Microservices Contracts in Scotland

Microservices
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 44 53 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 89 129 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.14% 4.77% 6.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.16% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 98 147
10th Percentile £400 £418 £413
25th Percentile £415 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -6.54% +20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £574
90th Percentile £625 £707 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile - - £42.18
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year - -24.44% +15.80%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,901 2,502 3,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,771 2,249
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.51 £18.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.22 £56.00
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Scotland

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +37 63 £475 -13.64% 18
Edinburgh -14 21 £474 -0.99% 16
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (10.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.37%) GeoServer
3 2 (2.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 64 (71.91%) AWS
2 18 (20.22%) Azure
3 16 (17.98%) Amazon S3
3 16 (17.98%) Serverless
4 13 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (14.61%) GCP
5 11 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.12%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.12%) Apigee
10 1 (1.12%) IaaS
10 1 (1.12%) PaaS
10 1 (1.12%) SaaS
10 1 (1.12%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) PostgreSQL
1 13 (14.61%) Relational Database
2 12 (13.48%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (13.48%) Oracle Database
3 8 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.74%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.37%) GIS
6 3 (3.37%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.37%) MySQL
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.25%) DB2
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (15.73%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.11%) JIRA
3 7 (7.87%) Git
4 3 (3.37%) JUnit
5 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.25%) GitLab
5 2 (2.25%) Subversion
6 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.12%) Maven
6 1 (1.12%) Mockito
6 1 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.12%) Selenium
6 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.12%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 22 (24.72%) Finance
2 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
3 16 (17.98%) Banking
4 11 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.87%) Social Skills
6 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (71.91%) Developer
2 45 (50.56%) Java Developer
3 15 (16.85%) Architect
4 11 (12.36%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.11%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Backend Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (5.62%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 4 (4.49%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.37%) Lead
11 3 (3.37%) UI Developer
12 2 (2.25%) Angular Developer
12 2 (2.25%) Cloud Engineer
12 2 (2.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (59.55%) Spring
2 49 (55.06%) Spring Boot
3 26 (29.21%) CSS
3 26 (29.21%) Kafka
4 24 (26.97%) REST
5 23 (25.84%) RESTful
6 21 (23.60%) HTML
6 21 (23.60%) React
7 15 (16.85%) AWS CDK
8 13 (14.61%) AngularJS
9 11 (12.36%) Node.js
10 10 (11.24%) JPA
11 8 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (8.99%) OpenTracing
11 8 (8.99%) Spring Security
12 7 (7.87%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (6.74%) Middleware
13 6 (6.74%) OAuth
13 6 (6.74%) OAuth2
14 3 (3.37%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Data Structures
1 14 (15.73%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Public Cloud
2 13 (14.61%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (11.24%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.37%) Unix
2 2 (2.25%) Android
2 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (58.43%) Agile
2 34 (38.20%) CI/CD
3 29 (32.58%) SDLC
4 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.98%) Full Stack Development
5 16 (17.98%) TDD
5 16 (17.98%) Test Automation
6 14 (15.73%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (14.61%) DevOps
8 12 (13.48%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (12.36%) Scrum
10 10 (11.24%) Unit Testing
11 9 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (10.11%) Code Quality
11 9 (10.11%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (10.11%) Machine Learning
11 9 (10.11%) Operational Stability
11 9 (10.11%) Pair Programming
12 8 (8.99%) Human-Centred Design
Programming Languages
1 69 (77.53%) Java
2 28 (31.46%) SQL
3 26 (29.21%) TypeScript
4 23 (25.84%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.48%) Kotlin
5 12 (13.48%) Scala
6 11 (12.36%) Shell Script
7 9 (10.11%) Bash
8 8 (8.99%) Python
9 2 (2.25%) C#
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (3.37%) Degree
1 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.62%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (21.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.24%) Grafana
3 8 (8.99%) Prometheus
3 8 (8.99%) Zipkin
4 3 (3.37%) Kibana
5 1 (1.12%) FreeIPA
5 1 (1.12%) Icinga
5 1 (1.12%) Istio
5 1 (1.12%) Puppet
5 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Oracle
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Splunk
3 3 (3.37%) IBM
4 2 (2.25%) Google
4 2 (2.25%) Greenplum
5 1 (1.12%) Adobe
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.12%) Confluent
5 1 (1.12%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.12%) Teradata