Microservices Contracts in Central London

Microservices
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 46 24
Rank change year-on-year -1 -22 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 104 175 340
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.29% 4.63% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.07% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 123 267
10th Percentile £450 £503 £525
25th Percentile £489 £600 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £720 £775 £750
90th Percentile £813 £823 £813
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year - -19.35% +13.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,454 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.33% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,340 3,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Central London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 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
City of London -3 90 £613 -12.50% 35
City of Westminster +2 5 £650 -18.75% 1
West End of London +5 1 £500 - 3
Camden - 1 £500 - 2
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (5.77%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.96%) Camunda
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.96%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (42.31%) AWS
2 21 (20.19%) Azure
3 20 (19.23%) Serverless
4 17 (16.35%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Functions
6 8 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.73%) SaaS
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Storage
8 6 (5.77%) GitHub
9 4 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.85%) GCP
9 4 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.85%) IaaS
9 4 (3.85%) PaaS
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) DNS
1 2 (1.92%) Firewall
1 2 (1.92%) WAN
2 1 (0.96%) DHCP
2 1 (0.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.96%) MQTT
2 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.88%) Big Data
7 3 (2.88%) MySQL
7 3 (2.88%) Tableau
8 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.92%) Metadata
8 2 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.96%) DB2
9 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.77%) JIRA
2 6 (5.77%) Mockito
3 5 (4.81%) GitLab
3 5 (4.81%) Selenium
4 4 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 4 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.85%) JUnit
5 3 (2.88%) Mercurial
5 3 (2.88%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.92%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.92%) Gradle
6 2 (1.92%) Maven
6 2 (1.92%) ScalaTest
6 2 (1.92%) Subversion
6 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.92%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.15%) Finance
3 20 (19.23%) Banking
4 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Local Government
6 7 (6.73%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.85%) Front Office
9 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Public Speaking
9 2 (1.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.96%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.96%) Back Office
10 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) French Language
10 1 (0.96%) German Language
10 1 (0.96%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.96%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (37.50%) Developer
2 16 (15.38%) Senior
3 15 (14.42%) Architect
4 13 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Python Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.73%) Java Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Lead
9 5 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.85%) C# Developer
11 3 (2.88%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.08%) Kafka
2 23 (22.12%) .NET
3 19 (18.27%) React
4 16 (15.38%) RESTful
5 12 (11.54%) Spring Boot
6 11 (10.58%) .NET Core
6 11 (10.58%) Spring
7 10 (9.62%) REST
8 9 (8.65%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (7.69%) Node.js
10 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.77%) Blazor
11 5 (4.81%) Web Services
12 4 (3.85%) CSS
12 4 (3.85%) HTML
12 4 (3.85%) JAX-RS
13 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
13 3 (2.88%) Middleware
13 3 (2.88%) pytest
13 3 (2.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.77%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.85%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.96%) BYOD
9 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Linux
2 8 (7.69%) Windows
3 7 (6.73%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.92%) Android
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) Agile
1 38 (36.54%) CI/CD
2 28 (26.92%) DevOps
3 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
4 18 (17.31%) Front End Development
4 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (13.46%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.50%) SDLC
6 13 (12.50%) TDD
6 13 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (8.65%) Multithreading
9 9 (8.65%) Scrum
9 9 (8.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (8.65%) Task Automation
10 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (7.69%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.50%) Java
2 32 (30.77%) Python
3 26 (25.00%) SQL
4 17 (16.35%) C#
5 16 (15.38%) Go
6 15 (14.42%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.58%) C++
8 8 (7.69%) Shell Script
9 7 (6.73%) T-SQL
9 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.88%) Scala
12 2 (1.92%) Perl
12 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.96%) ABAP
13 1 (0.96%) Bash
13 1 (0.96%) C
13 1 (0.96%) PHP
13 1 (0.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Degree
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) MiFID
3 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) EMIR
3 1 (0.96%) FATCA
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (9.62%) Docker
2 8 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) Ceph
3 1 (0.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.54%) Terraform
3 9 (8.65%) Consul
3 9 (8.65%) Grafana
4 8 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.81%) Ansible
6 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.88%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.96%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.96%) Mesos
7 1 (0.96%) Packer
7 1 (0.96%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.69%) Oracle
2 8 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 6 (5.77%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.92%) Google
5 2 (1.92%) IBM
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.92%) SAP
6 1 (0.96%) Adobe
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco
6 1 (0.96%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.96%) New Relic
6 1 (0.96%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.96%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.96%) Sybase
6 1 (0.96%) Terracotta
6 1 (0.96%) TIBCO