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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 48 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 842 671 683
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 5.05% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.46% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 457 488
10th Percentile £412 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £775
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile - £40.78 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £62.00 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £91.25 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 17,974 12,284 14,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.47% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,122 9,734
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -2.19% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 253 181
10th Percentile £17.21 £17.02 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.40 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 -15 99 £564 -2.00% 63
South London -8 21 £535 -13.99% 9
East London +5 11 £432 -20.00% 7
West London -25 2 £500 +5.26% 33
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 30 (3.56%) Confluence
2 27 (3.21%) CMS
3 19 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 18 (2.14%) Camunda
5 10 (1.19%) Apache
5 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.71%) nginx
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Quorum
4 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
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 (48.81%) AWS
2 315 (37.41%) Azure
3 155 (18.41%) GitHub
4 151 (17.93%) GCP
5 102 (12.11%) Serverless
6 97 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (11.28%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (5.58%) Amazon S3
11 46 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (3.09%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.09%) OpenShift
15 25 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.97%) SaaS
16 24 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (2.73%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) HTTP
3 4 (0.48%) VPN
4 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.65%) SQL Server
4 52 (6.18%) MongoDB
5 47 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.56%) MySQL
7 28 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (2.97%) Redis
9 24 (2.85%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.38%) Power BI
11 18 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.02%) Big Data
13 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.19%) Flink
17 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
18 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 6 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 149 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 146 (17.34%) Git
3 97 (11.52%) GitLab
4 56 (6.65%) JUnit
5 42 (4.99%) JIRA
6 41 (4.87%) Gradle
7 40 (4.75%) Maven
8 38 (4.51%) Mockito
9 27 (3.21%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 23 (2.73%) Postman
11 18 (2.14%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.90%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.78%) Selenium
14 14 (1.66%) JMeter
15 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.95%) Claude Code
16 8 (0.95%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.95%) Gatling
17 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 239 (28.38%) Finance
2 221 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 133 (15.80%) Banking
4 98 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 85 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.85%) Retail
8 22 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (2.49%) Front Office
9 21 (2.49%) Marketing
10 17 (2.02%) Law
11 13 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.31%) Legal
14 9 (1.07%) Police
15 7 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Local Government
16 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (34.20%) Developer
2 168 (19.95%) Senior
3 150 (17.81%) Architect
4 119 (14.13%) Java Developer
5 83 (9.86%) Lead
6 73 (8.67%) Software Engineer
7 68 (8.08%) Senior Developer
8 56 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 54 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (6.18%) Java Engineer
11 38 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 38 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.56%) Technical Architect
15 29 (3.44%) Analyst
16 26 (3.09%) .NET Developer
16 26 (3.09%) Python Developer
17 25 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (27.08%) Spring
2 219 (26.01%) REST
3 209 (24.82%) Spring Boot
4 197 (23.40%) Kafka
5 161 (19.12%) RESTful
6 158 (18.76%) React
7 128 (15.20%) Terraform
8 104 (12.35%) .NET
9 85 (10.10%) Node.js
10 58 (6.89%) CSS
10 58 (6.89%) HTML
11 56 (6.65%) AngularJS
12 49 (5.82%) OAuth
13 46 (5.46%) RabbitMQ
14 44 (5.23%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.16%) HTML5
16 34 (4.04%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.92%) JSON
18 32 (3.80%) CSS3
19 31 (3.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 259 (30.76%) Cloud Native
2 210 (24.94%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (10.57%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.16%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (2.73%) Derivative
10 21 (2.49%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (2.26%) Algorithms
12 19 (2.26%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.54%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
16 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 10 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.58%) Linux
2 26 (3.09%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (63.18%) CI/CD
2 392 (46.56%) DevOps
3 345 (40.97%) Agile
4 286 (33.97%) Event-Driven
5 253 (30.05%) Containerisation
6 228 (27.08%) Software Engineering
7 194 (23.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 192 (22.80%) AI
9 178 (21.14%) Observability
10 167 (19.83%) Test Automation
11 150 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
12 140 (16.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (14.96%) Scrum
15 106 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
16 105 (12.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 105 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
17 99 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
18 97 (11.52%) TDD
19 90 (10.69%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 393 (46.67%) Java
2 241 (28.62%) Python
3 207 (24.58%) SQL
4 164 (19.48%) TypeScript
5 149 (17.70%) JavaScript
6 109 (12.95%) C#
7 30 (3.56%) Go
8 22 (2.61%) Ruby
9 20 (2.38%) Bash
10 18 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.78%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.31%) Bicep
14 7 (0.83%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
16 4 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.24%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 198 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 175 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.70%) Degree
4 38 (4.51%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.38%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.69%) QA
2 23 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (2.02%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 13 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.54%) SEPA
7 10 (1.19%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.59%) PSD2
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.48%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 314 (37.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 305 (36.22%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.77%) Grafana
3 42 (4.99%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.28%) Ansible
5 10 (1.19%) Argo
5 10 (1.19%) Istio
5 10 (1.19%) Kibana
6 7 (0.83%) Puppet
7 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.24%) Control-M
10 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (11.52%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.60%) Oracle
3 45 (5.34%) Google
4 24 (2.85%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.14%) IBM
5 18 (2.14%) Splunk
6 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 12 (1.43%) Databricks
7 12 (1.43%) SAP
8 10 (1.19%) New Relic
9 8 (0.95%) Confluent
9 8 (0.95%) Veracode
10 7 (0.83%) Solace
11 6 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.71%) Sybase
11 6 (0.71%) Workday
12 5 (0.59%) Foundry
12 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow