Microservices Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microservices
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +43 -2 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 42 11 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.66% 1.10% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 1.26% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 31
10th Percentile £504 - £463
25th Percentile £513 £263 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £775 £450 £653
90th Percentile £780 £582 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in West Yorkshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in West Yorkshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in West Yorkshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +32 41 £550 +46.67% 34
Halifax - 1 £500 - 1
Microservices
Yorkshire

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 16 (38.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.67%) Slack
2 5 (11.90%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (11.90%) Collibra
3 4 (9.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (9.52%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Azure
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) npm
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) DNS
2 7 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) Oracle Database
2 12 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 9 (21.43%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (21.43%) MySQL
3 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JIRA
2 8 (19.05%) Git
3 7 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 7 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 7 (16.67%) JUnit
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 9 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 8 (19.05%) Architect
4 8 (19.05%) Engineering Specialist
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 8 (19.05%) Java Developer
5 7 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.52%) IT Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Network Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Applications Architect
8 2 (4.76%) IP Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) RESTful
2 9 (21.43%) Spring
2 9 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.05%) Spring Security
4 7 (16.67%) Spring Batch
4 7 (16.67%) Swagger
5 6 (14.29%) OpenAPI
6 5 (11.90%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (7.14%) Akka
7 3 (7.14%) Play Framework
8 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.76%) CSS
8 2 (4.76%) Flask
8 2 (4.76%) HTML
8 2 (4.76%) pytest
8 2 (4.76%) REST
8 2 (4.76%) Web Services
9 1 (2.38%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (2.38%) Node.js
9 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (4.76%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (78.57%) Linux
2 22 (52.38%) Windows
3 17 (40.48%) Windows Server
4 9 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) SOA
3 17 (40.48%) Security Management
4 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (33.33%) BDD
5 14 (33.33%) TDD
6 13 (30.95%) Server Management
6 13 (30.95%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
8 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
9 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
10 8 (19.05%) Migration
10 8 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 7 (16.67%) API Design
11 7 (16.67%) Coaching
11 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Bash
2 25 (59.52%) SQL
3 16 (38.10%) PL/SQL
4 15 (35.71%) Perl
5 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
6 11 (26.19%) Java
7 3 (7.14%) Scala
8 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 22 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (40.48%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 12 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.90%) Grafana
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Cisco
1 17 (40.48%) Oracle
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk