Microservices Contracts in the North West

Microservices
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 56 93 28
Rank change year-on-year +37 -65 +21
Contract jobs citing Microservices 84 59 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.07% 1.94% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.16% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 209
10th Percentile £406 £416 £404
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £850 £695 £738
England median daily rate £550 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.09% - -
75th Percentile £48.43 - -
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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,330 2,732 3,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.07% 89.66% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,918 2,617
10th Percentile £308 £313 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 142 158
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.02 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%
75th Percentile £46.18 £45.90 £52.67
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.98 £75.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North West

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North West 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
Manchester +37 56 £550 +10.55% 62
Cheshire -1 20 £489 -18.47% 5
Lancashire +10 5 - - 7
Cumbria - 1 £575 - 3
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (8.33%) Confluence
2 6 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.57%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) Camunda
4 1 (1.19%) Mule
4 1 (1.19%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.57%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.71%) AWS
2 26 (30.95%) Azure
3 7 (8.33%) Apigee
3 7 (8.33%) Kong
4 6 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (5.95%) SaaS
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Serverless
7 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.38%) GCP
8 2 (2.38%) PaaS
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.29%) Firewall
1 12 (14.29%) VPN
2 3 (3.57%) HTTP
2 3 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) MongoDB
2 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.33%) OLAP
3 7 (8.33%) OLTP
4 6 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.14%) Oracle OLAP
4 6 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.57%) DB2
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.38%) MySQL
7 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (1.19%) Power BI
8 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) JIRA
3 9 (10.71%) JUnit
4 7 (8.33%) GitLab
5 5 (5.95%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.57%) Maven
7 3 (3.57%) Mockito
7 3 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.38%) Selenium
9 1 (1.19%) Gradle
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
9 1 (1.19%) Liquibase
9 1 (1.19%) Log4j
9 1 (1.19%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (22.62%) Finance
2 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.67%) Banking
4 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Legal
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (41.67%) Architect
2 28 (33.33%) Developer
3 18 (21.43%) Lead
4 15 (17.86%) Java Developer
5 13 (15.48%) Technical Architect
6 12 (14.29%) Lead Architect
6 12 (14.29%) Technical Leader
7 9 (10.71%) Senior
8 8 (9.52%) AWS Architect
8 8 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (7.14%) Data Architect
9 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Digital Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Digital Technical Architect
11 4 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Pega Developer
12 3 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.33%) Spring
2 22 (26.19%) Node.js
3 20 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 19 (22.62%) REST
5 14 (16.67%) React
6 12 (14.29%) .NET
7 11 (13.10%) JSON
7 11 (13.10%) Kafka
8 9 (10.71%) JPA
9 8 (9.52%) Web Services
10 7 (8.33%) .NET Framework
10 7 (8.33%) Hibernate
10 7 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
10 7 (8.33%) J2EE
10 7 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (8.33%) SOAP
11 6 (7.14%) Apache Camel
11 6 (7.14%) Spring Integration
11 6 (7.14%) XML
12 4 (4.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 15 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 9 (10.71%) Data Structures
4 7 (8.33%) DataPower
5 6 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.14%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.95%) Mobile App
6 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (4.76%) Mainframe
8 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.57%) Derivative
8 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.57%) Low-Code
9 2 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (1.19%) Clustering
10 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 1 (1.19%) PKI
10 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.05%) Android
1 16 (19.05%) Apple iOS
2 13 (15.48%) Windows
3 12 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.95%) Linux
4 5 (5.95%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (69.05%) Agile
2 44 (52.38%) DevOps
3 27 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 27 (32.14%) Design Patterns
4 19 (22.62%) Risk Management
5 16 (19.05%) OO
6 15 (17.86%) Event-Driven
7 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 13 (15.48%) Mobile Device Management
8 13 (15.48%) Security Architecture
8 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
9 12 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 12 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
9 12 (14.29%) Zero Trust
10 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
11 10 (11.90%) API Management
11 10 (11.90%) Mentoring
11 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) Java
2 12 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 10 (11.90%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.52%) Python
6 7 (8.33%) C#
7 4 (4.76%) Go
8 3 (3.57%) C
9 1 (1.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 24 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.95%) Degree
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) NCSC
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 16 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (1.19%) Consul
4 1 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.19%) Graphite
4 1 (1.19%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.19%) Istio
4 1 (1.19%) linkerd
4 1 (1.19%) Packer
4 1 (1.19%) Podman
4 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.19%) Puppet
4 1 (1.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Oracle
2 10 (11.90%) IBM
3 7 (8.33%) TSYS
4 6 (7.14%) Google
5 5 (5.95%) Apple
6 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.57%) Nintex
7 3 (3.57%) Pega
7 3 (3.57%) SAP
7 3 (3.57%) VMware
8 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.19%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.19%) Splunk