Microservices Contracts in London

Microservices
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 55 54 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 -15 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 524 677 1,514
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.18% 3.80% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.29% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 495 1,148
10th Percentile £400 £421 £463
25th Percentile £457 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £743
90th Percentile £813 £775 £800
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £36.65 - -
25th Percentile £39.13 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.80% - -19.35%
75th Percentile £72.88 - £90.00
90th Percentile £89.15 - -
England median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +4 92 £585 +6.36% 56
South London +13 29 £475 -7.32% 5
West London -2 6 £409 +16.86% 17
East London +8 3 £250 -53.70% 9
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 23 (4.39%) Confluence
2 9 (1.72%) Apache
2 9 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (1.15%) Camunda
4 5 (0.95%) JBoss
4 5 (0.95%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.57%) CMS
5 3 (0.57%) nginx
5 3 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.57%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.38%) Alfresco
6 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) CICS
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (1.15%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (0.95%) Endur
3 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle TCA
4 1 (0.19%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 254 (48.47%) AWS
2 138 (26.34%) Azure
3 79 (15.08%) Serverless
4 51 (9.73%) GCP
5 46 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (6.68%) Amazon S3
8 31 (5.92%) GitHub
9 27 (5.15%) Azure AKS
10 24 (4.58%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 19 (3.63%) OpenShift
13 18 (3.44%) PaaS
14 16 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
15 14 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (2.48%) Azure Functions
16 13 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (2.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.01%) HTTP
2 20 (3.82%) Firewall
3 10 (1.91%) DNS
4 8 (1.53%) SSL
5 7 (1.34%) FTP
5 7 (1.34%) SMTP
5 7 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.95%) VPN
7 1 (0.19%) IPsec
7 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.46%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (12.60%) MongoDB
3 55 (10.50%) NoSQL
4 43 (8.21%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.73%) MySQL
6 28 (5.34%) Redis
6 28 (5.34%) SQL Server
7 27 (5.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 16 (3.05%) Tableau
9 14 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (2.29%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.72%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.34%) Big Data
14 7 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.15%) Power BI
15 6 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (16.03%) Jenkins
2 66 (12.60%) Git
3 45 (8.59%) GitLab
4 43 (8.21%) JUnit
5 35 (6.68%) JIRA
6 25 (4.77%) Maven
7 21 (4.01%) Gradle
8 20 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 20 (3.82%) Mockito
9 18 (3.44%) SonarQube
10 17 (3.24%) TeamCity
11 15 (2.86%) Cucumber
12 13 (2.48%) Cypress.io
12 13 (2.48%) Postman
13 11 (2.10%) Liquibase
14 9 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (1.72%) IntelliJ
14 9 (1.72%) JMeter
15 8 (1.53%) REST Assured
16 7 (1.34%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 146 (27.86%) Finance
2 144 (27.48%) Social Skills
3 88 (16.79%) Banking
4 87 (16.60%) Public Sector
5 53 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (5.92%) Investment Banking
7 25 (4.77%) Front Office
8 20 (3.82%) Marketing
9 15 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.10%) Electronics
11 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.53%) Military
12 8 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.38%) Back Office
13 2 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.19%) Games
14 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 222 (42.37%) Developer
2 88 (16.79%) Java Developer
3 78 (14.89%) Architect
4 75 (14.31%) Senior
5 36 (6.87%) Lead
5 36 (6.87%) Senior Developer
6 34 (6.49%) Software Engineer
7 33 (6.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 31 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 25 (4.77%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (4.77%) Java Engineer
11 24 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
12 22 (4.20%) C# Developer
12 22 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 19 (3.63%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.05%) .NET Developer
14 16 (3.05%) React Developer
15 14 (2.67%) Lead Developer
15 14 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (22.71%) Kafka
2 116 (22.14%) Spring
3 103 (19.66%) Spring Boot
4 91 (17.37%) React
5 81 (15.46%) .NET
6 58 (11.07%) RESTful
7 51 (9.73%) Node.js
8 41 (7.82%) HTML
9 38 (7.25%) AngularJS
10 34 (6.49%) Swagger
11 33 (6.30%) REST
12 30 (5.73%) OpenAPI
13 29 (5.53%) CSS
14 26 (4.96%) GraphQL
14 26 (4.96%) gRPC
15 22 (4.20%) Web Services
16 21 (4.01%) .NET Core
17 19 (3.63%) HTML5
18 16 (3.05%) OpenTelemetry
19 15 (2.86%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 49 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 16 (3.05%) Derivative
5 16 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.29%) PKI
7 11 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.91%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.95%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.06%) Linux
2 23 (4.39%) Windows
3 21 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (2.48%) Unix
5 3 (0.57%) Android
5 3 (0.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.19%) AIX
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (44.27%) DevOps
2 209 (39.89%) CI/CD
3 197 (37.60%) Agile
4 116 (22.14%) Software Engineering
5 107 (20.42%) Containerisation
6 96 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 82 (15.65%) TDD
9 64 (12.21%) Test Automation
10 62 (11.83%) Event-Driven
11 61 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (9.16%) Continuous Integration
13 46 (8.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 43 (8.21%) Scrum
15 42 (8.02%) Clean Code
16 41 (7.82%) SOLID
17 38 (7.25%) Mentoring
18 36 (6.87%) API Development
18 36 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence
18 36 (6.87%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 236 (45.04%) Java
2 146 (27.86%) SQL
3 115 (21.95%) Python
4 106 (20.23%) JavaScript
5 87 (16.60%) C#
6 62 (11.83%) TypeScript
7 32 (6.11%) Go
8 24 (4.58%) Bash
9 23 (4.39%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.20%) PL/SQL
11 18 (3.44%) Bicep
12 17 (3.24%) C++
13 15 (2.86%) Scala
14 9 (1.72%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.53%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (1.34%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.76%) Groovy
17 4 (0.76%) Perl
18 3 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 151 (28.82%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.87%) Degree
4 19 (3.63%) AWS Certified Developer
5 18 (3.44%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 16 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.57%) CISSP
13 2 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.38%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.38%) CEH
13 2 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.38%) OCP
13 2 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.96%) QA
2 11 (2.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.76%) GDPR
4 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) MiFID
6 1 (0.19%) NCSC
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
6 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 171 (32.63%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) Lustre
4 3 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 239 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 94 (17.94%) Terraform
3 40 (7.63%) Grafana
4 35 (6.68%) Prometheus
5 27 (5.15%) Ansible
6 10 (1.91%) Istio
7 8 (1.53%) Puppet
8 7 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.15%) Podman
10 4 (0.76%) Argo
10 4 (0.76%) Karpenter
10 4 (0.76%) Perfmon
11 3 (0.57%) Control-M
11 3 (0.57%) Kibana
11 3 (0.57%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.38%) MOM
12 2 (0.38%) Packer
13 1 (0.19%) QRadar
13 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 39 (7.44%) Oracle
2 34 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.77%) Splunk
4 24 (4.58%) Google
5 14 (2.67%) SAP
6 13 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 13 (2.48%) MuleSoft
6 13 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.10%) IBM
8 9 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.53%) Databricks
10 7 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.95%) OpenLink
11 5 (0.95%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.95%) TIBCO
12 4 (0.76%) Adobe
12 4 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
12 4 (0.76%) Citrix
12 4 (0.76%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.76%) New Relic