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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 72 60
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 77 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.21% 2.16% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.66% 2.59% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 24 42
10th Percentile £319 £375 £416
25th Percentile £403 £394 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -9.28% +15.48%
75th Percentile £611 £601 £688
90th Percentile £730 £642 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £630
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.70% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £43.69 £72.50
% change year-on-year +53.35% -39.74% +13.06%

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 1,361 1,274 1,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.08% 83.21% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 777 1,202
10th Percentile £263 £313 £282
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 31
10th Percentile £16.50 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.46 £36.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%

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 4 August 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 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire +10 40 £525 -7.49% 6
West Yorkshire +24 39 £550 +15.79% 26
North Yorkshire - 1 £263 - 4
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 13 (16.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.60%) Mule
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) AWS
2 23 (29.87%) GCP
3 20 (25.97%) Azure
4 13 (16.88%) Serverless
5 7 (9.09%) GitHub
6 5 (6.49%) Collibra
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.60%) npm
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.30%) Kong
10 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.88%) DNS
2 3 (3.90%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) NoSQL
2 13 (16.88%) MongoDB
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle Database
3 12 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.49%) MySQL
5 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.60%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.60%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.60%) Redis
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.30%) Big Data
7 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.30%) Power BI
7 1 (1.30%) Presto
7 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.97%) GitLab
3 16 (20.78%) Git
4 8 (10.39%) Liquibase
5 7 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.79%) JIRA
7 5 (6.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.90%) Jaeger
9 2 (2.60%) JUnit
9 2 (2.60%) Selenium
9 2 (2.60%) TestNG
9 2 (2.60%) webpack
10 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.97%) Banking
3 16 (20.78%) Finance
4 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.79%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Retail
9 1 (1.30%) Front Office
9 1 (1.30%) International Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Local Government
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Architect
2 15 (19.48%) Developer
3 11 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Engineering Specialist
5 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (7.79%) Lead
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
7 4 (5.19%) Angular Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Network Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.17%) RESTful
2 13 (16.88%) Node.js
3 12 (15.58%) REST
4 11 (14.29%) Kafka
5 8 (10.39%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (7.79%) .NET
6 6 (7.79%) CSS
6 6 (7.79%) Flask
6 6 (7.79%) HTML
6 6 (7.79%) React
7 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.49%) gRPC
7 5 (6.49%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.19%) Django
8 4 (5.19%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.19%) Spring
8 4 (5.19%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.90%) Celery
9 3 (3.90%) CSS3
9 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Cloud Native
2 14 (18.18%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.39%) Public Cloud
5 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (46.75%) Linux
2 19 (24.68%) Windows
3 13 (16.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 40 (51.95%) Agile
3 34 (44.16%) DevOps
4 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
5 15 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.48%) Software Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Security Management
6 13 (16.88%) SOA
6 13 (16.88%) Test Automation
7 10 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (12.99%) Mentoring
7 10 (12.99%) Server Management
8 9 (11.69%) Observability
8 9 (11.69%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.39%) Change Management
10 7 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.09%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.87%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) Java
3 21 (27.27%) SQL
4 19 (24.68%) Bash
5 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
6 13 (16.88%) PL/SQL
7 11 (14.29%) Perl
7 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.39%) Go
9 6 (7.79%) C#
10 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.90%) Groovy
11 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.30%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (31.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (10.39%) Degree
5 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (7.79%) AWS Certification
6 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
7 5 (6.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.30%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) WCAG
3 2 (2.60%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) HL7
System Software
1 20 (25.97%) Docker
2 13 (16.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (41.56%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.97%) Terraform
3 17 (22.08%) Grafana
4 14 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.39%) Ansible
6 3 (3.90%) Control-M
6 3 (3.90%) Istio
6 3 (3.90%) Kiali
Vendors
1 16 (20.78%) Splunk
2 13 (16.88%) Cisco
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) Google
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.90%) xMatters
6 2 (2.60%) Brio
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft