14.42%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 150 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.97% 87.21% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 110 251
10th Percentile £170 £200 £200
25th Percentile £220 £359 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £538
90th Percentile £703 £601 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £518
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 5
10th Percentile - £24.45 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £22.23
Median hourly rate £18.82 £28.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +14.47% +27.06%
75th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 £48.00
90th Percentile £47.25 £35.75 £61.24
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Microservices

Microservices
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Burgess Hill -2 9 £284 -12.62%
Crawley - 1 £350 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (60.00%) JIRA
3 6 (60.00%) Subversion
4 2 (20.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (20.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (70.00%) gRPC
1 7 (70.00%) Kafka
1 7 (70.00%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (70.00%) REST
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (90.00%) TDD
3 8 (80.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (80.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (70.00%) BDD
4 7 (70.00%) Kanban
4 7 (70.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (70.00%) Scrum
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (60.00%) Regression Testing
5 6 (60.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
7 2 (20.00%) High Availability
7 2 (20.00%) RAD
7 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Go
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk