Microservices Contracts in Central London

Microservices
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 48
Rank change year-on-year +9 -5 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 91 93 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.54% 3.92% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 4.30% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 71 114
10th Percentile £413 £450 £500
25th Percentile £454 £495 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £703 £738 £788
90th Percentile £815 £800 £859
London median daily rate £545 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -5.22% -11.54% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
London median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% -24.24% +24.64%

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 1,877 2,161 3,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.62% 91.18% 90.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 1,511 2,291
10th Percentile £350 £360 £325
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 23 27
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%
75th Percentile £49.75 £36.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £48.57 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Central London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Central London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Central London

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 4 July 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 88 £585 -6.40% 308
Southwark - 2 - -
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 3 (3.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Camunda
3 1 (1.10%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
3 1 (1.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Endur
2 1 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.10%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) AWS
2 26 (28.57%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) Serverless
4 11 (12.09%) GCP
5 10 (10.99%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.79%) GitHub
8 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.59%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (6.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (5.49%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.40%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.20%) Apigee
13 2 (2.20%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (2.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (2.20%) npm
13 2 (2.20%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.79%) Firewall
2 4 (4.40%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) HTTP
4 2 (2.20%) FTP
4 2 (2.20%) SMTP
4 2 (2.20%) SSL
4 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.18%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.78%) NoSQL
3 15 (16.48%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.79%) Redis
5 5 (5.49%) DocumentDB
5 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.40%) MySQL
6 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.40%) Tableau
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.30%) Big Data
7 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.20%) Power BI
9 1 (1.10%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Git
2 13 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 10 (10.99%) Maven
4 9 (9.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (9.89%) JUnit
5 7 (7.69%) JIRA
6 6 (6.59%) Gradle
7 5 (5.49%) TeamCity
8 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.40%) GitLab
8 4 (4.40%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.30%) Mockito
9 3 (3.30%) Postman
9 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
9 3 (3.30%) SoapUI
9 3 (3.30%) Subversion
9 3 (3.30%) Xcode
9 3 (3.30%) XCTest
General
1 37 (40.66%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.18%) Banking
3 22 (24.18%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.49%) Front Office
6 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Military
7 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) Developer
2 19 (20.88%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.78%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (8.79%) Senior
7 5 (5.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.49%) JavaScript Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) OpenLink Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Lead
9 3 (3.30%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Java Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (29.67%) Kafka
1 27 (29.67%) React
2 26 (28.57%) Spring
3 21 (23.08%) Spring Boot
4 15 (16.48%) .NET
5 13 (14.29%) REST
6 12 (13.19%) Node.js
7 9 (9.89%) AngularJS
7 9 (9.89%) GraphQL
8 8 (8.79%) JPA
9 6 (6.59%) HTML
10 5 (5.49%) CSS
10 5 (5.49%) CSS3
10 5 (5.49%) HTML5
10 5 (5.49%) JSON
10 5 (5.49%) Material-UI
10 5 (5.49%) RESTful
10 5 (5.49%) Svelte
10 5 (5.49%) Web Services
11 4 (4.40%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.20%) IVR
6 2 (2.20%) PKI
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Derivative
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.35%) Agile
1 44 (48.35%) DevOps
2 35 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 18 (19.78%) Software Engineering
4 16 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.38%) API Development
6 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (13.19%) Clean Code
7 12 (13.19%) SOLID
8 10 (10.99%) Containerisation
8 10 (10.99%) Event-Driven
8 10 (10.99%) Front End Development
8 10 (10.99%) TDD
9 9 (9.89%) Analytics
9 9 (9.89%) SDLC
10 8 (8.79%) Code Quality
10 8 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (8.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) Java
2 29 (31.87%) SQL
3 28 (30.77%) Python
4 27 (29.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.38%) C#
6 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.49%) Bicep
7 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.49%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.30%) Groovy
9 2 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.10%) Ada
10 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.10%) Bash
10 1 (1.10%) C++
10 1 (1.10%) COBOL
10 1 (1.10%) JCL
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
1 25 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.09%) AWS Certified Developer
3 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.20%) Degree
5 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.10%) MiFID
3 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (17.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.10%) Lustre
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 17 (18.68%) Terraform
3 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.49%) Grafana
5 4 (4.40%) Istio
5 4 (4.40%) Puppet
6 3 (3.30%) Ansible
7 2 (2.20%) Podman
7 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.10%) CASB
8 1 (1.10%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.10%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.10%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) Splunk
2 7 (7.69%) Google
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.49%) OpenLink
3 5 (5.49%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.30%) IBM
4 3 (3.30%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.10%) Citrix
6 1 (1.10%) Databricks
6 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.10%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.10%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.10%) Pega
6 1 (1.10%) Portware
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat