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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 847 675 671
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 5.01% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.41% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 457 472
10th Percentile £413 £412 £410
25th Percentile £469 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -6.75%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £754 £775
England median daily rate £537 £529 £575
% change year-on-year +1.56% -8.04% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £54.95 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +42.55% -36.27%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £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 £673 £675
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 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 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 24 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 98 £564 -2.84% 110
South London -10 23 £535 -13.99% 13
East London 0 7 £669 +23.89% 8
West London -27 3 £500 +5.26% 43
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 34 (4.01%) Confluence
2 24 (2.83%) CMS
3 20 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.36%) Camunda
4 13 (1.53%) Apache
5 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.83%) nginx
7 5 (0.59%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Quorum
3 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
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
1 413 (48.76%) AWS
2 318 (37.54%) Azure
3 157 (18.54%) GCP
4 156 (18.42%) GitHub
5 101 (11.92%) Serverless
6 97 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
7 92 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
10 51 (6.02%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (5.55%) Amazon S3
11 47 (5.55%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (3.90%) OpenShift
14 31 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (3.07%) SaaS
17 24 (2.83%) Amazon EventBridge
17 24 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.80%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.49%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.13%) MySQL
7 28 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.07%) Redis
9 24 (2.83%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.36%) Power BI
11 19 (2.24%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.01%) Big Data
13 14 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.42%) Flink
16 10 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.94%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
18 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
18 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 155 (18.30%) Jenkins
2 146 (17.24%) Git
3 102 (12.04%) GitLab
4 51 (6.02%) JUnit
5 44 (5.19%) JIRA
6 43 (5.08%) Maven
7 37 (4.37%) Gradle
8 34 (4.01%) Mockito
9 29 (3.42%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.83%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.48%) Postman
11 21 (2.48%) Selenium
12 19 (2.24%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.77%) JMeter
14 14 (1.65%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.53%) Liquibase
16 11 (1.30%) Claude Code
17 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
18 8 (0.94%) Gatling
19 7 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 253 (29.87%) Finance
2 223 (26.33%) Social Skills
3 149 (17.59%) Banking
4 95 (11.22%) Public Sector
5 85 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 27 (3.19%) Retail
8 26 (3.07%) Front Office
9 21 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.13%) Marketing
12 16 (1.89%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.65%) Law
14 13 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.42%) Billing
16 10 (1.18%) Police
17 9 (1.06%) Legal
18 7 (0.83%) Local Government
18 7 (0.83%) Private Banking
19 6 (0.71%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 292 (34.47%) Developer
2 170 (20.07%) Senior
3 153 (18.06%) Architect
4 119 (14.05%) Java Developer
5 82 (9.68%) Lead
6 69 (8.15%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.79%) Software Engineer
8 60 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
9 59 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (6.14%) Java Engineer
11 43 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.19%) Python Developer
16 26 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (3.07%) Technical Architect
17 25 (2.95%) .NET Developer
17 25 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
18 23 (2.72%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (26.80%) Spring
2 226 (26.68%) REST
3 211 (24.91%) Spring Boot
4 206 (24.32%) Kafka
5 163 (19.24%) RESTful
6 156 (18.42%) React
7 138 (16.29%) Terraform
8 108 (12.75%) .NET
9 91 (10.74%) Node.js
10 60 (7.08%) AngularJS
11 59 (6.97%) HTML
12 58 (6.85%) CSS
12 58 (6.85%) OAuth
13 48 (5.67%) OAuth2
14 46 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (4.25%) HTML5
16 34 (4.01%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.90%) GraphQL
17 33 (3.90%) SOAP
18 32 (3.78%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 267 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 208 (24.56%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (11.33%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (4.60%) AI Agents
7 35 (4.13%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (2.95%) Derivative
10 22 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.48%) Virtual Team
12 20 (2.36%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.01%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.77%) Fixed Income
16 14 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
17 12 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
18 11 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.14%) Linux
2 28 (3.31%) Unix
3 10 (1.18%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (62.57%) CI/CD
2 395 (46.64%) DevOps
3 346 (40.85%) Agile
4 301 (35.54%) Event-Driven
5 242 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 217 (25.62%) Software Engineering
7 208 (24.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 202 (23.85%) AI
9 179 (21.13%) Test Automation
10 172 (20.31%) Observability
11 145 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 143 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 140 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (14.76%) Scrum
15 118 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
16 117 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
17 114 (13.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 102 (12.04%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (10.63%) Code Quality
20 89 (10.51%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 389 (45.93%) Java
2 243 (28.69%) Python
3 201 (23.73%) SQL
4 163 (19.24%) TypeScript
5 156 (18.42%) JavaScript
6 111 (13.11%) C#
7 32 (3.78%) Go
8 19 (2.24%) Bash
9 18 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.53%) Ruby
14 11 (1.30%) Bicep
15 8 (0.94%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) Scala
17 4 (0.47%) C++
17 4 (0.47%) Solidity
17 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 199 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 177 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.02%) Degree
4 42 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.59%) CISSP
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) GIAC
16 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.57%) QA
2 23 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.24%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.77%) NIST
6 14 (1.65%) SEPA
7 13 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.30%) GDPR
9 6 (0.71%) NCSC
9 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.71%) PSD2
9 6 (0.71%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.47%) WCAG
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 312 (36.84%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 306 (36.13%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.20%) Grafana
3 46 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 39 (4.60%) Ansible
5 11 (1.30%) Kibana
6 10 (1.18%) Argo
7 9 (1.06%) Istio
8 6 (0.71%) Puppet
8 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.24%) Control-M
10 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 92 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.32%) Oracle
3 52 (6.14%) Google
4 25 (2.95%) OpenAI
4 25 (2.95%) Splunk
5 20 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.01%) IBM
7 16 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.89%) SAP
8 11 (1.30%) Databricks
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
10 8 (0.94%) Veracode
11 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.83%) Confluent
11 7 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow