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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 849 686 683
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 5.02% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 5.43% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 479 501
10th Percentile £405 £398 £413
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -3.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £38.30 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -44.90%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £95.00 £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 17,940 12,624 14,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,801 8,441 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 251 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -14.20%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.00 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -9 101 £555 -3.48% 80
South London -15 25 £550 +3.77% 2
East London +4 9 £432 +12.21% 4
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 27 (3.18%) CMS
2 24 (2.83%) Confluence
3 20 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.41%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 8 (0.94%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.59%) Quorum
3 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
5 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 421 (49.59%) AWS
2 321 (37.81%) Azure
3 160 (18.85%) GCP
4 158 (18.61%) GitHub
5 110 (12.96%) Serverless
6 99 (11.66%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (6.12%) Amazon S3
11 50 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (3.77%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.94%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.59%) Power Platform
17 22 (2.59%) SaaS
18 21 (2.47%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) HTTP
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 4 (0.47%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.78%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.01%) MongoDB
4 50 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 29 (3.42%) Redis
7 22 (2.59%) Power BI
8 21 (2.47%) MySQL
9 17 (2.00%) Big Data
9 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.30%) Flink
13 9 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.94%) Pinecone
15 7 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 145 (17.08%) Git
2 138 (16.25%) Jenkins
3 89 (10.48%) GitLab
4 51 (6.01%) JUnit
5 36 (4.24%) Mockito
6 35 (4.12%) JIRA
7 34 (4.00%) Gradle
8 33 (3.89%) Maven
9 25 (2.94%) Postman
10 23 (2.71%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.47%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.88%) Liquibase
13 15 (1.77%) JMeter
14 13 (1.53%) Selenium
15 12 (1.41%) Cucumber
16 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 10 (1.18%) TeamCity
16 10 (1.18%) Vite
17 9 (1.06%) Gatling
18 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 231 (27.21%) Finance
2 207 (24.38%) Social Skills
3 129 (15.19%) Banking
4 103 (12.13%) Public Sector
5 76 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.30%) Front Office
7 27 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.71%) Marketing
9 22 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.59%) Retail
10 21 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (1.88%) Law
12 13 (1.53%) Retail Banking
13 12 (1.41%) Billing
14 10 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.18%) Legal
15 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.71%) Local Government
16 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (32.98%) Developer
2 176 (20.73%) Senior
3 163 (19.20%) Architect
4 114 (13.43%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.19%) Lead
5 78 (9.19%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.72%) Senior Developer
7 54 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
8 48 (5.65%) Java Engineer
9 44 (5.18%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (4.24%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 34 (4.00%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.89%) Analyst
15 28 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.18%) .NET Developer
16 27 (3.18%) Backend Developer
16 27 (3.18%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (25.56%) Spring
2 202 (23.79%) REST
3 189 (22.26%) Spring Boot
4 183 (21.55%) Kafka
5 163 (19.20%) RESTful
6 149 (17.55%) React
7 109 (12.84%) .NET
8 91 (10.72%) Node.js
9 57 (6.71%) AngularJS
10 52 (6.12%) CSS
11 49 (5.77%) HTML
12 46 (5.42%) OAuth
13 43 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
14 40 (4.71%) OAuth2
15 33 (3.89%) JSON
16 31 (3.65%) .NET Core
17 29 (3.42%) LangChain
17 29 (3.42%) Playwright
18 28 (3.30%) JWT
19 27 (3.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 241 (28.39%) Cloud Native
2 204 (24.03%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (8.95%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.12%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (3.18%) Derivative
8 27 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.59%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (2.12%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.12%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
12 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.65%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.30%) Linux
2 20 (2.36%) Unix
3 10 (1.18%) Windows
4 7 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.35%) Solaris
6 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (61.60%) CI/CD
2 385 (45.35%) DevOps
3 345 (40.64%) Agile
4 270 (31.80%) Containerisation
5 258 (30.39%) Event-Driven
6 228 (26.86%) Software Engineering
7 191 (22.50%) AI
8 172 (20.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 169 (19.91%) Observability
10 164 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 147 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 135 (15.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 125 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (14.25%) Scrum
15 101 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 99 (11.66%) TDD
16 99 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (11.07%) Integration Patterns
18 90 (10.60%) Code Quality
19 85 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 375 (44.17%) Java
2 238 (28.03%) Python
3 202 (23.79%) SQL
4 162 (19.08%) TypeScript
5 143 (16.84%) JavaScript
6 115 (13.55%) C#
7 32 (3.77%) Go
8 24 (2.83%) Ruby
9 18 (2.12%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.88%) Bash
12 14 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.53%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.41%) Bicep
15 7 (0.82%) PHP
16 6 (0.71%) C++
16 6 (0.71%) Scala
16 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.59%) Solidity
18 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 195 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.54%) Degree
4 39 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.71%) CISSP
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.47%) PhD
16 3 (0.35%) GIAC
16 3 (0.35%) MBA
17 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.24%) OSCP
18 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.89%) QA
2 30 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.12%) ISO 20022
4 16 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.77%) SEPA
6 13 (1.53%) GDPR
6 13 (1.53%) NIST
7 11 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.06%) PSD2
9 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.59%) SLA
11 4 (0.47%) WCAG
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.35%) GRC
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 320 (37.69%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.35%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 309 (36.40%) Kubernetes
2 122 (14.37%) Terraform
3 55 (6.48%) Grafana
4 44 (5.18%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.53%) Ansible
6 9 (1.06%) Istio
6 9 (1.06%) Kibana
7 8 (0.94%) Argo
7 8 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.82%) Puppet
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.71%) Oracle
3 43 (5.06%) Google
4 26 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.88%) IBM
7 14 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.65%) Splunk
8 11 (1.30%) SAP
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
9 10 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.94%) Confluent
10 8 (0.94%) Sybase
11 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.82%) Solace
12 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.59%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.59%) Veracode
12 5 (0.59%) Workday
13 4 (0.47%) Databricks