Microservices Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microservices
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -26 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 77 69 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.95% 2.86% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.13% 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 84
10th Percentile £386 £500 £413
25th Percentile £500 £553 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £635 £620
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +2.42% -8.15%
75th Percentile £672 £751 £775
90th Percentile £806 £810 £825
London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,799 2,207 2,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.26% 91.50% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,380 1,830
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £693
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
London median daily rate £526 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 19
10th Percentile £19.94 £20.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +34.62% -49.51%
75th Percentile £41.94 £61.25 £59.00
90th Percentile £60.95 £117.10 £69.75
London median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Central London

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Central London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microservices

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 30 November 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
City of London +2 70 £578 -5.64% 65
West End of London - 3 - -
City of Westminster +1 1 £475 -34.48%
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Camunda
2 1 (1.30%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.30%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.30%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.30%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.16%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Azure
3 15 (19.48%) GitHub
4 14 (18.18%) GCP
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.09%) Serverless
7 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.90%) Apigee
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.60%) SaaS
11 2 (2.60%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) SSL
2 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.39%) Redis
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.19%) MySQL
7 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Git
2 10 (12.99%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.39%) JIRA
5 5 (6.49%) GitLab
6 4 (5.19%) JUnit
6 4 (5.19%) Maven
6 4 (5.19%) Mockito
6 4 (5.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (3.90%) Postman
7 3 (3.90%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.90%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.90%) Subversion
7 3 (3.90%) Xcode
7 3 (3.90%) XCTest
8 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.30%) Mocha
9 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (36.36%) Finance
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.87%) Banking
3 6 (7.79%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.19%) Front Office
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
5 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.30%) Games
6 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (41.56%) Developer
2 16 (20.78%) Java Developer
3 15 (19.48%) Architect
4 13 (16.88%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Angular Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Lead
7 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (5.19%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Web Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.90%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 20 (25.97%) REST
3 15 (19.48%) AngularJS
3 15 (19.48%) Spring
4 14 (18.18%) React
5 12 (15.58%) RESTful
6 10 (12.99%) HTML
7 9 (11.69%) Kafka
8 8 (10.39%) CSS
8 8 (10.39%) HTML5
9 7 (9.09%) Node.js
10 6 (7.79%) .NET
10 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
10 6 (7.79%) Web Services
11 5 (6.49%) Hibernate
11 5 (6.49%) jQuery
11 5 (6.49%) SOAP
11 5 (6.49%) Spring MVC
11 5 (6.49%) WSE
12 4 (5.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.49%) Derivative
5 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.90%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.30%) IVR
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.30%) NHS
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Online Games
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Unix
2 2 (2.60%) Android
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Agile
2 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (19.48%) Code Quality
5 15 (19.48%) DevOps
6 14 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 14 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 12 (15.58%) Scrum
7 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
9 10 (12.99%) TDD
9 10 (12.99%) User Experience
10 9 (11.69%) Event-Driven
10 9 (11.69%) SDLC
11 8 (10.39%) Analytics
11 8 (10.39%) API Development
11 8 (10.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (10.39%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Java
2 19 (24.68%) Python
2 19 (24.68%) SQL
3 17 (22.08%) TypeScript
4 15 (19.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.69%) C#
6 8 (10.39%) Go
7 4 (5.19%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.90%) Groovy
8 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.30%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.30%) CCSP
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CISSP
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) OSCP
4 1 (1.30%) SANS
4 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) GDPR
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.60%) NCSC
4 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.30%) GRC
4 1 (1.30%) MiFID
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (29.87%) Kubernetes
2 11 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Ansible
3 3 (3.90%) Grafana
3 3 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.60%) Puppet
5 1 (1.30%) Istio
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle
2 7 (9.09%) Splunk
3 6 (7.79%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.90%) Databricks
5 3 (3.90%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.60%) BMC
6 2 (2.60%) HP
6 2 (2.60%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.60%) Remedy
6 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.30%) IBM
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) Portware
7 1 (1.30%) Rapid7