Microservices Job Trends in London

Microservices
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 47 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 -39
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 799 675 779
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.33% 5.56% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 5.90% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 485 372 521
10th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £106,250 £108,125 £110,000
90th Percentile £131,500 £125,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,583 11,440 17,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.67% 94.31% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13,227 7,231 11,611
10th Percentile £40,575 £39,679 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in London

Microservices
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 96 £87,500 +6.06% 46
West London - 28 £80,000 - 11
South London -34 10 £70,000 -15.15% 1
East London -7 3 - - 6
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 20 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.25%) Confluence
3 13 (1.63%) Camunda
4 11 (1.38%) CMS
5 9 (1.13%) Apache
6 6 (0.75%) WordPress
7 5 (0.63%) Drupal
7 5 (0.63%) JBoss
8 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.38%) DNN
9 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.38%) IIS
9 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
9 3 (0.38%) Kentico
9 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
9 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 11 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.50%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.13%) Eikon
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 411 (51.44%) AWS
2 300 (37.55%) Azure
3 172 (21.53%) GCP
4 107 (13.39%) Serverless
5 95 (11.89%) GitHub
6 71 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (6.88%) Amazon S3
9 54 (6.76%) SaaS
10 48 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (5.51%) Azure Service Bus
12 37 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 33 (4.13%) GitHub Copilot
15 30 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (2.88%) Datadog
18 22 (2.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.75%) Broadband
2 13 (1.63%) DMARC
3 11 (1.38%) DNS
4 10 (1.25%) Network Security
5 6 (0.75%) HTTP
6 5 (0.63%) DHCP
7 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.38%) AMQP
9 2 (0.25%) MQTT
10 1 (0.13%) Internet
10 1 (0.13%) LTE
10 1 (0.13%) PSTN
10 1 (0.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.01%) NoSQL
2 72 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.51%) MongoDB
4 46 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 39 (4.88%) MySQL
6 31 (3.88%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.63%) Big Data
9 20 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (2.38%) SQL Server
11 18 (2.25%) Redis
12 13 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.50%) Db2
14 10 (1.25%) DTS
15 9 (1.13%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.75%) Metadata
17 5 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (0.63%) RDBMS
18 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 82 (10.26%) Git
2 79 (9.89%) GitLab
3 65 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 35 (4.38%) Cucumber
5 30 (3.75%) TeamCity
6 25 (3.13%) Claude Code
7 18 (2.25%) JIRA
8 16 (2.00%) CircleCI
8 16 (2.00%) JUnit
9 14 (1.75%) Mockito
10 11 (1.38%) Maven
11 10 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.88%) Vite
13 6 (0.75%) Appium
13 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.63%) REST Assured
15 4 (0.50%) MLflow
15 4 (0.50%) Selenium
15 4 (0.50%) Spock
16 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 330 (41.30%) Finance
2 194 (24.28%) Social Skills
3 135 (16.90%) Banking
4 86 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (10.64%) Law
6 52 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (6.38%) Public Sector
8 44 (5.51%) Marketing
9 43 (5.38%) Financial Institution
10 41 (5.13%) Retail
11 25 (3.13%) Back Office
12 18 (2.25%) Front Office
13 17 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.25%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.13%) Legal
16 8 (1.00%) Games
16 8 (1.00%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.88%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.88%) Billing
18 6 (0.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 227 (28.41%) Senior
2 183 (22.90%) Developer
3 141 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 127 (15.89%) Lead
5 98 (12.27%) Architect
6 93 (11.64%) Java Engineer
7 61 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 53 (6.63%) Principal Engineer
9 52 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (5.63%) Senior Developer
12 39 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
12 39 (4.88%) Senior Java Engineer
13 35 (4.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 35 (4.38%) Java Developer
14 33 (4.13%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.38%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.25%) Principal Java Engineer
17 24 (3.00%) Integration Engineer
17 24 (3.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (22.28%) Spring
2 168 (21.03%) Spring Boot
3 165 (20.65%) Kafka
4 139 (17.40%) .NET
5 137 (17.15%) RESTful
6 136 (17.02%) React
7 115 (14.39%) REST
8 97 (12.14%) Node.js
9 56 (7.01%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.26%) ASP.NET
10 50 (6.26%) OAuth
11 42 (5.26%) .NET Core
12 37 (4.63%) gRPC
12 37 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
13 33 (4.13%) FastAPI
14 32 (4.01%) LangChain
14 32 (4.01%) OAuth2
14 32 (4.01%) Vue
15 31 (3.88%) GraphQL
16 30 (3.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 316 (39.55%) Cloud Native
2 186 (23.28%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (7.13%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 43 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 41 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (4.51%) Public Cloud
8 35 (4.38%) AI Agents
9 32 (4.01%) e-Learning
10 30 (3.75%) Virtual Team
11 23 (2.88%) Video\Live Streaming
12 22 (2.75%) Over-the-Top Content
13 20 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
14 19 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
15 17 (2.13%) Algorithms
15 17 (2.13%) Data Structures
15 17 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 17 (2.13%) PropTech
16 12 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.00%) Linux
2 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.75%) Android
4 5 (0.63%) CentOS
4 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) Windows
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (52.44%) CI/CD
2 327 (40.93%) Software Engineering
3 287 (35.92%) Agile
4 271 (33.92%) DevOps
5 220 (27.53%) Mentoring
6 213 (26.66%) Event-Driven
7 207 (25.91%) AI
8 203 (25.41%) Containerisation
9 186 (23.28%) Test Automation
10 173 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
11 157 (19.65%) Full-Stack Development
12 149 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
13 133 (16.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 118 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (13.39%) Fintech
16 106 (13.27%) Machine Learning
17 102 (12.77%) SDLC
18 99 (12.39%) Clean Code
19 93 (11.64%) Roadmaps
20 92 (11.51%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 296 (37.05%) Java
2 241 (30.16%) Python
3 177 (22.15%) SQL
4 138 (17.27%) TypeScript
5 134 (16.77%) C#
6 108 (13.52%) JavaScript
7 61 (7.63%) Go
8 31 (3.88%) C++
9 25 (3.13%) Scala
10 17 (2.13%) C
11 13 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.50%) Bash
13 11 (1.38%) PHP
14 10 (1.25%) RPG
15 8 (1.00%) Swift
16 6 (0.75%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.75%) Rust
17 3 (0.38%) Ruby
17 3 (0.38%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (11.14%) Security Cleared
2 68 (8.51%) Degree
3 53 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 33 (4.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.00%) PhD
9 7 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.75%) CISSP
10 6 (0.75%) MBA
11 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.38%) GIAC
12 3 (0.38%) ISACA
12 3 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.38%) SANS
13 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.88%) QA
2 38 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.38%) GDPR
4 14 (1.75%) SOC 2
5 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.13%) GRC
8 7 (0.88%) WCAG
9 6 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.50%) NIST
10 4 (0.50%) PSD2
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.38%) SEPA
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS
13 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 221 (27.66%) Docker
2 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 231 (28.91%) Kubernetes
2 139 (17.40%) Terraform
3 39 (4.88%) Grafana
4 36 (4.51%) Ansible
5 27 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.13%) Cilium
7 6 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.75%) Puppet
7 6 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.38%) Argo
8 3 (0.38%) Kibana
8 3 (0.38%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.13%) Istio
Vendors
1 91 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.13%) Google
3 22 (2.75%) Typelevel
4 20 (2.50%) Oracle
5 18 (2.25%) OpenAI
6 15 (1.88%) IBM
7 13 (1.63%) SendGrid
8 11 (1.38%) Splunk
9 10 (1.25%) Databricks
9 10 (1.25%) SAP
10 9 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.88%) Guidewire
12 6 (0.75%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.50%) Okta
13 4 (0.50%) Sitecore
13 4 (0.50%) Solace
14 3 (0.38%) Adobe
14 3 (0.38%) Alterian
14 3 (0.38%) Apple
14 3 (0.38%) Salesforce