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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 46
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Microservices 76 75 100
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.56% 3.60% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.91% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 50 66
10th Percentile £414 £454 £413
25th Percentile £500 £525 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% +1.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £775
90th Percentile £778 £800 £859
London median daily rate £530 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -9.40% +1.74% -11.54%

All Process & 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 1,901 1,916 2,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.04% 92.07% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 1,206 1,642
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £772 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 19 27
10th Percentile £19.46 £21.85 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.62 £33.13 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.00 £40.92
90th Percentile £56.34 £61.40 £65.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%

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 20 February 2026.

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 20 February 2026. 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 -12 73 £560 -4.27% 64
West End of London - 3 - - 3
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 2 (2.63%) Ethereum
1 2 (2.63%) Hyperledger
2 1 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (3.95%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.32%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) AWS
2 16 (21.05%) Azure
2 16 (21.05%) GitHub
3 12 (15.79%) GCP
4 9 (11.84%) Amazon ECS
4 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (11.84%) Serverless
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (6.58%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.95%) Google Gemini
10 2 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.63%) LangSmith
10 2 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) NoSQL
1 11 (14.47%) Relational Database
2 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 8 (10.53%) Redis
3 7 (9.21%) DynamoDB
3 7 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.26%) MySQL
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.95%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.32%) DB2
7 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.32%) Metadata
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.21%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 4 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.95%) GitLab
5 3 (3.95%) JIRA
6 2 (2.63%) Gatling
7 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.32%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.32%) Maven
7 1 (1.32%) Mockito
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.32%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) Vite
General
1 23 (30.26%) Finance
2 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.37%) Banking
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Front Office
5 5 (6.58%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Games
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (39.47%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Architect
2 17 (22.37%) Senior
3 16 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Angular Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.26%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Web Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Web Consultant
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) Spring Boot
2 17 (22.37%) Spring
3 15 (19.74%) REST
4 13 (17.11%) Kafka
4 13 (17.11%) React
4 13 (17.11%) RESTful
5 10 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 7 (9.21%) Node.js
7 5 (6.58%) .NET
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 5 (6.58%) HTML
7 5 (6.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.58%) WSE
8 4 (5.26%) JSON
8 4 (5.26%) OAuth
9 3 (3.95%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (3.95%) J2EE
9 3 (3.95%) JMS
9 3 (3.95%) Middleware
9 3 (3.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.89%) Virtual Team
4 4 (5.26%) Derivative
4 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.95%) Equities
5 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.32%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.32%) NHS
7 1 (1.32%) Online Games
7 1 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) CI/CD
2 23 (30.26%) Agile
3 22 (28.95%) Containerisation
4 15 (19.74%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
5 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
6 13 (17.11%) Code Quality
6 13 (17.11%) DevOps
6 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.79%) Design Patterns
7 12 (15.79%) Event-Driven
8 11 (14.47%) Scrum
9 10 (13.16%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (11.84%) API Development
10 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.84%) Observability
10 9 (11.84%) User Experience
11 8 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 8 (10.53%) Migration
11 8 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Java
2 23 (30.26%) Python
3 19 (25.00%) SQL
4 16 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.21%) Go
7 6 (7.89%) C#
8 3 (3.95%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.95%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) C
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.32%) ProC
9 1 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) CCSP
5 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) OSCP
5 1 (1.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) GDPR
2 5 (6.58%) PSD2
3 3 (3.95%) ISO 20022
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.95%) SEPA
4 2 (2.63%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.63%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.32%) GRC
5 1 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.32%) TARGET2
System Software
1 27 (35.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (13.16%) Terraform
3 8 (10.53%) Grafana
4 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.95%) Ansible
5 3 (3.95%) Argo
5 3 (3.95%) Istio
6 1 (1.32%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Google
1 5 (6.58%) Oracle
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg
3 3 (3.95%) Charles River
3 3 (3.95%) Databricks
3 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
3 3 (3.95%) OutSystems
4 2 (2.63%) Confluent
4 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.63%) Sparx
5 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) Sybase