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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 56 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 713 503 601
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 3.90% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.28% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 337 446
10th Percentile £375 £405 £409
25th Percentile £428 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £686
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £65.50 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £70.13 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.79% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £93.75 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +133.22% -43.11% -22.41%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -19 73 £525 -10.26% 101
South London -6 27 £541 +13.87% 17
West London -16 7 £550 +34.47% 12
East London -2 1 £675 +61.68% 15
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 29 (4.07%) Confluence
2 12 (1.68%) Apache
3 7 (0.98%) Camunda
3 7 (0.98%) CMS
3 7 (0.98%) Ethereum
3 7 (0.98%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.84%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.70%) Mule
5 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.28%) Drupal
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 382 (53.58%) AWS
2 275 (38.57%) Azure
3 126 (17.67%) Serverless
4 125 (17.53%) GCP
5 115 (16.13%) GitHub
6 79 (11.08%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (8.84%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (8.27%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.31%) Azure AKS
11 41 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (3.93%) Entra ID
14 28 (3.93%) SaaS
15 26 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (3.37%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.98%) Network Security
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
3 5 (0.70%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.56%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) 4G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) NaaS
6 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.22%) NoSQL
2 78 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (8.27%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.87%) Apache Cassandra
5 44 (6.17%) SQL Server
6 42 (5.89%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.63%) Redis
8 32 (4.49%) DynamoDB
9 31 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (4.21%) MySQL
11 15 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.10%) Big Data
12 14 (1.96%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.82%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.26%) DB2
17 7 (0.98%) DocumentDB
18 6 (0.84%) Pinecone
18 6 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (14.59%) Git
2 91 (12.76%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.26%) GitLab
4 51 (7.15%) JIRA
5 48 (6.73%) JUnit
6 25 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 25 (3.51%) Mockito
7 15 (2.10%) Maven
7 15 (2.10%) Selenium
8 14 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.54%) Postman
10 9 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (1.26%) Zephyr
11 8 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.98%) Liquibase
12 7 (0.98%) MLflow
12 7 (0.98%) SpecFlow
12 7 (0.98%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.98%) Vite
13 6 (0.84%) Gatling
General
1 187 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 165 (23.14%) Finance
3 114 (15.99%) Banking
4 78 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 60 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.09%) Front Office
7 18 (2.52%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.82%) Retail
10 12 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.84%) Legal
13 6 (0.84%) Marketing
14 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.42%) Back Office
15 3 (0.42%) Military
16 2 (0.28%) Aviation
16 2 (0.28%) Police
16 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (39.55%) Developer
2 166 (23.28%) Senior
3 124 (17.39%) Architect
4 96 (13.46%) Java Developer
5 84 (11.78%) Senior Developer
6 50 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (6.17%) Lead
8 42 (5.89%) Java Engineer
9 41 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.63%) C# Developer
13 32 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
14 29 (4.07%) Technical Architect
15 28 (3.93%) Backend Developer
16 25 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
17 24 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
18 22 (3.09%) Analyst
19 21 (2.95%) .NET Developer
20 20 (2.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (24.96%) Spring
2 158 (22.16%) Kafka
3 152 (21.32%) Spring Boot
4 134 (18.79%) RESTful
5 133 (18.65%) REST
6 130 (18.23%) React
7 108 (15.15%) .NET
8 104 (14.59%) Node.js
9 99 (13.88%) AngularJS
10 54 (7.57%) Middleware
11 44 (6.17%) gRPC
12 43 (6.03%) CSS
12 43 (6.03%) HTML
13 38 (5.33%) OAuth
14 32 (4.49%) Vue
15 29 (4.07%) .NET Core
16 24 (3.37%) Hibernate
16 24 (3.37%) Playwright
16 24 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (3.23%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 137 (19.21%) Cloud Native
2 109 (15.29%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.95%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.52%) Derivative
6 17 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.89%) Linux
2 16 (2.24%) Unix
3 7 (0.98%) Windows
4 4 (0.56%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.28%) Solaris
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (52.59%) CI/CD
2 298 (41.80%) DevOps
3 282 (39.55%) Agile
4 188 (26.37%) Containerisation
5 157 (22.02%) Software Engineering
6 151 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
7 119 (16.69%) Event-Driven
8 115 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 106 (14.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (14.59%) AI
10 104 (14.59%) Test Automation
11 91 (12.76%) TDD
12 89 (12.48%) Observability
13 77 (10.80%) Code Quality
14 75 (10.52%) Scrum
15 73 (10.24%) SDLC
16 68 (9.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 67 (9.40%) Migration
18 64 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (8.98%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 300 (42.08%) Java
2 181 (25.39%) Python
3 171 (23.98%) SQL
4 107 (15.01%) TypeScript
5 103 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 88 (12.34%) C#
7 49 (6.87%) Go
8 19 (2.66%) Bicep
9 17 (2.38%) Ruby
10 10 (1.40%) Bash
11 9 (1.26%) C++
11 9 (1.26%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.98%) PHP
12 7 (0.98%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.84%) Scala
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.42%) Perl
16 3 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 149 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 127 (17.81%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.13%) Degree
4 44 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.37%) Master's Degree
7 22 (3.09%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.84%) CCSP
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.84%) CISSP
12 6 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.27%) QA
2 27 (3.79%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.24%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.54%) NIST
6 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.40%) PSD2
7 8 (1.12%) SEPA
8 6 (0.84%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.56%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 2 (0.28%) HL7
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
System Software
1 283 (39.69%) Docker
2 23 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 283 (39.69%) Kubernetes
2 120 (16.83%) Terraform
3 40 (5.61%) Grafana
4 30 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.52%) Argo
6 17 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.82%) Ansible
8 10 (1.40%) Istio
9 7 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.70%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
12 2 (0.28%) Rancher
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (10.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.77%) Oracle
3 33 (4.63%) Google
4 29 (4.07%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.09%) Databricks
6 16 (2.24%) Splunk
7 12 (1.68%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.68%) Software AG
8 9 (1.26%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.12%) IBM
9 8 (1.12%) Sybase
10 7 (0.98%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.84%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.70%) Foundry
12 5 (0.70%) Palantir
12 5 (0.70%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg