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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -20
Contract jobs citing Microservices 88 80 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.51% 3.45% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 3.74% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 108
10th Percentile £407 £453 £463
25th Percentile £435 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £688 £688
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £669 £750 £778
90th Percentile £803 £818 £866
London median daily rate £575 £600 £630
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.76% +0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
London median hourly rate £80.00 £41.33 £82.50
% change year-on-year +93.58% -49.91% +12.24%

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 1,831 2,137 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 92.11% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,382 2,004
10th Percentile £319 £375 £357
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.56 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.00 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £110.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +11 80 £585 -14.44% 71
West End of London +2 2 - - 5
Southwark - 2 - -
City of Westminster -1 1 £475 -34.48%
Microservices
London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.68%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) Camunda
2 1 (1.14%) IIS
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Endur
2 2 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
3 1 (1.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 46 (52.27%) AWS
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) GCP
4 13 (14.77%) Serverless
5 11 (12.50%) GitHub
6 9 (10.23%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.55%) Stackdriver
9 3 (3.41%) Apigee
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Run
10 2 (2.27%) Datadog
10 2 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) DNS
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
1 3 (3.41%) SSL
2 2 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (1.14%) FTP
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.14%) SMTP
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.64%) Redis
3 9 (10.23%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.68%) DocumentDB
5 5 (5.68%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.41%) Big Data
6 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.14%) Power BI
8 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Git
2 11 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.36%) JIRA
3 10 (11.36%) SonarQube
4 8 (9.09%) Maven
5 7 (7.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (6.82%) GitLab
7 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
7 5 (5.68%) JUnit
7 5 (5.68%) Mockito
7 5 (5.68%) Postman
7 5 (5.68%) REST Assured
7 5 (5.68%) SoapUI
7 5 (5.68%) Subversion
7 5 (5.68%) Xcode
7 5 (5.68%) XCTest
8 3 (3.41%) Gradle
9 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.14%) Mocha
9 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 36 (40.91%) Finance
2 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 26 (29.55%) Banking
4 13 (14.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Front Office
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.27%) Retail
9 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (42.05%) Developer
2 22 (25.00%) Architect
3 18 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (10.23%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Lead
7 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) OpenLink Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Angular Developer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Principal Java Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.95%) Spring Boot
2 26 (29.55%) Spring
3 24 (27.27%) React
4 22 (25.00%) Kafka
5 20 (22.73%) REST
6 14 (15.91%) AngularJS
6 14 (15.91%) Node.js
7 11 (12.50%) .NET
7 11 (12.50%) GraphQL
8 10 (11.36%) HTML
8 10 (11.36%) HTML5
9 9 (10.23%) RESTful
10 8 (9.09%) CSS
10 8 (9.09%) Web Services
11 7 (7.95%) SOAP
12 6 (6.82%) Hibernate
12 6 (6.82%) JPA
12 6 (6.82%) Spring MVC
12 6 (6.82%) Swagger
13 5 (5.68%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.41%) IVR
4 3 (3.41%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.27%) Derivative
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.14%) NHS
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Unix
2 2 (2.27%) Android
2 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (52.27%) Agile
2 27 (30.68%) DevOps
3 26 (29.55%) CI/CD
4 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (17.05%) Event-Driven
7 13 (14.77%) Code Quality
8 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (13.64%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.50%) API Development
9 11 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 11 (12.50%) Design Patterns
10 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (11.36%) Front End Development
11 9 (10.23%) Architectural Design
11 9 (10.23%) SDLC
11 9 (10.23%) TDD
12 8 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Java
2 32 (36.36%) SQL
3 28 (31.82%) JavaScript
4 25 (28.41%) Python
5 16 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 13 (14.77%) C#
7 7 (7.95%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.68%) Groovy
9 4 (4.55%) Go
10 3 (3.41%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.14%) Bash
12 1 (1.14%) Bicep
12 1 (1.14%) COBOL
12 1 (1.14%) JCL
12 1 (1.14%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) MiFID
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (28.41%) Kubernetes
2 16 (18.18%) Terraform
3 6 (6.82%) Puppet
4 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) Istio
5 3 (3.41%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.27%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.14%) WMI
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Splunk
2 7 (7.95%) Google
3 6 (6.82%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.82%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (4.55%) OpenLink
6 3 (3.41%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.41%) OutSystems
7 2 (2.27%) BMC
7 2 (2.27%) HP
7 2 (2.27%) IBM
7 2 (2.27%) Ivanti
7 2 (2.27%) Remedy
7 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.14%) Citrix
8 1 (1.14%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.14%) Portware
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce