Microservices Contracts in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 97 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 -33 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 90 124 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.60% 2.20% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.47% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 87 188
10th Percentile £430 £485 £446
25th Percentile £463 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £742 £725
England median daily rate £550 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 12
10th Percentile - £60.50 £46.63
25th Percentile - £70.00 £57.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £75.00 £62.38
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% +20.24% -4.83%
75th Percentile - - £65.14
90th Percentile - - £67.75
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% -3.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,681 5,025 6,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.11% 89.06% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,707 3,458 4,680
10th Percentile £260 £250 £230
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 217 274
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.14 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.16 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.72
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +141.77% -21.04%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +20 64 £625 +4.17% 28
Berkshire 0 52 £625 +11.11% 15
West Sussex +8 12 £750 +3.09% 10
Buckinghamshire +27 11 £750 +15.38% 6
Hampshire -29 5 £470 -14.55% 16
East Sussex - 4 £575 - 7
Surrey -2 2 £368 -30.00% 11
Oxfordshire +5 1 £675 - 7
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.33%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) JBoss
3 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 20 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
2 20 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 20 (22.22%) Serverless
3 18 (20.00%) AWS
4 17 (18.89%) OpenShift
5 16 (17.78%) Azure Functions
6 7 (7.78%) PaaS
6 7 (7.78%) SaaS
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) IaaS
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
10 3 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 24 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.33%) Couchbase
6 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.22%) MySQL
6 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.11%) Big Data
7 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.11%) Impala
7 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (34.44%) Git
2 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.89%) Selenium
4 6 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (4.44%) JUnit
6 3 (3.33%) JMeter
6 3 (3.33%) Subversion
6 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.22%) GitLab
8 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.11%) Gradle
8 1 (1.11%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.11%) Maven
8 1 (1.11%) Mockito
General
1 18 (20.00%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.22%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (48.89%) Developer
2 25 (27.78%) Full Stack Developer
3 17 (18.89%) Azure Developer
4 14 (15.56%) Architect
5 13 (14.44%) Site Engineer
5 13 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 11 (12.22%) Java Developer
7 10 (11.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 10 (11.11%) Lead
7 10 (11.11%) Python Developer
8 5 (5.56%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior
8 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.22%) Java Engineer
11 2 (2.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) Kafka
2 24 (26.67%) React
3 15 (16.67%) .NET
4 14 (15.56%) Spring
5 13 (14.44%) Spring Boot
6 12 (13.33%) REST
7 11 (12.22%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (10.00%) AngularJS
9 8 (8.89%) RESTful
10 7 (7.78%) Web Services
11 5 (5.56%) Node.js
12 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
12 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.44%) Symfony
13 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
13 3 (3.33%) gRPC
13 3 (3.33%) HTML
14 2 (2.22%) Apache Camel
14 2 (2.22%) Mustache
14 2 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Product Ownership
2 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.11%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Android
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.11%) DevOps
2 40 (44.44%) Agile
3 30 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.78%) Full Stack Development
5 23 (25.56%) Change Management
6 20 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 18 (20.00%) SDLC
8 17 (18.89%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.89%) TDD
9 16 (17.78%) ITSM
10 15 (16.67%) Product Backlog
11 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
11 14 (15.56%) Unit Testing
12 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (14.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (13.33%) GitOps
14 11 (12.22%) Collaborative Working
15 10 (11.11%) Incident Response
15 10 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.44%) Java
2 27 (30.00%) Python
3 15 (16.67%) C#
4 14 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.00%) SQL
6 8 (8.89%) Go
6 8 (8.89%) PHP
7 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.33%) C
8 3 (3.33%) Ruby
8 3 (3.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.89%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) CCNP
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) MCSE
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (25.56%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.44%) Docker
3 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.44%) Kibana
3 12 (13.33%) Grafana
4 11 (12.22%) Argo
4 11 (12.22%) Istio
4 11 (12.22%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.22%) Terraform
7 1 (1.11%) Ansible
7 1 (1.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) Oracle
2 5 (5.56%) VMware
3 3 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace