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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 40 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 105 200 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.25% 5.18% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.65% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 135 271
10th Percentile £445 £505 £525
25th Percentile £484 £596 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £720 £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 2,234 3,542 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.52% 91.74% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,586 2,395 3,189
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 30 40
10th Percentile £19.52 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.25 £20.42 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £36.50 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £88.30 £62.83
London median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%

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 25 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 25 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 -8 91 £593 -15.36% 35
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 (5.71%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.95%) Camunda
5 1 (0.95%) Confluence
5 1 (0.95%) nginx
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.95%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.95%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) AWS
2 23 (21.90%) Azure
3 21 (20.00%) Serverless
4 17 (16.19%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Functions
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.62%) SaaS
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.71%) Azure Storage
9 6 (5.71%) GitHub
10 5 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.81%) GCP
11 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.81%) IaaS
11 4 (3.81%) PaaS
12 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) DHCP
1 1 (0.95%) DNS
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
1 1 (0.95%) Internet
1 1 (0.95%) MQTT
1 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.10%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.48%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (4.76%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.86%) Big Data
8 3 (2.86%) MySQL
8 3 (2.86%) Tableau
9 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.90%) Metadata
9 2 (1.90%) Redis
9 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.95%) DB2
10 1 (0.95%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Git
2 7 (6.67%) JIRA
3 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.71%) Mockito
4 5 (4.76%) Selenium
5 4 (3.81%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.81%) GitLab
5 4 (3.81%) JUnit
6 3 (2.86%) Mercurial
6 3 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.90%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.90%) Gradle
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
7 2 (1.90%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.90%) Subversion
7 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Banking
2 20 (19.05%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Local Government
5 7 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.81%) Front Office
8 3 (2.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.90%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.95%) Back Office
10 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.95%) French Language
10 1 (0.95%) German Language
10 1 (0.95%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.95%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (37.14%) Developer
2 17 (16.19%) Architect
2 17 (16.19%) Senior
3 13 (12.38%) Java Developer
4 12 (11.43%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Site Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Lead
10 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.81%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.81%) .NET
2 23 (21.90%) Kafka
3 18 (17.14%) React
4 15 (14.29%) RESTful
5 13 (12.38%) .NET Core
6 12 (11.43%) REST
6 12 (11.43%) Spring Boot
7 11 (10.48%) Spring
8 8 (7.62%) Node.js
8 8 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 6 (5.71%) Blazor
11 5 (4.76%) Web Services
12 4 (3.81%) CSS
12 4 (3.81%) HTML
12 4 (3.81%) JAX-RS
12 4 (3.81%) JSON
12 4 (3.81%) XML
13 3 (2.86%) Django
13 3 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.62%) Data Structures
4 7 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 7 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.81%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) BYOD
8 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.95%) PKI
9 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.19%) Linux
2 7 (6.67%) Unix
2 7 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (3.81%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.90%) Android
4 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.10%) Agile
2 37 (35.24%) CI/CD
3 26 (24.76%) DevOps
4 24 (22.86%) Software Engineering
5 18 (17.14%) Front End Development
6 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 14 (13.33%) SDLC
7 14 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.38%) Full Stack Development
8 13 (12.38%) TDD
9 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (8.57%) Multithreading
10 9 (8.57%) Scrum
11 8 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (7.62%) Open Source
11 8 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (7.62%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.10%) Java
2 31 (29.52%) Python
3 26 (24.76%) SQL
4 19 (18.10%) C#
5 16 (15.24%) Go
6 15 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (10.48%) C++
8 8 (7.62%) T-SQL
9 7 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.71%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.86%) Scala
12 2 (1.90%) Perl
12 2 (1.90%) Ruby
13 1 (0.95%) ABAP
13 1 (0.95%) Bash
13 1 (0.95%) C
13 1 (0.95%) PHP
13 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.76%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) MiFID
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) EMIR
3 1 (0.95%) FATCA
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
2 7 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.95%) Ceph
3 1 (0.95%) NFS
Systems Management
1 28 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.48%) Terraform
3 8 (7.62%) Consul
3 8 (7.62%) Grafana
4 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.76%) Ansible
6 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.86%) Puppet
7 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.95%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.95%) Mesos
7 1 (0.95%) Packer
7 1 (0.95%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 20 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) SaltStack
4 6 (5.71%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) IBM
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
7 1 (0.95%) Adobe
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco
7 1 (0.95%) New Relic
7 1 (0.95%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.95%) Sybase
7 1 (0.95%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.95%) TIBCO