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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 49 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 843 660 717
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.24% 4.87% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 5.29% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 454 521
10th Percentile £403 £388 £400
25th Percentile £461 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £695
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £38.30 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £43.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +28.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £49.19
% change year-on-year +13.43% +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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -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 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 18 July 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 18 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 -14 92 £555 -5.13% 39
South London -17 22 £545 +2.67% 2
East London +4 9 £432 +12.21% 8
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 25 (2.97%) CMS
2 22 (2.61%) Confluence
3 20 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.66%) Camunda
5 12 (1.42%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.30%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.95%) nginx
9 7 (0.83%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.71%) Mule
11 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.24%) Drupal
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) 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 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.71%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.59%) Quorum
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
5 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 426 (50.53%) AWS
2 311 (36.89%) Azure
3 153 (18.15%) GCP
4 142 (16.84%) GitHub
5 110 (13.05%) Serverless
6 91 (10.79%) GitHub Actions
7 87 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (6.64%) Amazon S3
10 52 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
12 43 (5.10%) Amazon SQS
13 36 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.68%) Azure AKS
15 26 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (2.85%) OpenShift
17 24 (2.85%) SaaS
18 20 (2.37%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 6 (0.71%) VPN
3 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.24%) 4G
3 2 (0.24%) 5G
3 2 (0.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.24%) FTP
3 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.24%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) LTE
3 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) NaaS
4 1 (0.12%) RFID
4 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (9.61%) NoSQL
3 53 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 51 (6.05%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.86%) Relational Database
6 31 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.56%) DynamoDB
8 28 (3.32%) Redis
9 24 (2.85%) MySQL
10 20 (2.37%) Power BI
11 18 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
11 18 (2.14%) Big Data
12 16 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.30%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.30%) Flink
15 10 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 150 (17.79%) Git
2 128 (15.18%) Jenkins
3 82 (9.73%) GitLab
4 60 (7.12%) JUnit
5 39 (4.63%) JIRA
6 37 (4.39%) Mockito
7 35 (4.15%) Gradle
8 33 (3.91%) Maven
9 24 (2.85%) Postman
10 18 (2.14%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.02%) Cucumber
11 17 (2.02%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.78%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.66%) Selenium
14 12 (1.42%) Vite
15 11 (1.30%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.30%) TeamCity
16 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.95%) JMeter
17 8 (0.95%) MSTest
General
1 230 (27.28%) Finance
2 200 (23.72%) Social Skills
3 131 (15.54%) Banking
4 103 (12.22%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.20%) Front Office
6 27 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.73%) Marketing
8 19 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.02%) Law
11 16 (1.90%) Retail
12 13 (1.54%) Legal
13 12 (1.42%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.30%) Billing
15 10 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 284 (33.69%) Developer
2 171 (20.28%) Senior
3 157 (18.62%) Architect
4 117 (13.88%) Java Developer
5 84 (9.96%) Lead
6 78 (9.25%) Software Engineer
7 74 (8.78%) Senior Developer
8 55 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
9 50 (5.93%) Java Engineer
10 42 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.03%) Analyst
14 33 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
15 32 (3.80%) Technical Architect
16 30 (3.56%) Backend Developer
17 28 (3.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 26 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
18 26 (3.08%) C# Developer
18 26 (3.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (26.57%) Spring
2 198 (23.49%) Spring Boot
3 192 (22.78%) REST
4 180 (21.35%) Kafka
5 165 (19.57%) RESTful
6 150 (17.79%) React
7 108 (12.81%) .NET
8 91 (10.79%) Node.js
9 68 (8.07%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.05%) CSS
11 48 (5.69%) HTML
12 42 (4.98%) OAuth
13 37 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
14 34 (4.03%) OAuth2
15 32 (3.80%) Middleware
16 28 (3.32%) Playwright
17 27 (3.20%) .NET Core
17 27 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (3.08%) JSON
19 25 (2.97%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 199 (23.61%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (8.78%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 27 (3.20%) Onboarding
7 26 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 26 (3.08%) Derivative
8 23 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (2.61%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.02%) Data Structures
13 16 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.66%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.30%) Public Cloud
16 10 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 9 (1.07%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.17%) Linux
2 19 (2.25%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) 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
1 501 (59.43%) CI/CD
2 364 (43.18%) DevOps
3 343 (40.69%) Agile
4 259 (30.72%) Containerisation
5 231 (27.40%) Event-Driven
6 222 (26.33%) Software Engineering
7 172 (20.40%) AI
8 151 (17.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 150 (17.79%) Observability
9 150 (17.79%) Test Automation
10 140 (16.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 131 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (15.18%) Scrum
13 102 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (12.10%) TDD
14 95 (11.27%) Code Quality
15 88 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
16 80 (9.49%) API Design
17 78 (9.25%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 384 (45.55%) Java
2 228 (27.05%) Python
3 204 (24.20%) SQL
4 160 (18.98%) TypeScript
5 131 (15.54%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.29%) C#
7 37 (4.39%) Go
8 26 (3.08%) Ruby
9 17 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.78%) Bash
11 14 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.30%) Bicep
13 9 (1.07%) PHP
14 7 (0.83%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.71%) Scala
15 6 (0.71%) Solidity
16 5 (0.59%) C++
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 186 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 166 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.93%) Degree
4 38 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (4.39%) AWS Certification
6 26 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.71%) CISSP
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 3 (0.36%) GIAC
15 3 (0.36%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.24%) OSCP
17 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.90%) QA
2 34 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.14%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.66%) GDPR
4 14 (1.66%) NIST
4 14 (1.66%) SEPA
5 12 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.07%) PSD2
7 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) SLA
9 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 314 (37.25%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 303 (35.94%) Kubernetes
2 112 (13.29%) Terraform
3 59 (7.00%) Grafana
4 47 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.44%) Ansible
6 10 (1.19%) Kibana
6 10 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.95%) Istio
8 7 (0.83%) Argo
8 7 (0.83%) Puppet
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 92 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.88%) Oracle
3 34 (4.03%) Google
4 22 (2.61%) OpenAI
5 16 (1.90%) IBM
6 15 (1.78%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.78%) Splunk
7 10 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.07%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.07%) Sybase
9 8 (0.95%) SAP
9 8 (0.95%) Solace
10 6 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.71%) Confluent
10 6 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.71%) Software AG
11 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.59%) New Relic
12 4 (0.47%) Jaspersoft