Microservices Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microservices
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 17 24 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -18
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.72% 1.91% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.20% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £255 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £265 - £569
90th Percentile - - £573
South East median daily rate £508 £591 £543
% change year-on-year -14.06% +8.89% +3.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 182 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 78.42% 87.08% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 133 221
10th Percentile £210 £180 £185
25th Percentile £366 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £672 £680
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 13
10th Percentile £14.91 £25.05 £14.56
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.95 £15.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £32.32 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +61.60% +5.43%
75th Percentile £37.50 £50.00 £24.42
90th Percentile £55.50 - £33.54
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Oxfordshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Oxfordshire

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Oxford +3 1 £260 -56.67%
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker