Microservices Contracts in Croydon

Microservices
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 4 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing Microservices 27 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 29.67% 13.10% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 32.53% 13.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 9
10th Percentile £454 £468 -
25th Percentile £463 £471 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £679 £523 £500
90th Percentile £742 £555 £611
South London median daily rate £475 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Croydon

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Croydon

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Croydon

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (22.22%) Serverless
4 5 (18.52%) PaaS
4 5 (18.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 4 (14.81%) IaaS
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (11.11%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (25.93%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) GIS
4 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.41%) Redis
5 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.93%) JUnit
2 7 (25.93%) Mockito
3 5 (18.52%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) Gradle
3 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 5 (18.52%) Liquibase
4 4 (14.81%) Git
5 2 (7.41%) JMeter
General
1 13 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Electronics
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
2 5 (18.52%) Marketing
2 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Java Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) Spring
2 11 (40.74%) Kafka
3 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 5 (18.52%) OpenAPI
4 5 (18.52%) React
4 5 (18.52%) Swagger
5 4 (14.81%) HTML
5 4 (14.81%) XML
6 3 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (11.11%) Keycloak
7 2 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) Apache Camel
7 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
7 2 (7.41%) jQuery
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) REST
7 2 (7.41%) Web Services
7 2 (7.41%) WireMock
8 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 3 (11.11%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 16 (59.26%) Containerisation
3 15 (55.56%) TDD
4 13 (48.15%) DevOps
5 10 (37.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (29.63%) Code Quality
6 8 (29.63%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (25.93%) Agile
8 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (18.52%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (18.52%) Migration
9 5 (18.52%) Programme Management
9 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
10 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
10 4 (14.81%) Refactoring
10 4 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
11 3 (11.11%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) TypeScript
4 4 (14.81%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
3 5 (18.52%) Grafana
3 5 (18.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Istio
4 2 (7.41%) Kibana
5 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.70%) HAProxy
5 1 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (3.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 2 (7.41%) Dynatrace
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk