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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 720 597 750
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.07% 3.75% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.50% 4.19% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 390 559
10th Percentile £375 £406 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £736 £800 £778
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £67.35 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.13% -48.00% +38.25%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £40.08 £75.77
% change year-on-year +68.42% -47.10% +3.79%

All Process and 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 13,093 14,255 17,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 89.59% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,612 9,195 12,635
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 174 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.24 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +8 79 £569 -7.07% 75
South London +5 19 £530 +0.95% 8
East London +10 9 £540 -6.90% 6
West London -17 9 £475 +4.51% 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 55 (7.64%) Confluence
2 22 (3.06%) Apache
3 13 (1.81%) CMS
4 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.97%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.69%) Camunda
6 4 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.28%) CICS
8 2 (0.28%) IIS
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
9 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.56%) Endur
4 4 (0.56%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.14%) Eikon
7 1 (0.14%) Magento
7 1 (0.14%) RMDS
7 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 363 (50.42%) AWS
2 242 (33.61%) Azure
3 130 (18.06%) Serverless
4 111 (15.42%) GCP
5 107 (14.86%) GitHub
6 71 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (7.22%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.25%) Azure AKS
11 42 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (2.78%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.22%) SSL
2 6 (0.83%) HTTP
2 6 (0.83%) Network Security
3 5 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
6 1 (0.14%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) MQTT
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) SAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (9.72%) NoSQL
3 65 (9.03%) SQL Server
4 55 (7.64%) MongoDB
5 48 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (4.17%) MySQL
8 28 (3.89%) Big Data
9 23 (3.19%) Redis
10 21 (2.92%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.78%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.39%) DB2
14 10 (1.39%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.97%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.97%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (12.64%) Git
2 82 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 78 (10.83%) JIRA
4 54 (7.50%) GitLab
5 45 (6.25%) JUnit
6 25 (3.47%) Mockito
7 22 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 22 (3.06%) Maven
8 20 (2.78%) Postman
9 18 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 18 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.50%) Selenium
10 14 (1.94%) SpecFlow
11 10 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 9 (1.25%) Gradle
12 9 (1.25%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.11%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.11%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.83%) Liquibase
General
1 222 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 180 (25.00%) Finance
3 117 (16.25%) Banking
4 70 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.75%) Front Office
7 23 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.81%) Back Office
8 13 (1.81%) Retail
8 13 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.11%) Military
11 6 (0.83%) Automotive
11 6 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.83%) Legal
12 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Marketing
13 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.28%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 317 (44.03%) Developer
2 164 (22.78%) Senior
3 134 (18.61%) Architect
4 124 (17.22%) Java Developer
5 84 (11.67%) Senior Developer
6 49 (6.81%) Lead
7 44 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 40 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 38 (5.28%) C# Developer
9 38 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
10 36 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 32 (4.44%) Angular Developer
11 32 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 31 (4.31%) Technical Architect
13 24 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.33%) Backend Developer
13 24 (3.33%) Senior Architect
14 22 (3.06%) Lead Developer
15 21 (2.92%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (22.92%) Spring
2 156 (21.67%) Kafka
3 149 (20.69%) Spring Boot
4 144 (20.00%) REST
5 138 (19.17%) RESTful
6 128 (17.78%) React
7 119 (16.53%) .NET
8 108 (15.00%) AngularJS
9 98 (13.61%) Node.js
10 55 (7.64%) HTML
11 48 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.56%) JSON
13 38 (5.28%) CSS
14 34 (4.72%) .NET Core
14 34 (4.72%) .NET Framework
14 34 (4.72%) Web Services
15 33 (4.58%) gRPC
15 33 (4.58%) SOAP
16 31 (4.31%) OAuth
17 26 (3.61%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 139 (19.31%) Cloud Native
2 106 (14.72%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.36%) Derivative
5 17 (2.36%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.25%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.11%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.11%) NHS
13 7 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.97%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.47%) Linux
2 15 (2.08%) Unix
3 5 (0.69%) Android
4 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.42%) Windows
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (48.89%) CI/CD
2 343 (47.64%) Agile
3 274 (38.06%) DevOps
4 175 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
5 160 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 140 (19.44%) Software Engineering
7 110 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 109 (15.14%) Event-Driven
9 102 (14.17%) Test Automation
10 101 (14.03%) Scrum
11 100 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 91 (12.64%) TDD
13 71 (9.86%) SDLC
14 70 (9.72%) Design Patterns
15 69 (9.58%) Code Quality
16 65 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (8.89%) API Design
18 63 (8.75%) AI
18 63 (8.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 61 (8.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 321 (44.58%) Java
2 164 (22.78%) Python
3 156 (21.67%) SQL
4 120 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 117 (16.25%) C#
6 103 (14.31%) TypeScript
7 55 (7.64%) Go
8 19 (2.64%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.08%) Bash
10 14 (1.94%) Bicep
11 12 (1.67%) C++
12 9 (1.25%) PHP
12 9 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.25%) Ruby
12 9 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.83%) Groovy
13 6 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.83%) Scala
14 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 140 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.22%) Degree
4 33 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.69%) CISSP
11 5 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.42%) CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.78%) QA
2 18 (2.50%) GDPR
3 16 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.83%) MiFID
5 6 (0.83%) WCAG
6 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.56%) HL7
7 4 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 257 (35.69%) Docker
2 22 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 279 (38.75%) Kubernetes
2 125 (17.36%) Terraform
3 30 (4.17%) Grafana
4 25 (3.47%) Ansible
5 22 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.67%) Argo
8 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.56%) Istio
9 4 (0.56%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.28%) WMI
12 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.14%) Control-M
12 1 (0.14%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) Knative
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.83%) Oracle
3 40 (5.56%) Google
4 26 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.33%) Databricks
5 24 (3.33%) Splunk
6 19 (2.64%) OpenAI
7 14 (1.94%) HP
8 12 (1.67%) BMC
8 12 (1.67%) Ivanti
8 12 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.67%) Remedy
9 11 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
11 9 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.25%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.25%) Foundry
11 9 (1.25%) Palantir
12 8 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.11%) Red Hat