Microservices Contracts in the City of London

Microservices
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 38 47 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 90 91 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.13% 4.14% 5.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 4.58% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 62 127
10th Percentile £425 £428 £513
25th Percentile £507 £500 £596
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £593 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -15.36% +3.70%
75th Percentile £720 £717 £775
90th Percentile £807 £882 £825
Central London median daily rate £585 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +6.36% -21.43% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge - 2 - -
Microservices
Central London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) Alfresco
2 1 (1.11%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.11%) Camunda
2 1 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.67%) AWS
2 25 (27.78%) Azure
3 19 (21.11%) Serverless
4 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (8.89%) GCP
6 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.44%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.44%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.33%) Boomi
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon Macie
10 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (2.22%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
2 4 (4.44%) VPN
3 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 3 (3.33%) HTTP
4 2 (2.22%) FTP
4 2 (2.22%) SMTP
4 2 (2.22%) SSL
4 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.56%) NoSQL
2 22 (24.44%) MongoDB
3 21 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.67%) Redis
6 5 (5.56%) DocumentDB
6 5 (5.56%) Tableau
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.22%) Big Data
9 2 (2.22%) CockroachDB
9 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.22%) MySQL
10 1 (1.11%) Looker
10 1 (1.11%) Power BI
10 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.67%) JUnit
5 5 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (5.56%) Maven
5 5 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (4.44%) Gradle
6 4 (4.44%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.33%) JIRA
8 2 (2.22%) Ant
8 2 (2.22%) Babel
8 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.22%) webpack
9 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.11%) GitLab
9 1 (1.11%) JBehave
9 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (31.11%) Public Sector
2 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 24 (26.67%) Finance
4 14 (15.56%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Military
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (44.44%) Developer
2 25 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Architect
4 17 (18.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Senior
7 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.44%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Integration Architect
9 3 (3.33%) OpenLink Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.22%) React
2 27 (30.00%) Kafka
2 27 (30.00%) Spring
3 21 (23.33%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.56%) .NET
5 10 (11.11%) Node.js
6 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.56%) RESTful
7 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.44%) JMS
7 4 (4.44%) JPA
7 4 (4.44%) JSON
7 4 (4.44%) WPF
8 3 (3.33%) HTML
8 3 (3.33%) Middleware
8 3 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.33%) REST
9 2 (2.22%) CSS
9 2 (2.22%) CSS3
9 2 (2.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.22%) PKI
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Derivative
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (54.44%) DevOps
2 43 (47.78%) Agile
3 33 (36.67%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.44%) SOLID
5 20 (22.22%) API Development
6 19 (21.11%) Clean Code
7 17 (18.89%) Software Engineering
8 14 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (11.11%) Analytics
11 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (10.00%) TDD
12 8 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
13 7 (7.78%) API Management
13 7 (7.78%) Containerisation
13 7 (7.78%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (7.78%) Event-Driven
14 6 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
14 6 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.11%) Java
2 33 (36.67%) SQL
3 29 (32.22%) JavaScript
4 22 (24.44%) Python
5 15 (16.67%) C#
6 4 (4.44%) Bicep
6 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.22%) C++
7 2 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) Ada
8 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) SC Cleared
1 33 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.89%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.44%) Degree
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.22%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Lustre
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 48 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (15.56%) Terraform
3 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.33%) Grafana
4 3 (3.33%) Podman
5 2 (2.22%) Karpenter
5 2 (2.22%) MOM
6 1 (1.11%) Ansible
6 1 (1.11%) CASB
6 1 (1.11%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.11%) Istio
6 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.67%) Google
1 6 (6.67%) Splunk
2 5 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 4 (4.44%) IBM
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) OpenLink
4 3 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Dell
6 1 (1.11%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.11%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.11%) Okta
6 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.11%) Pega