Microservices Contracts

Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 54 32
Rank change year-on-year -20 -22 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,216 2,305 5,447
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 4.03% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 4.48% 6.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,734 3,956
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -10.36% +2.80% +12.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 34
10th Percentile £40.08 £35.00 £46.21
25th Percentile £44.60 £57.50 £48.50
Median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% +20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £61.88 £78.00 £76.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -36.72% +38.10% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England -23 1,011 £550 -12.70% 804
London -15 682 £575 -11.54% 396
Work from Home -12 431 £538 -6.52% 654
UK excluding London -29 381 £493 -10.36% 532
North of England +3 119 £525 -4.55% 174
South East -14 93 £615 +10.56% 150
Scotland +11 88 £463 -3.44% 46
North West +26 87 £550 +10.00% 95
South West -30 38 £494 -16.84% 44
Midlands -14 35 £445 -19.09% 72
Yorkshire -18 28 £425 -26.09% 56
West Midlands -4 19 £450 -31.43% 39
East of England -11 17 £550 +5.16% 18
East Midlands +9 16 £425 - 33
North East +2 8 £413 -25.00% 24

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.55%) nginx
2 30 (2.47%) Confluence
3 24 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 11 (0.90%) CMS
5 10 (0.82%) Apache
5 10 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
6 8 (0.66%) IIS
6 8 (0.66%) JBoss
6 8 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.41%) Camunda
9 5 (0.41%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.25%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.082%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.082%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.082%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
1 7 (0.58%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.33%) Endur
3 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.25%) Maximo
3 3 (0.25%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.082%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.082%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.082%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 500 (41.12%) AWS
2 340 (27.96%) Azure
3 166 (13.65%) GCP
4 161 (13.24%) Serverless
5 83 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (5.02%) Amazon S3
7 60 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (4.69%) OpenShift
9 49 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (3.87%) PaaS
10 47 (3.87%) SaaS
11 46 (3.78%) Azure Functions
12 41 (3.37%) GitHub
13 40 (3.29%) Entra ID
14 35 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
16 32 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
19 27 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.36%) HTTP
2 21 (1.73%) Firewall
3 16 (1.32%) DNS
3 16 (1.32%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) DHCP
4 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.74%) ATM
6 8 (0.66%) HTTPS
7 6 (0.49%) Internet
8 5 (0.41%) IPsec
9 4 (0.33%) SSL
9 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.25%) Network Security
11 2 (0.16%) AMQP
11 2 (0.16%) WAN
12 1 (0.082%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.082%) MQTT
12 1 (0.082%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.082%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (11.92%) NoSQL
2 141 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (9.05%) MongoDB
4 79 (6.50%) Relational Database
5 72 (5.92%) SQL Server
6 50 (4.11%) Apache Cassandra
7 38 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (2.47%) MySQL
11 26 (2.14%) Big Data
12 22 (1.81%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.56%) Oracle Database
14 17 (1.40%) Redis
15 16 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (1.23%) BigQuery
17 13 (1.07%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 182 (14.97%) Git
2 118 (9.70%) Jenkins
3 67 (5.51%) JIRA
4 61 (5.02%) JUnit
5 57 (4.69%) GitLab
6 41 (3.37%) Mockito
6 41 (3.37%) Selenium
7 38 (3.13%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.88%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.73%) Cypress.io
9 21 (1.73%) Maven
10 16 (1.32%) Postman
11 14 (1.15%) SoapUI
12 13 (1.07%) Gradle
13 12 (0.99%) NUnit
14 11 (0.90%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.90%) Moq
14 11 (0.90%) SonarQube
14 11 (0.90%) SpecFlow
15 10 (0.82%) JMeter
General
1 239 (19.65%) Finance
2 205 (16.86%) Social Skills
3 139 (11.43%) Banking
4 130 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (2.55%) Retail
7 30 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 23 (1.89%) Front Office
10 19 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.90%) Tech for Good
13 10 (0.82%) Legal
14 8 (0.66%) Local Government
15 7 (0.58%) Electronics
15 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.49%) German Language
16 6 (0.49%) Marketing
17 5 (0.41%) Law
17 5 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 570 (46.88%) Developer
2 260 (21.38%) Architect
3 202 (16.61%) Java Developer
4 162 (13.32%) Senior
5 98 (8.06%) Full Stack Developer
5 98 (8.06%) Solutions Architect
6 89 (7.32%) Lead
7 82 (6.74%) Senior Developer
8 72 (5.92%) Software Engineer
9 55 (4.52%) .NET Developer
10 53 (4.36%) Scala Developer
11 52 (4.28%) Senior Java Developer
12 47 (3.87%) Technical Architect
13 42 (3.45%) Java Engineer
14 40 (3.29%) C# Developer
15 39 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.96%) Azure Developer
17 31 (2.55%) Senior Software Engineer
18 30 (2.47%) Analyst
18 30 (2.47%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (19.82%) Spring
2 221 (18.17%) Spring Boot
3 206 (16.94%) Kafka
4 188 (15.46%) .NET
5 181 (14.88%) REST
6 179 (14.72%) React
7 172 (14.14%) RESTful
8 125 (10.28%) Node.js
9 89 (7.32%) CSS
10 82 (6.74%) HTML
11 79 (6.50%) AngularJS
12 74 (6.09%) .NET Core
13 65 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (4.85%) JSON
14 59 (4.85%) Web Services
15 55 (4.52%) JPA
16 54 (4.44%) Akka
17 50 (4.11%) Hibernate
18 47 (3.87%) XML
19 42 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.24%) Product Ownership
2 81 (6.66%) Cloud Native
3 68 (5.59%) Data Structures
3 68 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
4 62 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 40 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
6 37 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 32 (2.63%) Mobile App
9 23 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.64%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.32%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.23%) Mainframe
14 14 (1.15%) Derivative
15 13 (1.07%) Fixed Income
16 10 (0.82%) Data Centre
16 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 118 (9.70%) Linux
2 65 (5.35%) Unix
3 34 (2.80%) Windows
4 25 (2.06%) Android
5 21 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.56%) Mac OS X
7 13 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.07%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
9 1 (0.082%) Debian
9 1 (0.082%) tvOS
9 1 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (44.08%) Agile
2 422 (34.70%) DevOps
3 366 (30.10%) CI/CD
4 230 (18.91%) TDD
5 193 (15.87%) Test Automation
6 187 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 163 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
8 154 (12.66%) Full Stack Development
9 149 (12.25%) Containerisation
10 133 (10.94%) Scrum
10 133 (10.94%) SDLC
11 114 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 102 (8.39%) Continuous Integration
13 100 (8.22%) BDD
14 97 (7.98%) Event-Driven
15 92 (7.57%) Unit Testing
16 88 (7.24%) Design Patterns
17 72 (5.92%) Pair Programming
18 71 (5.84%) Computer Science
19 70 (5.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 485 (39.88%) Java
2 242 (19.90%) SQL
3 193 (15.87%) Python
4 187 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 180 (14.80%) C#
6 125 (10.28%) TypeScript
7 86 (7.07%) Scala
8 78 (6.41%) Go
9 37 (3.04%) PHP
10 31 (2.55%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.89%) Bash
11 23 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.48%) C++
12 18 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.32%) Bicep
13 16 (1.32%) C
14 15 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 14 (1.15%) Perl
16 12 (0.99%) Ruby
17 11 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 85 (6.99%) Degree
4 60 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.58%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.16%) CISSP
11 2 (0.16%) ISEB
11 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.16%) PMP
11 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.082%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.62%) QA
2 36 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.82%) GDPR
5 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.58%) MiFID
5 7 (0.58%) NIST
6 5 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.33%) NCSC
7 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.16%) PSD2
8 2 (0.16%) WCAG
9 1 (0.082%) EMIR
9 1 (0.082%) FATCA
9 1 (0.082%) GxP
9 1 (0.082%) SLA
System Software
1 260 (21.38%) Docker
2 47 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.74%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.082%) Ceph
7 1 (0.082%) Firmware
7 1 (0.082%) NFS
Systems Management
1 361 (29.69%) Kubernetes
2 127 (10.44%) Terraform
3 62 (5.10%) Grafana
4 47 (3.87%) Prometheus
5 42 (3.45%) Ansible
6 29 (2.38%) Kibana
7 19 (1.56%) Argo
8 18 (1.48%) Istio
9 17 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.99%) Consul
11 11 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.90%) Puppet
12 8 (0.66%) Zipkin
13 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.33%) Packer
15 3 (0.25%) logstash
15 3 (0.25%) Netcool
15 3 (0.25%) Podman
16 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 115 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.31%) Oracle
3 67 (5.51%) Google
4 30 (2.47%) SAP
4 30 (2.47%) Splunk
5 21 (1.73%) IBM
5 21 (1.73%) Typelevel
6 20 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 14 (1.15%) TIBCO
9 11 (0.90%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.82%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.82%) VMware
11 9 (0.74%) SaltStack
12 7 (0.58%) Adobe
12 7 (0.58%) New Relic
12 7 (0.58%) TSYS
12 7 (0.58%) WSO2
13 6 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.49%) Sitecore