Microservices Contracts in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 104 83 63
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 90 141 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.65% 2.52% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.83% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 101 194
10th Percentile £426 £458 £440
25th Percentile £463 £504 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.18% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £748 £718
England median daily rate £558 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £60.50 £46.13
25th Percentile - £70.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +21.70% -5.97%
75th Percentile - - £64.56
90th Percentile - - £65.79
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,584 4,983 6,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.28% 89.17% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,667 3,471 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +1.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 213 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.05
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 South East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South East 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
Thames Valley -11 62 £625 +11.11% 30
Berkshire -16 51 £625 +13.64% 18
West Sussex +8 12 £750 +25.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +25 10 £750 +15.38% 4
Hampshire -31 6 £470 -14.55% 20
East Sussex - 4 £575 - 2
Surrey -6 3 £375 -27.18% 12
Oxfordshire +5 1 £675 - 8
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (4.44%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.22%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) JBoss
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 45 (50.00%) Azure
2 21 (23.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 21 (23.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 21 (23.33%) Entra ID
3 20 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
4 19 (21.11%) AWS
4 19 (21.11%) Serverless
5 15 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 13 (14.44%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.78%) PaaS
7 7 (7.78%) SaaS
8 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub
8 6 (6.67%) IaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.22%) NoSQL
2 22 (24.44%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.33%) Couchbase
5 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.22%) MySQL
6 2 (2.22%) Redis
6 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.11%) Ataccama
7 1 (1.11%) Power BI
7 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) Git
2 10 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.78%) Selenium
4 6 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (4.44%) JUnit
6 3 (3.33%) JMeter
6 3 (3.33%) Subversion
6 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.22%) GitLab
8 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.11%) Gradle
8 1 (1.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.11%) Mockito
General
1 19 (21.11%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 43 (47.78%) Developer
2 25 (27.78%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (18.89%) Azure Developer
4 16 (17.78%) Architect
5 10 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Lead
5 10 (11.11%) Site Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (10.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Python Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Senior
8 5 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Architect
11 2 (2.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) Kafka
2 24 (26.67%) React
3 17 (18.89%) .NET
4 14 (15.56%) REST
5 13 (14.44%) Spring
5 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
6 11 (12.22%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) RESTful
9 7 (7.78%) Web Services
10 5 (5.56%) Node.js
11 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
11 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.44%) Symfony
12 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.33%) gRPC
12 3 (3.33%) HTML
13 2 (2.22%) CSS
13 2 (2.22%) jQuery
13 2 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Android
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) DevOps
2 39 (43.33%) Agile
3 30 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 20 (22.22%) Change Management
6 19 (21.11%) TDD
7 18 (20.00%) SDLC
8 17 (18.89%) Software Engineering
9 15 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 15 (16.67%) Product Backlog
10 13 (14.44%) ITSM
10 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.44%) Unit Testing
11 12 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (12.22%) Domain-Driven Design
13 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
14 9 (10.00%) GitOps
14 9 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 8 (8.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.22%) Java
1 29 (32.22%) Python
2 17 (18.89%) C#
3 14 (15.56%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.22%) SQL
5 8 (8.89%) Go
5 8 (8.89%) PHP
6 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.44%) Scala
7 3 (3.33%) C
7 3 (3.33%) Ruby
8 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.89%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) CCNP
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) MCSE
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) GxP
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 14 (15.56%) Docker
3 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.11%) Kibana
3 9 (10.00%) Grafana
4 8 (8.89%) Argo
4 8 (8.89%) Istio
4 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.22%) Terraform
7 1 (1.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.56%) Oracle
1 5 (5.56%) VMware
2 3 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (1.11%) Databricks
4 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.11%) Palantir
4 1 (1.11%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.11%) Talend