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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 54 33
Rank change year-on-year -18 -21 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,218 2,317 5,359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 4.06% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 4.52% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,740 3,897
10th Percentile £400 £453 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% +2.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £723 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.78% +12.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 35
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 £65.65
90th Percentile £61.88 £78.00 £77.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £72.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -36.72% +45.00% +11.11%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 £554 -11.40% 666
London -11 675 £575 -11.54% 295
Work from Home -15 437 £538 -6.52% 609
UK excluding London -22 390 £500 -9.09% 422
North of England +7 134 £550 - 145
North West +38 102 £550 +7.32% 79
Scotland +18 90 £463 -3.44% 36
South East -22 90 £618 +12.27% 84
South West -26 36 £494 -17.71% 44
Midlands -5 32 £445 -19.09% 69
Yorkshire -18 28 £425 -26.09% 45
West Midlands -8 19 £450 -27.27% 30
East of England -9 17 £550 +4.96% 18
East Midlands +6 13 £386 -9.12% 39
North East 0 8 £413 -25.00% 22

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%) Confluence
1 31 (2.55%) nginx
2 24 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 11 (0.90%) CMS
4 10 (0.82%) Apache
4 10 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.74%) BizTalk Server
6 8 (0.66%) IIS
6 8 (0.66%) JBoss
6 8 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.57%) 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 (0.57%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.33%) Endur
2 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
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
1 515 (42.28%) AWS
2 334 (27.42%) Azure
3 165 (13.55%) GCP
4 157 (12.89%) Serverless
5 81 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.84%) Amazon S3
8 54 (4.43%) OpenShift
9 49 (4.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (3.86%) PaaS
10 47 (3.86%) SaaS
11 45 (3.69%) Azure Functions
12 41 (3.37%) GitHub
13 39 (3.20%) Entra ID
14 36 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
18 28 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
19 27 (2.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.27%) HTTP
2 21 (1.72%) Firewall
3 16 (1.31%) DNS
3 16 (1.31%) VPN
4 10 (0.82%) DHCP
4 10 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.74%) ATM
6 8 (0.66%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.41%) Internet
7 5 (0.41%) IPsec
8 4 (0.33%) SSL
8 4 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.25%) Network Security
10 2 (0.16%) AMQP
10 2 (0.16%) WAN
11 1 (0.082%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.082%) MQTT
11 1 (0.082%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.082%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (11.58%) NoSQL
2 136 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (10.34%) MongoDB
4 80 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 74 (6.08%) SQL Server
6 49 (4.02%) Apache Cassandra
7 38 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (2.55%) MySQL
10 29 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (2.22%) Big Data
12 22 (1.81%) RDBMS
13 20 (1.64%) DynamoDB
14 19 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 17 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.40%) Redis
16 16 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
17 15 (1.23%) BigQuery
18 14 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (15.11%) Git
2 118 (9.69%) Jenkins
3 71 (5.83%) GitLab
4 69 (5.67%) JIRA
5 61 (5.01%) JUnit
6 41 (3.37%) Mockito
7 40 (3.28%) Selenium
8 38 (3.12%) Cucumber
9 35 (2.87%) TeamCity
10 21 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 21 (1.72%) Maven
11 13 (1.07%) Gradle
11 13 (1.07%) Postman
11 13 (1.07%) SoapUI
12 12 (0.99%) NUnit
13 11 (0.90%) CircleCI
13 11 (0.90%) Moq
13 11 (0.90%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.90%) SpecFlow
14 10 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 238 (19.54%) Finance
2 206 (16.91%) Social Skills
3 136 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 132 (10.84%) Banking
5 85 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (2.63%) Retail
7 31 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 23 (1.89%) Front Office
10 18 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (1.48%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.90%) Tech for Good
12 10 (0.82%) Legal
13 8 (0.66%) Local Government
14 7 (0.57%) Electronics
14 7 (0.57%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.49%) German Language
15 6 (0.49%) Law
15 6 (0.49%) Marketing
16 5 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 575 (47.21%) Developer
2 256 (21.02%) Architect
3 207 (17.00%) Java Developer
4 168 (13.79%) Senior
5 96 (7.88%) Full Stack Developer
5 96 (7.88%) Solutions Architect
6 88 (7.22%) Lead
7 83 (6.81%) Senior Developer
8 80 (6.57%) Software Engineer
9 55 (4.52%) .NET Developer
10 54 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 52 (4.27%) Scala Developer
12 47 (3.86%) Technical Architect
13 42 (3.45%) Java Engineer
14 40 (3.28%) C# Developer
15 39 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
17 35 (2.87%) Azure Developer
18 29 (2.38%) Data Architect
19 28 (2.30%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (19.79%) Spring
2 222 (18.23%) Spring Boot
3 202 (16.58%) Kafka
4 189 (15.52%) .NET
5 185 (15.19%) RESTful
6 180 (14.78%) REST
7 178 (14.61%) React
8 139 (11.41%) Node.js
9 87 (7.14%) CSS
10 81 (6.65%) AngularJS
11 80 (6.57%) HTML
12 76 (6.24%) .NET Core
13 65 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
14 59 (4.84%) JSON
14 59 (4.84%) Web Services
15 56 (4.60%) JPA
16 53 (4.35%) Akka
17 51 (4.19%) Hibernate
18 47 (3.86%) XML
19 41 (3.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 79 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 69 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 68 (5.58%) Data Structures
5 61 (5.01%) Public Cloud
6 40 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 37 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (2.63%) Algorithms
10 31 (2.55%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.89%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.64%) Reference Data
14 16 (1.31%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.23%) Mainframe
16 14 (1.15%) Derivative
17 13 (1.07%) Fixed Income
18 10 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
18 10 (0.82%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 119 (9.77%) Linux
2 65 (5.34%) Unix
3 35 (2.87%) Windows
4 25 (2.05%) Android
5 21 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 19 (1.56%) Mac OS X
7 14 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (1.07%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.082%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.082%) Debian
10 1 (0.082%) tvOS
10 1 (0.082%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (44.58%) Agile
2 418 (34.32%) DevOps
3 381 (31.28%) CI/CD
4 231 (18.97%) TDD
5 193 (15.85%) Software Engineering
5 193 (15.85%) Test Automation
6 161 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
7 152 (12.48%) Full Stack Development
8 143 (11.74%) Containerisation
9 133 (10.92%) SDLC
10 132 (10.84%) Scrum
11 112 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
12 106 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
13 104 (8.54%) Design Patterns
14 100 (8.21%) BDD
15 94 (7.72%) Event-Driven
16 93 (7.64%) Unit Testing
17 71 (5.83%) Pair Programming
18 70 (5.75%) Kanban
19 69 (5.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 489 (40.15%) Java
2 240 (19.70%) SQL
3 190 (15.60%) Python
4 187 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 179 (14.70%) C#
6 125 (10.26%) TypeScript
7 85 (6.98%) Scala
8 79 (6.49%) Go
9 37 (3.04%) PHP
10 32 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.89%) Bash
11 23 (1.89%) Kotlin
12 19 (1.56%) C++
12 19 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.31%) Bicep
13 16 (1.31%) C
13 16 (1.31%) PowerShell
14 14 (1.15%) Perl
15 12 (0.99%) Ruby
15 12 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 196 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 176 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 83 (6.81%) Degree
4 58 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 10 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.57%) 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%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.082%) CEH
12 1 (0.082%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.082%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.53%) QA
2 36 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 10 (0.82%) GDPR
5 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (0.57%) MiFID
5 7 (0.57%) 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
1 255 (20.94%) Docker
2 46 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.82%) 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%) HDFS
7 1 (0.082%) NFS
Systems Management
1 356 (29.23%) Kubernetes
2 140 (11.49%) Terraform
3 59 (4.84%) Grafana
4 44 (3.61%) Prometheus
5 42 (3.45%) Ansible
6 26 (2.13%) Kibana
7 16 (1.31%) Argo
7 16 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.23%) Istio
9 12 (0.99%) Consul
9 12 (0.99%) Puppet
10 11 (0.90%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.66%) Zipkin
12 6 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.33%) Packer
14 3 (0.25%) logstash
14 3 (0.25%) Netcool
15 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
15 2 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
15 2 (0.16%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 115 (9.44%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.54%) Oracle
3 67 (5.50%) Google
4 32 (2.63%) Splunk
5 29 (2.38%) SAP
6 21 (1.72%) IBM
7 20 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.64%) Typelevel
8 15 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.15%) TIBCO
10 11 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 10 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 10 (0.82%) VMware
12 9 (0.74%) SaltStack
13 7 (0.57%) Adobe
13 7 (0.57%) New Relic
13 7 (0.57%) TSYS
13 7 (0.57%) WSO2
14 6 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.49%) Sitecore