Microservices Contracts in the East Midlands

Microservices
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 57 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -32
Contract jobs citing Microservices 15 23 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.95% 2.27% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.57% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 30
10th Percentile £356 £300 £396
25th Percentile £356 £355 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £425 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -12.37% +14.12%
75th Percentile £445 £500 £652
90th Percentile - £513 £816
England median daily rate £558 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 894 1,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.70% 88.43% 82.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 688 840
10th Percentile £200 £206 £210
25th Percentile £272 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £455 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +3.41% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £610
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 56 80
10th Percentile £11.24 £11.80 £9.73
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.67
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +3.26% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £28.91
90th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the East Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Northamptonshire - 12 £411 - 5
Leicestershire 0 1 £375 -4.46% 10
Derbyshire -3 1 £425 +25.93% 6
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (33.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) AWS
2 9 (60.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (26.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 4 (26.67%) DB2
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 5 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
1 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 5 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
1 6 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) ETL Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Payments Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) React
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) jQuery
4 2 (13.33%) RESTful
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (26.67%) Mainframe
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) FMCG
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) SDLC
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) API Design
4 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 4 (26.67%) Project Management
4 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Data Transformation
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Perl
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) C
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kibana
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks