Microservices Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Microservices
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Canary Wharf requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 12.31% 3.77% 6.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.70% 3.77% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £401 - £442
25th Percentile £427 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £250 £540
Median % change year-on-year +72.80% -53.70% -12.48%
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £701 - -
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £432 £250 £540
% change year-on-year +72.80% -53.70% -12.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 53 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 96.92% 100.00% 97.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 79
10th Percentile £394 £432 £450
25th Percentile £450 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% - +6.36%
75th Percentile £678 £588 £640
90th Percentile £775 £630 £776
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £548 £585 £585
% change year-on-year -6.41% - +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - £36.00 -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Canary Wharf

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Ethereum
1 1 (12.50%) Solana
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Flink
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Hardhat
1 1 (12.50%) Mocha
1 1 (12.50%) MSTest
1 1 (12.50%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) ethers.js
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Redux
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Web3
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Contract Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Fund Accounting
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) OWASP
5 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) DAML
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) Solidity
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Confluent
1 1 (12.50%) SaltStack