Microservices Contracts in South London

Microservices
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +11
Contract jobs citing Microservices 21 30 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 8.61% 7.61% 11.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.13% 8.47% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 36
10th Percentile £469 £453 £388
25th Percentile £475 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £531 £500 £638
90th Percentile £574 £622 £663
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 354 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.26% 89.85% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 285 248
10th Percentile £266 £300 £338
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £638 £765 £704
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.31 £41.32
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £47.34
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.97% +1.99%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.69
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
% change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Croydon +4 19 £500 +5.26% 1
Wandsworth - 2 £540 -
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (28.57%) OpenStack
2 4 (19.05%) Confluence
3 2 (9.52%) JBoss
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Serverless
3 8 (38.10%) Amazon S3
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (14.29%) Azure
8 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Fabric
9 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (38.10%) Relational Database
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Git
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) JUnit
3 4 (19.05%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) JMeter
4 1 (4.76%) Mockito
General
1 12 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 14 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 14 (66.67%) Spring
3 11 (52.38%) REST
4 7 (33.33%) Web Services
5 6 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (28.57%) Node.js
6 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
6 5 (23.81%) Kafka
7 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
7 4 (19.05%) JPA
7 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 4 (19.05%) SOAP
7 4 (19.05%) Spring Security
8 3 (14.29%) J2EE
8 3 (14.29%) React
9 2 (9.52%) Apache Camel
9 2 (9.52%) Guice
9 2 (9.52%) Mustache
10 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
10 1 (4.76%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.76%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Scrum
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (33.33%) TDD
6 6 (28.57%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) BDD
7 5 (23.81%) High Availability
8 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
8 4 (19.05%) Observability
9 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
10 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
10 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
10 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (9.52%) SDLC
11 1 (4.76%) Collaborative Working
11 1 (4.76%) Deployment Automation
11 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) SC Cleared
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.76%) Kibana
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk