Microservices Contracts in Berkshire

Microservices
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 94 53
Rank change year-on-year +57 -41 +8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 86 25 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.37% 1.39% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 1.54% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 16 63
10th Percentile £400 £430 £431
25th Percentile £444 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £620
90th Percentile £653 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £508 £591 £543
% change year-on-year -14.06% +8.89% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £76.53 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +9.33% +2.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,419 1,626 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 90.48% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 996 1,292
10th Percentile £325 £249 £307
25th Percentile £425 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +3.25% +5.93%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 70 28
10th Percentile £19.34 £18.95 £20.18
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £61.45 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +21.68% +117.20%
75th Percentile £63.41 £72.25 £77.44
90th Percentile £75.13 £77.27 £96.63
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Berkshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Reading +39 64 £625 +13.64% 10
Wokingham +1 9 £482 -25.85%
Bracknell - 7 £390 - 1
Slough - 2 - -
Windsor - 2 - -
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (1.16%) IIS
1 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 51 (59.30%) Azure
2 38 (44.19%) Serverless
3 32 (37.21%) Azure Functions
4 30 (34.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 26 (30.23%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (29.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (16.28%) Entra ID
8 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (12.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (12.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (12.79%) OpenShift
10 10 (11.63%) GCP
11 9 (10.47%) Azure AKS
12 8 (9.30%) AWS
13 7 (8.14%) Azure API Management
14 5 (5.81%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (5.81%) OCI
14 5 (5.81%) SaaS
15 4 (4.65%) Google Compute Engine
15 4 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) Network Security
2 3 (3.49%) NGFW
2 3 (3.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.26%) NoSQL
2 19 (22.09%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (10.47%) Redis
5 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.49%) Big Data
6 2 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (31.40%) Git
2 21 (24.42%) Selenium
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) Visual Studio
4 4 (4.65%) GitLab
5 2 (2.33%) MSBuild
5 2 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.16%) JIRA
6 1 (1.16%) Vite
General
1 28 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Telecoms
3 9 (10.47%) Retail
4 5 (5.81%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.65%) Finance
6 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (47.67%) Developer
2 23 (26.74%) Full-Stack Developer
3 22 (25.58%) Azure Developer
4 19 (22.09%) Architect
5 12 (13.95%) Python Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 11 (12.79%) Site Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Backend Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior
9 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Lead
9 6 (6.98%) React Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.81%) BSS Architect
10 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Architect
10 5 (5.81%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.58%) React
2 17 (19.77%) RESTful
3 12 (13.95%) Kafka
3 12 (13.95%) Node.js
4 11 (12.79%) GraphQL
5 10 (11.63%) AngularJS
5 10 (11.63%) Prisma
5 10 (11.63%) XML
6 9 (10.47%) Web Services
7 8 (9.30%) .NET
7 8 (9.30%) ADO
8 7 (8.14%) JSON
9 6 (6.98%) CSS
10 5 (5.81%) HTML
10 5 (5.81%) Middleware
10 5 (5.81%) Spring
10 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
11 4 (4.65%) YAML
12 3 (3.49%) REST
12 3 (3.49%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.79%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.14%) Wiki
4 5 (5.81%) TM Forum
5 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Smart Meter
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
1 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (66.28%) DevOps
2 54 (62.79%) Agile
3 41 (47.67%) CI/CD
4 31 (36.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (27.91%) Change Management
5 24 (27.91%) Containerisation
5 24 (27.91%) SDLC
6 21 (24.42%) Scrum
7 16 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.60%) Unit Testing
8 15 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (16.28%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.95%) ITIL
10 12 (13.95%) Migration
10 12 (13.95%) Product Backlog
11 11 (12.79%) ITSM
11 11 (12.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.79%) Software Testing
12 10 (11.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) Python
2 23 (26.74%) Java
3 15 (17.44%) SQL
4 10 (11.63%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.81%) C#
7 3 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.49%) PHP
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) C
8 2 (2.33%) C++
8 2 (2.33%) Go
8 2 (2.33%) Groovy
8 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.33%) R
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (3.49%) CISM
3 3 (3.49%) CISSP
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) QA
System Software
1 22 (25.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.79%) Docker
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.47%) Argo
2 9 (10.47%) Grafana
2 9 (10.47%) Istio
2 9 (10.47%) Kibana
2 9 (10.47%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (3.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.14%) Google
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) SendGrid
4 2 (2.33%) VMware