Microservices Contracts in the West Midlands

Microservices
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 93 86 76
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 18 43 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 1.94% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 2.22% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 85
10th Percentile £290 £554 £383
25th Percentile £397 £595 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £663 £540
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% +22.69% +20.00%
75th Percentile £611 £731 £606
90th Percentile - - £683
England median daily rate £550 £640 £600
% change year-on-year -14.06% +6.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,667 1,939 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.64% 87.62% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,316 2,338
10th Percentile £265 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £586
90th Percentile £731 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in the West Midlands

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +4 11 £450 -33.33% 16
Warwickshire -2 5 £607 -6.62% 7
Coventry +7 2 £300 -58.62% 4
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure AKS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure App Service
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) IPsec
1 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Travis CI
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Angular Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) AngularJS
2 7 (38.89%) Spring
3 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
4 3 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 3 (16.67%) React
5 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) Flask
6 1 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 5 (27.78%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) SOA
5 5 (27.78%) User Experience
5 5 (27.78%) UX Design
6 4 (22.22%) BDD
6 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 3 (16.67%) OO
7 3 (16.67%) OOP
8 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (27.78%) Bicep
4 5 (27.78%) C#
4 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Confluent
3 1 (5.56%) SAP