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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 65 37
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 80 67 130
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.96% 3.02% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 3.28% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 88
10th Percentile £438 £491 £413
25th Percentile £500 £542 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £608
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% -3.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £730 £738
90th Percentile £788 £836 £825
London median daily rate £550 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% -7.69%

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 1,816 2,044 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.90% 92.28% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,278 1,673
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -0.43%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 18
10th Percentile £19.82 £19.67 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 £26.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £40.19 £43.38 £44.56
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £67.63
London median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -13.33%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 0 75 £580 -1.40% 69
West End of London - 3 - -
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
1 2 (2.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.00%) AWS
2 22 (27.50%) Azure
3 19 (23.75%) GitHub
4 17 (21.25%) GCP
5 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (11.25%) Serverless
6 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.75%) Apigee
9 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.75%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (3.75%) Stackdriver
10 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 13 (16.25%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.50%) Redis
3 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.75%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.00%) MySQL
6 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.75%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.50%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Git
2 10 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.25%) GitLab
4 5 (6.25%) JIRA
5 4 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.50%) Gatling
6 2 (2.50%) JUnit
6 2 (2.50%) Maven
6 2 (2.50%) Mockito
6 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.25%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.25%) Postman
7 1 (1.25%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.25%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.25%) Subversion
7 1 (1.25%) Vite
7 1 (1.25%) XCTest
General
1 25 (31.25%) Finance
2 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (26.25%) Banking
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Front Office
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (42.50%) Developer
2 19 (23.75%) Architect
3 18 (22.50%) Java Developer
4 14 (17.50%) Senior
5 10 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Angular Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (5.00%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Web Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) Spring Boot
2 15 (18.75%) REST
2 15 (18.75%) Spring
3 13 (16.25%) AngularJS
4 12 (15.00%) React
5 11 (13.75%) RESTful
6 8 (10.00%) HTML
6 8 (10.00%) Node.js
7 6 (7.50%) CSS
7 6 (7.50%) HTML5
7 6 (7.50%) JSON
7 6 (7.50%) Kafka
7 6 (7.50%) OAuth
8 5 (6.25%) .NET
8 5 (6.25%) jQuery
8 5 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.25%) WSE
9 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.00%) OpenID
9 4 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.50%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.00%) Derivative
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.75%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.50%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) IVR
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Online Games
6 1 (1.25%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.25%) Android
1 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 27 (33.75%) Agile
3 19 (23.75%) Containerisation
4 17 (21.25%) DevOps
5 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven
6 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (17.50%) Test Automation
7 13 (16.25%) Code Quality
7 13 (16.25%) Design Patterns
8 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (15.00%) Roadmaps
8 12 (15.00%) Scrum
8 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
9 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
9 10 (12.50%) User Experience
10 9 (11.25%) API Development
10 9 (11.25%) TDD
11 8 (10.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Java
2 20 (25.00%) Python
2 20 (25.00%) SQL
3 15 (18.75%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.25%) Go
6 8 (10.00%) C#
7 4 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) C
9 1 (1.25%) Groovy
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%) Shell Script
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
3 2 (2.50%) MCP
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%) OSCP
4 1 (1.25%) SANS
4 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) GDPR
3 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.00%) PSD2
4 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.50%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.50%) NCSC
4 2 (2.50%) SEPA
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (1.25%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (32.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.75%) Terraform
3 5 (6.25%) Ansible
3 5 (6.25%) Grafana
3 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.00%) Istio
5 3 (3.75%) Argo
5 3 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (8.75%) Google
2 6 (7.50%) Oracle
3 5 (6.25%) Splunk
4 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.00%) OutSystems
5 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) BMC
6 2 (2.50%) Confluent
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
6 2 (2.50%) Sparx
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.25%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.25%) Rapid7