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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 670 498 628
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.54% 3.67% 3.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 4.05% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 319 466
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £693
90th Percentile £749 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £65.80 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% -
75th Percentile £90.00 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +133.22% -48.80% -14.38%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -9 73 £525 -10.26% 100
South London -1 21 £537 +13.05% 9
West London -21 7 £550 +34.47% 15
East London +1 4 £563 -3.85% 14
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 32 (4.78%) Confluence
2 14 (2.09%) Apache
3 8 (1.19%) Camunda
4 6 (0.90%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.90%) CMS
4 6 (0.90%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.90%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.90%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.75%) Mule
6 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.45%) Drupal
6 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.45%) WordPress
7 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.30%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 343 (51.19%) AWS
2 235 (35.07%) Azure
3 118 (17.61%) Serverless
4 108 (16.12%) GCP
5 107 (15.97%) GitHub
6 76 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (8.21%) Amazon S3
10 54 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (6.57%) Azure AKS
12 36 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (3.88%) Entra ID
15 26 (3.88%) SaaS
16 25 (3.73%) Azure Functions
17 22 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.34%) HTTP
2 7 (1.04%) Network Security
3 6 (0.90%) DNS
4 5 (0.75%) SSL
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.79%) NoSQL
2 68 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (9.25%) MongoDB
4 51 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 47 (7.01%) Apache Cassandra
6 43 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (4.78%) MySQL
9 29 (4.33%) Redis
10 26 (3.88%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.99%) Big Data
12 18 (2.69%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (2.09%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (1.19%) DB2
17 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.04%) DocumentDB
17 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 93 (13.88%) Git
2 88 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.40%) GitLab
4 59 (8.81%) JIRA
5 42 (6.27%) JUnit
6 20 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 20 (2.99%) Mockito
7 16 (2.39%) Maven
8 14 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.09%) Selenium
9 12 (1.79%) SpecFlow
10 11 (1.64%) Postman
11 10 (1.49%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.04%) Gradle
12 7 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.90%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.90%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.90%) Zephyr
14 5 (0.75%) Gatling
General
1 190 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 163 (24.33%) Finance
3 116 (17.31%) Banking
4 59 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.69%) Front Office
6 18 (2.69%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.64%) Retail
10 9 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 5 (0.75%) Back Office
14 4 (0.60%) Military
14 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.30%) Aviation
15 2 (0.30%) Marketing
15 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (42.99%) Developer
2 152 (22.69%) Senior
3 108 (16.12%) Architect
4 98 (14.63%) Java Developer
5 87 (12.99%) Senior Developer
6 45 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 45 (6.72%) Solutions Architect
7 43 (6.42%) Java Engineer
7 43 (6.42%) Lead
8 38 (5.67%) C# Developer
9 37 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (5.37%) Senior Java Developer
11 33 (4.93%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.03%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.43%) Technical Architect
14 22 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.13%) Angular Developer
16 20 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.84%) .NET Developer
18 18 (2.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (25.07%) Spring
2 155 (23.13%) Kafka
3 153 (22.84%) Spring Boot
4 136 (20.30%) RESTful
5 119 (17.76%) REST
6 116 (17.31%) React
7 108 (16.12%) .NET
8 93 (13.88%) Node.js
9 91 (13.58%) AngularJS
10 45 (6.72%) Middleware
11 44 (6.57%) gRPC
12 37 (5.52%) HTML
13 35 (5.22%) .NET Core
14 32 (4.78%) CSS
15 31 (4.63%) OAuth
16 27 (4.03%) Vue
17 25 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
18 24 (3.58%) Entity Framework
18 24 (3.58%) Hibernate
18 24 (3.58%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 130 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 104 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.39%) Derivative
6 15 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.19%) NHS
13 7 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.22%) Linux
2 17 (2.54%) Unix
3 4 (0.60%) Windows
3 4 (0.60%) zOS
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 267 (39.85%) Agile
3 264 (39.40%) DevOps
4 171 (25.52%) Containerisation
5 158 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (20.90%) Software Engineering
7 105 (15.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 102 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 98 (14.63%) Event-Driven
10 93 (13.88%) Test Automation
11 82 (12.24%) TDD
12 72 (10.75%) Scrum
13 71 (10.60%) AI
14 70 (10.45%) SDLC
15 69 (10.30%) Observability
16 65 (9.70%) Code Quality
17 62 (9.25%) Clean Code
17 62 (9.25%) Design Patterns
18 58 (8.66%) Computer Science
19 57 (8.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 288 (42.99%) Java
2 163 (24.33%) SQL
3 154 (22.99%) Python
4 98 (14.63%) C#
5 96 (14.33%) JavaScript
6 84 (12.54%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.76%) Go
8 19 (2.84%) Bicep
9 14 (2.09%) Ruby
10 10 (1.49%) Bash
10 10 (1.49%) PHP
10 10 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.19%) C++
12 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.90%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.75%) Scala
14 4 (0.60%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 130 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.51%) Degree
4 41 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.09%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.75%) CCSP
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) CISSP
12 5 (0.75%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.01%) QA
2 19 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.24%) GDPR
4 12 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.34%) NIST
7 6 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.90%) PSD2
7 6 (0.90%) WCAG
8 4 (0.60%) SEPA
8 4 (0.60%) SLA
9 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) HL7
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 279 (41.64%) Docker
2 22 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 277 (41.34%) Kubernetes
2 120 (17.91%) Terraform
3 31 (4.63%) Grafana
4 23 (3.43%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.99%) Argo
6 15 (2.24%) Ansible
6 15 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.49%) Istio
8 7 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.75%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.30%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.30%) Knative
11 2 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.15%) Foglight
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (10.30%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.97%) Google
3 31 (4.63%) Oracle
4 24 (3.58%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.28%) Databricks
6 19 (2.84%) Splunk
7 11 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 10 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.49%) Software AG
9 9 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.90%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.90%) Confluent
10 6 (0.90%) Foundry
10 6 (0.90%) Palantir
10 6 (0.90%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.75%) IBM
11 5 (0.75%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.75%) Sybase
12 4 (0.60%) New Relic