Microservices Contracts

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 59 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,266 2,053 5,377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.92% 3.69% 6.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 4.12% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,533 3,927
10th Percentile £400 £450 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -10.85% +2.04% +7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 31
10th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £43.32 £64.38 £48.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.72% +20.83% +13.74%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £62.50 £79.50 £75.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £60.75
% change year-on-year -36.72% +19.34% +7.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,956 49,780 79,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 89.56% 90.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,553 34,315 55,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,551 1,689 1,867
10th Percentile £12.74 £11.87 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.25 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +38.46% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £51.59
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +2.44%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 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
England -16 1,077 £550 -15.12% 473
London -12 737 £575 -11.54% 231
Work from Home -16 412 £525 -8.70% 314
UK excluding London -5 405 £490 -10.85% 274
North of England +21 125 £525 -9.56% 76
South East +6 103 £525 -12.50% 86
Scotland +11 92 £463 -3.44% 15
North West +36 81 £525 -4.55% 49
Midlands -17 39 £445 -19.09% 50
South West -31 37 £525 -12.50% 22
Yorkshire -3 35 £550 -8.33% 21
East Midlands +7 21 £411 +9.67% 24
West Midlands -13 18 £450 -33.33% 26
East of England -15 16 £550 +10.00% 19
North East +7 11 £469 -10.71% 7

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 40 (3.16%) Confluence
2 24 (1.90%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.90%) nginx
3 10 (0.79%) Apache
3 10 (0.79%) OpenStack
3 10 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (0.71%) CMS
5 7 (0.55%) Anypoint
5 7 (0.55%) JBoss
5 7 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
6 6 (0.47%) IIS
7 5 (0.39%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (0.39%) Camunda
7 5 (0.39%) IBM Notes
8 4 (0.32%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.16%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.079%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.079%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.55%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.32%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.079%) Endur
5 1 (0.079%) Maximo
5 1 (0.079%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 482 (38.07%) AWS
2 354 (27.96%) Azure
3 197 (15.56%) GCP
4 155 (12.24%) Serverless
5 81 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (5.61%) OpenShift
7 58 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 58 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.19%) GitHub
9 48 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (3.71%) SaaS
11 45 (3.55%) Azure Functions
12 44 (3.48%) PaaS
13 34 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 33 (2.61%) Entra ID
15 31 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
16 28 (2.21%) Apigee
17 27 (2.13%) Azure AKS
17 27 (2.13%) Azure App Service
18 26 (2.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.98%) HTTP
2 22 (1.74%) Firewall
3 16 (1.26%) DNS
3 16 (1.26%) VPN
4 9 (0.71%) ATM
4 9 (0.71%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.63%) DHCP
5 8 (0.63%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.32%) AMQP
6 4 (0.32%) Internet
6 4 (0.32%) IPsec
6 4 (0.32%) Network Security
6 4 (0.32%) SSL
6 4 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.24%) NAS
8 1 (0.079%) MQTT
8 1 (0.079%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.079%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.079%) WAN
8 1 (0.079%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (11.77%) NoSQL
2 143 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (8.61%) MongoDB
4 83 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 79 (6.24%) SQL Server
6 59 (4.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 44 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
9 29 (2.29%) MySQL
10 27 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (1.97%) Big Data
11 25 (1.97%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
13 23 (1.82%) Oracle Database
14 22 (1.74%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
15 18 (1.42%) DB2
16 13 (1.03%) OLTP
17 10 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (14.93%) Git
2 137 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 82 (6.48%) JIRA
4 69 (5.45%) JUnit
5 56 (4.42%) GitLab
6 44 (3.48%) Mockito
6 44 (3.48%) Selenium
7 37 (2.92%) Cucumber
7 37 (2.92%) TeamCity
8 31 (2.45%) Maven
9 24 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 19 (1.50%) Postman
11 15 (1.18%) Gradle
11 15 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 13 (1.03%) SpecFlow
13 12 (0.95%) SoapUI
14 11 (0.87%) NUnit
15 10 (0.79%) Moq
15 10 (0.79%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.71%) ScalaTest
General
1 252 (19.91%) Finance
2 216 (17.06%) Social Skills
3 175 (13.82%) Banking
4 121 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 91 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (3.40%) Retail
7 37 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 26 (2.05%) Front Office
8 26 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (0.95%) Legal
12 7 (0.55%) Electronics
12 7 (0.55%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.47%) Back Office
13 6 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.47%) Marketing
13 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 585 (46.21%) Developer
2 272 (21.48%) Architect
3 213 (16.82%) Java Developer
4 164 (12.95%) Senior
5 103 (8.14%) Solutions Architect
6 88 (6.95%) Lead
7 87 (6.87%) Full Stack Developer
8 78 (6.16%) Senior Developer
9 70 (5.53%) Software Engineer
10 63 (4.98%) Scala Developer
11 57 (4.50%) .NET Developer
12 52 (4.11%) Technical Architect
13 51 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
14 47 (3.71%) Java Engineer
15 40 (3.16%) C# Developer
16 39 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
17 34 (2.69%) Azure Developer
17 34 (2.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 32 (2.53%) Site Engineer
19 28 (2.21%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 258 (20.38%) Spring
2 246 (19.43%) Spring Boot
3 242 (19.12%) Kafka
4 201 (15.88%) RESTful
5 192 (15.17%) .NET
6 180 (14.22%) React
7 166 (13.11%) REST
8 113 (8.93%) Node.js
9 83 (6.56%) CSS
10 81 (6.40%) AngularJS
11 80 (6.32%) .NET Core
12 72 (5.69%) HTML
13 67 (5.29%) RabbitMQ
14 65 (5.13%) Akka
15 63 (4.98%) JPA
16 57 (4.50%) Hibernate
16 57 (4.50%) JSON
17 55 (4.34%) Web Services
18 45 (3.55%) XML
19 40 (3.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 88 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 85 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 78 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 70 (5.53%) Data Structures
5 67 (5.29%) Public Cloud
6 44 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.16%) Algorithms
8 39 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
9 33 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.53%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.82%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.42%) Mainframe
13 17 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.26%) Derivative
14 16 (1.26%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.18%) Reference Data
16 14 (1.11%) Data Centre
16 14 (1.11%) Fixed Income
17 10 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 130 (10.27%) Linux
2 71 (5.61%) Unix
3 38 (3.00%) Windows
4 25 (1.97%) Android
5 23 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.50%) Mac OS X
7 16 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.18%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.47%) CentOS
10 3 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
10 3 (0.24%) VMS
11 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.079%) Alpine Linux
12 1 (0.079%) Debian
12 1 (0.079%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (44.63%) Agile
2 463 (36.57%) DevOps
3 389 (30.73%) CI/CD
4 235 (18.56%) TDD
5 203 (16.03%) Test Automation
6 198 (15.64%) Software Engineering
7 180 (14.22%) Containerisation
8 179 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (12.56%) Scrum
10 148 (11.69%) Full Stack Development
11 127 (10.03%) SDLC
12 124 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
13 117 (9.24%) Design Patterns
14 105 (8.29%) Continuous Integration
15 101 (7.98%) Event-Driven
16 100 (7.90%) BDD
16 100 (7.90%) Unit Testing
17 85 (6.71%) Pair Programming
18 80 (6.32%) Computer Science
19 76 (6.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 512 (40.44%) Java
2 249 (19.67%) SQL
3 188 (14.85%) Python
4 187 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 182 (14.38%) C#
6 128 (10.11%) TypeScript
7 97 (7.66%) Scala
8 74 (5.85%) Go
9 36 (2.84%) Shell Script
10 34 (2.69%) Bash
11 28 (2.21%) PHP
12 27 (2.13%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 25 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 22 (1.74%) C++
15 17 (1.34%) Bicep
16 15 (1.18%) C
16 15 (1.18%) Perl
17 11 (0.87%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 192 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 178 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 89 (7.03%) Degree
4 66 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.84%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 11 (0.87%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.16%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.16%) PMP
13 1 (0.079%) CISSP
13 1 (0.079%) ISEB
13 1 (0.079%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.079%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.079%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.03%) QA
2 31 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.95%) GDPR
5 7 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.47%) MiFID
7 5 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (0.39%) NIST
7 5 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.32%) NCSC
9 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.16%) PSD2
10 2 (0.16%) WCAG
11 1 (0.079%) EMIR
11 1 (0.079%) FATCA
11 1 (0.079%) SLA
11 1 (0.079%) SOC 2
System Software
1 284 (22.43%) Docker
2 51 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.47%) Firmware
5 6 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.24%) Lustre
7 3 (0.24%) NFS
8 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 414 (32.70%) Kubernetes
2 136 (10.74%) Terraform
3 70 (5.53%) Grafana
4 56 (4.42%) Prometheus
5 48 (3.79%) Ansible
6 31 (2.45%) Kibana
7 22 (1.74%) Argo
7 22 (1.74%) Istio
8 15 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.95%) Consul
10 9 (0.71%) Puppet
11 8 (0.63%) Zipkin
12 7 (0.55%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.32%) Podman
14 3 (0.24%) logstash
14 3 (0.24%) Netcool
15 2 (0.16%) Control-M
15 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
16 1 (0.079%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 124 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.27%) Oracle
3 81 (6.40%) Google
4 30 (2.37%) Splunk
5 27 (2.13%) SAP
6 25 (1.97%) Typelevel
7 20 (1.58%) MuleSoft
8 18 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.26%) IBM
10 15 (1.18%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.03%) AppDynamics
11 13 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.03%) TIBCO
12 12 (0.95%) SaltStack
13 11 (0.87%) VMware
14 8 (0.63%) New Relic
14 8 (0.63%) WSO2
15 7 (0.55%) Informatica
15 7 (0.55%) TSYS
16 6 (0.47%) Apple