Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 73 56 34
Rank change year-on-year -17 -22 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,062 1,837 4,326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.83% 3.91% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 4.34% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 1,404 3,238
10th Percentile £400 £458 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £640 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +6.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 24
10th Percentile £40.08 £45.50 £48.50
25th Percentile £44.60 £70.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% -2.69%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £61.88 £81.00 £76.65
UK median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.75
% change year-on-year -34.96% +19.34% +15.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -16 723 £575 -11.54% 296
North of England +14 128 £525 -4.55% 139
South East -10 95 £525 -8.70% 103
North West +41 86 £550 - 84
South West -36 39 £525 -9.68% 39
Midlands -10 37 £445 -20.89% 63
Yorkshire -9 36 £475 -17.39% 35
East Midlands +3 19 £425 +13.33% 28
West Midlands -7 18 £450 -32.08% 35
East of England -15 17 £508 +1.50% 32
North East +3 10 £413 -21.43% 21
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 31 (2.92%) Confluence
2 21 (1.98%) nginx
3 13 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.75%) Apache
5 8 (0.75%) CMS
5 8 (0.75%) IIS
5 8 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.66%) JBoss
6 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
8 5 (0.47%) Camunda
9 4 (0.38%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.094%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 13 (1.22%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.094%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.094%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.38%) Shopify
4 3 (0.28%) Maximo
5 2 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.094%) Endur
6 1 (0.094%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 373 (35.12%) AWS
2 302 (28.44%) Azure
3 159 (14.97%) GCP
4 134 (12.62%) Serverless
5 68 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (5.27%) OpenShift
7 50 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (4.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 44 (4.14%) GitHub
10 43 (4.05%) Azure Functions
10 43 (4.05%) SaaS
11 40 (3.77%) PaaS
12 39 (3.67%) Amazon S3
13 35 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 33 (3.11%) Entra ID
15 29 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 26 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (2.26%) Apigee
17 24 (2.26%) Azure App Service
17 24 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.61%) HTTP
2 22 (2.07%) Firewall
3 16 (1.51%) VPN
4 14 (1.32%) DNS
5 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.75%) DHCP
6 8 (0.75%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.47%) IPsec
8 4 (0.38%) ATM
8 4 (0.38%) Internet
8 4 (0.38%) Network Security
8 4 (0.38%) SSL
8 4 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.28%) AMQP
10 1 (0.094%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.094%) MQTT
10 1 (0.094%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.094%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (14.22%) NoSQL
2 109 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (8.95%) MongoDB
4 68 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 67 (6.31%) Relational Database
6 52 (4.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 34 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 24 (2.26%) Big Data
12 23 (2.17%) MySQL
13 20 (1.88%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.51%) BigQuery
15 15 (1.41%) DynamoDB
16 13 (1.22%) Data Lake
16 13 (1.22%) OLTP
17 11 (1.04%) DB2
17 11 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
18 10 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 169 (15.91%) Git
2 109 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 63 (5.93%) JIRA
4 57 (5.37%) JUnit
5 53 (4.99%) GitLab
6 42 (3.95%) Mockito
7 36 (3.39%) Selenium
7 36 (3.39%) TeamCity
8 31 (2.92%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.98%) Maven
10 20 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 18 (1.69%) Postman
12 14 (1.32%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.22%) Gradle
14 12 (1.13%) NUnit
14 12 (1.13%) SoapUI
14 12 (1.13%) SpecFlow
15 11 (1.04%) Moq
16 10 (0.94%) Bitbucket
17 9 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 221 (20.81%) Finance
2 194 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 142 (13.37%) Banking
4 94 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (3.95%) Retail
7 32 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.45%) Front Office
9 17 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.13%) Legal
12 10 (0.94%) Tech for Good
13 7 (0.66%) Marketing
13 7 (0.66%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.56%) Local Government
15 5 (0.47%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.38%) Back Office
16 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 454 (42.75%) Developer
2 236 (22.22%) Architect
3 147 (13.84%) Java Developer
4 143 (13.47%) Senior
5 85 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 81 (7.63%) Lead
7 77 (7.25%) Full Stack Developer
8 67 (6.31%) Software Engineer
9 66 (6.21%) Senior Developer
10 48 (4.52%) .NET Developer
10 48 (4.52%) Scala Developer
10 48 (4.52%) Technical Architect
11 40 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
11 40 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
12 39 (3.67%) C# Developer
13 34 (3.20%) Azure Developer
14 33 (3.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.01%) Java Engineer
16 31 (2.92%) Site Engineer
17 28 (2.64%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (18.83%) Kafka
2 178 (16.76%) Spring
3 175 (16.48%) .NET
4 170 (16.01%) Spring Boot
5 152 (14.31%) React
6 150 (14.12%) RESTful
7 134 (12.62%) REST
8 95 (8.95%) Node.js
9 72 (6.78%) .NET Core
10 65 (6.12%) AngularJS
11 63 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
12 55 (5.18%) CSS
13 54 (5.08%) Web Services
14 53 (4.99%) HTML
15 50 (4.71%) Akka
15 50 (4.71%) JSON
16 49 (4.61%) Hibernate
17 48 (4.52%) JPA
18 37 (3.48%) SOAP
18 37 (3.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.34%) Product Ownership
2 68 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 51 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 50 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 49 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
6 34 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 30 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 25 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.60%) Reference Data
14 16 (1.51%) Derivative
14 16 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.41%) Fixed Income
15 15 (1.41%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.32%) Mainframe
17 13 (1.22%) Data Centre
18 10 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 120 (11.30%) Linux
2 63 (5.93%) Unix
3 33 (3.11%) Windows
4 22 (2.07%) Android
5 20 (1.88%) Mac OS X
6 19 (1.79%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.22%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.47%) CentOS
10 2 (0.19%) VMS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.094%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.094%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (44.54%) Agile
2 420 (39.55%) DevOps
3 322 (30.32%) CI/CD
4 214 (20.15%) TDD
5 174 (16.38%) Software Engineering
6 165 (15.54%) Test Automation
7 156 (14.69%) Containerisation
8 138 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
9 128 (12.05%) Full Stack Development
10 127 (11.96%) Scrum
11 102 (9.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 100 (9.42%) BDD
13 96 (9.04%) SDLC
14 95 (8.95%) Design Patterns
15 93 (8.76%) Event-Driven
16 90 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
17 83 (7.82%) Unit Testing
18 68 (6.40%) Pair Programming
19 65 (6.12%) Computer Science
20 62 (5.84%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 400 (37.66%) Java
2 202 (19.02%) SQL
3 178 (16.76%) Python
4 171 (16.10%) C#
5 150 (14.12%) JavaScript
6 99 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 67 (6.31%) Go
7 67 (6.31%) Scala
8 27 (2.54%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.17%) PHP
10 22 (2.07%) C++
11 19 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.69%) Bash
13 17 (1.60%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.22%) C
15 12 (1.13%) Bicep
15 12 (1.13%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.94%) Perl
16 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
17 9 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 165 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 154 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 72 (6.78%) Degree
4 51 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.19%) PMP
13 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.094%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.094%) CISSP
13 1 (0.094%) ISEB
13 1 (0.094%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.094%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.30%) QA
2 22 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 18 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 8 (0.75%) GDPR
5 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.66%) MiFID
6 5 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.47%) NIST
7 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.28%) NCSC
7 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.094%) EMIR
8 1 (0.094%) FATCA
8 1 (0.094%) GRC
8 1 (0.094%) SLA
8 1 (0.094%) WCAG
System Software
1 237 (22.32%) Docker
2 48 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.28%) Firmware
7 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.094%) Ceph
8 1 (0.094%) NFS
8 1 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 366 (34.46%) Kubernetes
2 119 (11.21%) Terraform
3 55 (5.18%) Grafana
4 45 (4.24%) Ansible
4 45 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 25 (2.35%) Kibana
6 20 (1.88%) Argo
7 17 (1.60%) Istio
8 12 (1.13%) Consul
9 11 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.75%) Puppet
11 5 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 3 (0.28%) logstash
13 3 (0.28%) Netcool
14 2 (0.19%) Control-M
14 2 (0.19%) TIBCO Hawk
15 1 (0.094%) ITRS Geneos
15 1 (0.094%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 115 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.97%) Oracle
3 64 (6.03%) Google
4 24 (2.26%) SAP
5 23 (2.17%) Typelevel
6 22 (2.07%) Splunk
7 17 (1.60%) IBM
7 17 (1.60%) Salesforce
8 15 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.32%) TIBCO
10 12 (1.13%) AppDynamics
10 12 (1.13%) SaltStack
11 10 (0.94%) VMware
12 8 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.66%) Informatica
13 7 (0.66%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.66%) TSYS
13 7 (0.66%) WSO2
14 5 (0.47%) Apple