Microservices Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microservices
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 42 90 67
Rank change year-on-year +48 -23 -23
Contract jobs citing Microservices 105 52 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.91% 1.96% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 2.16% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 32 93
10th Percentile £400 £426 £453
25th Percentile £448 £522 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +9.30% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £615
90th Percentile £652 £750 £675
South East median daily rate £508 £591 £543
% change year-on-year -14.06% +8.89% +3.43%
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 - £76.53 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +9.33% +2.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,861 2,411 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 90.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,584 2,502
10th Percentile £300 £245 £305
25th Percentile £411 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 100 72
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.39 £11.42
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.00 £14.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +159.74% -
75th Percentile £62.69 £66.11 £50.31
90th Percentile £70.72 £75.67 £75.75
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 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 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Thames Valley

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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 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
Berkshire +57 86 £518 -5.91% 14
Buckinghamshire +4 18 £511 -28.51% 11
Oxfordshire +7 1 £260 -56.67% 5
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 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) IIS
2 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 63 (60.00%) Azure
2 40 (38.10%) Serverless
3 34 (32.38%) Azure Functions
4 30 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 26 (24.76%) Azure Monitor
6 25 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (19.05%) AWS
8 14 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (13.33%) Entra ID
9 13 (12.38%) OpenShift
10 11 (10.48%) Azure AKS
10 11 (10.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (10.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (9.52%) GCP
12 9 (8.57%) SaaS
13 7 (6.67%) Azure API Management
13 7 (6.67%) IaaS
13 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (6.67%) PaaS
14 5 (4.76%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.52%) VSAN
2 4 (3.81%) Network Security
3 3 (2.86%) NGFW
3 3 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.95%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 11 (10.48%) Redis
4 10 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.76%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.90%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.90%) Impala
8 1 (0.95%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.95%) MySQL
8 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Git
2 22 (20.95%) Selenium
3 9 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.71%) GitLab
5 5 (4.76%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.81%) JIRA
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
7 2 (1.90%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.95%) JUnit
8 1 (0.95%) Subversion
8 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 28 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (16.19%) Telecoms
3 11 (10.48%) Retail
4 7 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.71%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.95%) Back Office
7 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (43.81%) Developer
2 31 (29.52%) Architect
3 24 (22.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 23 (21.90%) Azure Developer
5 16 (15.24%) Senior
6 12 (11.43%) Python Developer
7 11 (10.48%) Backend Developer
7 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 11 (10.48%) Site Engineer
7 11 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) Technical Architect
9 8 (7.62%) Senior Architect
10 7 (6.67%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.67%) React Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 7 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
10 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.90%) React
2 20 (19.05%) RESTful
3 14 (13.33%) Kafka
3 14 (13.33%) Node.js
4 13 (12.38%) GraphQL
5 12 (11.43%) Prisma
6 11 (10.48%) XML
7 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.52%) Web Services
8 9 (8.57%) .NET
8 9 (8.57%) ADO
9 8 (7.62%) JSON
10 7 (6.67%) Spring
11 6 (5.71%) CSS
12 5 (4.76%) HTML
12 5 (4.76%) Middleware
12 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
13 4 (3.81%) REST
13 4 (3.81%) YAML
14 3 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.48%) PKI
3 10 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 7 (6.67%) Wiki
5 5 (4.76%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.90%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Linux
1 3 (2.86%) Unix
2 2 (1.90%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.00%) DevOps
2 55 (52.38%) Agile
2 55 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 38 (36.19%) Containerisation
4 34 (32.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (23.81%) SDLC
6 24 (22.86%) Change Management
7 23 (21.90%) ITIL
8 22 (20.95%) Scrum
8 22 (20.95%) TOGAF
9 19 (18.10%) Migration
10 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
11 16 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (15.24%) Unit Testing
12 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (13.33%) Software Engineering
14 12 (11.43%) Product Backlog
14 12 (11.43%) Software Testing
15 11 (10.48%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.76%) Java
2 25 (23.81%) Python
3 19 (18.10%) SQL
4 12 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.71%) C#
7 4 (3.81%) Scala
8 3 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.86%) PHP
9 2 (1.90%) Bash
9 2 (1.90%) C
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Go
9 2 (1.90%) Groovy
9 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.90%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 25 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.48%) MCSE
3 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (10.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (2.86%) CISM
5 3 (2.86%) CISSP
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) NIST
2 11 (10.48%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (9.52%) NCSC
4 8 (7.62%) QA
5 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Active Directory
2 15 (14.29%) Docker
3 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (9.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.57%) Argo
2 9 (8.57%) Grafana
2 9 (8.57%) Istio
2 9 (8.57%) Kibana
2 9 (8.57%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.81%) Terraform
4 3 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.90%) Control-M
6 1 (0.95%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) VMware
3 11 (10.48%) Cisco
3 11 (10.48%) Palo Alto
4 7 (6.67%) Google
5 5 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (1.90%) SendGrid