Microservices Contracts in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 67 77 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -42 +13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 134 159 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.89% 2.85% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.14% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 129 308
10th Percentile £375 £415 £400
25th Percentile £445 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £737 £708 £708
England median daily rate £558 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.19
Median hourly rate £45.88 £35.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% -26.12% -
75th Percentile £48.43 - £48.56
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% -2.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,971 5,062 6,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.53% 90.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 3,499 4,622
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 201 266
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.72 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.98 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +46.32% +5.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.86
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +42 102 £550 +10.00% 79
Yorkshire -21 28 £425 -26.09% 42
North East 0 8 £413 -25.00% 21
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 7 (5.22%) Confluence
2 6 (4.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.24%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Camunda
4 1 (0.75%) Mule
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.22%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.24%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 56 (41.79%) AWS
2 35 (26.12%) Azure
3 7 (5.22%) Apigee
3 7 (5.22%) Kong
3 7 (5.22%) SaaS
3 7 (5.22%) Serverless
4 6 (4.48%) Azure Stack
4 6 (4.48%) GCP
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.24%) BrowserStack
7 3 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.24%) GitHub
7 3 (2.24%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.24%) PaaS
7 3 (2.24%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.96%) Firewall
1 12 (8.96%) VPN
2 3 (2.24%) HTTP
2 3 (2.24%) SSL
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.87%) MongoDB
2 17 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.70%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.22%) OLAP
4 7 (5.22%) OLTP
5 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle OLAP
5 6 (4.48%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (3.73%) MySQL
6 5 (3.73%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.24%) DB2
8 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.75%) Power BI
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) GitLab
2 19 (14.18%) Git
3 16 (11.94%) JUnit
4 13 (9.70%) JIRA
5 5 (3.73%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.73%) Mockito
6 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.24%) Maven
7 3 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.75%) Gradle
9 1 (0.75%) JMeter
9 1 (0.75%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.75%) Log4j
9 1 (0.75%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.75%) TestNG
General
1 26 (19.40%) Public Sector
2 24 (17.91%) Finance
3 20 (14.93%) Banking
4 16 (11.94%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Legal
6 4 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
8 1 (0.75%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 53 (39.55%) Developer
2 42 (31.34%) Architect
3 31 (23.13%) Java Developer
4 21 (15.67%) Senior
5 20 (14.93%) Lead
5 20 (14.93%) Software Engineer
6 14 (10.45%) Technical Architect
7 12 (8.96%) Lead Architect
7 12 (8.96%) Technical Leader
8 10 (7.46%) Senior Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.97%) AWS Architect
10 8 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.48%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.73%) .NET Developer
13 4 (2.99%) Junior Developer
13 4 (2.99%) Junior Java Developer
13 4 (2.99%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (29.10%) Node.js
2 36 (26.87%) Spring
3 27 (20.15%) REST
3 27 (20.15%) Spring Boot
4 26 (19.40%) RESTful
5 24 (17.91%) React
6 15 (11.19%) .NET
6 15 (11.19%) JPA
7 13 (9.70%) Hibernate
8 12 (8.96%) Kafka
9 10 (7.46%) .NET Framework
9 10 (7.46%) JSON
10 9 (6.72%) J2EE
11 8 (5.97%) Web Services
12 7 (5.22%) IBM Integration Bus
12 7 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (5.22%) SOAP
13 6 (4.48%) Apache Camel
13 6 (4.48%) Spring Integration
13 6 (4.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.18%) Public Cloud
2 16 (11.94%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.22%) DataPower
5 6 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.48%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.73%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.99%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.24%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.49%) Derivative
9 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.75%) Clustering
10 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.94%) Android
1 16 (11.94%) Apple iOS
2 13 (9.70%) Windows
3 12 (8.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.73%) Linux
4 5 (3.73%) Unix
5 2 (1.49%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.75%) CentOS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (61.94%) Agile
2 60 (44.78%) DevOps
3 54 (40.30%) CI/CD
4 50 (37.31%) Design Patterns
5 32 (23.88%) Software Engineering
6 19 (14.18%) Risk Management
6 19 (14.18%) Test Automation
7 16 (11.94%) OO
7 16 (11.94%) Scrum
8 15 (11.19%) Containerisation
8 15 (11.19%) Event-Driven
8 15 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 14 (10.45%) Unit Testing
10 13 (9.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 13 (9.70%) Front End Development
10 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (9.70%) Mobile Device Management
10 13 (9.70%) SDLC
10 13 (9.70%) Security Architecture
11 12 (8.96%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (49.25%) Java
2 19 (14.18%) TypeScript
3 15 (11.19%) JavaScript
4 12 (8.96%) SQL
5 10 (7.46%) C#
6 8 (5.97%) Python
7 4 (2.99%) Go
8 3 (2.24%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Bash
9 1 (0.75%) Ruby
9 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.70%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.22%) Degree
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 23 (17.16%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.42%) Terraform
3 6 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.24%) Ansible
4 3 (2.24%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) Consul
5 1 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.75%) Graphite
5 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.75%) Istio
5 1 (0.75%) linkerd
5 1 (0.75%) Packer
5 1 (0.75%) Podman
5 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (8.21%) Oracle
2 10 (7.46%) IBM
3 7 (5.22%) Google
3 7 (5.22%) TSYS
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.73%) Apple
6 3 (2.24%) Nintex
6 3 (2.24%) Pega
6 3 (2.24%) SAP
6 3 (2.24%) VMware
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.75%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk