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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +36 -14 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 36 10 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 6.43% 1.02% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 1.18% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 40
10th Percentile £500 £263 £463
25th Percentile £513 £328 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £481 £691
90th Percentile £780 £586 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +9.00%

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 515 851 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.96% 87.10% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 495 973
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £619
90th Percentile £602 £663 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

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 17 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 17 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 +30 35 £550 +37.50% 41
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 (44.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) AWS
1 5 (13.89%) Collibra
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) GCP
3 3 (8.33%) npm
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.56%) Slack
5 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (47.22%) Oracle Database
2 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (8.33%) MySQL
3 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Git
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) webpack
3 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.56%) Jasmine
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 8 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Angular Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Scala Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Architect
6 2 (5.56%) IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) RESTful
2 5 (13.89%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (8.33%) Akka
3 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.33%) CSS
3 3 (8.33%) Flask
3 3 (8.33%) HTML
3 3 (8.33%) Play Framework
3 3 (8.33%) pytest
3 3 (8.33%) REST
3 3 (8.33%) Spring
3 3 (8.33%) Spring Batch
3 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.33%) Spring Security
3 3 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
4 2 (5.56%) Swagger
5 1 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.56%) Blockchain
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (77.78%) Linux
2 22 (61.11%) Windows
3 17 (47.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) SOA
3 17 (47.22%) Security Management
4 16 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (36.11%) Server Management
6 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 8 (22.22%) Migration
8 7 (19.44%) BDD
8 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
8 7 (19.44%) TDD
8 7 (19.44%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
10 5 (13.89%) Monte Carlo Method
10 5 (13.89%) Observability
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
11 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (63.89%) Bash
2 19 (52.78%) SQL
3 16 (44.44%) PL/SQL
4 15 (41.67%) Perl
5 14 (38.89%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.11%) Java
7 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (8.33%) Python
7 3 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 17 (47.22%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (47.22%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Cisco
1 17 (47.22%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Splunk