Microservices Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microservices
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 9 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 12.68% 2.17% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.64% 2.56% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £596 - £629
25th Percentile £598 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £475 £688
Median % change year-on-year +27.63% -30.91% -14.06%
75th Percentile £638 - £759
90th Percentile £650 - £776
Central London median daily rate £555 £575 £680
% change year-on-year -3.48% -15.44% -1.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 39 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 92.96% 84.78% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 28 27
10th Percentile £322 £367 £446
25th Percentile £463 £430 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -1.74%
75th Percentile £671 £650 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +217.97% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
Westminster - 7 £600 -
Paddington +1 2 £621 +30.79%
Microservices
Central London

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (44.44%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (22.22%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
1 3 (33.33%) Mockito
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (11.11%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Vite
General
1 4 (44.44%) Law
1 4 (44.44%) Police
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) React Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
2 6 (66.67%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) React
4 3 (33.33%) Kafka
4 3 (33.33%) Next.js
4 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (33.33%) REST
4 3 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (22.22%) Micronaut
5 2 (22.22%) Node.js
5 2 (22.22%) Terraform
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) CSS
6 1 (11.11%) CSS3
6 1 (11.11%) HTML
6 1 (11.11%) HTML5
6 1 (11.11%) Jest
6 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Event-Driven
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (44.44%) Pair Programming
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) API Development
6 2 (22.22%) Observability
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
7 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
7 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) TypeScript
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace