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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 44 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -20 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 106 196 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.33% 5.08% 7.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 5.55% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 135 266
10th Percentile £450 £505 £525
25th Percentile £488 £596 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +19.54%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £744
90th Percentile £799 £825 £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 2,217 3,532 4,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.53% 91.62% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 2,396 3,180
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
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 27 27 41
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £19.36 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -4 92 £600 -14.29% 32
City of Westminster +2 5 £650 -18.75%
West End of London +3 1 £500 - 2
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 (5.66%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) CMS
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.94%) Camunda
5 1 (0.94%) Confluence
5 1 (0.94%) nginx
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.94%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.94%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.51%) AWS
2 24 (22.64%) Azure
3 22 (20.75%) Serverless
4 17 (16.04%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (10.38%) Azure Functions
6 9 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.55%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.55%) SaaS
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (6.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (6.60%) GitHub
9 6 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Storage
10 5 (4.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.77%) GCP
11 4 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.77%) IaaS
11 4 (3.77%) PaaS
12 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) DNS
1 2 (1.89%) Firewall
1 2 (1.89%) WAN
2 1 (0.94%) DHCP
2 1 (0.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.94%) MQTT
2 1 (0.94%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.92%) MongoDB
2 12 (11.32%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.49%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.72%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.83%) Big Data
7 3 (2.83%) MySQL
7 3 (2.83%) Tableau
8 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.89%) Metadata
8 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.94%) DB2
9 1 (0.94%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.94%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) JIRA
3 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) Mockito
4 5 (4.72%) GitLab
4 5 (4.72%) Selenium
5 4 (3.77%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.77%) JUnit
6 3 (2.83%) Mercurial
6 3 (2.83%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.89%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.89%) Gradle
7 2 (1.89%) Maven
7 2 (1.89%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.89%) Subversion
7 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (19.81%) Finance
3 20 (18.87%) Banking
4 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.55%) Local Government
6 7 (6.60%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.77%) Front Office
9 3 (2.83%) Retail
10 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.94%) Advertising
11 1 (0.94%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.94%) Back Office
11 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.94%) French Language
11 1 (0.94%) German Language
11 1 (0.94%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (37.74%) Developer
2 17 (16.04%) Senior
3 16 (15.09%) Architect
4 13 (12.26%) Java Developer
5 12 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.60%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Lead
10 5 (4.72%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (3.77%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.83%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.53%) .NET
2 23 (21.70%) Kafka
3 19 (17.92%) React
4 15 (14.15%) RESTful
5 13 (12.26%) .NET Core
6 12 (11.32%) Spring Boot
7 11 (10.38%) REST
7 11 (10.38%) Spring
8 8 (7.55%) Node.js
8 8 (7.55%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.60%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.66%) Blazor
11 5 (4.72%) Web Services
12 4 (3.77%) CSS
12 4 (3.77%) HTML
12 4 (3.77%) JAX-RS
12 4 (3.77%) JSON
12 4 (3.77%) XML
13 3 (2.83%) AWS CDK
13 3 (2.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.38%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.55%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.60%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.77%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.89%) BYOD
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.04%) Linux
2 8 (7.55%) Windows
3 7 (6.60%) Unix
4 4 (3.77%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.89%) Android
5 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.74%) Agile
2 38 (35.85%) CI/CD
3 28 (26.42%) DevOps
4 24 (22.64%) Software Engineering
5 18 (16.98%) Front End Development
6 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (13.21%) Mentoring
7 14 (13.21%) SDLC
7 14 (13.21%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.26%) TDD
9 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (9.43%) Scrum
11 9 (8.49%) Multithreading
12 8 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.55%) Open Source
12 8 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (7.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.79%) Java
2 32 (30.19%) Python
3 27 (25.47%) SQL
4 20 (18.87%) C#
5 16 (15.09%) Go
5 16 (15.09%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.38%) C++
7 8 (7.55%) T-SQL
8 7 (6.60%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.60%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.66%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.83%) Scala
11 2 (1.89%) Perl
11 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.89%) Ruby
12 1 (0.94%) ABAP
12 1 (0.94%) Bash
12 1 (0.94%) C
12 1 (0.94%) PHP
12 1 (0.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (8.49%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.72%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) MiFID
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.94%) EMIR
3 1 (0.94%) FATCA
3 1 (0.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
2 7 (6.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.94%) Ceph
3 1 (0.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.32%) Terraform
3 8 (7.55%) Consul
3 8 (7.55%) Grafana
4 7 (6.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.72%) Ansible
6 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.83%) Puppet
7 1 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.94%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.94%) Mesos
7 1 (0.94%) Packer
7 1 (0.94%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 20 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.55%) Oracle
3 7 (6.60%) SaltStack
4 6 (5.66%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) Google
6 2 (1.89%) IBM
6 2 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) Adobe
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) New Relic
7 1 (0.94%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.94%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.94%) Sybase
7 1 (0.94%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.94%) TIBCO