Microservices Contracts in the Midlands

Microservices
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 91 77
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 35 69 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 2.11% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.41% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 46 123
10th Percentile £347 £306 £382
25th Percentile £361 £363 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £503 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% -3.37% +15.56%
75th Percentile £457 £672 £613
90th Percentile £611 £731 £688
England median daily rate £550 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,867 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 87.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 2,015 3,259
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
West Midlands -11 18 £450 -33.33% 28
East Midlands +3 17 £425 +6.25% 26
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (14.29%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
1 17 (48.57%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Azure AKS
2 5 (14.29%) Azure App Service
2 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 5 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.86%) dbt
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) IaaS
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) IPsec
1 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Relational Database
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.43%) DB2
4 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (14.29%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 5 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 5 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 2 (5.71%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.71%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.86%) JUnit
General
1 15 (42.86%) Finance
2 10 (28.57%) Banking
3 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
2 9 (25.71%) Java Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Angular Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Payments Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 10 (28.57%) React
3 9 (25.71%) AngularJS
4 7 (20.00%) RESTful
4 7 (20.00%) Spring
4 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (8.57%) Hibernate
6 3 (8.57%) Kafka
7 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
7 2 (5.71%) CSS
7 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
7 2 (5.71%) HTML
7 2 (5.71%) jQuery
8 1 (2.86%) Flask
8 1 (2.86%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) Mainframe
3 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.86%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Android
2 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.14%) SDLC
7 5 (14.29%) BDD
7 5 (14.29%) Build Automation
7 5 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
7 5 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (14.29%) Migration
7 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 5 (14.29%) SOA
7 5 (14.29%) TDD
7 5 (14.29%) User Experience
7 5 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) Python
3 9 (25.71%) SQL
4 7 (20.00%) C#
5 5 (14.29%) Bicep
5 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.29%) Perl
5 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 4 (11.43%) C
7 1 (2.86%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.29%) Kibana
2 5 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.29%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) SAP