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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 58 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 704 513 607
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 3.82% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.21% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 339 445
10th Percentile £375 £405 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £694
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £65.70 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £67.69 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £91.25 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +133.22% -43.11% -21.05%

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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -5 75 £561 -4.06% 59
South London -13 27 £541 +13.87% 4
West London -20 7 £550 +34.47% 11
East London -1 2 £608 +5.65% 2
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 31 (4.40%) Confluence
2 14 (1.99%) Apache
3 7 (0.99%) Camunda
3 7 (0.99%) Ethereum
3 7 (0.99%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.71%) Mule
6 4 (0.57%) CMS
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.57%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 379 (53.84%) AWS
2 260 (36.93%) Azure
3 126 (17.90%) GCP
4 122 (17.33%) Serverless
5 113 (16.05%) GitHub
6 74 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
9 64 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (8.52%) Amazon S3
11 41 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.68%) Azure AKS
13 38 (5.40%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (4.12%) SaaS
16 28 (3.98%) Entra ID
17 24 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (3.27%) OpenShift
19 22 (3.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.42%) HTTP
2 7 (0.99%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) SSL
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) NaaS
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (10.65%) NoSQL
3 61 (8.66%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.96%) Apache Cassandra
5 48 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.97%) Relational Database
7 36 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.83%) MySQL
9 32 (4.55%) DynamoDB
10 31 (4.40%) Redis
11 17 (2.41%) Big Data
12 16 (2.27%) Hadoop
13 15 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
17 9 (1.28%) DB2
18 7 (0.99%) DocumentDB
19 6 (0.85%) Data Lake
19 6 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 95 (13.49%) Git
2 86 (12.22%) Jenkins
3 64 (9.09%) GitLab
4 54 (7.67%) JIRA
5 47 (6.68%) JUnit
6 26 (3.69%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.27%) Mockito
8 16 (2.27%) Maven
8 16 (2.27%) Selenium
9 14 (1.99%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.42%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.28%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.14%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.14%) Postman
13 7 (0.99%) Gatling
13 7 (0.99%) MLflow
13 7 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.99%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.85%) Gradle
14 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
General
1 185 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 173 (24.57%) Finance
3 112 (15.91%) Banking
4 72 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.56%) Front Office
7 17 (2.41%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.99%) Retail
9 12 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
13 3 (0.43%) Back Office
13 3 (0.43%) Military
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Billing
14 2 (0.28%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.28%) Marketing
14 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (40.63%) Developer
2 167 (23.72%) Senior
3 116 (16.48%) Architect
4 99 (14.06%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.22%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
7 46 (6.53%) Lead
8 44 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 44 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 39 (5.54%) Software Engineer
10 35 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 34 (4.83%) C# Developer
12 33 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (3.98%) Backend Developer
14 25 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.41%) Technical Architect
16 22 (3.13%) Test Engineer
17 21 (2.98%) .NET Developer
18 20 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (25.00%) Spring
2 162 (23.01%) Kafka
3 158 (22.44%) Spring Boot
4 134 (19.03%) REST
5 132 (18.75%) RESTful
6 128 (18.18%) React
7 109 (15.48%) .NET
8 100 (14.20%) Node.js
9 96 (13.64%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.81%) Middleware
11 43 (6.11%) gRPC
12 42 (5.97%) HTML
13 39 (5.54%) CSS
14 38 (5.40%) OAuth
15 29 (4.12%) Playwright
15 29 (4.12%) Vue
16 28 (3.98%) .NET Core
17 24 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
18 23 (3.27%) Hibernate
18 23 (3.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 137 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 109 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 19 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.41%) Derivative
6 16 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.99%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.14%) NHS
14 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.68%) Linux
2 15 (2.13%) Unix
3 7 (0.99%) Windows
4 4 (0.57%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.28%) Solaris
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (51.85%) CI/CD
2 281 (39.91%) Agile
2 281 (39.91%) DevOps
3 187 (26.56%) Containerisation
4 156 (22.16%) Software Engineering
5 150 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 116 (16.48%) Event-Driven
6 116 (16.48%) Infrastructure as Code
7 108 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (15.06%) Test Automation
9 95 (13.49%) AI
10 92 (13.07%) TDD
11 86 (12.22%) Observability
12 76 (10.80%) Code Quality
13 74 (10.51%) SDLC
14 72 (10.23%) Scrum
15 67 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 64 (9.09%) Clean Code
16 64 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 63 (8.95%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 303 (43.04%) Java
2 180 (25.57%) Python
3 161 (22.87%) SQL
4 109 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 101 (14.35%) TypeScript
6 90 (12.78%) C#
7 51 (7.24%) Go
8 20 (2.84%) Bicep
9 16 (2.27%) Ruby
10 9 (1.28%) Bash
10 9 (1.28%) C++
11 8 (1.14%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.99%) PHP
13 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.43%) C
16 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 145 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 124 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.95%) Degree
4 42 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.55%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.41%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.85%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.71%) CCSP
13 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.71%) CISSP
14 4 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.66%) QA
2 26 (3.69%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.41%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.42%) NIST
7 10 (1.42%) PSD2
8 8 (1.14%) SEPA
9 6 (0.85%) WCAG
10 4 (0.57%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.57%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.43%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 281 (39.91%) Docker
2 23 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 275 (39.06%) Kubernetes
2 124 (17.61%) Terraform
3 41 (5.82%) Grafana
4 31 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.56%) Argo
6 17 (2.41%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.70%) Ansible
8 10 (1.42%) Istio
9 7 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.71%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 68 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.83%) Google
2 34 (4.83%) Oracle
3 27 (3.84%) OpenAI
4 22 (3.13%) Databricks
5 17 (2.41%) Splunk
6 14 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.70%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.70%) Software AG
8 9 (1.28%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.28%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.14%) IBM
9 8 (1.14%) Sybase
10 7 (0.99%) AppDynamics
10 7 (0.99%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.85%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.85%) Foundry
11 6 (0.85%) Palantir
12 5 (0.71%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.57%) New Relic