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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 853 683 686
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.07% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.48% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 463 479
10th Percentile £413 £405 £412
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -6.75%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £535 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £54.95 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -43.73%

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 18,107 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.93% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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
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 19 September 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 -11 102 £572 -0.52% 107
South London -8 23 £535 -13.99% 11
East London +5 11 £432 -20.00% 8
West London -30 2 £500 +5.26% 37
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 33 (3.87%) Confluence
2 24 (2.81%) CMS
3 20 (2.34%) Camunda
4 19 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.94%) Apache
7 7 (0.82%) nginx
8 6 (0.70%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) Mule
12 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Quorum
3 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 417 (48.89%) AWS
2 314 (36.81%) Azure
3 158 (18.52%) GCP
3 158 (18.52%) GitHub
4 101 (11.84%) Serverless
5 100 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 45 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (3.75%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.05%) SaaS
17 24 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
18 23 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
18 23 (2.70%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) VPN
3 4 (0.47%) HTTP
4 3 (0.35%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (9.61%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.33%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.74%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.75%) MySQL
7 28 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.81%) DynamoDB
8 24 (2.81%) Redis
9 20 (2.34%) Power BI
10 18 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 17 (1.99%) Big Data
12 14 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.94%) Flink
16 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.82%) Oracle Database
16 7 (0.82%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 157 (18.41%) Jenkins
2 148 (17.35%) Git
3 103 (12.08%) GitLab
4 52 (6.10%) JUnit
5 43 (5.04%) JIRA
5 43 (5.04%) Maven
6 38 (4.45%) Gradle
7 34 (3.99%) Mockito
8 28 (3.28%) SonarQube
9 24 (2.81%) Cypress.io
10 21 (2.46%) Postman
11 20 (2.34%) Selenium
12 19 (2.23%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.76%) JMeter
14 14 (1.64%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.64%) Liquibase
15 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
15 10 (1.17%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.94%) Gatling
17 7 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 256 (30.01%) Finance
2 225 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 146 (17.12%) Banking
4 98 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 86 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.05%) Front Office
7 26 (3.05%) Retail
8 22 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.11%) Marketing
11 16 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 15 (1.76%) Law
13 13 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.41%) Billing
15 11 (1.29%) Legal
16 10 (1.17%) Police
17 7 (0.82%) Local Government
18 6 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 291 (34.11%) Developer
2 171 (20.05%) Senior
3 157 (18.41%) Architect
4 119 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 84 (9.85%) Lead
6 71 (8.32%) Senior Developer
7 68 (7.97%) Software Engineer
8 61 (7.15%) Solutions Architect
9 59 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (6.10%) Java Engineer
11 42 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 38 (4.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 37 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (3.87%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.17%) Python Developer
15 27 (3.17%) Technical Architect
16 26 (3.05%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (2.93%) .NET Developer
17 25 (2.93%) Analyst
17 25 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (26.73%) REST
2 226 (26.49%) Spring
3 210 (24.62%) Spring Boot
4 202 (23.68%) Kafka
5 161 (18.87%) RESTful
6 153 (17.94%) React
7 134 (15.71%) Terraform
8 106 (12.43%) .NET
9 90 (10.55%) Node.js
10 57 (6.68%) AngularJS
10 57 (6.68%) HTML
11 56 (6.57%) CSS
12 52 (6.10%) OAuth
13 46 (5.39%) OAuth2
13 46 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (4.10%) HTML5
15 34 (3.99%) .NET Core
16 32 (3.75%) CSS3
16 32 (3.75%) FastAPI
16 32 (3.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 270 (31.65%) Cloud Native
2 208 (24.38%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (11.02%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (4.34%) AI Agents
7 36 (4.22%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.81%) Derivative
10 22 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 22 (2.58%) Virtual Team
11 20 (2.34%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.11%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.76%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
16 12 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 11 (1.29%) Public Cloud
18 10 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.21%) Linux
2 28 (3.28%) Unix
3 10 (1.17%) Windows
4 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (62.95%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.66%) DevOps
3 346 (40.56%) Agile
4 298 (34.94%) Event-Driven
5 249 (29.19%) Containerisation
6 218 (25.56%) Software Engineering
7 205 (24.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 200 (23.45%) AI
9 179 (20.98%) Test Automation
10 176 (20.63%) Observability
11 149 (17.47%) Infrastructure as Code
12 141 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 139 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (14.65%) Scrum
15 120 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
16 119 (13.95%) Technical Leadership
17 112 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 105 (12.31%) Integration Patterns
19 92 (10.79%) TDD
20 91 (10.67%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 393 (46.07%) Java
2 243 (28.49%) Python
3 201 (23.56%) SQL
4 162 (18.99%) TypeScript
5 151 (17.70%) JavaScript
6 110 (12.90%) C#
7 31 (3.63%) Go
8 21 (2.46%) Bash
9 18 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.99%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.88%) Ruby
12 15 (1.76%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.29%) Bicep
14 7 (0.82%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
16 4 (0.47%) C++
16 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 199 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 176 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.74%) Degree
4 42 (4.92%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.28%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.70%) CISSP
13 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) GIAC
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.84%) QA
2 23 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.11%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.76%) NIST
6 14 (1.64%) SEPA
7 13 (1.52%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.29%) GDPR
9 6 (0.70%) NCSC
9 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.70%) PSD2
9 6 (0.70%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.47%) WCAG
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.23%) HL7
12 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 313 (36.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.23%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 307 (35.99%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.15%) Grafana
3 46 (5.39%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.45%) Ansible
5 11 (1.29%) Kibana
6 9 (1.06%) Argo
6 9 (1.06%) Istio
7 7 (0.82%) Puppet
8 6 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) Control-M
11 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (10.79%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.27%) Oracle
3 52 (6.10%) Google
4 25 (2.93%) OpenAI
5 24 (2.81%) Splunk
6 20 (2.34%) Dynatrace
7 18 (2.11%) IBM
8 16 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.88%) SAP
9 11 (1.29%) Databricks
10 10 (1.17%) New Relic
11 8 (0.94%) Veracode
12 7 (0.82%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.70%) Confluent
13 6 (0.70%) Solace
13 6 (0.70%) Sybase
13 6 (0.70%) Workday
14 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow