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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 673 497 649
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.67% 3.54% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.12% 3.92% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 326 481
10th Percentile £375 £408 £419
25th Percentile £447 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +2.58% -10.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £66.90 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.46% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £73.88 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +89.44% -37.58% -14.41%

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 13,144 12,678 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.30% 90.34% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,106 11,397
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 261
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +4 78 £563 -4.26% 64
South London +7 22 £525 +10.53% 10
West London -17 8 £550 +34.47% 7
East London 0 4 £563 -3.85% 10
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 41 (6.09%) Confluence
2 17 (2.53%) Apache
3 7 (1.04%) CMS
3 7 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) Camunda
5 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) CICS
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Mule
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 346 (51.41%) AWS
2 243 (36.11%) Azure
3 133 (19.76%) Serverless
4 121 (17.98%) GitHub
5 109 (16.20%) GCP
6 79 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (8.62%) Amazon S3
10 54 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (7.13%) Azure AKS
12 41 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (4.01%) Entra ID
17 26 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (3.86%) Azure Functions
18 23 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (3.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.04%) Network Security
1 7 (1.04%) SSL
2 6 (0.89%) DNS
3 5 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.59%) HTTP
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.89%) NoSQL
2 75 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (8.17%) MongoDB
4 54 (8.02%) SQL Server
5 44 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 41 (6.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 29 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (4.16%) Redis
9 26 (3.86%) DynamoDB
9 26 (3.86%) MySQL
10 22 (3.27%) Big Data
11 17 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.23%) Hadoop
13 13 (1.93%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.34%) DB2
16 8 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (13.08%) Git
2 87 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.96%) GitLab
4 61 (9.06%) JIRA
5 35 (5.20%) JUnit
6 20 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 20 (2.97%) Mockito
7 18 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.38%) Selenium
9 15 (2.23%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.23%) Maven
10 13 (1.93%) Postman
11 12 (1.78%) SpecFlow
12 8 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (1.19%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.89%) Gatling
13 6 (0.89%) Gradle
13 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 197 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 163 (24.22%) Finance
3 121 (17.98%) Banking
4 62 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.67%) Front Office
8 13 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.34%) Retail
11 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Back Office
13 6 (0.89%) Legal
14 4 (0.59%) Military
15 3 (0.45%) Marketing
16 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 291 (43.24%) Developer
2 155 (23.03%) Senior
3 108 (16.05%) Architect
4 99 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 83 (12.33%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
8 40 (5.94%) C# Developer
8 40 (5.94%) Lead
9 37 (5.50%) Java Engineer
10 33 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 29 (4.31%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.57%) Angular Developer
13 23 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.42%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.42%) Technical Architect
14 21 (3.12%) .NET Developer
15 17 (2.53%) Analyst
15 17 (2.53%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (23.92%) Spring
2 156 (23.18%) Kafka
3 148 (21.99%) Spring Boot
4 139 (20.65%) RESTful
5 120 (17.83%) React
5 120 (17.83%) REST
6 110 (16.34%) .NET
7 99 (14.71%) Node.js
8 88 (13.08%) AngularJS
9 44 (6.54%) HTML
10 38 (5.65%) gRPC
11 35 (5.20%) .NET Core
11 35 (5.20%) CSS
11 35 (5.20%) Middleware
11 35 (5.20%) OAuth
12 33 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
13 27 (4.01%) JSON
14 24 (3.57%) Entity Framework
14 24 (3.57%) Vue
15 23 (3.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 136 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 105 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.38%) Derivative
6 13 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.19%) NHS
12 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
14 5 (0.74%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.01%) Linux
2 16 (2.38%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) zOS
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (52.15%) CI/CD
2 289 (42.94%) Agile
3 283 (42.05%) DevOps
4 178 (26.45%) Containerisation
5 161 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (20.65%) Software Engineering
7 112 (16.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (15.90%) Event-Driven
9 104 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 101 (15.01%) Test Automation
11 85 (12.63%) TDD
12 80 (11.89%) Scrum
13 73 (10.85%) AI
14 69 (10.25%) Observability
15 67 (9.96%) Design Patterns
15 67 (9.96%) SDLC
16 66 (9.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 63 (9.36%) Code Quality
18 61 (9.06%) Migration
19 60 (8.92%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 282 (41.90%) Java
2 165 (24.52%) SQL
3 159 (23.63%) Python
4 104 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 101 (15.01%) C#
6 86 (12.78%) TypeScript
7 56 (8.32%) Go
8 19 (2.82%) Bicep
9 12 (1.78%) Ruby
10 10 (1.49%) Bash
11 9 (1.34%) C++
11 9 (1.34%) PHP
11 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.59%) Perl
14 4 (0.59%) Scala
15 3 (0.45%) Groovy
15 3 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 132 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.17%) Degree
4 41 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.12%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.89%) MCP
12 5 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.74%) CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.74%) CISSP
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (9.06%) QA
2 18 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.08%) GDPR
4 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.19%) NIST
7 6 (0.89%) WCAG
8 5 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.59%) PSD2
10 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) HL7
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) EMIR
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 286 (42.50%) Docker
2 27 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 290 (43.09%) Kubernetes
2 131 (19.47%) Terraform
3 30 (4.46%) Grafana
4 22 (3.27%) Ansible
4 22 (3.27%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.82%) Argo
6 15 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.49%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.74%) Puppet
10 4 (0.59%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.30%) Knative
13 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.15%) Foglight
13 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.54%) Google
3 27 (4.01%) Oracle
4 24 (3.57%) Databricks
5 22 (3.27%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.12%) Splunk
7 12 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.19%) Software AG
9 7 (1.04%) Cloudera
9 7 (1.04%) Foundry
9 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.04%) Palantir
10 6 (0.89%) Confluent
11 5 (0.74%) Calypso
11 5 (0.74%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.74%) Sybase