Microservices Contracts in Edinburgh

Microservices
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 40 52 30
Rank change year-on-year +12 -22 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 34 36 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.53% 3.66% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 4.01% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 87
10th Percentile £424 £400 £418
25th Percentile £431 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -5.15% +5.26%
75th Percentile £483 £498 £545
90th Percentile £530 £537 £580
Scotland median daily rate £465 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -2.97% -4.15% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 897 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.47% 91.16% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 553 1,100
10th Percentile £226 £200 £350
25th Percentile £359 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £524 £538 £553
90th Percentile £600 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 19
10th Percentile £14.04 £12.47 £11.86
25th Percentile £19.28 £20.27 £16.27
Median hourly rate £23.59 £48.10 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -50.96% +154.50% -16.00%
75th Percentile £24.18 £59.55 £30.63
90th Percentile - £62.00 £51.50
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

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
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 (5.88%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) OpenShift
3 11 (32.35%) Serverless
4 10 (29.41%) Amazon S3
4 10 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (23.53%) Azure
7 2 (5.88%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.88%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (55.88%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (23.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.88%) GIS
4 2 (5.88%) Informix
4 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.82%) JUnit
4 3 (8.82%) Maven
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) webpack
6 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (55.88%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 3 (8.82%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Angular Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.94%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (61.76%) Spring Boot
2 19 (55.88%) Spring
3 13 (38.24%) REST
4 12 (35.29%) React
5 10 (29.41%) AWS CDK
6 8 (23.53%) .NET
7 7 (20.59%) CSS
7 7 (20.59%) HTML
7 7 (20.59%) OAuth
8 6 (17.65%) OAuth2
8 6 (17.65%) RESTful
9 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (14.71%) Spring Security
10 4 (11.76%) .NET Framework
10 4 (11.76%) PostGIS
11 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET
11 3 (8.82%) Guice
11 3 (8.82%) Node.js
11 3 (8.82%) Spring MVC
11 3 (8.82%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Agile
1 18 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) DevOps
3 13 (38.24%) Code Quality
3 13 (38.24%) Unit Testing
4 11 (32.35%) Analytics
4 11 (32.35%) Human-Centred Design
4 11 (32.35%) Inclusive Design
5 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 10 (29.41%) Pair Programming
5 10 (29.41%) TDD
5 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 9 (26.47%) User Experience
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (20.59%) Code Coverage
8 7 (20.59%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) Architecture Roadmap
9 6 (17.65%) Community of Practice
9 6 (17.65%) Product Roadmap
9 6 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (64.71%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 13 (38.24%) TypeScript
4 12 (35.29%) SQL
5 7 (20.59%) Python
6 4 (11.76%) C#
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Grafana
2 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Kibana
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Google
1 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle
1 1 (2.94%) Salesforce