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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 54 59
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 680 607 783
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.91% 3.89% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 4.36% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 404 585
10th Percentile £391 £400 £415
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.19%
75th Percentile £667 £688 £713
90th Percentile £749 £792 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £67.35 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.13% -48.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £46.83 £75.77
% change year-on-year +43.08% -38.19% +4.14%

All Process and 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 12,793 13,929 18,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.39% 89.24% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,409 8,974 13,045
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 251
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +1.79% -1.76%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.45 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 78 £575 -6.05% 282
South London +1 16 £531 +1.19% 4
East London +11 9 £540 -6.90% 18
West London -19 9 £475 -5.00% 20
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 55 (8.09%) Confluence
2 21 (3.09%) Apache
3 15 (2.21%) CMS
4 7 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.74%) Camunda
7 4 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.15%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.59%) Endur
4 4 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.59%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.15%) Eikon
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) RMDS
6 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 340 (50.00%) AWS
2 227 (33.38%) Azure
3 111 (16.32%) Serverless
4 107 (15.74%) GCP
5 103 (15.15%) GitHub
6 60 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 44 (6.47%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.74%) Azure AKS
11 36 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 21 (3.09%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
15 20 (2.94%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
16 19 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.21%) SSL
2 6 (0.88%) HTTP
3 5 (0.74%) Network Security
3 5 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.59%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) DSL
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (9.71%) SQL Server
3 62 (9.12%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 47 (6.91%) MongoDB
6 40 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 31 (4.56%) MySQL
8 28 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (3.82%) Big Data
10 25 (3.68%) Redis
11 22 (3.24%) DynamoDB
12 20 (2.94%) Hadoop
13 14 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.47%) DB2
15 10 (1.47%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.03%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (13.09%) Git
2 79 (11.62%) JIRA
3 78 (11.47%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.76%) GitLab
5 45 (6.62%) JUnit
6 26 (3.82%) Mockito
7 23 (3.38%) Maven
8 22 (3.24%) Cucumber
9 19 (2.79%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.79%) Postman
10 18 (2.65%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.50%) Selenium
12 15 (2.21%) SpecFlow
13 11 (1.62%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.32%) Gradle
14 9 (1.32%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.32%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.18%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 212 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 181 (26.62%) Finance
3 117 (17.21%) Banking
4 62 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.97%) Front Office
7 22 (3.24%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.06%) Back Office
9 13 (1.91%) Retail
9 13 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.47%) Military
11 9 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.88%) Automotive
14 5 (0.74%) Legal
15 4 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.59%) Marketing
16 2 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
16 2 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (44.56%) Developer
2 154 (22.65%) Senior
3 131 (19.26%) Architect
4 116 (17.06%) Java Developer
5 82 (12.06%) Senior Developer
6 49 (7.21%) Lead
7 44 (6.47%) Software Engineer
8 41 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (5.88%) C# Developer
10 38 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (4.85%) Angular Developer
12 33 (4.85%) Java Engineer
13 31 (4.56%) Technical Architect
14 28 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.53%) Senior Architect
16 23 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (3.38%) Backend Developer
17 22 (3.24%) Lead Developer
18 21 (3.09%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (21.91%) Kafka
2 148 (21.76%) Spring
3 138 (20.29%) REST
4 135 (19.85%) Spring Boot
5 126 (18.53%) RESTful
6 122 (17.94%) React
7 115 (16.91%) .NET
8 105 (15.44%) AngularJS
9 95 (13.97%) Node.js
10 54 (7.94%) HTML
11 45 (6.62%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.88%) JSON
13 38 (5.59%) CSS
14 36 (5.29%) Web Services
15 35 (5.15%) .NET Framework
16 34 (5.00%) gRPC
16 34 (5.00%) SOAP
17 32 (4.71%) .NET Core
18 30 (4.41%) OAuth
19 27 (3.97%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 127 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (7.21%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.35%) Derivative
7 15 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.47%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.18%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.03%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.74%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.53%) Linux
2 17 (2.50%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Android
4 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) Windows
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (48.82%) Agile
2 329 (48.38%) CI/CD
3 242 (35.59%) DevOps
4 165 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
5 140 (20.59%) Containerisation
6 134 (19.71%) Software Engineering
7 115 (16.91%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (15.44%) Scrum
9 100 (14.71%) Event-Driven
10 94 (13.82%) Test Automation
11 91 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (12.35%) TDD
13 65 (9.56%) Code Quality
14 64 (9.41%) API Design
14 64 (9.41%) Design Patterns
15 63 (9.26%) SDLC
16 62 (9.12%) Mentoring
17 60 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (8.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 57 (8.38%) AI
Programming Languages
1 300 (44.12%) Java
2 148 (21.76%) SQL
3 147 (21.62%) Python
4 117 (17.21%) C#
5 114 (16.76%) JavaScript
6 101 (14.85%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.94%) Go
8 18 (2.65%) Kotlin
9 12 (1.76%) Bash
9 12 (1.76%) Bicep
9 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.47%) C++
12 9 (1.32%) Ruby
13 8 (1.18%) Groovy
13 8 (1.18%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.03%) PHP
15 6 (0.88%) Scala
16 4 (0.59%) Perl
17 3 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 121 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.09%) Degree
4 32 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.59%) CISSP
12 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) OCP
14 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.79%) QA
2 17 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.21%) GDPR
4 9 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.88%) WCAG
6 5 (0.74%) MiFID
7 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) FATCA
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (35.59%) Docker
2 21 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 263 (38.68%) Kubernetes
2 112 (16.47%) Terraform
3 31 (4.56%) Grafana
4 27 (3.97%) Ansible
5 23 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.76%) Argo
8 6 (0.88%) Puppet
9 5 (0.74%) Istio
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) WMI
11 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.15%) Control-M
11 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) logstash
11 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.62%) Oracle
3 37 (5.44%) Google
4 26 (3.82%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.53%) Splunk
6 19 (2.79%) Databricks
7 15 (2.21%) OpenAI
8 14 (2.06%) HP
9 12 (1.76%) BMC
9 12 (1.76%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.76%) Remedy
10 11 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.47%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
12 9 (1.32%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.32%) Foundry
12 9 (1.32%) Palantir
13 8 (1.18%) Red Hat