Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 77 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,016 1,965 4,334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.79% 4.08% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 4.52% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 1,506 3,224
10th Percentile £400 £458 £425
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £700
90th Percentile £756 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 27
10th Percentile £40.08 £35.00 £47.60
25th Percentile £44.60 £62.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% -2.69%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £75.55
90th Percentile £61.88 £81.00 £77.89
UK median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the England 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
London -15 678 £575 -11.54% 309
North of England +10 134 £550 - 140
North West +42 102 £550 +10.00% 78
South East -21 90 £623 +13.18% 82
South West -33 36 £494 -17.71% 44
Midlands -7 34 £445 -19.09% 70
Yorkshire -21 28 £425 -26.09% 42
West Midlands 0 19 £450 -29.41% 32
East of England -11 17 £550 +4.96% 15
East Midlands +5 15 £411 -3.24% 38
North East 0 8 £413 -25.00% 21
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (2.85%) Confluence
2 26 (2.56%) nginx
3 12 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.98%) Apache
4 10 (0.98%) BizTalk Server
5 9 (0.89%) CMS
5 9 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.79%) IIS
6 8 (0.79%) JBoss
6 8 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.59%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.49%) Camunda
10 3 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.20%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.098%) Drupal
12 1 (0.098%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.098%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.098%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.39%) Endur
3 3 (0.30%) Maximo
3 3 (0.30%) Shopify
4 2 (0.20%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.098%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.098%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 387 (38.09%) AWS
2 287 (28.25%) Azure
3 142 (13.98%) GCP
4 139 (13.68%) Serverless
5 68 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (4.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 47 (4.63%) Azure Functions
9 46 (4.53%) OpenShift
10 43 (4.23%) SaaS
11 39 (3.84%) Amazon S3
11 39 (3.84%) GitHub
12 38 (3.74%) PaaS
13 34 (3.35%) Entra ID
14 33 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 30 (2.95%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
17 24 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
18 23 (2.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.13%) HTTP
2 21 (2.07%) Firewall
3 16 (1.57%) DNS
3 16 (1.57%) VPN
4 10 (0.98%) DHCP
4 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.79%) HTTPS
6 5 (0.49%) Internet
6 5 (0.49%) IPsec
7 4 (0.39%) ATM
7 4 (0.39%) SSL
7 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.30%) Network Security
9 2 (0.20%) AMQP
9 2 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.098%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.098%) MQTT
10 1 (0.098%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (13.48%) NoSQL
2 112 (11.02%) MongoDB
3 109 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
4 67 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 63 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 25 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
10 24 (2.36%) MySQL
11 23 (2.26%) Big Data
12 21 (2.07%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.38%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.38%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 14 (1.38%) Redis
14 13 (1.28%) OLTP
15 11 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
16 10 (0.98%) DB2
Development Applications
1 166 (16.34%) Git
2 98 (9.65%) Jenkins
3 64 (6.30%) GitLab
4 54 (5.31%) JIRA
5 52 (5.12%) JUnit
6 40 (3.94%) Mockito
7 35 (3.44%) Selenium
8 34 (3.35%) TeamCity
9 32 (3.15%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.67%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.28%) Maven
12 12 (1.18%) NUnit
12 12 (1.18%) Postman
13 11 (1.08%) Gradle
13 11 (1.08%) Moq
13 11 (1.08%) SoapUI
13 11 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.98%) SpecFlow
15 9 (0.89%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 205 (20.18%) Finance
2 181 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 111 (10.93%) Banking
4 104 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.15%) Retail
7 25 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.26%) Front Office
9 16 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.08%) Tech for Good
12 10 (0.98%) Legal
13 8 (0.79%) Local Government
14 7 (0.69%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.59%) Marketing
16 5 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.39%) Back Office
17 4 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 445 (43.80%) Developer
2 216 (21.26%) Architect
3 148 (14.57%) Senior
4 142 (13.98%) Java Developer
5 86 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 80 (7.87%) Lead
7 76 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
8 71 (6.99%) Software Engineer
9 70 (6.89%) Senior Developer
10 48 (4.72%) .NET Developer
11 46 (4.53%) Technical Architect
12 43 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
13 42 (4.13%) Scala Developer
14 39 (3.84%) C# Developer
15 38 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.35%) Azure Developer
17 31 (3.05%) Java Engineer
18 30 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
19 26 (2.56%) Analyst
20 25 (2.46%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.42%) .NET
2 169 (16.63%) Kafka
3 168 (16.54%) Spring
4 154 (15.16%) Spring Boot
5 149 (14.67%) RESTful
6 146 (14.37%) React
7 133 (13.09%) REST
8 111 (10.93%) Node.js
9 70 (6.89%) .NET Core
10 60 (5.91%) AngularJS
11 58 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
12 54 (5.31%) CSS
12 54 (5.31%) HTML
12 54 (5.31%) Web Services
13 48 (4.72%) Hibernate
13 48 (4.72%) JSON
14 45 (4.43%) JPA
15 43 (4.23%) Akka
16 36 (3.54%) XML
17 34 (3.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.19%) Product Ownership
2 65 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 45 (4.43%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.23%) Data Structures
5 42 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (2.66%) Mobile App
8 25 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 25 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 21 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.87%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.67%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.38%) Derivative
13 14 (1.38%) Mainframe
14 13 (1.28%) Fixed Income
15 10 (0.98%) Hedge funds
15 10 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.63%) Linux
2 57 (5.61%) Unix
3 36 (3.54%) Windows
4 22 (2.17%) Android
5 19 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 19 (1.87%) Mac OS X
6 13 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.59%) CentOS
8 1 (0.098%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.098%) Debian
8 1 (0.098%) tvOS
8 1 (0.098%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (44.29%) Agile
2 374 (36.81%) DevOps
3 315 (31.00%) CI/CD
4 204 (20.08%) TDD
5 166 (16.34%) Software Engineering
6 158 (15.55%) Test Automation
7 136 (13.39%) Containerisation
8 130 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (12.60%) Full Stack Development
10 111 (10.93%) Scrum
11 98 (9.65%) BDD
12 97 (9.55%) SDLC
13 94 (9.25%) Design Patterns
14 91 (8.96%) Continuous Integration
15 86 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
16 82 (8.07%) Event-Driven
17 76 (7.48%) Unit Testing
18 63 (6.20%) High Availability
19 61 (6.00%) Computer Science
20 60 (5.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 378 (37.20%) Java
2 188 (18.50%) SQL
3 175 (17.22%) Python
4 167 (16.44%) C#
5 149 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 90 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 68 (6.69%) Go
8 59 (5.81%) Scala
9 29 (2.85%) PHP
10 20 (1.97%) C++
11 18 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 14 (1.38%) Bash
14 13 (1.28%) C
14 13 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.28%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.18%) Bicep
16 11 (1.08%) Perl
16 11 (1.08%) Ruby
17 8 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 166 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 147 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.09%) Degree
4 50 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.66%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.28%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) CISSP
11 2 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.20%) ISEB
11 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.098%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.098%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.25%) QA
2 23 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.87%) Data Quality
4 7 (0.69%) GDPR
4 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.69%) MiFID
4 7 (0.69%) NIST
5 5 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.39%) NCSC
7 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.098%) EMIR
8 1 (0.098%) FATCA
8 1 (0.098%) GRC
8 1 (0.098%) GxP
8 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.098%) SLA
8 1 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 220 (21.65%) Docker
2 46 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.098%) Ceph
6 1 (0.098%) Firmware
6 1 (0.098%) NFS
Systems Management
1 326 (32.09%) Kubernetes
2 129 (12.70%) Terraform
3 47 (4.63%) Grafana
4 41 (4.04%) Ansible
5 36 (3.54%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.07%) Kibana
7 16 (1.57%) Argo
8 13 (1.28%) Istio
9 12 (1.18%) Consul
10 11 (1.08%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.08%) Puppet
10 11 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.39%) Packer
13 3 (0.30%) logstash
13 3 (0.30%) Netcool
14 2 (0.20%) TIBCO Hawk
15 1 (0.098%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.098%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.098%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 103 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 81 (7.97%) Oracle
3 59 (5.81%) Google
4 23 (2.26%) SAP
5 22 (2.17%) Splunk
6 20 (1.97%) Typelevel
7 18 (1.77%) IBM
8 16 (1.57%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.38%) TIBCO
11 11 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 10 (0.98%) AppDynamics
12 10 (0.98%) VMware
13 9 (0.89%) SaltStack
14 7 (0.69%) TSYS
15 6 (0.59%) Adobe
15 6 (0.59%) Databricks
15 6 (0.59%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.59%) WSO2
16 5 (0.49%) Apple