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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 837 679 672
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.11% 5.04% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 5.44% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 456 469
10th Percentile £411 £408 £409
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £750 £775
England median daily rate £530 £530 £565
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £54.95 £36.72
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £38.16
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +94.39% -50.12%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.99
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -44.67%

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -14 98 £555 -5.13% 108
South London -6 24 £535 -13.99% 14
East London 0 5 £750 +38.89% 5
West London -28 4 £500 +5.26% 31
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 35 (4.18%) Confluence
2 22 (2.63%) CMS
3 19 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.15%) Camunda
5 11 (1.31%) Apache
6 9 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.84%) nginx
8 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.60%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Quorum
3 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) 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
1 411 (49.10%) AWS
2 315 (37.63%) Azure
3 158 (18.88%) GitHub
4 153 (18.28%) GCP
5 102 (12.19%) Serverless
6 97 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (6.09%) Amazon S3
12 48 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (4.06%) OpenShift
16 28 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
18 26 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
19 25 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
19 25 (2.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) Network Security
2 4 (0.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (13.38%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (10.39%) NoSQL
3 60 (7.17%) SQL Server
4 59 (7.05%) MongoDB
5 45 (5.38%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.30%) MySQL
7 31 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.11%) Redis
9 22 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.15%) BigQuery
10 18 (2.15%) Power BI
11 17 (2.03%) Big Data
12 13 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.96%) Flink
15 8 (0.96%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.84%) Metadata
16 7 (0.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 156 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 151 (18.04%) Git
3 111 (13.26%) GitLab
4 51 (6.09%) JUnit
5 46 (5.50%) JIRA
6 45 (5.38%) Maven
7 40 (4.78%) Gradle
8 34 (4.06%) Mockito
9 28 (3.35%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.87%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.63%) Selenium
12 20 (2.39%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.27%) Postman
14 16 (1.91%) Cucumber
14 16 (1.91%) JMeter
15 12 (1.43%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.43%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.31%) Claude Code
17 8 (0.96%) Gatling
17 8 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 251 (29.99%) Finance
2 212 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 151 (18.04%) Banking
4 93 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 86 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 31 (3.70%) Retail
7 26 (3.11%) Front Office
8 20 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.91%) Marketing
11 15 (1.79%) Retail Banking
12 13 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.43%) Billing
13 12 (1.43%) Law
14 9 (1.08%) Local Government
14 9 (1.08%) Police
15 7 (0.84%) Legal
15 7 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.84%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 293 (35.01%) Developer
2 167 (19.95%) Senior
3 146 (17.44%) Architect
4 113 (13.50%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.20%) Lead
6 68 (8.12%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 63 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 57 (6.81%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (6.33%) Java Engineer
11 45 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 38 (4.54%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.70%) Python Developer
14 30 (3.58%) Senior Java Developer
15 28 (3.35%) .NET Developer
16 27 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.87%) Backend Developer
19 22 (2.63%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (27.48%) REST
2 222 (26.52%) Spring
3 213 (25.45%) Kafka
4 207 (24.73%) Spring Boot
5 162 (19.35%) RESTful
6 156 (18.64%) React
7 139 (16.61%) Terraform
8 108 (12.90%) .NET
9 86 (10.27%) Node.js
10 64 (7.65%) AngularJS
11 62 (7.41%) HTML
12 61 (7.29%) CSS
13 55 (6.57%) OAuth
14 45 (5.38%) OAuth2
15 43 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.54%) HTML5
17 35 (4.18%) SOAP
18 34 (4.06%) .NET Core
18 34 (4.06%) CSS3
19 33 (3.94%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 273 (32.62%) Cloud Native
2 205 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
3 93 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
5 43 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (4.54%) AI Agents
7 33 (3.94%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.87%) Derivative
10 20 (2.39%) Virtual Team
11 19 (2.27%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.79%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.79%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.43%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 10 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.81%) Linux
2 29 (3.46%) Unix
3 11 (1.31%) Windows
4 8 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (63.68%) CI/CD
2 388 (46.36%) DevOps
3 349 (41.70%) Agile
4 303 (36.20%) Event-Driven
5 233 (27.84%) Containerisation
6 210 (25.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 209 (24.97%) Software Engineering
8 201 (24.01%) AI
9 180 (21.51%) Test Automation
10 168 (20.07%) Observability
11 145 (17.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 142 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 140 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (14.81%) Scrum
15 121 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 117 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 115 (13.74%) Technical Leadership
18 91 (10.87%) Code Quality
19 89 (10.63%) TDD
20 88 (10.51%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 378 (45.16%) Java
2 244 (29.15%) Python
3 200 (23.89%) SQL
4 160 (19.12%) TypeScript
5 154 (18.40%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.38%) C#
7 33 (3.94%) Go
8 26 (3.11%) Bash
9 19 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.43%) Bicep
14 10 (1.19%) Ruby
15 8 (0.96%) PHP
16 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.48%) C++
17 4 (0.48%) Scala
17 4 (0.48%) Solidity
18 3 (0.36%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 197 (23.54%) Security Cleared
2 175 (20.91%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.62%) Degree
4 41 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.58%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.60%) CISSP
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
15 2 (0.24%) ISEB
15 2 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.71%) QA
2 22 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.27%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.79%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.67%) NIST
6 14 (1.67%) SEPA
7 11 (1.31%) GDPR
8 6 (0.72%) NCSC
8 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.72%) PSD2
8 6 (0.72%) SLA
9 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.36%) GRC
10 3 (0.36%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 313 (37.40%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 307 (36.68%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.65%) Grafana
3 49 (5.85%) Prometheus
4 41 (4.90%) Ansible
5 13 (1.55%) Kibana
6 11 (1.31%) Argo
7 9 (1.08%) Istio
8 8 (0.96%) Puppet
9 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.24%) Control-M
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 90 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.57%) Oracle
3 53 (6.33%) Google
4 27 (3.23%) Splunk
5 25 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.91%) SAP
8 15 (1.79%) IBM
8 15 (1.79%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.31%) Databricks
10 9 (1.08%) New Relic
11 8 (0.96%) Veracode
12 7 (0.84%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.72%) Confluent
13 6 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase
13 6 (0.72%) Workday
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.60%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.60%) Solace