Microservices Job Trends in the City of London

Microservices
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 69 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 66 109 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.15% 4.01% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 4.20% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 60 68 129
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,000
25th Percentile £66,875 £75,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +6.06% -10.81%
75th Percentile £115,000 £113,125 £115,000
90th Percentile £170,000 £125,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £98,750 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +16.18% - -8.11%

All Process & 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 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microservices
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the City of London

Microservices
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge -1 1 £112,500 -6.25%
Microservices
Central London

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) Actimize
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.03%) Azure
2 32 (48.48%) AWS
3 22 (33.33%) GCP
4 10 (15.15%) Serverless
5 8 (12.12%) GitHub
6 7 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) SaaS
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.58%) PaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.06%) Azure API Management
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.55%) IaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) HTTP
2 1 (1.52%) LAN
2 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (12.12%) BigQuery
3 5 (7.58%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.03%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.52%) KDB
7 1 (1.52%) Power BI
7 1 (1.52%) Redis
7 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.52%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Git
1 3 (4.55%) GitLab
1 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
2 2 (3.03%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.52%) MLflow
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Finance
3 12 (18.18%) Billing
4 7 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
5 4 (6.06%) Front Office
5 4 (6.06%) Legal
5 4 (6.06%) Marketing
5 4 (6.06%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) International Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (27.27%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Senior
3 14 (21.21%) Software Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Architect
5 11 (16.67%) Lead
6 8 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (6.06%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Architect
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Voice Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Voice Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.30%) .NET
2 19 (28.79%) RESTful
3 10 (15.15%) Django
3 10 (15.15%) Node.js
4 9 (13.64%) Kafka
5 6 (9.09%) React
6 4 (6.06%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.06%) GraphQL
6 4 (6.06%) React Native
6 4 (6.06%) Redux
6 4 (6.06%) SignalR
7 3 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (4.55%) Java Concurrency
7 3 (4.55%) Spring
8 2 (3.03%) OAuth
8 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.03%) REST
8 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.03%) Vue
8 2 (3.03%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 12 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 11 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 11 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 9 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.06%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.55%) Derivative
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Reinsurance
6 2 (3.03%) Tandem
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.52%) PKI
7 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Linux
1 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Agile
2 25 (37.88%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 19 (28.79%) Code Quality
4 19 (28.79%) DevOps
5 17 (25.76%) AI
5 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
6 15 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 15 (22.73%) Migration
7 14 (21.21%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (18.18%) Analytics
9 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 8 (12.12%) Low Latency
11 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
12 7 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
13 6 (9.09%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) Java
1 25 (37.88%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) C#
3 8 (12.12%) TypeScript
4 6 (9.09%) SQL
5 5 (7.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.58%) Rust
6 4 (6.06%) Go
7 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) C
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) Korn
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (27.27%) Degree
2 14 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 12 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Argo
4 2 (3.03%) Kibana
5 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Guidewire
2 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.12%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Ariba
6 1 (1.52%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.52%) Citrix
6 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) OneLogin
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Solarflare
6 1 (1.52%) Workday