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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 48 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 827 663 708
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 4.89% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.31% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 461 515
10th Percentile £407 £388 £402
25th Percentile £463 £450 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -13.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £38.30 £45.10
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £67.00 £49.19
% change year-on-year +11.94% +36.21% -32.15%

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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -16 92 £555 -5.13% 65
South London -18 22 £545 +2.43% 3
East London +3 9 £432 +12.21% 9
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 (3.14%) CMS
2 21 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.54%) Confluence
3 10 (1.21%) Apache
3 10 (1.21%) Camunda
3 10 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.97%) Ethereum
4 8 (0.97%) nginx
5 7 (0.85%) Hyperledger
6 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.48%) Mule
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.24%) Drupal
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.73%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
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 (49.94%) AWS
2 312 (37.73%) Azure
3 158 (19.11%) GCP
4 144 (17.41%) GitHub
5 110 (13.30%) Serverless
6 90 (10.88%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
9 52 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (6.29%) Amazon S3
10 48 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.75%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (2.90%) SaaS
16 22 (2.66%) OpenShift
17 21 (2.54%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.97%) HTTP
2 7 (0.85%) VPN
3 6 (0.73%) Network Security
4 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) Firewall
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%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) RFID
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (9.43%) NoSQL
3 49 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 48 (5.80%) MongoDB
5 42 (5.08%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.63%) DynamoDB
7 29 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.26%) Redis
9 23 (2.78%) MySQL
10 20 (2.42%) Power BI
11 19 (2.30%) Big Data
12 17 (2.06%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.33%) Flink
16 10 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.85%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 147 (17.78%) Git
2 128 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 82 (9.92%) GitLab
4 55 (6.65%) JUnit
5 36 (4.35%) Mockito
6 34 (4.11%) Gradle
7 33 (3.99%) JIRA
8 32 (3.87%) Maven
9 24 (2.90%) Postman
10 19 (2.30%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.06%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.81%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.81%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.69%) Selenium
14 11 (1.33%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.33%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.33%) Vite
15 10 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.97%) JMeter
16 8 (0.97%) MSTest
General
1 230 (27.81%) Finance
2 197 (23.82%) Social Skills
3 128 (15.48%) Banking
4 104 (12.58%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.26%) Front Office
6 27 (3.26%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.78%) Marketing
8 19 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.18%) Retail
10 17 (2.06%) Law
11 12 (1.45%) Legal
11 12 (1.45%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.33%) Billing
12 11 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 275 (33.25%) Developer
2 167 (20.19%) Senior
3 158 (19.11%) Architect
4 113 (13.66%) Java Developer
5 80 (9.67%) Lead
6 73 (8.83%) Software Engineer
7 71 (8.59%) Senior Developer
8 56 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 41 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
10 41 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (3.99%) Analyst
13 32 (3.87%) Technical Architect
14 31 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 31 (3.75%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.26%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.02%) C# Developer
17 25 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (26.12%) Spring
2 190 (22.97%) Spring Boot
3 185 (22.37%) REST
4 176 (21.28%) Kafka
5 159 (19.23%) RESTful
6 147 (17.78%) React
7 106 (12.82%) .NET
8 90 (10.88%) Node.js
9 62 (7.50%) AngularJS
10 52 (6.29%) CSS
11 49 (5.93%) HTML
12 42 (5.08%) OAuth
13 38 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (4.35%) OAuth2
15 32 (3.87%) JSON
16 29 (3.51%) LangChain
16 29 (3.51%) Middleware
16 29 (3.51%) Playwright
17 27 (3.26%) .NET Core
17 27 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 225 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 199 (24.06%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.59%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.99%) AI Agents
6 30 (3.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (3.26%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 26 (3.14%) Derivative
9 23 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.30%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.81%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 9 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.56%) Linux
2 19 (2.30%) Unix
3 9 (1.09%) Windows
4 7 (0.85%) 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
1 502 (60.70%) CI/CD
2 365 (44.14%) DevOps
3 333 (40.27%) Agile
4 266 (32.16%) Containerisation
5 236 (28.54%) Event-Driven
6 217 (26.24%) Software Engineering
7 180 (21.77%) AI
8 156 (18.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 154 (18.62%) Observability
9 154 (18.62%) Test Automation
10 142 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 130 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
13 121 (14.63%) Scrum
14 99 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 99 (11.97%) TDD
15 89 (10.76%) Code Quality
15 89 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (9.67%) Integration Patterns
16 80 (9.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 371 (44.86%) Java
2 231 (27.93%) Python
3 200 (24.18%) SQL
4 156 (18.86%) TypeScript
5 131 (15.84%) JavaScript
6 110 (13.30%) C#
7 35 (4.23%) Go
8 25 (3.02%) Ruby
9 17 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.81%) Bash
10 15 (1.81%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.45%) Bicep
13 9 (1.09%) PHP
14 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.73%) Solidity
16 5 (0.60%) C++
16 5 (0.60%) Scala
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 182 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 161 (19.47%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.29%) Degree
4 37 (4.47%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.14%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.73%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
16 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.95%) QA
2 34 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.30%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.81%) GDPR
4 15 (1.81%) NIST
5 14 (1.69%) SEPA
6 13 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.09%) PSD2
8 4 (0.48%) WCAG
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
9 3 (0.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 313 (37.85%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) 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
1 303 (36.64%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.78%) Terraform
3 58 (7.01%) Grafana
4 47 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.51%) Ansible
6 10 (1.21%) Kibana
7 9 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.97%) Istio
9 7 (0.85%) Argo
9 7 (0.85%) Puppet
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.24%) Rancher
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.12%) linkerd
13 1 (0.12%) Packer
13 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (11.12%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.77%) Oracle
3 41 (4.96%) Google
4 28 (3.39%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.81%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.81%) IBM
5 15 (1.81%) Splunk
6 12 (1.45%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.09%) SAP
7 9 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.09%) Sybase
8 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft
8 8 (0.97%) Solace
9 6 (0.73%) Confluent
10 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.60%) New Relic
10 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
10 5 (0.60%) Software AG
10 5 (0.60%) Workday