Microservices Contracts in West London

Microservices
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 25 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 +18 -23
Contract jobs citing Microservices 6 20 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.86% 5.63% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 6.41% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 13
10th Percentile - £81 £425
25th Percentile - £303 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £350 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -36.36% -10.57%
75th Percentile £465 £456 £663
90th Percentile £498 £500 £695
London median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
London median hourly rate £44.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -28.80% - -19.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in West London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in West London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in West London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hounslow -6 2 £520 +52.94% 3
Hammersmith - 2 £409 - 2
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Management Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) Hystrix
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 2 (33.33%) Prisma
2 2 (33.33%) Swagger
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth
3 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) API Design
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce