Microservices Contracts in Berkshire

Microservices
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 68 76
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -25
Contract jobs citing Microservices 52 44 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.70% 2.48% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 2.76% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 29 33
10th Percentile £458 £481 £464
25th Percentile £473 £525 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £623 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £644
South East median daily rate £615 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +9.33% +2.27% +15.79%
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 £35.00 £75.00 £62.38
% change year-on-year -53.33% +20.24% -4.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,694 1,594 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.91% 89.75% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 998 1,333
10th Percentile £235 £348 £264
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £701 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 53 38
10th Percentile £17.15 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £26.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.80 £63.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +199.64% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.89 £74.79 £34.97
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

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 May 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 May 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 -18 31 £650 +15.56% 7
Wokingham - 17 £491 - 1
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 3 (5.77%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) JBoss
2 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 26 (50.00%) Azure
2 20 (38.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 20 (38.46%) Azure Data Factory
2 20 (38.46%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 20 (38.46%) Serverless
3 16 (30.77%) Azure Functions
4 15 (28.85%) OpenShift
5 7 (13.46%) AWS
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (9.62%) IaaS
6 5 (9.62%) PaaS
6 5 (9.62%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.77%) Azure API Management
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Network Security
1 3 (5.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (40.38%) NoSQL
2 15 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (21.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) Selenium
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.85%) JUnit
6 1 (1.92%) JIRA
6 1 (1.92%) JMeter
6 1 (1.92%) Mockito
General
1 14 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.69%) Finance
2 4 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (5.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Developer
2 24 (46.15%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (32.69%) Azure Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Site Engineer
4 13 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (19.23%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 10 (19.23%) Python Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.62%) Lead
8 2 (3.85%) Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 1 (1.92%) Consultant
9 1 (1.92%) Integration Architect
9 1 (1.92%) Java Consultant
9 1 (1.92%) Lead Developer
9 1 (1.92%) Project Manager
9 1 (1.92%) Senior Consultant
9 1 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.92%) Technical Manager
9 1 (1.92%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (46.15%) React
2 17 (32.69%) Kafka
3 8 (15.38%) Spring
3 8 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.46%) Web Services
5 4 (7.69%) Node.js
5 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.69%) REST
5 4 (7.69%) Symfony
6 3 (5.77%) .NET
6 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.85%) Apache Camel
7 2 (3.85%) HTML
7 2 (3.85%) jQuery
7 2 (3.85%) Mustache
8 1 (1.92%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.92%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.92%) RESTful
8 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 12 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) IoT
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) DevOps
2 28 (53.85%) Agile
3 24 (46.15%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (44.23%) Change Management
4 23 (44.23%) CI/CD
5 18 (34.62%) SDLC
6 16 (30.77%) ITSM
7 15 (28.85%) Containerisation
7 15 (28.85%) Product Backlog
8 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 13 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 12 (23.08%) GitOps
10 11 (21.15%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (19.23%) Incident Response
11 10 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (19.23%) Task Automation
11 10 (19.23%) Test Automation
12 9 (17.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) Python
2 23 (44.23%) Java
3 10 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.38%) PHP
5 4 (7.69%) C#
6 3 (5.77%) C
6 3 (5.77%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 16 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.77%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (44.23%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.46%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (44.23%) Kubernetes
2 12 (23.08%) Kibana
3 11 (21.15%) Argo
3 11 (21.15%) Grafana
3 11 (21.15%) Istio
3 11 (21.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.77%) VMware
3 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.92%) Splunk