Microservices Contracts in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 73 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 -15 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,047 1,074 1,750
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.14% 2.88% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 3.37% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 765 1,330
10th Percentile £363 £400 £458
25th Percentile £430 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -14.60% +7.33%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £738
90th Percentile £750 £764 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -5.45% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 16
10th Percentile £29.75 £40.00 £43.75
25th Percentile £44.94 £43.32 £68.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +14.62%
75th Percentile £76.88 £56.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.63 £62.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,097 31,886 42,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.51% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,895 20,662 29,650
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,130 2,322 1,532
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.66 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.53
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.70 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
London -1 596 £548 -4.78% 1,021
North of England +29 188 £525 - 457
North West +26 110 £479 -10.88% 274
Midlands +47 90 £475 +6.74% 203
South East +18 77 £463 -11.81% 363
Yorkshire +28 70 £550 - 149
West Midlands +45 51 £500 +11.11% 118
East Midlands +18 39 £420 +2.13% 76
South West +31 24 £519 -3.49% 134
East of England +25 14 £450 -18.18% 124
North East +3 12 £470 +0.27% 35
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 65 (6.21%) Confluence
2 28 (2.67%) JBoss
3 17 (1.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 15 (1.43%) Camunda
5 14 (1.34%) Apache
5 14 (1.34%) CMS
6 12 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 12 (1.15%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.67%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.57%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.38%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.29%) nginx
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) IIS
12 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (1.34%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (1.34%) Oracle BPM
2 9 (0.86%) Endur
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.38%) Avolution ABACUS
5 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.19%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.096%) Eikon
8 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.096%) RMDS
8 1 (0.096%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.096%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 486 (46.42%) AWS
2 238 (22.73%) Azure
3 132 (12.61%) GCP
4 117 (11.17%) Serverless
5 81 (7.74%) GitHub
6 63 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 54 (5.16%) AWS Lambda
8 52 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
10 41 (3.92%) OpenShift
11 36 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (3.15%) SaaS
13 29 (2.77%) Azure AKS
14 26 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (2.48%) PaaS
15 24 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.20%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.67%) DNS
1 28 (2.67%) HTTP
2 27 (2.58%) Firewall
3 14 (1.34%) SSL
4 7 (0.67%) FTP
4 7 (0.67%) HTTPS
4 7 (0.67%) SMTP
4 7 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.57%) VPN
6 5 (0.48%) 4G
6 5 (0.48%) 5G
7 4 (0.38%) Internet
7 4 (0.38%) SAN
7 4 (0.38%) VoIP
8 3 (0.29%) DOCSIS
8 3 (0.29%) GPON
8 3 (0.29%) LTE
8 3 (0.29%) MPLS
8 3 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.29%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (17.29%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (10.60%) Relational Database
3 108 (10.32%) MongoDB
4 91 (8.69%) NoSQL
5 58 (5.54%) MySQL
6 56 (5.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 54 (5.16%) SQL Server
8 38 (3.63%) DynamoDB
9 34 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
10 33 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
10 33 (3.15%) Redis
11 26 (2.48%) Oracle Database
12 25 (2.39%) Big Data
13 22 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 20 (1.91%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.72%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.05%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.96%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 208 (19.87%) Jenkins
2 172 (16.43%) Git
3 129 (12.32%) JIRA
4 119 (11.37%) JUnit
5 100 (9.55%) GitLab
6 76 (7.26%) Maven
7 64 (6.11%) Mockito
7 64 (6.11%) SonarQube
8 56 (5.35%) Gradle
9 35 (3.34%) Bitbucket
10 34 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (2.87%) Liquibase
12 26 (2.48%) TeamCity
13 25 (2.39%) Bitbucket Server
14 24 (2.29%) Cucumber
15 22 (2.10%) Postman
16 20 (1.91%) Cypress.io
17 18 (1.72%) Artifactory
17 18 (1.72%) Selenium
18 16 (1.53%) CircleCI
General
1 274 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 242 (23.11%) Finance
3 156 (14.90%) Banking
4 144 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 109 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 31 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 30 (2.87%) Marketing
8 30 (2.87%) Military
9 29 (2.77%) Front Office
10 23 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 23 (2.20%) Retail
11 21 (2.01%) Electronics
12 20 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 10 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.76%) Back Office
16 8 (0.76%) Billing
16 8 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 421 (40.21%) Developer
2 198 (18.91%) Architect
3 186 (17.77%) Java Developer
4 177 (16.91%) Senior
5 83 (7.93%) Lead
6 81 (7.74%) Senior Developer
7 72 (6.88%) Software Engineer
8 69 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (5.16%) Full-Stack Developer
10 43 (4.11%) Senior Java Developer
11 40 (3.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 39 (3.72%) Technical Architect
13 38 (3.63%) Java Engineer
14 36 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.25%) Lead Developer
16 30 (2.87%) Lead Java Developer
16 30 (2.87%) React Developer
17 29 (2.77%) Software Developer
18 27 (2.58%) Senior Architect
19 26 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (23.21%) Spring Boot
2 242 (23.11%) Spring
3 241 (23.02%) Kafka
4 181 (17.29%) React
5 148 (14.14%) REST
6 139 (13.28%) RESTful
7 132 (12.61%) .NET
8 120 (11.46%) Node.js
9 106 (10.12%) AngularJS
10 85 (8.12%) Web Services
11 80 (7.64%) HTML
12 67 (6.40%) gRPC
13 65 (6.21%) CSS
14 59 (5.64%) Swagger
15 58 (5.54%) Hibernate
16 51 (4.87%) OpenAPI
17 47 (4.49%) SOAP
18 45 (4.30%) JPA
19 42 (4.01%) GraphQL
20 35 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 102 (9.74%) Distributed Systems
2 90 (8.60%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.77%) Public Cloud
5 27 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
6 21 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.91%) PKI
8 17 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.34%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.15%) Derivative
13 10 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 111 (10.60%) Linux
2 67 (6.40%) Windows
3 40 (3.82%) Unix
4 27 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 25 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.57%) Android
7 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.19%) AIX
8 2 (0.19%) VMS
9 1 (0.096%) CentOS
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.096%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (45.85%) Agile
2 431 (41.17%) CI/CD
3 370 (35.34%) DevOps
4 233 (22.25%) Software Engineering
5 226 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (20.82%) Containerisation
7 180 (17.19%) TDD
8 156 (14.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 138 (13.18%) Test Automation
10 131 (12.51%) Scrum
11 127 (12.13%) Event-Driven
12 113 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
13 110 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 110 (10.51%) Migration
14 86 (8.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 86 (8.21%) Roadmaps
15 83 (7.93%) Mentoring
16 78 (7.45%) SDLC
17 77 (7.35%) API Development
18 76 (7.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 482 (46.04%) Java
2 272 (25.98%) SQL
3 199 (19.01%) Python
4 196 (18.72%) JavaScript
5 141 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 128 (12.23%) C#
7 79 (7.55%) Go
8 56 (5.35%) Bash
9 54 (5.16%) PowerShell
10 47 (4.49%) PL/SQL
11 30 (2.87%) Perl
12 25 (2.39%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.91%) Bicep
13 20 (1.91%) C++
14 19 (1.81%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.96%) Groovy
15 10 (0.96%) PHP
15 10 (0.96%) Scala
16 9 (0.86%) Ruby
17 7 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 269 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 236 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.40%) Degree
4 30 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.48%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
10 12 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.15%) CISSP
11 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.57%) Azure Certification
14 5 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.38%) CEH
16 3 (0.29%) OCP
16 3 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.49%) QA
2 15 (1.43%) GDPR
3 12 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.57%) WCAG
6 4 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.38%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.38%) NCSC
6 4 (0.38%) NIST
7 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.19%) HL7
8 2 (0.19%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.19%) OASIS TOSCA
8 2 (0.19%) PSD2
8 2 (0.19%) SEPA
9 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 351 (33.52%) Docker
2 39 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.86%) Postfix
4 3 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.29%) Lustre
4 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.096%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 375 (35.82%) Kubernetes
2 138 (13.18%) Terraform
3 85 (8.12%) Grafana
4 68 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 43 (4.11%) Ansible
6 24 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.72%) Puppet
8 16 (1.53%) Kibana
9 12 (1.15%) Istio
10 11 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.86%) Argo
12 6 (0.57%) Control-M
13 5 (0.48%) Podman
14 4 (0.38%) Kiali
14 4 (0.38%) Perfmon
15 3 (0.29%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.29%) Rundeck
16 2 (0.19%) CloudHub
16 2 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 96 (9.17%) Oracle
2 70 (6.69%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.25%) Splunk
4 47 (4.49%) Google
5 28 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 25 (2.39%) Red Hat
6 25 (2.39%) SAP
7 19 (1.81%) Dynatrace
7 19 (1.81%) IBM
8 18 (1.72%) AppDynamics
8 18 (1.72%) Cisco
8 18 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.62%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
11 13 (1.24%) Virgin Media
12 12 (1.15%) Citrix
13 11 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.05%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (0.86%) HP
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