Microservices Contracts in London

Microservices
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 38 24
Rank change year-on-year -15 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 678 1,400 2,859
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.88% 5.41% 7.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 5.95% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 1,076 2,161
10th Percentile £425 £463 £456
25th Percentile £500 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £688 £743 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
England median daily rate £558 £630 £600
% change year-on-year -11.51% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £45.10 - £63.99
25th Percentile £51.63 £35.00 £73.15
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.35% +13.97%
75th Percentile - £90.00 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.16 £72.50 £63.25
% change year-on-year -34.96% +14.62% -2.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,475 23,527 35,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.92% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 16,975 26,024
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 269 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.40 £17.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.61
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.30 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 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
Central London -2 104 £575 -17.86% 43
West London +22 20 £350 -36.36% 5
South London -4 16 £500 +5.26% 1
East London -6 9 £540 +1.12% 13
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 19 (2.80%) nginx
2 17 (2.51%) Confluence
3 11 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.47%) BizTalk Server
5 8 (1.18%) Apache
5 8 (1.18%) OpenStack
6 7 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.88%) CMS
8 5 (0.74%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.74%) IIS
9 4 (0.59%) Camunda
10 2 (0.29%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.29%) JBoss
10 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.15%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Endur
2 3 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 280 (41.30%) AWS
2 173 (25.52%) Azure
3 116 (17.11%) GCP
4 107 (15.78%) Serverless
5 64 (9.44%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (5.16%) Amazon S3
6 35 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (4.13%) GitHub
8 27 (3.98%) Azure Functions
9 26 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (3.69%) OpenShift
11 23 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (3.39%) PaaS
12 22 (3.24%) SaaS
13 21 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (2.65%) Azure Storage
16 17 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (5.31%) HTTP
2 10 (1.47%) DHCP
2 10 (1.47%) DNS
3 9 (1.33%) Firewall
4 4 (0.59%) ATM
4 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
4 4 (0.59%) Internet
4 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.29%) AMQP
5 2 (0.29%) WAN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.06%) NoSQL
2 70 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (9.88%) MongoDB
4 49 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 43 (6.34%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 26 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (3.39%) Big Data
10 18 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (2.36%) RDBMS
12 14 (2.06%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.77%) MySQL
14 11 (1.62%) DynamoDB
14 11 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.47%) Redis
16 9 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (1.33%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.18%) Tableau
18 7 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 99 (14.60%) Git
2 73 (10.77%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.01%) GitLab
4 28 (4.13%) Cucumber
4 28 (4.13%) JIRA
5 27 (3.98%) Mockito
6 26 (3.83%) JUnit
7 25 (3.69%) TeamCity
8 24 (3.54%) Selenium
9 13 (1.92%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.77%) NUnit
10 12 (1.77%) Postman
11 11 (1.62%) Moq
11 11 (1.62%) SoapUI
12 10 (1.47%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.33%) ScalaTest
14 8 (1.18%) Gradle
14 8 (1.18%) Maven
15 7 (1.03%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.03%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 138 (20.35%) Finance
2 131 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 76 (11.21%) Banking
4 64 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (4.28%) Retail
7 24 (3.54%) Investment Banking
8 23 (3.39%) Front Office
9 15 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.33%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.18%) Local Government
11 8 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.59%) Back Office
12 4 (0.59%) Marketing
13 3 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.44%) Law
13 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.44%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 298 (43.95%) Developer
2 137 (20.21%) Architect
3 107 (15.78%) Senior
4 93 (13.72%) Java Developer
5 51 (7.52%) Senior Developer
6 50 (7.37%) Full Stack Developer
6 50 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (6.19%) Lead
7 42 (6.19%) Software Engineer
8 41 (6.05%) Scala Developer
9 36 (5.31%) C# Developer
10 31 (4.57%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.98%) .NET Developer
13 26 (3.83%) Technical Architect
14 25 (3.69%) Analyst
15 23 (3.39%) Java Engineer
16 20 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 17 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
17 17 (2.51%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (18.29%) Kafka
2 118 (17.40%) .NET
3 101 (14.90%) Spring
4 97 (14.31%) Spring Boot
5 96 (14.16%) RESTful
6 85 (12.54%) REST
7 79 (11.65%) React
8 62 (9.14%) Node.js
9 57 (8.41%) .NET Core
10 44 (6.49%) CSS
10 44 (6.49%) HTML
11 42 (6.19%) Akka
12 41 (6.05%) Web Services
13 39 (5.75%) AngularJS
14 32 (4.72%) Hibernate
15 31 (4.57%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (4.42%) JSON
17 27 (3.98%) JPA
18 26 (3.83%) XML
19 25 (3.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (5.16%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.28%) Data Structures
3 29 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.10%) Mobile App
7 19 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.92%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.77%) Derivative
12 11 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.47%) Hedge funds
14 9 (1.33%) Reference Data
15 7 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 88 (12.98%) Linux
2 48 (7.08%) Unix
3 16 (2.36%) Mac OS X
3 16 (2.36%) Windows
4 7 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) tvOS
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (43.22%) Agile
2 224 (33.04%) DevOps
3 196 (28.91%) CI/CD
4 154 (22.71%) TDD
5 118 (17.40%) Test Automation
6 102 (15.04%) Software Engineering
7 94 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (12.39%) Scrum
9 80 (11.80%) Containerisation
10 75 (11.06%) BDD
10 75 (11.06%) Full Stack Development
11 66 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
12 59 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 52 (7.67%) SDLC
14 49 (7.23%) Pair Programming
15 46 (6.78%) Event-Driven
16 45 (6.64%) Kanban
16 45 (6.64%) Unit Testing
17 44 (6.49%) Computer Science
18 43 (6.34%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 251 (37.02%) Java
2 136 (20.06%) SQL
3 120 (17.70%) C#
4 117 (17.26%) Python
5 109 (16.08%) JavaScript
6 59 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 53 (7.82%) Scala
8 52 (7.67%) Go
9 19 (2.80%) C++
10 18 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.36%) PHP
12 13 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.92%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.92%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.77%) Bash
14 7 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.03%) Ruby
15 6 (0.88%) Bicep
15 6 (0.88%) Groovy
15 6 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 105 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.31%) SC Cleared
3 48 (7.08%) Degree
4 34 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.29%) ISEB
10 2 (0.29%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.15%) CISSP
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) OCP
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.65%) QA
2 14 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.03%) MiFID
5 3 (0.44%) GDPR
6 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) EMIR
7 1 (0.15%) FATCA
7 1 (0.15%) GRC
7 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.15%) SLA
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 160 (23.60%) Docker
2 14 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.15%) Ceph
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.15%) NFS
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 243 (35.84%) Kubernetes
2 92 (13.57%) Terraform
3 34 (5.01%) Grafana
4 30 (4.42%) Ansible
5 26 (3.83%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.62%) Consul
7 9 (1.33%) Puppet
8 8 (1.18%) Argo
9 6 (0.88%) Kibana
10 5 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.44%) logstash
11 3 (0.44%) Netcool
11 3 (0.44%) Packer
12 2 (0.29%) Istio
13 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
13 1 (0.15%) Mesos
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
13 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.96%) Oracle
3 46 (6.78%) Google
4 19 (2.80%) Typelevel
5 17 (2.51%) SAP
6 15 (2.21%) MuleSoft
7 14 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.92%) Splunk
8 13 (1.92%) TIBCO
9 9 (1.33%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.88%) Adobe
10 6 (0.88%) IBM
10 6 (0.88%) WSO2
11 5 (0.74%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.59%) Databricks
12 4 (0.59%) Informatica
12 4 (0.59%) Sitecore
13 3 (0.44%) Guidewire
13 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.44%) Virgin Media