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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 778 524 681
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.37% 4.17% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.52% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 367 497
10th Percentile £395 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £729 £695
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.13 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £50.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +45.00% +6.03% -34.96%

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 15,746 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.45% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,536 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.62 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 87 £555 -5.13% 85
South London -12 27 £536 +12.84% 1
East London 0 7 £432 +72.80% 6
West London -25 6 £572 +23.14% 10
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 19 (2.44%) Confluence
2 14 (1.80%) Apache
2 14 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.80%) CMS
3 11 (1.41%) Camunda
4 8 (1.03%) Ethereum
5 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.77%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.64%) Mule
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.51%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 412 (52.96%) AWS
2 289 (37.15%) Azure
3 137 (17.61%) GCP
4 121 (15.55%) Serverless
5 116 (14.91%) GitHub
6 79 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (9.25%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (7.84%) Amazon S3
10 54 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.40%) Azure AKS
12 40 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (4.37%) SaaS
15 32 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.08%) PaaS
19 23 (2.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 5 (0.64%) VPN
4 4 (0.51%) Network Security
5 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.39%) 5G
5 3 (0.39%) SSL
6 2 (0.26%) 4G
6 2 (0.26%) Firewall
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) LTE
6 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) NaaS
7 1 (0.13%) RFID
7 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.67%) NoSQL
2 75 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.40%) SQL Server
5 40 (5.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 39 (5.01%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.50%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.50%) Redis
8 29 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (3.47%) MySQL
10 19 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.19%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.54%) Big Data
14 11 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.29%) Power BI
16 9 (1.16%) Flink
17 7 (0.90%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.90%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 111 (14.27%) Git
2 106 (13.62%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.87%) GitLab
4 49 (6.30%) JUnit
5 38 (4.88%) JIRA
6 35 (4.50%) Mockito
7 22 (2.83%) Cucumber
8 17 (2.19%) Postman
9 16 (2.06%) Maven
10 15 (1.93%) Gradle
11 12 (1.54%) Liquibase
12 11 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.16%) Selenium
13 9 (1.16%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 8 (1.03%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.03%) Vite
15 7 (0.90%) MSTest
16 6 (0.77%) Mocha
General
1 195 (25.06%) Finance
2 183 (23.52%) Social Skills
3 121 (15.55%) Banking
4 87 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.08%) Front Office
7 20 (2.57%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.93%) Retail
10 14 (1.80%) Marketing
11 13 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.54%) Legal
13 10 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.03%) Law
15 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.64%) Police
17 4 (0.51%) Billing
17 4 (0.51%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 280 (35.99%) Developer
2 172 (22.11%) Senior
3 140 (17.99%) Architect
4 100 (12.85%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.41%) Senior Developer
6 62 (7.97%) Lead
7 60 (7.71%) Software Engineer
8 52 (6.68%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (6.04%) Java Engineer
10 38 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.50%) Technical Architect
13 32 (4.11%) Analyst
14 31 (3.98%) Backend Developer
14 31 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.73%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.83%) Senior Software Engineer
18 21 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (28.02%) Spring
2 194 (24.94%) Spring Boot
3 167 (21.47%) Kafka
4 154 (19.79%) RESTful
5 131 (16.84%) REST
6 123 (15.81%) React
7 104 (13.37%) .NET
8 93 (11.95%) Node.js
9 81 (10.41%) AngularJS
10 56 (7.20%) Middleware
11 38 (4.88%) CSS
11 38 (4.88%) HTML
12 36 (4.63%) OAuth
13 35 (4.50%) gRPC
14 30 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
15 29 (3.73%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.47%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (3.21%) Web Services
18 21 (2.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 171 (21.98%) Cloud Native
2 149 (19.15%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.08%) AI Agents
6 20 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 19 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.31%) Derivative
9 17 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
13 10 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.29%) NHS
13 10 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.78%) Linux
2 16 (2.06%) Unix
3 8 (1.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.51%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (55.14%) CI/CD
2 338 (43.44%) DevOps
3 288 (37.02%) Agile
4 232 (29.82%) Containerisation
5 196 (25.19%) Software Engineering
6 158 (20.31%) Event-Driven
7 147 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 130 (16.71%) AI
9 129 (16.58%) Observability
10 120 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (14.52%) Test Automation
12 101 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 100 (12.85%) TDD
14 97 (12.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 88 (11.31%) Code Quality
16 85 (10.93%) Scrum
17 72 (9.25%) Migration
18 70 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 68 (8.74%) Clean Code
19 68 (8.74%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 345 (44.34%) Java
2 203 (26.09%) Python
3 188 (24.16%) SQL
4 114 (14.65%) TypeScript
5 96 (12.34%) JavaScript
6 92 (11.83%) C#
7 41 (5.27%) Go
8 23 (2.96%) Ruby
9 15 (1.93%) Bicep
10 14 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.29%) Bash
13 6 (0.77%) C++
13 6 (0.77%) PHP
13 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.64%) Scala
15 3 (0.39%) C
15 3 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 171 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 147 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.81%) Degree
4 41 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.64%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) OSCP
11 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.51%) CCSP
12 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) MBA
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.10%) QA
2 27 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.31%) GDPR
4 15 (1.93%) NIST
5 14 (1.80%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.67%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.41%) PSD2
8 9 (1.16%) SEPA
9 8 (1.03%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.64%) SLA
11 4 (0.51%) HL7
11 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.51%) WCAG
12 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
13 2 (0.26%) GRC
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.26%) NCSC
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 304 (39.07%) Docker
2 18 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 293 (37.66%) Kubernetes
2 117 (15.04%) Terraform
3 51 (6.56%) Grafana
4 40 (5.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.67%) Argo
5 13 (1.67%) Istio
5 13 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.41%) Ansible
7 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.64%) Kibana
8 5 (0.64%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.51%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.14%) Oracle
3 32 (4.11%) Google
4 27 (3.47%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.06%) Splunk
7 13 (1.67%) Databricks
7 13 (1.67%) Software AG
8 11 (1.41%) IBM
9 9 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.03%) Confluent
10 8 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.77%) SAP
11 6 (0.77%) Solace
11 6 (0.77%) Sybase
12 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.64%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.64%) Red Hat