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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 841 676 691
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.03% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.44% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 468 499
10th Percentile £404 £397 £413
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £589
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -4.92% -9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £697
90th Percentile £775 £766 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.95% -6.25% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £39.13 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £49.50 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £85.63 £42.12
90th Percentile - £93.75 £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 17,902 12,422 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.40% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,269 10,048
10th Percentile £361 £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 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 197
10th Percentile £17.18 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.29 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.22% -16.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%

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 19 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 19 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 -6 97 £555 +1.37% 34
South London -13 20 £535 +0.94% 6
East London 0 9 £432 -16.92% 6
West London -34 2 £500 +5.26% 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 26 (3.09%) CMS
2 24 (2.85%) Confluence
3 20 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.55%) Camunda
5 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.59%) Quorum
2 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
4 2 (0.24%) Endur
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 414 (49.23%) AWS
2 323 (38.41%) Azure
3 154 (18.31%) GCP
4 152 (18.07%) GitHub
5 104 (12.37%) Serverless
6 96 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
7 64 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
9 50 (5.95%) Amazon S3
10 46 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.69%) Azure AKS
13 29 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.97%) OpenShift
16 22 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.62%) Power Platform
16 22 (2.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (10.82%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.18%) MongoDB
3 52 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.99%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (3.57%) Redis
6 26 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.62%) Power BI
8 20 (2.38%) MySQL
9 17 (2.02%) Big Data
9 17 (2.02%) BigQuery
10 14 (1.66%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.31%) Flink
13 9 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
13 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
14 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 146 (17.36%) Git
2 143 (17.00%) Jenkins
3 93 (11.06%) GitLab
4 53 (6.30%) JUnit
5 35 (4.16%) Gradle
5 35 (4.16%) JIRA
5 35 (4.16%) Mockito
6 33 (3.92%) Maven
7 25 (2.97%) Postman
8 24 (2.85%) Cypress.io
9 20 (2.38%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.90%) Liquibase
11 15 (1.78%) JMeter
12 14 (1.66%) Selenium
13 11 (1.31%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.19%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.07%) Cucumber
15 9 (1.07%) Gatling
General
1 232 (27.59%) Finance
2 210 (24.97%) Social Skills
3 123 (14.63%) Banking
4 99 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.09%) Front Office
6 26 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.73%) Retail
8 22 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.62%) Marketing
9 17 (2.02%) Law
10 13 (1.55%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.71%) Police
14 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 281 (33.41%) Developer
2 173 (20.57%) Senior
3 153 (18.19%) Architect
4 117 (13.91%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.39%) Lead
6 75 (8.92%) Software Engineer
7 72 (8.56%) Senior Developer
8 52 (6.18%) Java Engineer
9 50 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 37 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
13 32 (3.80%) Technical Architect
14 31 (3.69%) Analyst
15 29 (3.45%) .NET Developer
16 28 (3.33%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.09%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (26.28%) Spring
2 209 (24.85%) REST
3 198 (23.54%) Spring Boot
4 187 (22.24%) Kafka
5 168 (19.98%) RESTful
6 146 (17.36%) React
7 102 (12.13%) .NET
8 82 (9.75%) Node.js
9 56 (6.66%) AngularJS
10 49 (5.83%) CSS
11 47 (5.59%) HTML
12 46 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (5.23%) OAuth
14 39 (4.64%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.16%) .NET Core
16 33 (3.92%) JSON
17 30 (3.57%) LangChain
18 28 (3.33%) Playwright
19 27 (3.21%) FastAPI
19 27 (3.21%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 252 (29.96%) Cloud Native
2 214 (25.45%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.28%) AI Agents
6 35 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (4.04%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (3.09%) Derivative
10 21 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
11 20 (2.38%) Virtual Team
12 18 (2.14%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.66%) Fixed Income
15 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
18 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.59%) Linux
2 26 (3.09%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (62.31%) CI/CD
2 390 (46.37%) DevOps
3 339 (40.31%) Agile
4 272 (32.34%) Event-Driven
5 263 (31.27%) Containerisation
6 227 (26.99%) Software Engineering
7 190 (22.59%) AI
8 182 (21.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 173 (20.57%) Observability
10 160 (19.02%) Test Automation
11 145 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 133 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 133 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (13.91%) Scrum
14 105 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
17 94 (11.18%) Integration Patterns
18 93 (11.06%) TDD
19 90 (10.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 380 (45.18%) Java
2 231 (27.47%) Python
3 206 (24.49%) SQL
4 158 (18.79%) TypeScript
5 136 (16.17%) JavaScript
6 113 (13.44%) C#
7 31 (3.69%) Go
8 23 (2.73%) Ruby
9 19 (2.26%) Bash
10 17 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.31%) Bicep
13 7 (0.83%) PHP
14 5 (0.59%) C++
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
14 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 197 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.35%) Degree
4 38 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.73%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.71%) CISSP
9 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.48%) PhD
12 3 (0.36%) GIAC
12 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.36%) MBA
13 2 (0.24%) CSPO
13 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.99%) QA
2 27 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.78%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 13 (1.55%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.43%) SEPA
8 11 (1.31%) GDPR
9 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.83%) SLA
10 6 (0.71%) PSD2
11 4 (0.48%) NCSC
11 4 (0.48%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 314 (37.34%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 308 (36.62%) Kubernetes
2 124 (14.74%) Terraform
3 57 (6.78%) Grafana
4 42 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 32 (3.80%) Ansible
6 10 (1.19%) Istio
7 9 (1.07%) Argo
7 9 (1.07%) Kibana
8 7 (0.83%) Puppet
8 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 63 (7.49%) Oracle
3 46 (5.47%) Google
4 24 (2.85%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.78%) IBM
6 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.78%) Splunk
7 12 (1.43%) New Relic
7 12 (1.43%) SAP
8 9 (1.07%) Confluent
8 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.95%) Sybase
10 7 (0.83%) Solace
11 6 (0.71%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.71%) Workday
12 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.59%) Veracode
13 4 (0.48%) Zscaler