Microservices Contracts in the South West

Microservices
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 118 82 40
Rank change year-on-year -36 -42 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 39 79 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.18% 2.33% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.62% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 70 146
10th Percentile £396 £504 £425
25th Percentile £425 £513 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +5.68% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £698 £638
90th Percentile £644 £726 £680
England median daily rate £550 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -14.06% +6.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,709 3,015 3,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.12% 88.99% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,689 2,175 2,323
10th Percentile £250 £313 £300
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 312 206
10th Percentile £13.85 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.78 £23.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +17.95% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.31
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.31 £68.73
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South West

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +5 23 £525 -4.76% 16
Dorset +14 9 £400 - 2
Wiltshire -30 3 £635 +10.43% 2
Gloucestershire -11 2 £630 -10.00% 8
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 4 (10.26%) Apache Solr
1 4 (10.26%) nginx
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) GCP
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Azure Stack
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (10.26%) OCI
5 3 (7.69%) Sumo Logic
6 2 (5.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.56%) Apigee
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) DNS
2 4 (10.26%) HTTPS
2 4 (10.26%) IPsec
2 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.26%) CockroachDB
3 4 (10.26%) Couchbase
3 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.26%) MySQL
3 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.13%) Big Data
5 2 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.56%) Metadata
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) Redis
6 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
1 3 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Legal
2 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Tech for Good
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
1 11 (28.21%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) .NET Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Applications Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) REST
2 8 (20.51%) .NET
2 8 (20.51%) JSON
3 7 (17.95%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (12.82%) OpenID
4 5 (12.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (10.26%) LEMP Stack
5 4 (10.26%) XML
5 4 (10.26%) YAML
6 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
6 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET
6 3 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (7.69%) JPA
6 3 (7.69%) Kafka
6 3 (7.69%) MassTransit
6 3 (7.69%) Spring
6 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.13%) jQuery
7 2 (5.13%) KnockoutJS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.26%) Blockchain
4 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (10.26%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.90%) DevOps
4 9 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
5 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
5 8 (20.51%) SDLC
5 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.38%) Analytics
7 6 (15.38%) Architectural Design
8 5 (12.82%) Data Governance
8 5 (12.82%) Data Management
8 5 (12.82%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (12.82%) Low Latency
8 5 (12.82%) TDD
8 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
9 4 (10.26%) Cost Reduction
9 4 (10.26%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) Java
2 7 (17.95%) Python
3 6 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) PHP
5 3 (7.69%) Go
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) Perl
6 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) HIPAA
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) NetIQ Identity Manager
4 1 (2.56%) rkt
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 4 (10.26%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.56%) IBM
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) NetIQ
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) VMware