Microservices Contracts in Edinburgh

Microservices
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 54 37 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 22 75 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.54% 6.37% 8.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 6.78% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 109
10th Percentile £415 £428 £423
25th Percentile £438 £447 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £479 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -8.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £622 £543 £580
90th Percentile £640 £708 £695
Scotland median daily rate £463 £479 £513
% change year-on-year -3.44% -6.54% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - £35.00 £46.32
% change year-on-year - -24.44% +15.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,106 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.32% 93.97% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 776 1,224
10th Percentile £214 £225 £272
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £656 £604 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Edinburgh

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (9.09%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Serverless
3 9 (40.91%) Amazon S3
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
6 3 (13.64%) Azure
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.55%) GCP
8 1 (4.55%) IaaS
8 1 (4.55%) PaaS
8 1 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (4.55%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle Database
1 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) GIS
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) AWS CDK
1 9 (40.91%) React
2 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
3 7 (31.82%) Spring
4 6 (27.27%) CSS
4 6 (27.27%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) Node.js
5 5 (22.73%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (18.18%) OAuth
6 4 (18.18%) OAuth2
6 4 (18.18%) Spring Security
7 3 (13.64%) REST
8 2 (9.09%) .NET
8 2 (9.09%) Kafka
8 2 (9.09%) Middleware
8 2 (9.09%) PostGIS
8 2 (9.09%) RESTful
8 2 (9.09%) Spring Batch
8 2 (9.09%) Web Services
9 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 6 (27.27%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Analytics
6 3 (13.64%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (13.64%) Code Coverage
6 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.64%) Pair Programming
6 3 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
6 3 (13.64%) TDD
6 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
6 3 (13.64%) User Experience
7 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (9.09%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
1 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 10 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 6 (27.27%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (9.09%) ISO 20022
3 2 (9.09%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle