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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 53
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 836 660 723
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 4.88% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 5.29% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 458 526
10th Percentile £402 £389 £408
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £692
90th Percentile £764 £800 £775
England median daily rate £533 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.43% -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £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 £96.88 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £66.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +19.70% +43.85% -36.72%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -13 88 £533 -8.97% 52
South London -18 20 £541 +5.02% 2
East London +5 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 25 (2.99%) CMS
2 22 (2.63%) Confluence
3 20 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.56%) Camunda
5 12 (1.44%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.32%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.20%) Apache
7 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.96%) nginx
9 7 (0.84%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.72%) Mule
11 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.48%) 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 (0.48%) 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 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.72%) 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 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
1 429 (51.32%) AWS
2 302 (36.12%) Azure
3 149 (17.82%) GCP
4 138 (16.51%) GitHub
5 110 (13.16%) Serverless
6 88 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (6.82%) Amazon S3
10 53 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
13 39 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.71%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.99%) SaaS
17 21 (2.51%) OpenShift
18 20 (2.39%) Power Platform
19 19 (2.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.56%) HTTP
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
2 6 (0.72%) VPN
3 3 (0.36%) 3GPP
3 3 (0.36%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) 5G NR
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 54 (6.46%) MongoDB
4 51 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 42 (5.02%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (3.47%) DynamoDB
7 29 (3.47%) Redis
8 25 (2.99%) MySQL
9 21 (2.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 20 (2.39%) Power BI
11 18 (2.15%) Big Data
12 16 (1.91%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.32%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.32%) Flink
15 10 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 146 (17.46%) Git
2 126 (15.07%) Jenkins
3 81 (9.69%) GitLab
4 59 (7.06%) JUnit
5 39 (4.67%) JIRA
6 37 (4.43%) Mockito
7 34 (4.07%) Gradle
8 32 (3.83%) Maven
9 24 (2.87%) Postman
10 17 (2.03%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.91%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.79%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.67%) Cypress.io
14 12 (1.44%) Selenium
15 11 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
15 11 (1.32%) TeamCity
15 11 (1.32%) Vite
16 9 (1.08%) REST Assured
17 8 (0.96%) JMeter
17 8 (0.96%) MSTest
General
1 229 (27.39%) Finance
2 195 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 131 (15.67%) Banking
4 103 (12.32%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.35%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.11%) Front Office
8 23 (2.75%) Marketing
9 18 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.03%) Law
11 16 (1.91%) Retail
12 13 (1.56%) Legal
13 12 (1.44%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.32%) Billing
15 10 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Local Government
18 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 278 (33.25%) Developer
2 166 (19.86%) Senior
3 157 (18.78%) Architect
4 116 (13.88%) Java Developer
5 82 (9.81%) Lead
6 80 (9.57%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.25%) Senior Developer
8 55 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.46%) Java Engineer
10 41 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 34 (4.07%) Analyst
14 32 (3.83%) Technical Architect
15 30 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
16 29 (3.47%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (3.11%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.11%) Python Developer
18 25 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (26.91%) Spring
2 199 (23.80%) Spring Boot
3 185 (22.13%) REST
4 179 (21.41%) Kafka
5 162 (19.38%) RESTful
6 143 (17.11%) React
7 103 (12.32%) .NET
8 90 (10.77%) Node.js
9 65 (7.78%) AngularJS
10 46 (5.50%) CSS
11 44 (5.26%) HTML
12 41 (4.90%) OAuth
13 36 (4.31%) RabbitMQ
14 33 (3.95%) OAuth2
15 31 (3.71%) Middleware
16 26 (3.11%) JSON
16 26 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (2.99%) .NET Core
17 25 (2.99%) FastAPI
17 25 (2.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 196 (23.44%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.49%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (3.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (3.47%) Onboarding
7 27 (3.23%) Derivative
8 24 (2.87%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.39%) Virtual Team
11 18 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.67%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.10%) Linux
2 18 (2.15%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 7 (0.84%) 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
8 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (58.13%) CI/CD
2 355 (42.46%) DevOps
3 335 (40.07%) Agile
4 259 (30.98%) Containerisation
5 232 (27.75%) Event-Driven
6 220 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 165 (19.74%) AI
8 150 (17.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 147 (17.58%) Observability
10 141 (16.87%) Test Automation
11 140 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 126 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
13 125 (14.95%) Scrum
14 122 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 100 (11.96%) TDD
16 98 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 88 (10.53%) Code Quality
18 84 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
19 81 (9.69%) API Design
20 78 (9.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 387 (46.29%) Java
2 229 (27.39%) Python
3 197 (23.56%) SQL
4 156 (18.66%) TypeScript
5 127 (15.19%) JavaScript
6 107 (12.80%) C#
7 37 (4.43%) Go
8 26 (3.11%) Ruby
9 17 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.79%) Bash
11 13 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.32%) Bicep
14 8 (0.96%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.84%) Scala
15 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.72%) Solidity
17 5 (0.60%) C++
18 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 187 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 166 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.86%) Degree
4 37 (4.43%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.11%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
16 1 (0.12%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.73%) QA
2 33 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.15%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.67%) GDPR
4 14 (1.67%) NIST
4 14 (1.67%) SEPA
5 11 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.08%) PSD2
7 8 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.36%) NCSC
8 3 (0.36%) SLA
8 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
8 3 (0.36%) WCAG
9 2 (0.24%) GRC
9 2 (0.24%) HL7
9 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (37.20%) Docker
2 8 (0.96%) 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
1 304 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 113 (13.52%) Terraform
3 59 (7.06%) Grafana
4 47 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.23%) Ansible
6 10 (1.20%) Kibana
6 10 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.96%) Istio
8 7 (0.84%) Argo
8 7 (0.84%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) 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 91 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.70%) Oracle
3 34 (4.07%) Google
4 22 (2.63%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.79%) IBM
5 15 (1.79%) Splunk
6 11 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 9 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.08%) Sybase
8 8 (0.96%) SAP
8 8 (0.96%) Solace
9 6 (0.72%) Atlassian
9 6 (0.72%) Confluent
9 6 (0.72%) Red Hat
9 6 (0.72%) Software AG
10 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.60%) New Relic
11 4 (0.48%) Jaspersoft