Microservices Contracts in South London

Microservices
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -11
Contract jobs citing Microservices 29 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 16.96% 6.45% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.21% 6.94% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 12
10th Percentile £455 £469 £338
25th Percentile £481 £488 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +7.89% -20.83%
75th Percentile £639 £538 £491
90th Percentile £738 £625 £545
London median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 151 173 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.30% 93.01% 84.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 119 215
10th Percentile £213 £300 £338
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £606
90th Percentile £707 £744 £700
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 18
10th Percentile - - £15.32
25th Percentile - £17.25 £32.70
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £51.31
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -61.99% +16.31%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £65.82
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.71% -12.50% +8.11%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in South London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in South London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Croydon +11 28 £530 +3.41%
Sutton - 1 - -
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 2 (6.90%) Camunda
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) Azure
3 8 (27.59%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) Serverless
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Fabric
8 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.45%) PaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
3 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
5 3 (10.34%) MySQL
6 2 (6.90%) GIS
6 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (6.90%) Redis
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 10 (34.48%) JUnit
2 10 (34.48%) Mockito
3 5 (17.24%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) Gradle
3 5 (17.24%) Liquibase
4 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
5 3 (10.34%) Maven
6 2 (6.90%) JMeter
7 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.45%) DbUnit
7 1 (3.45%) JIRA
7 1 (3.45%) jMock
7 1 (3.45%) Storybook
General
1 18 (62.07%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Electronics
3 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
3 5 (17.24%) Marketing
3 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Developer
2 15 (51.72%) Java Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (75.86%) Spring
2 13 (44.83%) Spring Boot
3 11 (37.93%) Kafka
4 6 (20.69%) React
4 6 (20.69%) REST
5 5 (17.24%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
5 5 (17.24%) Hibernate
5 5 (17.24%) OpenAPI
5 5 (17.24%) Swagger
6 4 (13.79%) HTML
6 4 (13.79%) XML
7 3 (10.34%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (10.34%) Bootstrap
7 3 (10.34%) JPA
7 3 (10.34%) Keycloak
7 3 (10.34%) SOAP
7 3 (10.34%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (10.34%) Web Services
8 2 (6.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
1 19 (65.52%) Containerisation
1 19 (65.52%) TDD
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (41.38%) Code Quality
5 11 (37.93%) Agile
6 8 (27.59%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (27.59%) CQRS
6 8 (27.59%) Design Patterns
6 8 (27.59%) Domain-Driven Design
7 6 (20.69%) Migration
7 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.24%) Digital Marketing
8 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (17.24%) Programme Management
8 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Java
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (82.76%) Security Cleared
2 21 (72.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.90%) Istio
3 2 (6.90%) Kibana
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) Rancher
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft