Microservices Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Microservices
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 22 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 13 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 16.05% 3.00% 9.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.06% 3.33% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £506 £464 £381
25th Percentile £513 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £633 £484 £578
90th Percentile £635 £486 £594
South London median daily rate £550 £525 £400
% change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -27.60%

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 72 90 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.89% 90.00% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 93
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £479 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -5.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £638 £623 £673
South London median daily rate £508 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.45% -1.91% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £17.98 £19.50 £51.04
% change year-on-year -7.79% -61.79% +15.70%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Croydon

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 4 (30.77%) Serverless
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 4 (30.77%) SonarQube
3 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 3 (23.08%) Maven
3 3 (23.08%) Mockito
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
5 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (7.69%) DbUnit
5 1 (7.69%) jMock
5 1 (7.69%) Storybook
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 9 (69.23%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (23.08%) Bootstrap
3 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
3 3 (23.08%) JPA
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) boto
4 2 (15.38%) Node.js
4 2 (15.38%) pytest
4 2 (15.38%) React
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.69%) PowerMock
5 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Batch
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Integration
5 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Containerisation
1 9 (69.23%) TDD
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (38.46%) CQRS
4 5 (38.46%) Design Patterns
4 5 (38.46%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (7.69%) Compliance Management
8 1 (7.69%) Data Encryption
8 1 (7.69%) Data Science
8 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
8 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI