Microservices Contracts in Central London

Microservices
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 47 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 92 105 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.61% 4.29% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.74% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 76 134
10th Percentile £424 £450 £504
25th Percentile £490 £484 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £709 £714 £775
90th Percentile £804 £799 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
London median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -28.80% - -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
City of London +9 90 £585 -1.27% 34
Southwark - 2 - - 1
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 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.09%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.09%) Camunda
2 1 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.09%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 51 (55.43%) AWS
2 27 (29.35%) Azure
3 19 (20.65%) Serverless
4 11 (11.96%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.70%) GCP
6 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (6.52%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.35%) GitHub
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.26%) Boomi
10 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.17%) AWS KMS
10 2 (2.17%) npm
10 2 (2.17%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.70%) Firewall
2 4 (4.35%) VPN
3 3 (3.26%) DNS
3 3 (3.26%) HTTP
4 2 (2.17%) FTP
4 2 (2.17%) SMTP
4 2 (2.17%) SSL
4 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 23 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (23.91%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.70%) Redis
4 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.43%) DocumentDB
5 5 (5.43%) Tableau
6 4 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.17%) Big Data
8 2 (2.17%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.17%) MySQL
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) SonarQube
2 11 (11.96%) Git
3 10 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.70%) JUnit
5 7 (7.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (7.61%) Maven
6 5 (5.43%) JIRA
6 5 (5.43%) TeamCity
7 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (4.35%) Gradle
7 4 (4.35%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.17%) Ant
8 2 (2.17%) Babel
8 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.17%) Mockito
8 2 (2.17%) Postman
8 2 (2.17%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.17%) webpack
8 2 (2.17%) XCTest
General
1 28 (30.43%) Public Sector
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.26%) Finance
3 16 (17.39%) Banking
4 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (44.57%) Developer
2 26 (28.26%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Architect
4 17 (18.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.61%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.35%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Lead
8 4 (4.35%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.26%) OpenLink Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.52%) Kafka
1 29 (31.52%) React
1 29 (31.52%) Spring
2 23 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.22%) .NET
4 10 (10.87%) Node.js
5 7 (7.61%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.52%) JPA
7 5 (5.43%) HTML
7 5 (5.43%) REST
7 5 (5.43%) RESTful
8 4 (4.35%) CSS
8 4 (4.35%) CSS3
8 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.35%) HTML5
8 4 (4.35%) JMS
8 4 (4.35%) JSON
8 4 (4.35%) Material-UI
8 4 (4.35%) Web Services
8 4 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Derivative
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Unix
2 2 (2.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (53.26%) DevOps
2 45 (48.91%) Agile
3 33 (35.87%) CI/CD
4 22 (23.91%) SOLID
5 20 (21.74%) API Development
6 19 (20.65%) Clean Code
7 17 (18.48%) Software Engineering
8 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.96%) TDD
10 10 (10.87%) Analytics
11 9 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
13 7 (7.61%) API Management
13 7 (7.61%) Containerisation
13 7 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (7.61%) Event-Driven
13 7 (7.61%) SDLC
13 7 (7.61%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (42.39%) Java
2 35 (38.04%) SQL
3 31 (33.70%) JavaScript
4 22 (23.91%) Python
5 15 (16.30%) C#
6 4 (4.35%) Bicep
6 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.17%) C++
8 2 (2.17%) Groovy
8 2 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.17%) Scala
9 1 (1.09%) Ada
9 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.09%) COBOL
9 1 (1.09%) Go
9 1 (1.09%) JCL
9 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (35.87%) SC Cleared
1 33 (35.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.48%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (15.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Lustre
3 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 50 (54.35%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.22%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.26%) Grafana
4 3 (3.26%) Podman
5 2 (2.17%) Karpenter
5 2 (2.17%) MOM
6 1 (1.09%) Ansible
6 1 (1.09%) CASB
6 1 (1.09%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.09%) Istio
6 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Splunk
2 6 (6.52%) Google
2 6 (6.52%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.35%) IBM
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.26%) OpenLink
5 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.09%) Databricks
7 1 (1.09%) Dell
7 1 (1.09%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.09%) Okta
7 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.09%) Pega