Microservices Jobs in the City of London

Microservices
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 56 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 -23 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 83 131 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 4.45% 4.47% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.81% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 65 92 214
10th Percentile - £59,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £74,375 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £107,813 £120,000
90th Percentile £143,000 £149,750 £137,125
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,784 2,726 3,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.71% 92.97% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,964 3,148
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the City of London.

Salary trend for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.20%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.20%) Camunda
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Eikon
2 1 (1.20%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.96%) AWS
2 25 (30.12%) Azure
3 12 (14.46%) GitHub
4 11 (13.25%) GCP
4 11 (13.25%) Serverless
5 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.61%) Google App Engine
7 3 (3.61%) PaaS
7 3 (3.61%) SaaS
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.41%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) Network Security
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) LAN
2 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) MongoDB
1 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.02%) SAP Data Services
6 4 (4.82%) MySQL
6 4 (4.82%) Tableau
7 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.20%) Big Data
9 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.20%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Git
2 7 (8.43%) JIRA
3 5 (6.02%) ER Studio
4 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.41%) MSTest
5 2 (2.41%) NUnit
5 2 (2.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.41%) Selenium
6 1 (1.20%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (1.20%) Moq
6 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.20%) Storybook
6 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.96%) Finance
3 17 (20.48%) Banking
4 14 (16.87%) Billing
5 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.05%) Front Office
6 8 (9.64%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Marketing
8 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.41%) Back Office
9 2 (2.41%) Law
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Electronics
10 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.20%) Legal
10 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (42.17%) Developer
2 18 (21.69%) Lead
3 14 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Architect
5 10 (12.05%) Senior
6 7 (8.43%) .NET Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Chief Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Java Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead .NET Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Principal Software Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Team Leader
9 3 (3.61%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (37.35%) .NET
2 20 (24.10%) RESTful
3 19 (22.89%) React
4 10 (12.05%) Node.js
5 9 (10.84%) Kafka
5 9 (10.84%) REST
6 8 (9.64%) GraphQL
7 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.82%) HTML
9 3 (3.61%) CSS
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.61%) Spring
10 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.41%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Onboarding
2 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.02%) Derivative
4 5 (6.02%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (6.02%) Tandem
5 4 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (56.63%) Agile
2 32 (38.55%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (33.73%) DevOps
4 26 (31.33%) Migration
5 25 (30.12%) Software Engineering
6 22 (26.51%) Collaborative Working
7 20 (24.10%) CI/CD
7 20 (24.10%) Code Quality
7 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.48%) Containerisation
8 17 (20.48%) Mentoring
9 13 (15.66%) API Development
9 13 (15.66%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (14.46%) Business Strategy
11 9 (10.84%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.84%) Kanban
11 9 (10.84%) Strategic Thinking
12 8 (9.64%) Analytics
12 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) Java
2 32 (38.55%) C#
3 23 (27.71%) Python
4 13 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.05%) SQL
7 3 (3.61%) Go
7 3 (3.61%) Rust
8 2 (2.41%) Bash
8 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.20%) C
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) SnowPro
6 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) CDISC
1 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.20%) GDPR
1 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 24 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.64%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Argo
5 1 (1.20%) Istio
5 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Guidewire
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.02%) SAP
5 3 (3.61%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.41%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.20%) Citrix
7 1 (1.20%) Databricks
7 1 (1.20%) Murex
7 1 (1.20%) OneLogin
7 1 (1.20%) Reuters
7 1 (1.20%) Solarflare