Microservices Contract Job Trends in England

Microservices
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 55 70
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 1,584 1,203 990
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 4.36% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 4.80% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 837 706
10th Percentile £400 £356 £387
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -12.91%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 7
10th Percentile £50.03 £49.33 £38.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.00 £40.29
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%
75th Percentile £80.50 £75.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £95.25 £80.75 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in England

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microservices

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in England

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London -8 847 £555 +0.91% 733
North of England -15 306 £504 +0.70% 161
North West -28 139 £525 +11.82% 89
South East -21 138 £525 +16.67% 144
Yorkshire -3 137 £521 -0.81% 45
Midlands -25 131 £495 +7.03% 61
West Midlands -14 101 £490 -2.00% 39
South West +10 83 £525 -4.55% 53
East of England +1 44 £525 +16.67% 17
North East -24 40 £450 -16.28% 27
East Midlands -30 29 £500 +17.79% 22
Microservices
UK

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 89 (5.62%) Confluence
2 38 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.89%) CMS
4 15 (0.95%) Apache
5 14 (0.88%) Camunda
5 14 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.69%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.57%) nginx
7 9 (0.57%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.38%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
9 5 (0.32%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.19%) Mule
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.19%) CPLEX
3 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.063%) Maya
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.063%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.32%) Quorum
2 5 (0.32%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.25%) Ripple
3 4 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.063%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.063%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.063%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.063%) Maximo
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 794 (50.13%) AWS
2 595 (37.56%) Azure
3 326 (20.58%) GCP
4 268 (16.92%) GitHub
5 203 (12.82%) Serverless
6 169 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
7 150 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
9 102 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (6.00%) Amazon S3
11 90 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
12 84 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
13 63 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 62 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (3.22%) Azure AKS
16 45 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.27%) OpenShift
18 34 (2.15%) Azure Functions
18 34 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
18 34 (2.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.14%) Network Security
2 13 (0.82%) VPN
3 9 (0.57%) HTTP
4 7 (0.44%) BGP
4 7 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 7 (0.44%) WAN
5 6 (0.38%) DNS
5 6 (0.38%) MPLS
5 6 (0.38%) VSAN
6 5 (0.32%) Firewall
6 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 5 (0.32%) MQTT
7 4 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.19%) Internet
9 2 (0.13%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.13%) FTP
9 2 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (9.22%) NoSQL
3 129 (8.14%) MongoDB
4 94 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 82 (5.18%) SQL Server
6 66 (4.17%) DynamoDB
7 50 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (2.84%) Redis
9 40 (2.53%) MySQL
10 31 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 31 (1.96%) Power BI
11 29 (1.83%) Big Data
12 28 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 27 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 26 (1.64%) Data Lake
15 22 (1.39%) Flink
16 15 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
17 14 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
18 13 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
19 10 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 316 (19.95%) Git
2 260 (16.41%) Jenkins
3 159 (10.04%) GitLab
4 121 (7.64%) JUnit
5 120 (7.58%) JIRA
6 77 (4.86%) Mockito
7 66 (4.17%) Selenium
8 60 (3.79%) Maven
9 55 (3.47%) Cucumber
9 55 (3.47%) Gradle
9 55 (3.47%) SonarQube
10 39 (2.46%) JMeter
11 35 (2.21%) Postman
12 28 (1.77%) Cypress.io
13 27 (1.70%) Gatling
14 25 (1.58%) REST Assured
15 24 (1.52%) WebDriver
16 19 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 19 (1.20%) Liquibase
17 13 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 395 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 334 (21.09%) Finance
3 243 (15.34%) Public Sector
4 198 (12.50%) Banking
5 140 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (3.28%) Retail
7 39 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (1.96%) Marketing
10 29 (1.83%) Front Office
11 28 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 22 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (1.26%) Law
14 17 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.07%) Retail Banking
15 16 (1.01%) Military
16 15 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.88%) Billing
18 12 (0.76%) Legal
19 10 (0.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 574 (36.24%) Developer
2 326 (20.58%) Architect
3 310 (19.57%) Senior
4 268 (16.92%) Java Developer
5 168 (10.61%) Lead
6 148 (9.34%) Senior Developer
7 131 (8.27%) Software Engineer
8 105 (6.63%) Solutions Architect
9 87 (5.49%) Java Engineer
10 76 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 76 (4.80%) Technical Architect
11 74 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 62 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 60 (3.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 56 (3.54%) Backend Developer
15 55 (3.47%) Software Developer
16 52 (3.28%) .NET Developer
16 52 (3.28%) Python Developer
17 48 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
18 44 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (26.20%) Spring
2 364 (22.98%) REST
3 354 (22.35%) Spring Boot
4 325 (20.52%) Kafka
5 321 (20.27%) RESTful
6 237 (14.96%) React
7 203 (12.82%) .NET
8 167 (10.54%) Node.js
9 101 (6.38%) AngularJS
10 97 (6.12%) OAuth
11 92 (5.81%) HTML
12 88 (5.56%) CSS
13 76 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
14 72 (4.55%) OAuth2
15 58 (3.66%) .NET Core
16 55 (3.47%) GraphQL
16 55 (3.47%) JWT
17 54 (3.41%) SOAP
18 53 (3.35%) Web Services
19 49 (3.09%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 448 (28.28%) Cloud Native
2 365 (23.04%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (8.02%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 59 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 57 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (3.03%) AI Agents
8 41 (2.59%) Distributed Architecture
9 32 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 31 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 29 (1.83%) Data Structures
12 29 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.77%) Algorithms
13 28 (1.77%) Derivative
14 26 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.58%) Virtual Team
16 24 (1.52%) Public Cloud
17 16 (1.01%) Mobile App
18 14 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 108 (6.82%) Linux
2 52 (3.28%) Unix
3 25 (1.58%) Windows
4 15 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.82%) Mac OS X
6 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.25%) Android
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (61.74%) CI/CD
2 715 (45.14%) Agile
3 694 (43.81%) DevOps
4 488 (30.81%) Containerisation
5 421 (26.58%) Event-Driven
6 386 (24.37%) Software Engineering
7 378 (23.86%) Test Automation
8 298 (18.81%) Observability
9 288 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 275 (17.36%) AI
11 270 (17.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 262 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
13 240 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 237 (14.96%) TDD
15 227 (14.33%) Scrum
16 224 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
17 195 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
18 167 (10.54%) Code Quality
19 165 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
20 160 (10.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 709 (44.76%) Java
2 377 (23.80%) Python
3 348 (21.97%) SQL
4 223 (14.08%) TypeScript
5 220 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 186 (11.74%) C#
7 68 (4.29%) Go
8 40 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 31 (1.96%) Bicep
10 28 (1.77%) Bash
11 27 (1.70%) PL/SQL
12 25 (1.58%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.52%) Ruby
14 22 (1.39%) PowerShell
14 22 (1.39%) Scala
15 18 (1.14%) Rust
16 12 (0.76%) PHP
17 11 (0.69%) C++
18 7 (0.44%) T-SQL
19 5 (0.32%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 413 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 341 (21.53%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.86%) Degree
4 56 (3.54%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 51 (3.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 39 (2.46%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.33%) CISSP
10 17 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 12 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.69%) CCSP
15 10 (0.63%) CISM
15 10 (0.63%) OSCP
16 9 (0.57%) CEH
17 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (9.41%) QA
2 83 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 33 (2.08%) NIST
4 31 (1.96%) WCAG
5 28 (1.77%) NCSC
6 26 (1.64%) GDPR
7 23 (1.45%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.33%) ISO 20022
8 21 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (1.14%) SEPA
11 12 (0.76%) PSD2
12 8 (0.51%) COBIT
13 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.32%) HL7
15 4 (0.25%) GRC
15 4 (0.25%) SLA
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 15022
16 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 605 (38.19%) Docker
2 11 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.57%) Postfix
4 8 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) SRDF
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.063%) OpenSSH
8 1 (0.063%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 568 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 228 (14.39%) Terraform
3 136 (8.59%) Grafana
4 123 (7.77%) Prometheus
5 72 (4.55%) Ansible
6 18 (1.14%) Argo
6 18 (1.14%) Istio
7 16 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.95%) Puppet
9 11 (0.69%) Kibana
10 6 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.38%) Podman
10 6 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.19%) Bosun
11 3 (0.19%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.19%) Rancher
12 2 (0.13%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.13%) SnapVault
12 2 (0.13%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 153 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.37%) Oracle
3 82 (5.18%) Google
4 33 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 32 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 30 (1.89%) Splunk
7 23 (1.45%) Databricks
8 20 (1.26%) SAP
9 19 (1.20%) IBM
10 16 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 15 (0.95%) Jaspersoft
11 15 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.95%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 12 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 11 (0.69%) New Relic
13 11 (0.69%) Solace
14 10 (0.63%) VMware
15 9 (0.57%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.57%) Confluent