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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 808 604 743
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 4.69% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.08% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 414 538
10th Percentile £401 £400 £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 £765 £788 £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 17,131 11,893 15,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.25% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,394 7,948 11,029
10th Percentile £360 £333 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £685
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £23.91 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -26.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.48% -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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -17 83 £535 -8.55% 43
South London -19 16 £538 +8.67%
East London +5 9 £432 +72.80% 5
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 21 (2.60%) CMS
1 21 (2.60%) Confluence
2 18 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.61%) Camunda
4 12 (1.49%) Ethereum
5 11 (1.36%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.24%) Apache
6 10 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.99%) Anypoint
7 8 (0.99%) nginx
8 7 (0.87%) Mule
9 4 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 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 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.74%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.62%) Quorum
3 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.50%) Ripple
4 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 415 (51.36%) AWS
2 287 (35.52%) Azure
3 134 (16.58%) GCP
4 130 (16.09%) GitHub
5 107 (13.24%) Serverless
6 84 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
7 77 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (7.43%) Amazon S3
10 53 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
13 38 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (3.84%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.34%) SaaS
16 26 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 21 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (2.48%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.49%) 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 97 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (10.15%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 39 (4.83%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.70%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (3.84%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.84%) Redis
8 25 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 22 (2.72%) MySQL
10 18 (2.23%) Power BI
11 16 (1.98%) Big Data
11 16 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.36%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.36%) Flink
14 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 132 (16.34%) Git
2 123 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 81 (10.02%) GitLab
4 61 (7.55%) JUnit
5 38 (4.70%) JIRA
6 37 (4.58%) Mockito
7 30 (3.71%) Gradle
8 28 (3.47%) Maven
9 23 (2.85%) Postman
10 17 (2.10%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.86%) Liquibase
11 15 (1.86%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 11 (1.36%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.24%) Vite
14 8 (0.99%) MSTest
14 8 (0.99%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.99%) Selenium
15 7 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 211 (26.11%) Finance
2 183 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 130 (16.09%) Banking
4 100 (12.38%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 28 (3.47%) Front Office
8 20 (2.48%) Marketing
9 17 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.10%) Law
10 15 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.86%) Retail
11 11 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.36%) Legal
11 11 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 10 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.62%) Local Government
14 5 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 272 (33.66%) Developer
2 170 (21.04%) Senior
3 139 (17.20%) Architect
4 113 (13.99%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 76 (9.41%) Lead
7 73 (9.03%) Senior Developer
8 57 (7.05%) Java Engineer
9 47 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
10 41 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (4.33%) Analyst
11 35 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.96%) Technical Architect
14 30 (3.71%) Backend Developer
14 30 (3.71%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.59%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (27.85%) Spring
2 197 (24.38%) Spring Boot
3 178 (22.03%) Kafka
4 171 (21.16%) REST
5 164 (20.30%) RESTful
6 135 (16.71%) React
7 101 (12.50%) .NET
8 83 (10.27%) Node.js
9 68 (8.42%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.32%) OAuth
11 41 (5.07%) CSS
12 39 (4.83%) HTML
13 37 (4.58%) Middleware
14 35 (4.33%) OAuth2
14 35 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
16 27 (3.34%) JSON
17 24 (2.97%) FastAPI
17 24 (2.97%) Web Services
18 23 (2.85%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 212 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 181 (22.40%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (3.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.22%) Derivative
7 24 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (2.97%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.85%) AI Agents
9 19 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.86%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.49%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.31%) Linux
2 19 (2.35%) Unix
3 8 (0.99%) Windows
4 7 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) 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
1 469 (58.04%) CI/CD
2 343 (42.45%) DevOps
3 323 (39.98%) Agile
4 251 (31.06%) Containerisation
5 214 (26.49%) Software Engineering
6 210 (25.99%) Event-Driven
7 149 (18.44%) AI
8 142 (17.57%) Observability
9 141 (17.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 130 (16.09%) Test Automation
11 127 (15.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 120 (14.85%) Full-Stack Development
13 118 (14.60%) Scrum
14 117 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
15 103 (12.75%) TDD
16 82 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 79 (9.78%) API Design
18 77 (9.53%) Code Quality
19 75 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
20 73 (9.03%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 380 (47.03%) Java
2 220 (27.23%) Python
3 197 (24.38%) SQL
4 149 (18.44%) TypeScript
5 117 (14.48%) JavaScript
6 103 (12.75%) C#
7 37 (4.58%) Go
8 26 (3.22%) Ruby
9 16 (1.98%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.49%) Bash
12 11 (1.36%) Bicep
13 8 (0.99%) PHP
14 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.74%) Solidity
16 5 (0.62%) C++
17 4 (0.50%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.50%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 157 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.44%) Degree
4 39 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.99%) CISSP
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.50%) OSCP
13 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.37%) GIAC
13 3 (0.37%) MBA
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.42%) QA
2 35 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.10%) NIST
4 16 (1.98%) GDPR
5 15 (1.86%) ISO 20022
6 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.36%) SEPA
8 10 (1.24%) PSD2
9 9 (1.11%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) WCAG
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.37%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 315 (38.99%) Docker
2 9 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) 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
1 301 (37.25%) Kubernetes
2 115 (14.23%) Terraform
3 56 (6.93%) Grafana
4 44 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.85%) Ansible
6 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.11%) Kibana
8 8 (0.99%) Argo
8 8 (0.99%) Istio
9 5 (0.62%) Puppet
10 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.25%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.31%) Oracle
3 28 (3.47%) Google
4 22 (2.72%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.86%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.86%) IBM
5 15 (1.86%) Splunk
6 12 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.36%) Sybase
8 10 (1.24%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.11%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.99%) Software AG
11 7 (0.87%) SAP
12 6 (0.74%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.74%) Confluent
12 6 (0.74%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.74%) Solace
13 5 (0.62%) Amplitude
14 4 (0.50%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.50%) Rapid7