Microservices Contracts in the City of London

Microservices
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 46 27
Rank change year-on-year -17 -19 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 67 127 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.16% 4.57% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 5.09% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 83 199
10th Percentile £484 £413 £470
25th Percentile £520 £513 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £615 £675
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% -8.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £759 £775 £788
90th Percentile £824 £825 £827
Central London median daily rate £635 £628 £675
% change year-on-year +1.20% -7.04% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (2.99%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) Azure
2 27 (40.30%) AWS
3 17 (25.37%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) GitHub
4 6 (8.96%) Serverless
5 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.99%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.99%) Datadog
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.99%) npm
7 2 (2.99%) PaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.99%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) MongoDB
2 13 (19.40%) NoSQL
3 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.97%) BigQuery
4 4 (5.97%) Bigtable
4 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.48%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.99%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.49%) Big Data
7 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.49%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Jenkins
2 11 (16.42%) GitLab
3 8 (11.94%) Git
4 3 (4.48%) Maven
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.99%) Gradle
5 2 (2.99%) webpack
6 1 (1.49%) Ant
6 1 (1.49%) Babel
6 1 (1.49%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) JUnit
6 1 (1.49%) Mockito
6 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (29.85%) Finance
3 15 (22.39%) Banking
4 9 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Front Office
9 1 (1.49%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Military
9 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.49%) Police
9 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (46.27%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Java Developer
3 6 (8.96%) React Developer
3 6 (8.96%) Senior
4 5 (7.46%) Environment Manager
4 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (7.46%) Test Environment Manager
4 5 (7.46%) Test Manager
5 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.97%) GCP Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Site Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Django Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Lead
6 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.85%) RESTful
2 18 (26.87%) Kafka
2 18 (26.87%) Spring Boot
3 15 (22.39%) React
4 13 (19.40%) Spring
5 8 (11.94%) .NET
6 7 (10.45%) REST
7 6 (8.96%) Node.js
7 6 (8.96%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
9 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
9 4 (5.97%) Spring MVC
10 3 (4.48%) Django
10 3 (4.48%) Middleware
10 3 (4.48%) Web Services
11 2 (2.99%) CSS
11 2 (2.99%) Hibernate
11 2 (2.99%) JPA
11 2 (2.99%) Redux
11 2 (2.99%) Zuul
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Algorithms
1 6 (8.96%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.48%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.49%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.49%) Life Science
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (52.24%) CI/CD
2 25 (37.31%) Agile
2 25 (37.31%) DevOps
3 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (16.42%) Clean Code
6 10 (14.93%) Scrum
7 9 (13.43%) SOLID
8 8 (11.94%) Analytics
8 8 (11.94%) API Development
8 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
8 8 (11.94%) Front End Development
8 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.45%) BDD
9 7 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.45%) TDD
10 6 (8.96%) SDLC
10 6 (8.96%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (47.76%) Java
2 21 (31.34%) SQL
3 18 (26.87%) Python
4 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.93%) C#
6 8 (11.94%) C++
6 8 (11.94%) Go
7 5 (7.46%) Shell Script
7 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.99%) Scala
8 2 (2.99%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 5 (7.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.49%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 36 (53.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Grafana
2 14 (20.90%) Prometheus
3 13 (19.40%) Terraform
4 7 (10.45%) Ansible
5 5 (7.46%) Consul
6 2 (2.99%) Istio
6 2 (2.99%) Salt
7 1 (1.49%) Argo
7 1 (1.49%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.49%) Kibana
7 1 (1.49%) MOM
7 1 (1.49%) Netcool
7 1 (1.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) Google
3 5 (7.46%) SaltStack
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle
5 3 (4.48%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.99%) New Relic
6 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.99%) Splunk
7 1 (1.49%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.49%) Confluent
7 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.49%) SnapLogic