Microservices Contracts in the East of England

Microservices
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 81 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 17 37 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.87% 1.90% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 2.18% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 63
10th Percentile £344 £425 £416
25th Percentile £388 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -12.66% +9.05%
75th Percentile £584 £547 £662
90th Percentile £588 £650 £768
England median daily rate £550 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -14.06% +6.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £70.32 -
25th Percentile - £70.67 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.76
Median % change year-on-year - +10.25% +46.13%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £77.00
90th Percentile - - £77.32
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
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,700 2,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 83.67% 87.31% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 1,011 1,311
10th Percentile £200 £208 £195
25th Percentile £313 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £587
90th Percentile £671 £704 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 320 379
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.26 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.15% +21.49% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the East of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridgeshire -1 7 - - 9
Essex -4 4 £520 -0.57% 1
Bedfordshire -3 3 £350 -26.32%
Hertfordshire -6 3 £550 +5.77% 14
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
1 7 (41.18%) JUnit
1 7 (41.18%) Mockito
General
1 3 (17.65%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) RESTful
2 7 (41.18%) Drools
2 7 (41.18%) Quarkus
2 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.88%) Akka
5 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) FMCG
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) PropTech
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Decision Table
4 2 (11.76%) Domain Models
4 2 (11.76%) IT Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Clean Code
5 1 (5.88%) CQRS
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (5.88%) GitOps
5 1 (5.88%) Inventory Management
5 1 (5.88%) Product Vision
5 1 (5.88%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Typelevel