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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 59 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 -21 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 75 71 125
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.71% 3.36% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.64% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 82
10th Percentile £416 £479 £413
25th Percentile £500 £543 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.74% -16.36%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £768 £810 £825
London median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -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 1,806 1,949 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.23% 92.33% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 1,216 1,666
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £431 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £574
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.22% -1.53%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £787 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 21
10th Percentile £19.86 £18.41 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.15 £22.85 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £38.63 £38.94 £38.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £105.18 £65.00
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.63
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -14.93%

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 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 20 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 -11 70 £563 -3.85% 64
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 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.00%) AWS
2 18 (24.00%) Azure
3 17 (22.67%) GitHub
4 14 (18.67%) GCP
5 8 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (10.67%) Serverless
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.00%) Apigee
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.00%) Google Gemini
10 3 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.00%) Stackdriver
11 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Relational Database
2 10 (13.33%) Redis
3 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 4 (5.33%) MySQL
5 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.00%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.67%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.33%) Metadata
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) Git
2 9 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.67%) GitLab
4 4 (5.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 3 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.67%) Gatling
6 2 (2.67%) JUnit
6 2 (2.67%) Mockito
6 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.33%) Gradle
7 1 (1.33%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.33%) Mocha
7 1 (1.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.33%) Vite
7 1 (1.33%) XCTest
General
1 23 (30.67%) Finance
2 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (24.00%) Banking
4 6 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.00%) Front Office
7 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Games
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (41.33%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Architect
3 15 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 14 (18.67%) Senior
5 10 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (8.00%) Angular Developer
6 6 (8.00%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Web Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Web Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.67%) Spring Boot
2 13 (17.33%) REST
2 13 (17.33%) Spring
3 12 (16.00%) React
4 11 (14.67%) AngularJS
5 10 (13.33%) RESTful
6 8 (10.67%) HTML
6 8 (10.67%) Node.js
7 7 (9.33%) CSS
7 7 (9.33%) Kafka
8 5 (6.67%) .NET
8 5 (6.67%) HTML5
8 5 (6.67%) JSON
8 5 (6.67%) OAuth
8 5 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.67%) WSE
9 4 (5.33%) jQuery
9 4 (5.33%) OpenID
10 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
10 3 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.33%) Derivative
4 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Equities
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) IVR
6 1 (1.33%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Online Games
6 1 (1.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 24 (32.00%) Agile
3 20 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 15 (20.00%) DevOps
4 15 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
6 13 (17.33%) Design Patterns
6 13 (17.33%) Software Engineering
7 12 (16.00%) Code Quality
7 12 (16.00%) Event-Driven
8 10 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
8 10 (13.33%) Scrum
9 9 (12.00%) API Development
9 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 9 (12.00%) User Experience
10 8 (10.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (10.67%) Observability
10 8 (10.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) Java
2 20 (26.67%) Python
3 19 (25.33%) SQL
4 13 (17.33%) TypeScript
5 12 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.67%) C#
6 8 (10.67%) Go
7 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.67%) Ruby
9 1 (1.33%) C
9 1 (1.33%) Groovy
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.33%) ProC
9 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) MCP
4 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) CCSP
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CISSP
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) OSCP
4 1 (1.33%) SANS
4 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) PSD2
4 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.67%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.67%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.67%) NCSC
5 2 (2.67%) SEPA
6 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.33%) GRC
6 1 (1.33%) NIST
6 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (37.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (37.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.33%) Terraform
3 6 (8.00%) Grafana
4 5 (6.67%) Ansible
4 5 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.33%) Istio
6 3 (4.00%) Argo
7 2 (2.67%) Puppet
7 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (9.33%) Google
2 6 (8.00%) Oracle
2 6 (8.00%) Splunk
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.33%) OutSystems
5 3 (4.00%) Databricks
6 2 (2.67%) Confluent
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) Sparx
7 1 (1.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.33%) BMC
7 1 (1.33%) Charles River
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) HP
7 1 (1.33%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.33%) Remedy
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow