Microservices Contracts in Central London

Microservices
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 49 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 103 167 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.30% 4.53% 7.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.96% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 123 269
10th Percentile £450 £503 £512
25th Percentile £489 £603 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £750
90th Percentile £799 £825 £813
London median daily rate £575 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
London median hourly rate £62.50 £90.00 £74.50
% change year-on-year -30.56% +20.81% +9.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London -1 89 £613 -12.50% 37
City of Westminster +3 5 £650 -18.75% 1
West End of London +5 2 £463 - 3
Camden - 1 £500 - 2
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (4.85%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (2.91%) Apache
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) Camunda
4 1 (0.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.97%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 41 (39.81%) AWS
2 22 (21.36%) Azure
3 18 (17.48%) Serverless
4 16 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (7.77%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Functions
6 7 (6.80%) GCP
7 6 (5.83%) GitHub
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
8 5 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.85%) SaaS
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.88%) IaaS
9 4 (3.88%) PaaS
10 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.91%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) DNS
1 1 (0.97%) Firewall
1 1 (0.97%) MQTT
1 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.97%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) MongoDB
2 10 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.91%) Tableau
8 2 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.94%) Big Data
8 2 (1.94%) Metadata
8 2 (1.94%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.97%) DB2
9 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.97%) MySQL
9 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (13.59%) Git
2 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.80%) Mockito
3 6 (5.83%) GitLab
4 5 (4.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.88%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.88%) JUnit
5 4 (3.88%) Selenium
6 3 (2.91%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.94%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.94%) Gradle
7 2 (1.94%) Maven
7 2 (1.94%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.94%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.94%) Subversion
7 2 (1.94%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.97%) Postman
8 1 (0.97%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.27%) Finance
3 22 (21.36%) Banking
4 15 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Investment Banking
5 7 (6.80%) Local Government
6 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Front Office
7 3 (2.91%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Public Speaking
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.97%) Back Office
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) French Language
9 1 (0.97%) German Language
9 1 (0.97%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.97%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Developer
2 16 (15.53%) Senior
3 13 (12.62%) Java Developer
4 12 (11.65%) Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Site Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) Software Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Full Stack Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
7 8 (7.77%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Analyst
11 3 (2.91%) C# Developer
11 3 (2.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) Kafka
2 19 (18.45%) .NET
2 19 (18.45%) React
3 18 (17.48%) RESTful
4 12 (11.65%) Spring Boot
5 11 (10.68%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (9.71%) .NET Core
6 10 (9.71%) REST
7 9 (8.74%) Spring
8 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
8 6 (5.83%) Node.js
9 5 (4.85%) Blazor
9 5 (4.85%) Web Services
10 3 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.91%) AWS CDK
10 3 (2.91%) CSS
10 3 (2.91%) Django
10 3 (2.91%) HTML
10 3 (2.91%) JAX-RS
10 3 (2.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Structures
1 11 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.71%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.85%) Hedge funds
6 4 (3.88%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) PKI
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Linux
2 7 (6.80%) Windows
3 6 (5.83%) Unix
4 4 (3.88%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.94%) Android
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) CI/CD
2 36 (34.95%) Agile
3 29 (28.16%) DevOps
4 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
6 17 (16.50%) Front End Development
7 14 (13.59%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (13.59%) TDD
8 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (11.65%) SDLC
9 11 (10.68%) Mentoring
9 11 (10.68%) Task Automation
9 11 (10.68%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.71%) Analytical Thinking
10 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (9.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (7.77%) API Development
11 8 (7.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Java
2 32 (31.07%) Python
3 23 (22.33%) SQL
4 15 (14.56%) C#
4 15 (14.56%) Go
5 12 (11.65%) C++
5 12 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.71%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.77%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.85%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.85%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.91%) Scala
10 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.97%) ABAP
11 1 (0.97%) Bash
11 1 (0.97%) C
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.97%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (5.83%) Degree
2 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) MiFID
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) EMIR
3 1 (0.97%) FATCA
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 9 (8.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) Ceph
3 1 (0.97%) NFS
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.59%) Terraform
3 11 (10.68%) Prometheus
4 10 (9.71%) Consul
4 10 (9.71%) Grafana
5 3 (2.91%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.97%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.97%) Mesos
6 1 (0.97%) Podman
6 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.97%) Puppet
6 1 (0.97%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.71%) SaltStack
3 7 (6.80%) Oracle
4 5 (4.85%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.88%) Google
6 2 (1.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.97%) Confluent
7 1 (0.97%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.97%) New Relic
7 1 (0.97%) SAP
7 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.97%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.97%) Sybase
7 1 (0.97%) TIBCO