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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 848 678 672
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 5.03% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.44% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 462 472
10th Percentile £412 £413 £410
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -2.13% -6.75%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £759 £775
England median daily rate £533 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +0.47% -7.83% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £54.95 £36.72
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £38.16
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +94.39% -50.12%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.99
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -44.67%

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 18,051 12,472 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.78% 92.51% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 8,235 9,567
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £671 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 247 185
10th Percentile £16.21 £17.62 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.02 £24.15
Median hourly rate £33.30 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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 26 September 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
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 26 September 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 -18 97 £555 -5.13% 110
South London -5 23 £535 -13.99% 13
East London 0 6 £625 +15.74% 7
West London -30 3 £500 +5.26% 36
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 34 (4.01%) Confluence
2 24 (2.83%) CMS
3 21 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 19 (2.24%) Camunda
5 12 (1.42%) Apache
6 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.59%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Quorum
3 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 415 (48.94%) AWS
2 317 (37.38%) Azure
3 156 (18.40%) GitHub
4 153 (18.04%) GCP
5 102 (12.03%) Serverless
6 95 (11.20%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.90%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.66%) Amazon S3
11 48 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (3.89%) OpenShift
14 31 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (3.18%) GitHub Copilot
16 26 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (2.95%) Amazon EventBridge
17 25 (2.95%) SaaS
18 24 (2.83%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.09%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (10.02%) NoSQL
3 60 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 56 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 51 (6.01%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.25%) MySQL
7 28 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (2.95%) Redis
9 23 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.36%) Power BI
11 18 (2.12%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.00%) Big Data
13 14 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.18%) Flink
16 8 (0.94%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (0.83%) Metadata
17 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 158 (18.63%) Jenkins
2 145 (17.10%) Git
3 107 (12.62%) GitLab
4 51 (6.01%) JUnit
5 44 (5.19%) Maven
6 43 (5.07%) JIRA
7 38 (4.48%) Gradle
8 34 (4.01%) Mockito
9 29 (3.42%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.83%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.59%) Postman
11 22 (2.59%) Selenium
12 20 (2.36%) REST Assured
13 16 (1.89%) Cucumber
13 16 (1.89%) JMeter
14 12 (1.42%) Liquibase
15 11 (1.30%) Claude Code
16 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.94%) Gatling
17 8 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 251 (29.60%) Finance
2 220 (25.94%) Social Skills
3 149 (17.57%) Banking
4 91 (10.73%) Public Sector
5 83 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.54%) Retail
7 28 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.95%) Front Office
9 21 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.12%) Marketing
12 16 (1.89%) Retail Banking
13 13 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.42%) Billing
14 12 (1.42%) Law
15 9 (1.06%) Police
16 8 (0.94%) Legal
17 7 (0.83%) Local Government
17 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 295 (34.79%) Developer
2 172 (20.28%) Senior
3 151 (17.81%) Architect
4 118 (13.92%) Java Developer
5 80 (9.43%) Lead
6 71 (8.37%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 61 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 58 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (6.37%) Java Engineer
11 44 (5.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 38 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.42%) Python Developer
16 26 (3.07%) .NET Developer
16 26 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (2.95%) Senior Software Engineer
17 25 (2.95%) Technical Architect
18 23 (2.71%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (27.12%) REST
2 227 (26.77%) Spring
3 212 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 208 (24.53%) Kafka
5 165 (19.46%) RESTful
6 159 (18.75%) React
7 137 (16.16%) Terraform
8 110 (12.97%) .NET
9 89 (10.50%) Node.js
10 62 (7.31%) AngularJS
11 60 (7.08%) HTML
12 59 (6.96%) CSS
13 58 (6.84%) OAuth
14 48 (5.66%) OAuth2
15 44 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
16 37 (4.36%) HTML5
17 36 (4.25%) SOAP
18 35 (4.13%) .NET Core
19 33 (3.89%) CSS3
20 32 (3.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 270 (31.84%) Cloud Native
2 207 (24.41%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (11.44%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.54%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (4.60%) AI Agents
7 36 (4.25%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.83%) Derivative
10 21 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.36%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.36%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.00%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.77%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 11 (1.30%) Public Cloud
17 10 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.37%) Linux
2 28 (3.30%) Unix
3 11 (1.30%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (62.85%) CI/CD
2 397 (46.82%) DevOps
3 344 (40.57%) Agile
4 301 (35.50%) Event-Driven
5 242 (28.54%) Containerisation
6 215 (25.35%) Software Engineering
7 208 (24.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 202 (23.82%) AI
9 179 (21.11%) Test Automation
10 172 (20.28%) Observability
11 146 (17.22%) Full-Stack Development
12 145 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 140 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (14.50%) Scrum
15 119 (14.03%) Stakeholder Management
16 115 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 115 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (11.56%) Integration Patterns
18 94 (11.08%) Code Quality
19 89 (10.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 386 (45.52%) Java
2 244 (28.77%) Python
3 204 (24.06%) SQL
4 162 (19.10%) TypeScript
5 155 (18.28%) JavaScript
6 113 (13.33%) C#
7 32 (3.77%) Go
8 21 (2.48%) Bash
9 18 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.42%) Ruby
13 11 (1.30%) Bicep
14 8 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.47%) C++
16 4 (0.47%) Scala
16 4 (0.47%) Solidity
17 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 198 (23.35%) Security Cleared
2 175 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.90%) Degree
4 43 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) GIAC
16 2 (0.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.56%) QA
2 22 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.24%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.77%) NIST
6 14 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.65%) SEPA
7 12 (1.42%) GDPR
8 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 6 (0.71%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 317 (37.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 307 (36.20%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.08%) Grafana
3 46 (5.42%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.48%) Ansible
5 13 (1.53%) Kibana
6 11 (1.30%) Argo
7 9 (1.06%) Istio
8 6 (0.71%) Puppet
8 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.24%) Control-M
10 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 95 (11.20%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.84%) Oracle
3 51 (6.01%) Google
4 25 (2.95%) OpenAI
4 25 (2.95%) Splunk
5 19 (2.24%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.89%) IBM
6 16 (1.89%) SAP
7 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.30%) Databricks
9 9 (1.06%) New Relic
10 8 (0.94%) Veracode
11 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.71%) Confluent
12 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow