Microservices Contracts in the City of London

Microservices
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 45 43 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 90 182 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.15% 5.02% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 5.48% 8.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 125 248
10th Percentile £425 £513 £513
25th Percentile £500 £600 £582
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £719 £775 £758
90th Percentile £894 £820 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £700 £665
% change year-on-year -21.43% +5.26% +20.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 3,321 3,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 91.59% 91.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 2,237 2,950
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the City of London

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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
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 6 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (4.44%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.22%) CMS
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.11%) Camunda
5 1 (1.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (1.11%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.11%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.78%) AWS
2 21 (23.33%) Azure
2 21 (23.33%) Serverless
3 17 (18.89%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 8 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (8.89%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (7.78%) SaaS
7 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Storage
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub
8 4 (4.44%) GCP
8 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.44%) IaaS
8 4 (4.44%) PaaS
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.33%) Azure API Management
9 3 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
1 2 (2.22%) WAN
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) Internet
2 1 (1.11%) MQTT
2 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.33%) MySQL
7 3 (3.33%) Tableau
8 2 (2.22%) Metadata
9 1 (1.11%) Big Data
9 1 (1.11%) DB2
9 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.11%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.11%) Redis
9 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Git
2 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.67%) JIRA
2 6 (6.67%) Mockito
3 5 (5.56%) GitLab
3 5 (5.56%) Selenium
4 4 (4.44%) CircleCI
4 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.44%) JUnit
5 3 (3.33%) Mercurial
5 3 (3.33%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.22%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.22%) Gradle
6 2 (2.22%) Maven
6 2 (2.22%) ScalaTest
6 2 (2.22%) Subversion
6 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.22%) Banking
2 20 (22.22%) Finance
3 12 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.78%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.44%) Front Office
7 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Public Speaking
7 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.11%) Back Office
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) French Language
8 1 (1.11%) German Language
8 1 (1.11%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.11%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 35 (38.89%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) Architect
3 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (7.78%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Site Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Lead
9 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.33%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.33%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) Kafka
2 16 (17.78%) .NET
3 15 (16.67%) RESTful
4 11 (12.22%) REST
4 11 (12.22%) Spring
4 11 (12.22%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 10 (11.11%) React
6 8 (8.89%) Node.js
6 8 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (6.67%) Blazor
8 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.56%) Web Services
9 4 (4.44%) CSS
9 4 (4.44%) HTML
9 4 (4.44%) JAX-RS
10 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.33%) Middleware
10 3 (3.33%) pytest
10 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (7.78%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.78%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.44%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.11%) BYOD
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Windows
3 7 (7.78%) Unix
4 4 (4.44%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.22%) Android
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Agile
2 37 (41.11%) CI/CD
3 27 (30.00%) DevOps
4 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
6 13 (14.44%) Full Stack Development
6 13 (14.44%) SDLC
6 13 (14.44%) TDD
6 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.22%) Front End Development
8 10 (11.11%) Scrum
9 9 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (10.00%) Multithreading
10 8 (8.89%) API Development
10 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (7.78%) Analytical Thinking
11 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (7.78%) Kanban
11 7 (7.78%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.11%) Java
2 30 (33.33%) Python
3 23 (25.56%) SQL
4 16 (17.78%) Go
5 15 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.22%) C++
7 10 (11.11%) C#
8 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
9 7 (7.78%) Shell Script
9 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
10 6 (6.67%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.22%) Ruby
11 2 (2.22%) Scala
12 1 (1.11%) ABAP
12 1 (1.11%) Bash
12 1 (1.11%) C
12 1 (1.11%) Perl
12 1 (1.11%) PHP
12 1 (1.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Ceph
3 1 (1.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (32.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.22%) Terraform
3 8 (8.89%) Consul
3 8 (8.89%) Grafana
4 7 (7.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.56%) Ansible
6 3 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.11%) Mesos
7 1 (1.11%) Packer
7 1 (1.11%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) Oracle
2 7 (7.78%) SaltStack
3 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) IBM
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Adobe
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic
6 1 (1.11%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.11%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.11%) Terracotta
6 1 (1.11%) TIBCO