Microservices Contracts in Yorkshire

Microservices
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 31 71 75
Rank change year-on-year +40 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 67 29 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.59% 1.72% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 1.99% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 19 40
10th Percentile £428 £263 £461
25th Percentile £513 £363 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -27.27% -
75th Percentile £694 £563 £625
90th Percentile £777 £618 £689
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Yorkshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Yorkshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Yorkshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +43 42 £550 +37.50% 41
South Yorkshire +21 27 £575 +4.55% 11
North Yorkshire +9 1 £263 - 11
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (23.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (11.94%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.40%) AWS
2 7 (10.45%) Slack
3 6 (8.96%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) Azure
4 5 (7.46%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (7.46%) Collibra
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (4.48%) GitHub
7 2 (2.99%) npm
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.88%) DNS
2 7 (10.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.37%) Oracle Database
2 13 (19.40%) MongoDB
3 10 (14.93%) Apache Cassandra
3 10 (14.93%) MySQL
3 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.99%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Presto
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) GitLab
1 10 (14.93%) JIRA
2 9 (13.43%) Git
3 7 (10.45%) Cucumber
3 7 (10.45%) Jasmine
3 7 (10.45%) JUnit
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.99%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.99%) webpack
General
1 21 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Banking
3 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Finance
5 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Retail
7 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Front Office
8 1 (1.49%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Architect
2 12 (17.91%) Java Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Engineering Specialist
3 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (13.43%) Senior Developer
4 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) Spring Boot
2 13 (19.40%) Spring
3 12 (17.91%) RESTful
4 8 (11.94%) Spring Security
5 7 (10.45%) Spring Batch
5 7 (10.45%) Swagger
6 6 (8.96%) Node.js
6 6 (8.96%) OpenAPI
7 5 (7.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.97%) Jest
8 4 (5.97%) Kafka
9 3 (4.48%) Akka
9 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.48%) CSS
9 3 (4.48%) HTML
9 3 (4.48%) Play Framework
10 2 (2.99%) Flask
10 2 (2.99%) pytest
10 2 (2.99%) REST
10 2 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (26.87%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (4.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.99%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.99%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (64.18%) Linux
2 23 (34.33%) Windows
3 17 (25.37%) Windows Server
4 9 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (62.69%) Agile
2 27 (40.30%) CI/CD
3 20 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (28.36%) TDD
5 18 (26.87%) BDD
5 18 (26.87%) SOA
6 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (25.37%) Security Management
7 15 (22.39%) DevOps
8 14 (20.90%) Containerisation
9 13 (19.40%) Mentoring
9 13 (19.40%) Server Management
9 13 (19.40%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (19.40%) Test Automation
10 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
10 12 (17.91%) The Twelve-Factor App
11 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
12 10 (14.93%) Observability
13 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (11.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) Bash
2 29 (43.28%) SQL
3 19 (28.36%) Java
4 16 (23.88%) PL/SQL
5 15 (22.39%) Perl
5 15 (22.39%) PowerShell
6 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
7 11 (16.42%) Python
8 3 (4.48%) Scala
9 2 (2.99%) Groovy
10 1 (1.49%) C#
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (25.37%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Docker
2 16 (23.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (37.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Grafana
2 7 (10.45%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.48%) Kibana
5 2 (2.99%) Control-M
5 2 (2.99%) Istio
5 2 (2.99%) Kiali
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Cisco
1 17 (25.37%) Oracle
2 7 (10.45%) Splunk
3 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.99%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) xMatters
4 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft