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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 64 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -23 -11
Contract jobs citing Microservices 75 66 137
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.00% 2.82% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.07% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 43 93
10th Percentile £386 £466 £413
25th Percentile £495 £514 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £705 £630
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +11.90% -6.67%
75th Percentile £672 £779 £750
90th Percentile £749 £825 £825
London median daily rate £550 £585 £615
% change year-on-year -5.98% -4.88% -1.60%

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 1,758 2,147 2,702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.86% 91.87% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,349 1,892
10th Percentile £329 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 20
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.86 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +12.00% -27.53%
75th Percentile £38.88 £74.38 £52.63
90th Percentile £61.65 £124.75 £69.25
London median hourly rate £31.49 £39.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -19.26% -1.58% +5.67%

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 1 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 1 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 +3 67 £600 -14.89% 154
West End of London +8 3 - - 2
City of Westminster 0 1 £475 -34.48% 1
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Camunda
2 1 (1.33%) IIS
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) AWS
2 20 (26.67%) Azure
3 14 (18.67%) GCP
3 14 (18.67%) GitHub
4 9 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.67%) Serverless
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.33%) Apigee
6 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.33%) Stackdriver
7 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.67%) SaaS
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.33%) PaaS
9 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (14.67%) Relational Database
2 9 (12.00%) Redis
3 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.33%) MySQL
4 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.67%) Big Data
6 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Git
2 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (12.00%) JIRA
3 8 (10.67%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.33%) Maven
5 6 (8.00%) GitLab
6 5 (6.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (5.33%) JUnit
7 4 (5.33%) Mockito
7 4 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (5.33%) Postman
7 4 (5.33%) REST Assured
7 4 (5.33%) SoapUI
7 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.33%) Subversion
7 4 (5.33%) Xcode
7 4 (5.33%) XCTest
8 3 (4.00%) Gradle
9 1 (1.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.33%) Mocha
General
1 32 (42.67%) Finance
2 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (32.00%) Banking
4 6 (8.00%) Front Office
5 5 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.67%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Military
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (40.00%) Developer
2 18 (24.00%) Architect
3 13 (17.33%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Senior
5 8 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Angular Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Lead
6 6 (8.00%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.33%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Principal Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Principal Java Developer
9 3 (4.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (30.67%) Spring Boot
2 22 (29.33%) REST
3 17 (22.67%) Spring
4 16 (21.33%) AngularJS
5 15 (20.00%) React
6 13 (17.33%) Kafka
7 10 (13.33%) GraphQL
7 10 (13.33%) RESTful
8 9 (12.00%) HTML
8 9 (12.00%) HTML5
9 8 (10.67%) Node.js
10 7 (9.33%) CSS
10 7 (9.33%) Web Services
11 6 (8.00%) SOAP
12 5 (6.67%) .NET
12 5 (6.67%) Hibernate
12 5 (6.67%) JPA
12 5 (6.67%) jQuery
12 5 (6.67%) Spring MVC
12 5 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.67%) Derivative
5 3 (4.00%) IVR
5 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.67%) Unix
2 2 (2.67%) Android
2 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.00%) Agile
2 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 15 (20.00%) DevOps
5 14 (18.67%) Design Patterns
6 12 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (16.00%) Event-Driven
6 12 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 11 (14.67%) TDD
7 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
8 10 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
8 10 (13.33%) Scrum
8 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 9 (12.00%) Front End Development
10 8 (10.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (10.67%) High Availability
10 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (10.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) Java
2 20 (26.67%) Python
2 20 (26.67%) SQL
3 18 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 16 (21.33%) JavaScript
5 10 (13.33%) C#
6 5 (6.67%) Go
6 5 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.33%) Groovy
7 4 (5.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) Bicep
8 1 (1.33%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) MiFID
3 1 (1.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.00%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) Ansible
3 5 (6.67%) Puppet
4 4 (5.33%) Istio
5 3 (4.00%) Grafana
5 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Splunk
2 6 (8.00%) Oracle
3 5 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.67%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (4.00%) OutSystems
6 2 (2.67%) BMC
6 2 (2.67%) HP
6 2 (2.67%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.67%) Remedy
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.33%) Citrix
7 1 (1.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) Portware
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Spotify