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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 771 525 665
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 4.12% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 4.47% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 364 486
10th Percentile £381 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% -1.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.13 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £49.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +45.73% +2.73% -33.20%

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 15,562 11,733 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.06% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,427 7,976 11,319
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 172 330
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.53 £15.99
25th Percentile £25.11 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.38 £63.70 £65.78
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -20 86 £530 -9.40% 75
South London -8 29 £530 +11.58% 4
West London -22 7 £550 +34.47% 9
East London -2 6 £432 +3.47% 7
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 18 (2.33%) Confluence
2 13 (1.69%) Apache
3 12 (1.56%) CMS
4 11 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) Camunda
6 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.65%) Mule
9 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.26%) nginx
12 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 410 (53.18%) AWS
2 289 (37.48%) Azure
3 134 (17.38%) GCP
4 126 (16.34%) Serverless
5 118 (15.30%) GitHub
6 84 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (8.43%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.78%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (6.10%) Azure AKS
12 43 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
16 35 (4.54%) SaaS
17 29 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 27 (3.50%) Entra ID
19 26 (3.37%) PaaS
20 24 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) DNS
2 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 5 (0.65%) VPN
3 4 (0.52%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (11.02%) NoSQL
2 74 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.78%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.45%) Apache Cassandra
5 40 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.93%) DynamoDB
7 37 (4.80%) SQL Server
8 35 (4.54%) Redis
9 32 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (3.76%) MySQL
11 18 (2.33%) BigQuery
12 16 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.43%) Big Data
14 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.04%) Power BI
16 7 (0.91%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.91%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.91%) Flink
16 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 117 (15.18%) Git
2 102 (13.23%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.95%) GitLab
4 47 (6.10%) JUnit
5 41 (5.32%) JIRA
6 33 (4.28%) Mockito
7 20 (2.59%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.95%) Postman
9 14 (1.82%) Maven
10 13 (1.69%) Gradle
11 12 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.56%) Liquibase
12 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.17%) Selenium
13 9 (1.17%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.04%) Vite
15 6 (0.78%) Gatling
15 6 (0.78%) MLflow
15 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (24.12%) Finance
2 183 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 117 (15.18%) Banking
4 85 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.98%) Front Office
7 17 (2.20%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.69%) Retail
11 12 (1.56%) Legal
11 12 (1.56%) Marketing
12 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.78%) Law
13 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.52%) Billing
14 4 (0.52%) Police
15 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (36.32%) Developer
2 167 (21.66%) Senior
3 138 (17.90%) Architect
4 101 (13.10%) Java Developer
5 78 (10.12%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.78%) Lead
7 53 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.97%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.54%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (4.54%) Technical Architect
12 31 (4.02%) Backend Developer
13 30 (3.89%) Senior Java Developer
14 29 (3.76%) Analyst
15 28 (3.63%) C# Developer
16 25 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 24 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
18 23 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
19 20 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (27.11%) Spring
2 188 (24.38%) Spring Boot
3 162 (21.01%) Kafka
4 148 (19.20%) RESTful
5 130 (16.86%) REST
6 125 (16.21%) React
7 103 (13.36%) Node.js
8 101 (13.10%) .NET
9 84 (10.89%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.13%) Middleware
11 38 (4.93%) OAuth
12 37 (4.80%) gRPC
13 36 (4.67%) CSS
13 36 (4.67%) HTML
14 31 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
15 28 (3.63%) .NET Core
16 25 (3.24%) OAuth2
17 24 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (3.11%) Web Services
18 23 (2.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 166 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 150 (19.46%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.37%) AI Agents
5 25 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.08%) Derivative
9 15 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.30%) NHS
13 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.84%) Linux
2 14 (1.82%) Unix
3 8 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.52%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (55.12%) CI/CD
2 334 (43.32%) DevOps
3 283 (36.71%) Agile
4 231 (29.96%) Containerisation
5 187 (24.25%) Software Engineering
6 149 (19.33%) Event-Driven
7 148 (19.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 127 (16.47%) AI
9 126 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (16.08%) Observability
11 108 (14.01%) Test Automation
12 102 (13.23%) TDD
13 98 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 90 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 86 (11.15%) Code Quality
16 80 (10.38%) Scrum
17 70 (9.08%) Migration
18 68 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
19 65 (8.43%) Integration Patterns
19 65 (8.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 338 (43.84%) Java
2 207 (26.85%) Python
3 184 (23.87%) SQL
4 110 (14.27%) TypeScript
5 91 (11.80%) JavaScript
6 87 (11.28%) C#
7 44 (5.71%) Go
8 23 (2.98%) Ruby
9 17 (2.20%) Bicep
10 12 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) Bash
13 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.78%) C++
14 6 (0.78%) PHP
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 3 (0.39%) Rust
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 168 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 145 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.87%) Degree
4 41 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) CISSP
10 5 (0.65%) OSCP
10 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.39%) MBA
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.04%) QA
2 26 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.20%) GDPR
4 14 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.82%) NIST
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.30%) PSD2
7 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.04%) SEPA
8 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) WCAG
9 4 (0.52%) HL7
9 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 303 (39.30%) Docker
2 22 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 292 (37.87%) Kubernetes
2 124 (16.08%) Terraform
3 49 (6.36%) Grafana
4 38 (4.93%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.82%) Istio
6 13 (1.69%) Ansible
6 13 (1.69%) Argo
7 12 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.39%) Kibana
11 3 (0.39%) Rancher
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 84 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.45%) Oracle
3 34 (4.41%) Google
4 30 (3.89%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.33%) Databricks
6 17 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.20%) Splunk
7 13 (1.69%) Software AG
8 11 (1.43%) IBM
9 10 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
10 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.78%) SAP
11 6 (0.78%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.65%) Sybase