Microservices Contract Job Trends in London

Microservices
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 62 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 684 492 653
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.69% 3.54% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 3.92% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 320 486
10th Percentile £375 £409 £416
25th Percentile £434 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £693
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £65.60 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £67.13 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.46% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile £88.50 £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £73.88 £36.50 £62.48
% change year-on-year +102.41% -41.58% -14.41%

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in London

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microservices

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the London region over the 6 months to 21 January 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
Central London -7 75 £563 -3.85% 74
South London +1 21 £525 +10.53% 18
West London -17 8 £550 +34.47% 15
East London 0 4 £563 -3.85% 18
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 36 (5.26%) Confluence
2 17 (2.49%) Apache
3 7 (1.02%) CMS
3 7 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.88%) Camunda
5 4 (0.58%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) Mule
6 3 (0.44%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) CICS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 352 (51.46%) AWS
2 244 (35.67%) Azure
3 128 (18.71%) Serverless
4 111 (16.23%) GitHub
5 110 (16.08%) GCP
6 80 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
10 54 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 48 (7.02%) Azure AKS
12 37 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 34 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.95%) Entra ID
16 26 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (3.80%) Azure Functions
17 24 (3.51%) SaaS
18 23 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.02%) Network Security
1 7 (1.02%) SSL
2 6 (0.88%) DNS
3 4 (0.58%) HTTP
4 3 (0.44%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.15%) 5G
6 1 (0.15%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.55%) NoSQL
2 74 (10.82%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (8.19%) MongoDB
3 56 (8.19%) SQL Server
4 46 (6.73%) Apache Cassandra
5 43 (6.29%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (4.53%) MySQL
8 29 (4.24%) Redis
9 26 (3.80%) DynamoDB
10 22 (3.22%) Big Data
11 19 (2.78%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.90%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.32%) DB2
16 8 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 89 (13.01%) Jenkins
2 84 (12.28%) Git
3 63 (9.21%) GitLab
4 58 (8.48%) JIRA
5 36 (5.26%) JUnit
6 22 (3.22%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.07%) Mockito
8 17 (2.49%) Bitbucket
9 16 (2.34%) Maven
9 16 (2.34%) Selenium
10 14 (2.05%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.90%) Postman
12 12 (1.75%) SpecFlow
13 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.17%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.02%) Gradle
15 6 (0.88%) Gatling
15 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
15 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 201 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 167 (24.42%) Finance
3 121 (17.69%) Banking
4 63 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.92%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.78%) Front Office
8 14 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Retail
11 9 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.88%) Back Office
13 6 (0.88%) Legal
14 4 (0.58%) Military
15 3 (0.44%) Marketing
16 2 (0.29%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 294 (42.98%) Developer
2 152 (22.22%) Senior
3 106 (15.50%) Architect
4 97 (14.18%) Java Developer
5 82 (11.99%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.43%) Lead
7 43 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
7 43 (6.29%) Java Engineer
8 41 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (5.85%) C# Developer
10 39 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (5.12%) Software Engineer
12 33 (4.82%) Senior Java Developer
13 23 (3.36%) Angular Developer
13 23 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.36%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.22%) Technical Architect
15 20 (2.92%) .NET Developer
16 18 (2.63%) Analyst
16 18 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (24.12%) Spring
2 159 (23.25%) Kafka
3 150 (21.93%) Spring Boot
4 143 (20.91%) RESTful
5 120 (17.54%) REST
6 119 (17.40%) React
7 110 (16.08%) .NET
8 96 (14.04%) Node.js
9 90 (13.16%) AngularJS
10 44 (6.43%) HTML
11 40 (5.85%) Middleware
12 39 (5.70%) gRPC
13 37 (5.41%) OAuth
14 35 (5.12%) .NET Core
14 35 (5.12%) CSS
15 32 (4.68%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (3.80%) JSON
17 24 (3.51%) .NET Framework
17 24 (3.51%) Entity Framework
17 24 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 137 (20.03%) Cloud Native
2 107 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.49%) Derivative
6 14 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.17%) NHS
11 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.88%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.73%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.82%) Linux
2 17 (2.49%) Unix
3 4 (0.58%) zOS
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 289 (42.25%) Agile
3 282 (41.23%) DevOps
4 178 (26.02%) Containerisation
5 166 (24.27%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (21.35%) Software Engineering
7 110 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 109 (15.94%) Event-Driven
9 105 (15.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 99 (14.47%) Test Automation
11 85 (12.43%) TDD
12 81 (11.84%) Scrum
13 71 (10.38%) AI
14 70 (10.23%) Observability
15 67 (9.80%) SDLC
16 65 (9.50%) Design Patterns
16 65 (9.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 64 (9.36%) Clean Code
18 60 (8.77%) Code Quality
19 58 (8.48%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 291 (42.54%) Java
2 169 (24.71%) SQL
3 156 (22.81%) Python
4 105 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 101 (14.77%) C#
6 82 (11.99%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.60%) Go
8 19 (2.78%) Bicep
9 12 (1.75%) Ruby
10 11 (1.61%) Bash
11 10 (1.46%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.32%) C++
13 8 (1.17%) PHP
14 7 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.88%) Scala
16 4 (0.58%) Perl
16 4 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.44%) Groovy
17 3 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 110 (16.08%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.19%) Degree
4 42 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.90%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.88%) MCP
12 5 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.73%) CCSP
12 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.73%) CISSP
13 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.04%) QA
2 18 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.05%) GDPR
4 12 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.17%) NIST
7 6 (0.88%) WCAG
8 5 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.58%) PSD2
9 4 (0.58%) SLA
10 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.29%) HL7
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) MiFID
11 2 (0.29%) SEPA
12 1 (0.15%) EMIR
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 293 (42.84%) Docker
2 22 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 289 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 127 (18.57%) Terraform
3 31 (4.53%) Grafana
4 23 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (3.22%) Ansible
6 19 (2.78%) Argo
7 16 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.46%) Istio
9 6 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.73%) Puppet
11 4 (0.58%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.29%) Knative
14 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
14 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.15%) Foglight
14 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.43%) Google
3 31 (4.53%) Oracle
4 24 (3.51%) Databricks
5 22 (3.22%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.22%) Splunk
6 12 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 12 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.32%) Software AG
8 8 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.02%) Cloudera
9 7 (1.02%) Foundry
9 7 (1.02%) Palantir
10 6 (0.88%) Confluent
11 5 (0.73%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.73%) Sybase
12 4 (0.58%) Calypso
12 4 (0.58%) SAP