Microservices Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 86 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 -37
Contract jobs citing Microservices 64 61 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.43% 2.13% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.35% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 42 62
10th Percentile £463 £500 £450
25th Percentile £482 £525 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £575
90th Percentile £740 £701 £617
South East median daily rate £615 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +9.33% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £62.38
% change year-on-year -53.33% +20.24% -4.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,598 3,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.01% 90.78% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,766 2,158
10th Percentile £213 £319 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £579
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 69 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
% change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Thames Valley

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 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
Berkshire 0 52 £625 +11.11% 15
Buckinghamshire +27 11 £750 +15.38% 6
Oxfordshire +5 1 £675 - 7
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.69%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) JBoss
2 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 20 (31.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 20 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 20 (31.25%) Serverless
3 16 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 16 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 11 (17.19%) AWS
5 6 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.38%) IaaS
5 6 (9.38%) PaaS
5 6 (9.38%) SaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.69%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) VPN
2 3 (4.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (35.94%) NoSQL
2 15 (23.44%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) Impala
6 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) MySQL
6 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) Selenium
3 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
5 2 (3.13%) JUnit
6 1 (1.56%) JMeter
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
6 1 (1.56%) Mockito
General
1 14 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (54.69%) Developer
2 24 (37.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (26.56%) Azure Developer
4 13 (20.31%) Site Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (15.63%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 10 (15.63%) Python Developer
6 9 (14.06%) Architect
6 9 (14.06%) Java Developer
7 7 (10.94%) Lead
8 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Consultant
10 2 (3.13%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Architect
11 1 (1.56%) Java Consultant
11 1 (1.56%) React Developer
11 1 (1.56%) Senior VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (37.50%) React
2 20 (31.25%) Kafka
3 11 (17.19%) Spring
4 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.94%) Web Services
6 6 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (6.25%) .NET
7 4 (6.25%) Node.js
7 4 (6.25%) REST
7 4 (6.25%) Symfony
8 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.13%) Apache Camel
9 2 (3.13%) HTML
9 2 (3.13%) jQuery
9 2 (3.13%) Mustache
10 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.56%) CSS
10 1 (1.56%) RESTful
10 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 12 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (65.63%) DevOps
2 29 (45.31%) Agile
3 24 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 24 (37.50%) Full Stack Development
4 23 (35.94%) Change Management
5 18 (28.13%) SDLC
6 16 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.00%) ITSM
7 15 (23.44%) Product Backlog
8 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (20.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
8 13 (20.31%) Unit Testing
9 12 (18.75%) GitOps
10 11 (17.19%) Collaborative Working
11 10 (15.63%) Incident Response
11 10 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (15.63%) Task Automation
11 10 (15.63%) Test Automation
12 9 (14.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Java
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.50%) PHP
4 4 (6.25%) C#
4 4 (6.25%) SQL
5 3 (4.69%) C
5 3 (4.69%) Ruby
5 3 (4.69%) Scala
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) CCNP
4 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) MCSE
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (35.94%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.06%) Docker
3 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (18.75%) Kibana
3 11 (17.19%) Argo
3 11 (17.19%) Grafana
3 11 (17.19%) Istio
3 11 (17.19%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.13%) Terraform
6 1 (1.56%) Ansible
6 1 (1.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) VMware
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk