Microservices Contracts in the North of England

Microservices
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 70 84 39
Rank change year-on-year +14 -45 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 128 132 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.64% 2.43% 5.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 2.69% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 110 292
10th Percentile £375 £418 £402
25th Percentile £430 £466 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £686 £675
90th Percentile £849 £713 £725
England median daily rate £550 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -14.06% +6.67% +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 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the North of England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
North West +41 86 £550 - 84
Yorkshire -9 36 £475 -17.39% 35
North East +3 10 £413 -21.43% 21
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (6.25%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.34%) IIS
4 1 (0.78%) Camunda
4 1 (0.78%) Mule
4 1 (0.78%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.34%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.81%) AWS
2 41 (32.03%) Azure
3 9 (7.03%) Kong
3 9 (7.03%) Serverless
4 8 (6.25%) SaaS
5 7 (5.47%) Apigee
5 7 (5.47%) GitHub
6 6 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.69%) Azure Stack
6 6 (4.69%) GCP
6 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.91%) BrowserStack
7 5 (3.91%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.13%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.13%) PaaS
9 3 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.16%) Firewall
2 12 (9.38%) VPN
3 3 (2.34%) HTTP
3 3 (2.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) MongoDB
1 20 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.94%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.47%) MySQL
4 7 (5.47%) OLAP
4 7 (5.47%) OLTP
5 6 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle OLAP
5 6 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.34%) DB2
8 2 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.78%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.78%) Power BI
9 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (15.63%) Git
2 16 (12.50%) JUnit
3 15 (11.72%) JIRA
4 7 (5.47%) GitLab
5 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.69%) Mockito
6 5 (3.91%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.13%) Maven
8 3 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.56%) Selenium
9 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.78%) Gradle
10 1 (0.78%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.78%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.78%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.78%) TestNG
10 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (20.31%) Finance
2 24 (18.75%) Banking
3 22 (17.19%) Public Sector
4 17 (13.28%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.69%) Legal
6 3 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Automotive
7 2 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 48 (37.50%) Architect
2 46 (35.94%) Developer
3 27 (21.09%) Java Developer
4 20 (15.63%) Lead
5 14 (10.94%) Technical Architect
6 13 (10.16%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.38%) Lead Architect
7 12 (9.38%) Senior
7 12 (9.38%) Technical Leader
8 11 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.25%) AWS Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.47%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.69%) Lead Developer
11 6 (4.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.91%) Full Stack Software Engineer
13 4 (3.13%) Digital Architect
13 4 (3.13%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (28.13%) Spring
2 29 (22.66%) Spring Boot
3 26 (20.31%) React
3 26 (20.31%) REST
4 23 (17.97%) Node.js
5 17 (13.28%) .NET
6 15 (11.72%) JPA
6 15 (11.72%) Kafka
7 13 (10.16%) Hibernate
8 12 (9.38%) JSON
9 9 (7.03%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.03%) RESTful
10 8 (6.25%) Web Services
11 7 (5.47%) IBM Integration Bus
11 7 (5.47%) J2EE
11 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (5.47%) SOAP
12 6 (4.69%) Apache Camel
12 6 (4.69%) Spring Integration
12 6 (4.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Public Cloud
2 16 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.03%) Data Structures
4 7 (5.47%) DataPower
4 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.69%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.91%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.34%) Derivative
8 3 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.34%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.78%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Android
1 16 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 13 (10.16%) Windows
3 12 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (7.03%) Linux
5 8 (6.25%) Unix
6 3 (2.34%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (60.16%) Agile
2 66 (51.56%) DevOps
3 45 (35.16%) CI/CD
4 38 (29.69%) Design Patterns
5 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 19 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (14.84%) Risk Management
8 18 (14.06%) Mentoring
8 18 (14.06%) TDD
9 16 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 16 (12.50%) OO
9 16 (12.50%) Scrum
10 15 (11.72%) Event-Driven
10 15 (11.72%) Full Stack Development
10 15 (11.72%) SDLC
11 13 (10.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 13 (10.16%) Mobile Device Management
11 13 (10.16%) Security Architecture
11 13 (10.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.56%) Java
2 20 (15.63%) TypeScript
3 19 (14.84%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.28%) SQL
5 11 (8.59%) C#
6 10 (7.81%) Python
7 3 (2.34%) C
7 3 (2.34%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.69%) Degree
5 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.03%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 27 (21.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (23.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.47%) Terraform
3 6 (4.69%) Ansible
3 6 (4.69%) Grafana
3 6 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.56%) Istio
4 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) Kiali
5 1 (0.78%) Kibana
5 1 (0.78%) Podman
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (8.59%) Oracle
2 10 (7.81%) IBM
3 7 (5.47%) Google
3 7 (5.47%) TSYS
4 5 (3.91%) Apple
4 5 (3.91%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.34%) Nintex
5 3 (2.34%) Pega
5 3 (2.34%) SAP
6 2 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.56%) Splunk
6 2 (1.56%) VMware
7 1 (0.78%) Atlassian