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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 810 628 740
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 4.75% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.15% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 432 534
10th Percentile £401 £390 £413
25th Percentile £453 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £698
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £37.48 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £41.19 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% -0.40% -24.24%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +40.91% +19.88% -36.72%

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 17,207 12,190 15,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.22% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,434 8,142 11,106
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 227 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -25.47%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -24 83 £545 -6.84% 80
South London -20 15 £541 +9.27%
East London +5 9 £432 +72.80% 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 23 (2.84%) CMS
2 22 (2.72%) Confluence
3 19 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.60%) Camunda
5 12 (1.48%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.36%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.23%) Apache
7 10 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.99%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.99%) nginx
9 7 (0.86%) Mule
10 4 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.25%) Drupal
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.74%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.62%) Quorum
4 4 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.49%) Ripple
5 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
5 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.25%) Endur
6 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 413 (50.99%) AWS
2 286 (35.31%) Azure
3 134 (16.54%) GCP
4 131 (16.17%) GitHub
5 106 (13.09%) Serverless
6 83 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (7.28%) Amazon S3
10 55 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
12 40 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (3.83%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.33%) SaaS
16 25 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (2.47%) OpenShift
17 20 (2.47%) Power Platform
18 19 (2.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.74%) Network Security
2 6 (0.74%) VPN
3 3 (0.37%) 3GPP
3 3 (0.37%) 5G
3 3 (0.37%) DNS
4 2 (0.25%) 4G
4 2 (0.25%) FTP
4 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Internet
4 2 (0.25%) LTE
4 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.25%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) 5G NR
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.91%) MongoDB
4 48 (5.93%) SQL Server
5 39 (4.81%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.83%) DynamoDB
8 29 (3.58%) Redis
9 24 (2.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 22 (2.72%) MySQL
11 20 (2.47%) Power BI
12 17 (2.10%) Big Data
13 16 (1.98%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.36%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.36%) Flink
16 10 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 133 (16.42%) Git
2 124 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 80 (9.88%) GitLab
4 61 (7.53%) JUnit
5 39 (4.81%) JIRA
6 37 (4.57%) Mockito
7 30 (3.70%) Gradle
8 28 (3.46%) Maven
9 23 (2.84%) Postman
10 17 (2.10%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.85%) Liquibase
11 15 (1.85%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (1.36%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.23%) Vite
14 9 (1.11%) Selenium
15 8 (0.99%) MSTest
15 8 (0.99%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.86%) JMeter
16 7 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 214 (26.42%) Finance
2 189 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 132 (16.30%) Banking
4 100 (12.35%) Public Sector
5 67 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 28 (3.46%) Front Office
8 20 (2.47%) Marketing
9 17 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.10%) Law
10 16 (1.98%) Retail
11 14 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.48%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.36%) Legal
14 9 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.62%) Billing
16 5 (0.62%) Local Government
16 5 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 272 (33.58%) Developer
2 169 (20.86%) Senior
3 144 (17.78%) Architect
4 113 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.75%) Software Engineer
6 76 (9.38%) Lead
7 72 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 56 (6.91%) Java Engineer
9 51 (6.30%) Solutions Architect
10 41 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.44%) Analyst
12 33 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.83%) Technical Architect
14 30 (3.70%) Backend Developer
14 30 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.33%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.09%) Python Developer
17 25 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (27.78%) Spring
2 196 (24.20%) Spring Boot
3 173 (21.36%) Kafka
4 172 (21.23%) REST
5 162 (20.00%) RESTful
6 136 (16.79%) React
7 99 (12.22%) .NET
8 86 (10.62%) Node.js
9 67 (8.27%) AngularJS
10 41 (5.06%) CSS
11 40 (4.94%) OAuth
12 39 (4.81%) HTML
13 35 (4.32%) Middleware
14 34 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (3.95%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
17 26 (3.21%) JSON
18 24 (2.96%) Web Services
19 23 (2.84%) FastAPI
19 23 (2.84%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 213 (26.30%) Cloud Native
2 181 (22.35%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (7.90%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
5 28 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.21%) Derivative
6 26 (3.21%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (2.84%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 16 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.85%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.48%) Public Cloud
16 11 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.17%) Linux
2 18 (2.22%) Unix
3 8 (0.99%) Windows
4 7 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.37%) zOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (58.02%) CI/CD
2 343 (42.35%) DevOps
3 324 (40.00%) Agile
4 249 (30.74%) Containerisation
5 212 (26.17%) Software Engineering
6 209 (25.80%) Event-Driven
7 150 (18.52%) AI
8 137 (16.91%) Observability
9 135 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 129 (15.93%) Test Automation
11 127 (15.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 120 (14.81%) Scrum
13 119 (14.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 119 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (12.59%) TDD
15 85 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 80 (9.88%) Code Quality
17 79 (9.75%) API Design
18 76 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
19 74 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 382 (47.16%) Java
2 221 (27.28%) Python
3 196 (24.20%) SQL
4 149 (18.40%) TypeScript
5 118 (14.57%) JavaScript
6 101 (12.47%) C#
7 37 (4.57%) Go
8 25 (3.09%) Ruby
9 16 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 14 (1.73%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.48%) Bash
13 11 (1.36%) Bicep
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
15 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.74%) Scala
16 6 (0.74%) Solidity
17 5 (0.62%) C++
18 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
19 3 (0.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 176 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 154 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.42%) Degree
4 39 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 15 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.99%) CISSP
12 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.49%) OSCP
14 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.37%) GIAC
14 3 (0.37%) MBA
14 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.27%) QA
2 34 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.10%) NIST
4 16 (1.98%) GDPR
5 15 (1.85%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.36%) SEPA
8 9 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.11%) PSD2
9 4 (0.49%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
10 3 (0.37%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.37%) WCAG
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) HL7
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 310 (38.27%) Docker
2 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.37%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 300 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 111 (13.70%) Terraform
3 54 (6.67%) Grafana
4 41 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.84%) Ansible
6 10 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.11%) Kibana
8 8 (0.99%) Istio
9 7 (0.86%) Argo
10 5 (0.62%) Puppet
11 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.25%) Rancher
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.12%) linkerd
13 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.12%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 80 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.30%) Oracle
3 28 (3.46%) Google
4 21 (2.59%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.85%) IBM
5 15 (1.85%) Splunk
6 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.36%) Sybase
8 10 (1.23%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.99%) SAP
11 7 (0.86%) Software AG
12 6 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.74%) Solace
13 5 (0.62%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.62%) Confluent
14 4 (0.49%) Workday