Microservices Contracts in Cheshire

Microservices
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 20 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.68% 3.74% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.12% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 9
10th Percentile £435 £502 £393
25th Percentile £445 £586 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £614 £427
Median % change year-on-year -20.29% +43.68% -31.68%
75th Percentile £575 £680 £438
90th Percentile £667 £706 £529
North West median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 461 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.27% 90.75% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 297 268
10th Percentile £311 £295 £204
25th Percentile £392 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +15.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £543
90th Percentile £638 £675 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 30 34
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.98 £9.99
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.44 £13.38
Median hourly rate £36.50 £29.26 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% +34.34% +2.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile - £40.00 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £28.00 £30.54 £23.70
% change year-on-year -8.32% +28.86% +30.83%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Cheshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Knutsford +1 11 £489 -20.29% 1
Warrington +7 6 £513 -24.07%
Crewe -4 2 £625 +6.66%
Microservices
North West

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Temenos T24
2 2 (10.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Apigee
3 7 (35.00%) Kong
4 4 (20.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Stack
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) IaaS
6 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (35.00%) OLAP
1 7 (35.00%) OLTP
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (15.00%) DB2
5 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.00%) Log4j
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Architect
2 8 (40.00%) AWS Architect
3 6 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Pega Developer
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Kafka
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 7 (35.00%) .NET
2 7 (35.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 7 (35.00%) J2EE
2 7 (35.00%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (35.00%) REST
2 7 (35.00%) SOAP
3 6 (30.00%) Apache Camel
3 6 (30.00%) Spring
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (30.00%) Spring Integration
4 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (20.00%) JSON
4 4 (20.00%) React
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
5 2 (10.00%) CSS
5 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
5 2 (10.00%) XHTML
5 2 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) DataPower
2 5 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (15.00%) Mainframe
5 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (10.00%) Reference Data
5 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Android
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) OO
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) API Management
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Event-Driven
4 8 (40.00%) Design Patterns
5 7 (35.00%) CQRS
5 7 (35.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (35.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (35.00%) OOA/OOD
5 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (35.00%) SDLC
5 7 (35.00%) SOA
5 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (30.00%) Technical Debt
6 6 (30.00%) TOGAF
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) OOD
7 4 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) C
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) IBM
2 7 (35.00%) TSYS
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Nintex
4 2 (10.00%) Pega
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.00%) VMware