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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 80 68 126
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.96% 2.96% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 3.21% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 82
10th Percentile £384 £491 £413
25th Percentile £500 £542 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £588 £608
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% -3.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £738
90th Percentile £788 £836 £825
London median daily rate £550 £589 £594
% change year-on-year -6.62% -0.84% -8.62%

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 1,826 2,117 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.31% 92.24% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 1,323 1,706
10th Percentile £348 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%

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 December 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 December 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 73 £578 -1.83% 190
West End of London - 3 - - 5
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) AWS
2 25 (31.25%) Azure
3 18 (22.50%) GitHub
4 16 (20.00%) GCP
5 10 (12.50%) Serverless
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (3.75%) Apigee
11 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (3.75%) Stackdriver
12 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.50%) Redis
3 9 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.25%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.75%) JIRA
4 5 (6.25%) GitLab
5 4 (5.00%) JUnit
5 4 (5.00%) Maven
5 4 (5.00%) Mockito
5 4 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (3.75%) Postman
6 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.75%) SoapUI
6 3 (3.75%) Subversion
6 3 (3.75%) Xcode
6 3 (3.75%) XCTest
7 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.25%) Mocha
8 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (32.50%) Finance
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.50%) Banking
3 6 (7.50%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.50%) Front Office
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
5 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.25%) Games
6 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Legal
6 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Developer
2 18 (22.50%) Architect
2 18 (22.50%) Java Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.75%) Angular Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Principal Java Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) Spring Boot
2 18 (22.50%) REST
3 17 (21.25%) Spring
4 15 (18.75%) AngularJS
5 12 (15.00%) React
5 12 (15.00%) RESTful
6 10 (12.50%) HTML
7 8 (10.00%) CSS
7 8 (10.00%) HTML5
7 8 (10.00%) Kafka
7 8 (10.00%) Node.js
8 6 (7.50%) .NET
8 6 (7.50%) Web Services
9 5 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.25%) jQuery
9 5 (6.25%) JSON
9 5 (6.25%) OAuth
9 5 (6.25%) SOAP
9 5 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
9 5 (6.25%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.25%) Derivative
5 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
8 1 (1.25%) Online Games
8 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 18 (22.50%) DevOps
4 17 (21.25%) Containerisation
5 16 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (18.75%) Code Quality
6 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (17.50%) Design Patterns
7 14 (17.50%) Test Automation
8 12 (15.00%) Event-Driven
8 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (15.00%) Roadmaps
8 12 (15.00%) Scrum
8 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.75%) TDD
10 10 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (12.50%) User Experience
11 9 (11.25%) API Development
11 9 (11.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (11.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) Java
2 21 (26.25%) SQL
3 19 (23.75%) Python
4 15 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.25%) C#
5 9 (11.25%) Go
6 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 3 (3.75%) Groovy
7 3 (3.75%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) C
9 1 (1.25%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.25%) PHP
9 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) ProC
9 1 (1.25%) Swift
9 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.25%) CCSP
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.25%) CISSP
4 1 (1.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.25%) MCP
4 1 (1.25%) OSCP
4 1 (1.25%) SANS
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) GDPR
3 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) NCSC
4 2 (2.50%) PSD2
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.25%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.25%) MiFID
5 1 (1.25%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.50%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 4 (5.00%) Grafana
4 3 (3.75%) Istio
4 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.50%) Argo
5 2 (2.50%) Puppet
6 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Oracle
2 7 (8.75%) Google
2 7 (8.75%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) OutSystems
5 3 (3.75%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) BMC
6 2 (2.50%) HP
6 2 (2.50%) Ivanti
6 2 (2.50%) Remedy
6 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) Portware
7 1 (1.25%) Rapid7