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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -18
Contract jobs citing Microservices 768 525 656
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 4.13% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.49% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 362 479
10th Percentile £381 £400 £425
25th Percentile £433 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -3.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.13 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £49.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +49.27% +2.73% -33.20%

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 15,531 11,694 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.87% 91.98% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,392 7,939 11,222
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £755 £806 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 167 333
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.39 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.55 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £66.95
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

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 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -15 87 £530 -9.40% 90
South London -15 29 £530 +11.58% 4
West London -26 7 £550 +34.47% 7
East London 0 6 £432 +3.47% 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 19 (2.47%) Confluence
2 13 (1.69%) Apache
3 12 (1.56%) CMS
4 10 (1.30%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.30%) Camunda
5 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.65%) Mule
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) nginx
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 410 (53.39%) AWS
2 290 (37.76%) Azure
3 132 (17.19%) GCP
4 127 (16.54%) Serverless
5 120 (15.63%) GitHub
6 88 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
8 69 (8.98%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (8.46%) Amazon S3
10 59 (7.68%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (6.38%) Azure AKS
12 43 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (4.43%) SaaS
17 29 (3.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (3.65%) Entra ID
19 26 (3.39%) PaaS
20 24 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) DNS
2 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 5 (0.65%) VPN
3 4 (0.52%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (10.94%) NoSQL
2 73 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 41 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 37 (4.82%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.56%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.30%) Redis
9 32 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 29 (3.78%) MySQL
11 17 (2.21%) BigQuery
12 16 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.30%) Big Data
16 9 (1.17%) Power BI
17 7 (0.91%) DocumentDB
17 7 (0.91%) Flink
17 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.91%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 116 (15.10%) Git
2 101 (13.15%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.11%) GitLab
4 46 (5.99%) JUnit
5 44 (5.73%) JIRA
6 32 (4.17%) Mockito
7 19 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.08%) Postman
9 14 (1.82%) Maven
10 13 (1.69%) Bitbucket
11 12 (1.56%) Gradle
12 11 (1.43%) Liquibase
13 10 (1.30%) Selenium
13 10 (1.30%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.04%) Vite
15 7 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.78%) Gatling
16 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 182 (23.70%) Finance
2 180 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 115 (14.97%) Banking
4 85 (11.07%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.73%) Front Office
7 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.69%) Retail
10 12 (1.56%) Legal
10 12 (1.56%) Marketing
11 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.78%) Law
13 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.52%) Billing
14 4 (0.52%) Police
15 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 280 (36.46%) Developer
2 169 (22.01%) Senior
3 137 (17.84%) Architect
4 101 (13.15%) Java Developer
5 79 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.81%) Lead
7 52 (6.77%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
9 44 (5.73%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.56%) Technical Architect
12 34 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
13 30 (3.91%) Backend Developer
13 30 (3.91%) Senior Java Developer
14 29 (3.78%) Analyst
15 25 (3.26%) C# Developer
16 24 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
18 21 (2.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (26.82%) Spring
2 186 (24.22%) Spring Boot
3 162 (21.09%) Kafka
4 148 (19.27%) RESTful
5 127 (16.54%) REST
6 126 (16.41%) React
7 103 (13.41%) Node.js
8 99 (12.89%) .NET
9 84 (10.94%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.16%) Middleware
11 38 (4.95%) gRPC
11 38 (4.95%) OAuth
12 37 (4.82%) CSS
12 37 (4.82%) HTML
13 30 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
14 28 (3.65%) .NET Core
15 24 (3.13%) OAuth2
15 24 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (3.13%) Vue
15 24 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (21.09%) Cloud Native
2 147 (19.14%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.47%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 25 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.47%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.82%) Derivative
10 13 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.30%) NHS
14 9 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.86%) Linux
2 14 (1.82%) Unix
3 7 (0.91%) Windows
4 4 (0.52%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (55.08%) CI/CD
2 334 (43.49%) DevOps
3 281 (36.59%) Agile
4 228 (29.69%) Containerisation
5 186 (24.22%) Software Engineering
6 149 (19.40%) Event-Driven
7 147 (19.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 126 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (16.15%) AI
10 123 (16.02%) Observability
11 110 (14.32%) Test Automation
12 104 (13.54%) TDD
13 97 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 90 (11.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 86 (11.20%) Code Quality
16 81 (10.55%) Scrum
17 69 (8.98%) Migration
17 69 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
18 66 (8.59%) Integration Patterns
19 65 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 334 (43.49%) Java
2 207 (26.95%) Python
3 180 (23.44%) SQL
4 109 (14.19%) TypeScript
5 93 (12.11%) JavaScript
6 84 (10.94%) C#
7 44 (5.73%) Go
8 23 (2.99%) Ruby
9 17 (2.21%) Bicep
10 12 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) Bash
13 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.78%) C++
14 6 (0.78%) PHP
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (21.61%) Security Cleared
2 143 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.90%) Degree
4 41 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) CISSP
10 5 (0.65%) OSCP
10 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.39%) MBA
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.94%) QA
2 28 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.08%) GDPR
4 14 (1.82%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.69%) NIST
6 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.30%) PSD2
8 9 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.04%) SEPA
10 7 (0.91%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.78%) WCAG
12 5 (0.65%) SLA
13 4 (0.52%) HL7
13 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
15 2 (0.26%) GRC
15 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
15 2 (0.26%) NCSC
15 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 302 (39.32%) Docker
2 23 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 293 (38.15%) Kubernetes
2 124 (16.15%) Terraform
3 49 (6.38%) Grafana
4 37 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.82%) Istio
6 13 (1.69%) Ansible
6 13 (1.69%) Argo
7 12 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.39%) Rancher
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Kibana
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 85 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.47%) Oracle
3 34 (4.43%) Google
4 31 (4.04%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.47%) Databricks
6 16 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.08%) Splunk
7 13 (1.69%) Software AG
8 11 (1.43%) IBM
9 10 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
10 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.78%) SAP
11 6 (0.78%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.65%) Sybase