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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 66 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 -22 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 78 72 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.97% 3.00% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.27% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 45 83
10th Percentile £391 £500 £413
25th Percentile £500 £553 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £630
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +3.17% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £768 £775
90th Percentile £788 £822 £825
London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -5.88%

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 1,823 2,202 2,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.73% 91.75% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,371 1,844
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £783 £813
London median daily rate £533 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 28 19
10th Percentile £18.33 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.15 £30.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -45.54%
75th Percentile £41.80 £65.63 £59.00
90th Percentile £58.85 £119.65 £69.75
London median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
% change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%

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 23 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 23 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 +6 71 £580 -9.73% 249
West End of London - 3 - - 6
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 (6.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Camunda
2 1 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.28%) IIS
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.28%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.28%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.28%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 35 (44.87%) AWS
2 26 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (21.79%) GitHub
4 15 (19.23%) GCP
5 9 (11.54%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.97%) Serverless
7 6 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.13%) Apigee
10 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (3.85%) SaaS
10 3 (3.85%) Stackdriver
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.56%) IaaS
11 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) SSL
2 1 (1.28%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.26%) Redis
4 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.13%) MySQL
7 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (24.36%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.26%) JIRA
5 6 (7.69%) GitLab
6 5 (6.41%) Maven
7 4 (5.13%) JUnit
7 4 (5.13%) Mockito
7 4 (5.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (3.85%) Postman
8 3 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.85%) SoapUI
8 3 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.85%) Subversion
8 3 (3.85%) Xcode
8 3 (3.85%) XCTest
9 2 (2.56%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.56%) Gradle
10 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
General
1 29 (37.18%) Finance
2 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 21 (26.92%) Banking
4 5 (6.41%) Front Office
4 5 (6.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (42.31%) Developer
2 16 (20.51%) Architect
3 15 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Senior
5 8 (10.26%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.97%) Angular Developer
6 7 (8.97%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Lead
8 5 (6.41%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.13%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Consultant
9 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Web Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Principal Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Principal Java Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) REST
2 20 (25.64%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.23%) AngularJS
3 15 (19.23%) React
4 14 (17.95%) Spring
5 12 (15.38%) RESTful
6 10 (12.82%) HTML
6 10 (12.82%) Kafka
7 8 (10.26%) CSS
7 8 (10.26%) GraphQL
7 8 (10.26%) HTML5
7 8 (10.26%) Node.js
8 7 (8.97%) .NET
9 6 (7.69%) Web Services
10 5 (6.41%) Hibernate
10 5 (6.41%) jQuery
10 5 (6.41%) SOAP
10 5 (6.41%) Spring MVC
10 5 (6.41%) WSE
11 4 (5.13%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.41%) Derivative
5 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.85%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.56%) IVR
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.28%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.28%) NHS
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) PKI
7 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Unix
2 2 (2.56%) Android
2 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Agile
2 29 (37.18%) CI/CD
3 18 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (20.51%) DevOps
6 15 (19.23%) Code Quality
6 15 (19.23%) Design Patterns
7 14 (17.95%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.38%) Scrum
9 11 (14.10%) Containerisation
9 11 (14.10%) Software Engineering
10 10 (12.82%) Event-Driven
10 10 (12.82%) TDD
10 10 (12.82%) User Experience
11 9 (11.54%) Roadmaps
12 8 (10.26%) Analytics
12 8 (10.26%) API Development
12 8 (10.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (10.26%) Kanban
13 7 (8.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.74%) Java
2 20 (25.64%) Python
2 20 (25.64%) SQL
3 18 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 15 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.82%) C#
6 7 (8.97%) Go
7 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.85%) Groovy
8 3 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.28%) Bash
9 1 (1.28%) Bicep
9 1 (1.28%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.28%) Ruby
9 1 (1.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CCSP
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.28%) CISSP
4 1 (1.28%) Degree
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.28%) OSCP
4 1 (1.28%) SANS
4 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.56%) NCSC
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) GRC
4 1 (1.28%) MiFID
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (29.49%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.38%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Istio
4 3 (3.85%) Puppet
4 3 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) Google
2 7 (8.97%) Splunk
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.13%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.85%) Databricks
5 3 (3.85%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.56%) BMC
6 2 (2.56%) HP
6 2 (2.56%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.56%) Remedy
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.28%) Portware
7 1 (1.28%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce