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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 660 646 843
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.93% 4.02% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 4.51% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 443 645
10th Percentile £402 £407 £430
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £603
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.90% -3.60%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £528 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -6.31% -6.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £54.95 £36.58 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.81 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.08 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +99.61% -46.56% +2.04%
75th Percentile £87.50 £41.86 -
90th Percentile - £42.09 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £41.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +61.45% -44.67% +5.26%

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 12,381 14,325 18,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.48% 89.25% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,179 9,289 13,517
10th Percentile £334 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -1.88%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 177 228
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £21.69
Median hourly rate £31.49 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% -6.25% +5.44%
75th Percentile £48.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.75 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +18 80 £585 -17.31% 91
South London +5 16 £586 +20.21% 6
East London +10 9 £540 +5.37% 12
West London -9 9 £475 -5.00% 12
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 56 (8.48%) Confluence
2 18 (2.73%) Apache
3 15 (2.27%) CMS
4 8 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.76%) Camunda
8 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
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
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.36%) FLEXCUBE
2 9 (1.36%) Oracle BPM
3 8 (1.21%) Endur
4 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.61%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.61%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
9 1 (0.15%) Eikon
9 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.15%) RMDS
9 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 321 (48.64%) AWS
2 193 (29.24%) Azure
3 109 (16.52%) GCP
4 96 (14.55%) Serverless
5 85 (12.88%) GitHub
6 46 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
7 40 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 33 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 20 (3.03%) OpenShift
13 19 (2.88%) Azure AKS
14 18 (2.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 17 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.27%) SSL
2 5 (0.76%) DNS
2 5 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.76%) HTTP
2 5 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (0.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.30%) Internet
4 2 (0.30%) LAN
4 2 (0.30%) Network Security
4 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
4 2 (0.30%) SMS
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) DSL
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
5 1 (0.15%) Multicast
5 1 (0.15%) SAN
5 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (12.58%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 61 (9.24%) NoSQL
4 45 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 39 (5.91%) Apache Cassandra
5 39 (5.91%) MongoDB
6 29 (4.39%) Big Data
7 27 (4.09%) Redis
8 25 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.79%) MySQL
9 21 (3.18%) Hadoop
10 16 (2.42%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.82%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.21%) DB2
13 8 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.91%) BigQuery
16 5 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 82 (12.42%) Git
2 80 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 76 (11.52%) JIRA
4 38 (5.76%) GitLab
4 38 (5.76%) JUnit
5 26 (3.94%) Maven
6 22 (3.33%) Mockito
7 18 (2.73%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.73%) Postman
8 17 (2.58%) SpecFlow
9 14 (2.12%) Cypress.io
9 14 (2.12%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.82%) Bitbucket
10 12 (1.82%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.82%) Selenium
11 10 (1.52%) CircleCI
11 10 (1.52%) Gradle
11 10 (1.52%) JMeter
11 10 (1.52%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 199 (30.15%) Social Skills
2 194 (29.39%) Finance
3 128 (19.39%) Banking
4 56 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.55%) Front Office
7 24 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 18 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.27%) Back Office
10 14 (2.12%) Military
11 11 (1.67%) Retail
12 10 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.91%) Automotive
14 6 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.76%) Legal
16 4 (0.61%) Marketing
17 3 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (45.00%) Developer
2 145 (21.97%) Senior
3 136 (20.61%) Architect
4 113 (17.12%) Java Developer
5 84 (12.73%) Senior Developer
6 49 (7.42%) Lead
7 43 (6.52%) C# Developer
8 40 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (5.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 38 (5.76%) Software Engineer
10 37 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (5.15%) Angular Developer
12 29 (4.39%) Technical Architect
13 28 (4.24%) Java Engineer
13 28 (4.24%) Senior Architect
14 23 (3.48%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.33%) .NET Developer
16 20 (3.03%) Lead Java Developer
17 19 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
18 17 (2.58%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (22.12%) Kafka
2 140 (21.21%) Spring
3 132 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 128 (19.39%) REST
5 113 (17.12%) RESTful
6 111 (16.82%) .NET
7 106 (16.06%) React
8 92 (13.94%) AngularJS
9 82 (12.42%) Node.js
10 54 (8.18%) HTML
11 43 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
12 39 (5.91%) gRPC
13 38 (5.76%) JSON
13 38 (5.76%) SOAP
14 37 (5.61%) Web Services
15 35 (5.30%) CSS
16 34 (5.15%) .NET Framework
17 27 (4.09%) GraphQL
18 26 (3.94%) .NET Core
18 26 (3.94%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 123 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 96 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.88%) Virtual Team
7 17 (2.58%) Derivative
8 15 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.21%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.21%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.06%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.76%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.70%) Linux
2 21 (3.18%) Unix
3 6 (0.91%) Android
4 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.76%) Windows
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) AIX
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (48.94%) Agile
2 296 (44.85%) CI/CD
3 221 (33.48%) DevOps
4 156 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
5 132 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 126 (19.09%) Containerisation
7 107 (16.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 103 (15.61%) Scrum
9 97 (14.70%) Event-Driven
10 88 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 83 (12.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (11.21%) TDD
13 62 (9.39%) API Design
14 61 (9.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 60 (9.09%) Mentoring
15 60 (9.09%) SDLC
16 59 (8.94%) AI
16 59 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (8.48%) Migration
18 55 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 293 (44.39%) Java
2 140 (21.21%) SQL
3 139 (21.06%) Python
4 121 (18.33%) C#
5 111 (16.82%) JavaScript
6 89 (13.48%) TypeScript
7 56 (8.48%) Go
8 18 (2.73%) Kotlin
8 18 (2.73%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.97%) C++
11 11 (1.67%) Bash
12 10 (1.52%) Groovy
13 9 (1.36%) Scala
14 8 (1.21%) Bicep
15 7 (1.06%) PowerShell
15 7 (1.06%) Ruby
16 6 (0.91%) PHP
17 4 (0.61%) PromQL
18 3 (0.45%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 108 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.79%) Degree
4 31 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.12%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.36%) Azure Certification
10 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) CISSP
12 4 (0.61%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.18%) QA
2 15 (2.27%) GDPR
3 10 (1.52%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.91%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.76%) MiFID
7 4 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) HL7
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) FATCA
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 225 (34.09%) Docker
2 11 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 247 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 93 (14.09%) Terraform
3 31 (4.70%) Grafana
4 26 (3.94%) Prometheus
5 24 (3.64%) Ansible
6 20 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.67%) Puppet
8 9 (1.36%) Argo
9 8 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.76%) Istio
11 3 (0.45%) Kibana
12 2 (0.30%) WMI
13 1 (0.15%) Control-M
13 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 51 (7.73%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.97%) Oracle
3 37 (5.61%) Google
4 26 (3.94%) Splunk
5 24 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 15 (2.27%) HP
7 13 (1.97%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.82%) BMC
8 12 (1.82%) Databricks
8 12 (1.82%) Ivanti
8 12 (1.82%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.82%) Remedy
9 11 (1.67%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.52%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.52%) Cloudera
10 10 (1.52%) Foundry
10 10 (1.52%) Palantir
10 10 (1.52%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
12 8 (1.21%) IBM