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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 46 52
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 837 687 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 5.04% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.47% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 479 501
10th Percentile £407 £390 £410
25th Percentile £463 £456 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £775
England median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.55% -12.70%
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 £43.69
% change year-on-year -2.99% +53.35% -39.74%

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 17,809 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £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 294 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 4 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 4 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 -5 99 £555 -4.31% 83
South London -17 23 £550 +3.77% 4
East London +5 9 £432 +12.21% 7
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 28 (3.35%) CMS
2 23 (2.75%) Confluence
3 20 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.19%) Apache
4 10 (1.19%) Camunda
4 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
6 6 (0.72%) Ethereum
7 5 (0.60%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
3 5 (0.60%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 413 (49.34%) AWS
2 312 (37.28%) Azure
3 153 (18.28%) GCP
4 150 (17.92%) GitHub
5 110 (13.14%) Serverless
6 92 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
7 88 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (6.21%) Amazon S3
10 50 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.70%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.99%) OpenShift
16 24 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.63%) Power Platform
17 22 (2.63%) SaaS
18 21 (2.51%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) VPN
2 6 (0.72%) HTTP
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) 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 97 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (9.44%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.09%) MongoDB
4 50 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.78%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.58%) DynamoDB
7 29 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (3.46%) Redis
8 22 (2.63%) Power BI
9 21 (2.51%) MySQL
10 17 (2.03%) Big Data
11 16 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.31%) Flink
14 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 142 (16.97%) Git
2 132 (15.77%) Jenkins
3 84 (10.04%) GitLab
4 51 (6.09%) JUnit
5 36 (4.30%) Mockito
6 34 (4.06%) Gradle
6 34 (4.06%) JIRA
7 32 (3.82%) Maven
8 24 (2.87%) Postman
9 20 (2.39%) Cypress.io
10 19 (2.27%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.91%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.67%) JMeter
13 12 (1.43%) Cucumber
14 11 (1.31%) Selenium
15 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.19%) TeamCity
15 10 (1.19%) Vite
16 9 (1.08%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 236 (28.20%) Finance
2 205 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 130 (15.53%) Banking
4 103 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 75 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.46%) Front Office
7 27 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 24 (2.87%) Marketing
9 22 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.63%) Retail
10 21 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.03%) Law
12 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.31%) Legal
14 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 277 (33.09%) Developer
2 179 (21.39%) Senior
3 163 (19.47%) Architect
4 114 (13.62%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.32%) Software Engineer
6 77 (9.20%) Lead
7 75 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 59 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 44 (5.26%) Java Engineer
10 40 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 36 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 34 (4.06%) Analyst
13 33 (3.94%) Technical Architect
14 32 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 28 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (3.23%) .NET Developer
16 27 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.23%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (25.45%) Spring
2 191 (22.82%) REST
3 186 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 180 (21.51%) Kafka
5 161 (19.24%) RESTful
6 148 (17.68%) React
7 108 (12.90%) .NET
8 93 (11.11%) Node.js
9 57 (6.81%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.09%) CSS
11 48 (5.73%) HTML
12 41 (4.90%) OAuth
12 41 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
13 36 (4.30%) OAuth2
14 32 (3.82%) JSON
15 31 (3.70%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.23%) LangChain
16 27 (3.23%) Playwright
17 26 (3.11%) FastAPI
17 26 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 237 (28.32%) Cloud Native
2 208 (24.85%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (9.20%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
5 32 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 32 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 26 (3.11%) Derivative
8 24 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.39%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.15%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.67%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
15 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.26%) Linux
2 20 (2.39%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 370 (44.21%) DevOps
3 344 (41.10%) Agile
4 270 (32.26%) Containerisation
5 255 (30.47%) Event-Driven
6 224 (26.76%) Software Engineering
7 186 (22.22%) AI
8 171 (20.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 162 (19.35%) Observability
10 155 (18.52%) Test Automation
11 142 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 136 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (14.58%) Scrum
15 100 (11.95%) TDD
16 99 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
17 98 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (10.99%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (10.75%) Code Quality
20 86 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 365 (43.61%) Java
2 227 (27.12%) Python
3 202 (24.13%) SQL
4 161 (19.24%) TypeScript
5 131 (15.65%) JavaScript
6 111 (13.26%) C#
7 32 (3.82%) Go
8 24 (2.87%) Ruby
9 18 (2.15%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.03%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.79%) Bash
12 14 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.43%) Bicep
14 8 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.84%) PHP
16 6 (0.72%) Scala
16 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.60%) C++
17 5 (0.60%) Solidity
18 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 162 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.50%) Degree
4 38 (4.54%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
12 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.72%) CISSP
14 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.48%) PhD
16 3 (0.36%) GIAC
16 3 (0.36%) MBA
17 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.24%) OSCP
18 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.20%) QA
2 33 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.15%) ISO 20022
4 16 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.79%) SEPA
6 13 (1.55%) GDPR
6 13 (1.55%) NIST
7 11 (1.31%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.08%) PSD2
9 7 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.48%) WCAG
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 313 (37.40%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) 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
1 299 (35.72%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.62%) Terraform
3 56 (6.69%) Grafana
4 44 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.58%) Ansible
6 10 (1.19%) Kibana
7 8 (0.96%) Argo
7 8 (0.96%) Istio
7 8 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.84%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
11 2 (0.24%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.24%) 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 91 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.69%) Oracle
3 40 (4.78%) Google
4 26 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.79%) IBM
6 15 (1.79%) Splunk
7 14 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.19%) New Relic
8 10 (1.19%) SAP
9 9 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.08%) Solace
10 8 (0.96%) Sybase
11 6 (0.72%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.72%) Confluent
11 6 (0.72%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.60%) Workday
13 4 (0.48%) Databricks
13 4 (0.48%) Veracode