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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 688 613 782
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.89% 3.90% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 4.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 410 587
10th Percentile £390 £400 £416
25th Percentile £462 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -6.69%
75th Percentile £673 £688 £713
90th Percentile £750 £794 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £67.35 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.13% -48.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £46.83 £75.77
% change year-on-year +43.08% -38.19% +4.50%

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 13,002 14,024 18,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.38% 89.18% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,556 9,051 12,959
10th Percentile £332 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 168 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.19 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £80.23 £76.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +10 78 £569 -10.43% 276
South London +9 18 £531 +1.19% 4
East London +7 9 £540 -6.90% 15
West London -16 9 £475 -5.00% 20
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 (8.14%) Confluence
2 21 (3.05%) Apache
3 15 (2.18%) CMS
4 8 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.73%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
8 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.15%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (1.02%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.58%) Endur
5 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.58%) thinkFolio
6 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.15%) Eikon
7 1 (0.15%) Magento
7 1 (0.15%) RMDS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.15%) Shopify
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 341 (49.56%) AWS
2 228 (33.14%) Azure
3 113 (16.42%) Serverless
4 106 (15.41%) GitHub
5 104 (15.12%) GCP
6 62 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.69%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.67%) Azure AKS
11 38 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (3.05%) OpenShift
16 20 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (2.91%) Azure Functions
17 19 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.18%) SSL
2 6 (0.87%) HTTP
3 5 (0.73%) Network Security
3 5 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) DSL
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 60 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 49 (7.12%) Relational Database
5 44 (6.40%) MongoDB
6 38 (5.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (4.36%) MySQL
8 26 (3.78%) Big Data
8 26 (3.78%) Redis
9 22 (3.20%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.91%) Hadoop
11 14 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.60%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.45%) DB2
15 8 (1.16%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (13.08%) Git
2 82 (11.92%) Jenkins
2 82 (11.92%) JIRA
3 46 (6.69%) GitLab
4 45 (6.54%) JUnit
5 26 (3.78%) Maven
5 26 (3.78%) Mockito
6 22 (3.20%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.91%) Postman
8 19 (2.76%) Cypress.io
9 17 (2.47%) Selenium
9 17 (2.47%) SpecFlow
10 16 (2.33%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.74%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.74%) SonarQube
12 9 (1.31%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.31%) Gradle
12 9 (1.31%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 218 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 186 (27.03%) Finance
3 121 (17.59%) Banking
4 66 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 62 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.92%) Front Office
7 22 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.03%) Back Office
9 13 (1.89%) Retail
9 13 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.74%) Military
11 9 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.87%) Automotive
14 5 (0.73%) Legal
15 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Marketing
16 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 307 (44.62%) Developer
2 158 (22.97%) Senior
3 133 (19.33%) Architect
4 115 (16.72%) Java Developer
5 85 (12.35%) Senior Developer
6 51 (7.41%) Lead
7 44 (6.40%) Software Engineer
8 42 (6.10%) C# Developer
8 42 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.09%) Angular Developer
9 35 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 33 (4.80%) Java Engineer
11 32 (4.65%) Technical Architect
12 28 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (3.63%) Senior Architect
14 24 (3.49%) Backend Developer
14 24 (3.49%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.34%) .NET Developer
15 23 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (21.80%) Kafka
2 148 (21.51%) Spring
3 139 (20.20%) REST
4 135 (19.62%) Spring Boot
5 127 (18.46%) RESTful
6 119 (17.30%) .NET
7 118 (17.15%) React
8 108 (15.70%) AngularJS
9 96 (13.95%) Node.js
10 53 (7.70%) HTML
11 44 (6.40%) RabbitMQ
12 41 (5.96%) JSON
13 38 (5.52%) .NET Framework
13 38 (5.52%) Web Services
14 37 (5.38%) CSS
14 37 (5.38%) SOAP
15 34 (4.94%) gRPC
16 33 (4.80%) .NET Core
17 30 (4.36%) OAuth
18 28 (4.07%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 127 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 93 (13.52%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.33%) Derivative
6 16 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.16%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.02%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.73%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.63%) Linux
2 18 (2.62%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Android
4 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) Windows
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (48.98%) Agile
2 330 (47.97%) CI/CD
3 245 (35.61%) DevOps
4 170 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (20.64%) Containerisation
6 133 (19.33%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.57%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (15.84%) Scrum
9 102 (14.83%) Event-Driven
10 94 (13.66%) Test Automation
11 92 (13.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 89 (12.94%) TDD
13 66 (9.59%) API Design
14 65 (9.45%) Code Quality
15 64 (9.30%) Design Patterns
16 63 (9.16%) Mentoring
17 61 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (8.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 60 (8.72%) SDLC
19 59 (8.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 302 (43.90%) Java
2 153 (22.24%) SQL
3 149 (21.66%) Python
4 122 (17.73%) C#
5 114 (16.57%) JavaScript
6 101 (14.68%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.85%) Go
8 19 (2.76%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.74%) Bash
10 12 (1.74%) Bicep
10 12 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.45%) C++
12 9 (1.31%) Groovy
12 9 (1.31%) Ruby
13 8 (1.16%) PowerShell
14 7 (1.02%) PHP
15 6 (0.87%) Scala
16 4 (0.58%) Perl
17 3 (0.44%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 125 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 107 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.43%) Degree
4 32 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.73%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.58%) CISSP
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) OCP
14 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.85%) QA
2 17 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.18%) GDPR
4 9 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.87%) WCAG
6 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.73%) MiFID
7 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) FATCA
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (35.17%) Docker
2 21 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 262 (38.08%) Kubernetes
2 114 (16.57%) Terraform
3 34 (4.94%) Grafana
4 27 (3.92%) Ansible
5 26 (3.78%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.74%) Argo
8 6 (0.87%) Puppet
9 5 (0.73%) Istio
9 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) WMI
11 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.15%) Control-M
11 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) logstash
11 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.83%) Oracle
3 35 (5.09%) Google
4 26 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 25 (3.63%) Splunk
6 20 (2.91%) Databricks
7 15 (2.18%) HP
7 15 (2.18%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.74%) BMC
8 12 (1.74%) Ivanti
8 12 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.74%) Remedy
9 11 (1.60%) CA Agile Central
9 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.45%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.31%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.31%) Foundry
11 9 (1.31%) Palantir
11 9 (1.31%) Red Hat