Microservices Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microservices
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 116 90 50
Rank change year-on-year -26 -40 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 391 625 1,346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.93% 2.72% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 3.03% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 477 982
10th Percentile £363 £425 £406
25th Percentile £418 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.78% +12.66%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £724 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 26
10th Percentile £39.00 £40.25 £45.59
25th Percentile - £64.38 £46.81
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +38.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £48.43 £75.00 £65.41
90th Percentile £56.25 - £76.13
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK excluding London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +10 134 £550 - 138
North West +42 102 £550 +10.00% 77
South East -21 90 £623 +13.18% 81
Scotland +9 89 £463 -3.44% 36
South West -33 36 £494 -17.71% 42
Midlands -7 34 £445 -19.09% 69
Yorkshire -21 28 £425 -26.09% 41
West Midlands 0 19 £450 -29.41% 32
East of England -11 17 £550 +4.96% 17
East Midlands +5 15 £411 -3.24% 37
North East 0 8 £413 -25.00% 21
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (3.32%) Confluence
2 10 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.79%) JBoss
4 6 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (1.28%) nginx
6 4 (1.02%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.77%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.77%) IIS
8 2 (0.51%) Apache
8 2 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.26%) Mule
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (2.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (1.79%) Temenos T24
2 4 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.77%) Maximo
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 159 (40.66%) AWS
2 117 (29.92%) Azure
3 44 (11.25%) Serverless
4 34 (8.70%) GCP
5 28 (7.16%) OpenShift
6 23 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.37%) Entra ID
9 20 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (4.86%) SaaS
11 17 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.35%) Azure Functions
12 14 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.32%) PaaS
14 12 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (2.81%) IaaS
16 9 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (2.30%) Apigee
16 9 (2.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.09%) VPN
2 12 (3.07%) Firewall
3 6 (1.53%) DNS
3 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.28%) ATM
4 5 (1.28%) IPsec
5 4 (1.02%) HTTP
5 4 (1.02%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.02%) SSL
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
7 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.86%) NoSQL
2 52 (13.30%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (11.76%) MongoDB
4 37 (9.46%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (3.58%) MySQL
7 13 (3.32%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (3.07%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.79%) Couchbase
11 7 (1.79%) OLAP
11 7 (1.79%) OLTP
11 7 (1.79%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.53%) DB2
12 6 (1.53%) Oracle OLAP
12 6 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.28%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.02%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 71 (18.16%) Git
2 41 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 34 (8.70%) JIRA
4 31 (7.93%) JUnit
5 27 (6.91%) GitLab
6 14 (3.58%) Mockito
7 10 (2.56%) Selenium
8 9 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (2.30%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.53%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.28%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.28%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (1.28%) Subversion
11 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.02%) JMeter
11 4 (1.02%) Maven
11 4 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 79 (20.20%) Finance
2 48 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 47 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 46 (11.76%) Banking
5 24 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.56%) Legal
8 5 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.77%) Retail
10 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Law
10 2 (0.51%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.26%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 197 (50.38%) Developer
2 96 (24.55%) Java Developer
3 83 (21.23%) Architect
4 46 (11.76%) Senior
5 36 (9.21%) Lead
6 33 (8.44%) Full Stack Developer
7 30 (7.67%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (7.16%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.39%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.37%) Azure Developer
10 21 (5.37%) Senior Java Developer
11 20 (5.12%) Technical Architect
12 19 (4.86%) .NET Developer
13 15 (3.84%) Technical Leader
14 14 (3.58%) Full Stack Engineer
14 14 (3.58%) Lead Architect
14 14 (3.58%) Python Developer
15 12 (3.07%) Java Engineer
15 12 (3.07%) Lead Developer
16 10 (2.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (30.43%) Spring
2 106 (27.11%) Spring Boot
3 80 (20.46%) React
4 75 (19.18%) RESTful
5 71 (18.16%) REST
6 69 (17.65%) Kafka
7 55 (14.07%) Node.js
8 54 (13.81%) .NET
9 34 (8.70%) CSS
10 33 (8.44%) AngularJS
10 33 (8.44%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (7.67%) HTML
12 28 (7.16%) JPA
13 19 (4.86%) Hibernate
14 18 (4.60%) AWS CDK
14 18 (4.60%) Web Services
15 17 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
16 16 (4.09%) JSON
17 15 (3.84%) .NET Framework
18 11 (2.81%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (9.97%) Public Cloud
3 29 (7.42%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.39%) Data Structures
5 23 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.79%) DataPower
9 7 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.53%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.28%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.02%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.12%) Android
2 19 (4.86%) Apple iOS
2 19 (4.86%) Windows
3 18 (4.60%) Linux
4 12 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.05%) Unix
6 7 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.28%) CentOS
8 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (50.64%) Agile
2 153 (39.13%) DevOps
3 141 (36.06%) CI/CD
4 79 (20.20%) Software Engineering
5 72 (18.41%) SDLC
6 66 (16.88%) TDD
7 61 (15.60%) Design Patterns
8 60 (15.35%) Full Stack Development
9 51 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 51 (13.04%) Test Automation
10 38 (9.72%) Scrum
11 37 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (9.46%) Unit Testing
12 35 (8.95%) Event-Driven
13 34 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (8.18%) Change Management
15 26 (6.65%) Mentoring
16 24 (6.14%) BDD
17 23 (5.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 188 (48.08%) Java
2 76 (19.44%) SQL
3 61 (15.60%) Python
4 60 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 53 (13.55%) TypeScript
6 44 (11.25%) C#
7 18 (4.60%) Scala
8 17 (4.35%) Go
9 13 (3.32%) Kotlin
10 12 (3.07%) PHP
10 12 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.56%) Bash
12 8 (2.05%) C
13 5 (1.28%) Bicep
13 5 (1.28%) Perl
14 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.02%) Ruby
15 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 57 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 48 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.65%) Degree
4 17 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.58%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.26%) CCNP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.26%) MCSE
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.26%) PMP
9 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.32%) QA
3 6 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.53%) NIST
4 5 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.28%) GDPR
5 4 (1.02%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.51%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) GxP
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (19.44%) Docker
2 28 (7.16%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 90 (23.02%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.44%) Terraform
3 22 (5.63%) Grafana
4 18 (4.60%) Kibana
5 17 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.56%) Istio
7 9 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.05%) Ansible
8 8 (2.05%) Argo
8 8 (2.05%) Zipkin
9 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.51%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) FreeIPA
11 1 (0.26%) Graphite
11 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.26%) Icinga
11 1 (0.26%) linkerd
11 1 (0.26%) Packer
11 1 (0.26%) rkt
11 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (9.97%) Oracle
2 25 (6.39%) Microsoft
3 14 (3.58%) IBM
4 13 (3.32%) Google
5 12 (3.07%) Splunk
6 9 (2.30%) VMware
7 8 (2.05%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.79%) TSYS
9 5 (1.28%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.28%) Apple
10 4 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.02%) SAP
11 3 (0.77%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.77%) Confluent
11 3 (0.77%) Nintex
11 3 (0.77%) Pega
12 2 (0.51%) Databricks
12 2 (0.51%) Greenplum
13 1 (0.26%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.26%) Teradata