Microservices Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 67 51 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -25 +3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 435 1,041 2,909
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.94% 4.22% 6.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 4.71% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 787 2,129
10th Percentile £400 £445 £413
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £35.58 £63.25 £48.50
25th Percentile £36.44 £70.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £73.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% +22.92% +33.33%
75th Percentile £40.44 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £41.53 - £68.00
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microservices over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Microservices daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microservices.

Microservices hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (4.37%) nginx
2 12 (2.76%) Confluence
3 8 (1.84%) CMS
4 7 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (1.38%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.92%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.92%) JBoss
7 2 (0.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Strapi
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.69%) Endur
2 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.46%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 189 (43.45%) AWS
2 148 (34.02%) Azure
3 50 (11.49%) Serverless
4 48 (11.03%) GCP
5 31 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (4.60%) PaaS
8 19 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (4.14%) Entra ID
10 17 (3.91%) SaaS
11 16 (3.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.45%) OpenShift
13 14 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (3.22%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 14 (3.22%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.76%) IaaS
15 11 (2.53%) Apigee
15 11 (2.53%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.68%) HTTP
2 8 (1.84%) ATM
3 4 (0.92%) DNS
3 4 (0.92%) HTTPS
3 4 (0.92%) IPsec
3 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) MQTT
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (10.80%) MongoDB
3 39 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 38 (8.74%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.83%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (3.22%) MySQL
8 11 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (2.53%) Big Data
8 11 (2.53%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.84%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.84%) OLTP
12 7 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.61%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.38%) DB2
13 6 (1.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (12.41%) Git
2 29 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.98%) JIRA
4 25 (5.75%) GitLab
5 17 (3.91%) Selenium
6 12 (2.76%) Cucumber
6 12 (2.76%) JUnit
7 11 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.84%) Maven
8 8 (1.84%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.38%) Gradle
9 6 (1.38%) JMeter
9 6 (1.38%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.15%) Mockito
10 5 (1.15%) TestNG
10 5 (1.15%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.92%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.92%) Subversion
11 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.92%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 93 (21.38%) Finance
2 84 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 58 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 54 (12.41%) Banking
5 29 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.07%) Retail
8 7 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.38%) German Language
10 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.15%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.92%) Front Office
11 4 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.92%) Marketing
12 3 (0.69%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 196 (45.06%) Developer
2 120 (27.59%) Architect
3 56 (12.87%) Java Developer
3 56 (12.87%) Senior
4 55 (12.64%) Solutions Architect
5 48 (11.03%) Full Stack Developer
6 34 (7.82%) Senior Developer
7 23 (5.29%) Lead
8 20 (4.60%) .NET Developer
8 20 (4.60%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.14%) Data Architect
9 18 (4.14%) Java Engineer
10 17 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (3.91%) Software Developer
11 15 (3.45%) Technical Architect
12 13 (2.99%) Azure Developer
12 13 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.99%) Scala Developer
13 12 (2.76%) Analyst
14 11 (2.53%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (15.86%) .NET
1 69 (15.86%) React
2 68 (15.63%) REST
3 64 (14.71%) Spring Boot
4 61 (14.02%) Kafka
4 61 (14.02%) Spring
5 51 (11.72%) RESTful
6 42 (9.66%) Node.js
7 35 (8.05%) HTML
8 34 (7.82%) CSS
9 32 (7.36%) JSON
10 28 (6.44%) RabbitMQ
11 25 (5.75%) .NET Core
11 25 (5.75%) Web Services
11 25 (5.75%) XML
12 24 (5.52%) AngularJS
13 20 (4.60%) GraphQL
14 19 (4.37%) .NET Framework
15 18 (4.14%) SOAP
16 17 (3.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 34 (7.82%) Data Structures
3 33 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (5.52%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.91%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.68%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.99%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.76%) Mainframe
9 12 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.07%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 5 (1.15%) DataPower
13 5 (1.15%) IoT
13 5 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.10%) Linux
2 27 (6.21%) Unix
3 8 (1.84%) Windows
4 6 (1.38%) Android
4 6 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.92%) CentOS
7 3 (0.69%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.23%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (41.38%) Agile
2 146 (33.56%) DevOps
3 137 (31.49%) CI/CD
4 76 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (17.01%) Test Automation
6 64 (14.71%) Full Stack Development
7 62 (14.25%) SDLC
7 62 (14.25%) TDD
8 52 (11.95%) Software Engineering
9 44 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (9.20%) Event-Driven
11 36 (8.28%) Design Patterns
12 35 (8.05%) Scrum
13 34 (7.82%) Containerisation
14 32 (7.36%) Kanban
15 30 (6.90%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (6.90%) Data Modelling
16 29 (6.67%) Analytics
16 29 (6.67%) User Experience
17 27 (6.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 157 (36.09%) Java
2 84 (19.31%) JavaScript
3 72 (16.55%) SQL
4 67 (15.40%) Python
5 59 (13.56%) C#
6 38 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 37 (8.51%) Go
8 29 (6.67%) PHP
9 23 (5.29%) Scala
10 20 (4.60%) Shell Script
11 11 (2.53%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.30%) C++
13 7 (1.61%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.38%) C
15 5 (1.15%) Bash
15 5 (1.15%) Bicep
15 5 (1.15%) Perl
16 3 (0.69%) ABAP
16 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.67%) Degree
4 19 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (0.46%) ISEB
7 2 (0.46%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.23%) CCNP
8 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.23%) CISSP
8 1 (0.23%) MCSE
8 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.06%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.83%) QA
3 12 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) NIST
6 5 (1.15%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.69%) MiFID
9 2 (0.46%) PSD2
10 1 (0.23%) EMIR
10 1 (0.23%) FATCA
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (16.78%) Docker
2 17 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 95 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 46 (10.57%) Terraform
3 22 (5.06%) Grafana
4 17 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.99%) Ansible
6 11 (2.53%) Consul
7 8 (1.84%) Kibana
7 8 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.92%) Istio
9 4 (0.92%) Puppet
10 3 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.69%) Zipkin
11 2 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.46%) Argo
11 2 (0.46%) Packer
11 2 (0.46%) TIBCO Hawk
12 1 (0.23%) FreeIPA
12 1 (0.23%) Icinga
12 1 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 40 (9.20%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.28%) Oracle
3 16 (3.68%) Google
4 12 (2.76%) SAP
5 11 (2.53%) IBM
6 10 (2.30%) Splunk
7 9 (2.07%) SaltStack
8 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.15%) TSYS
11 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.92%) Databricks
11 4 (0.92%) Informatica
11 4 (0.92%) VMware
12 3 (0.69%) AppDynamics
12 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.69%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.46%) Confluent
13 2 (0.46%) PayPal
13 2 (0.46%) Typelevel