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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 849 667 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.04% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.44% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 448 485
10th Percentile £412 £409 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £753 £775
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile - £40.78 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £62.00 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £91.25 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -43.73%

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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 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 15 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 -8 101 £572 -2.22% 114
South London -9 23 £535 -13.99% 10
East London +5 11 £432 -20.00% 6
West London -26 2 £500 +5.26% 39
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 32 (3.77%) Confluence
2 25 (2.94%) CMS
3 19 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.24%) Camunda
4 10 (1.18%) Apache
4 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.71%) nginx
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Mule
9 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Quorum
4 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
4 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 423 (49.82%) AWS
2 312 (36.75%) Azure
3 159 (18.73%) GitHub
4 156 (18.37%) GCP
5 102 (12.01%) Serverless
6 100 (11.78%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.65%) Amazon S3
12 45 (5.30%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (3.30%) OpenShift
16 25 (2.94%) SaaS
17 24 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
18 23 (2.71%) Amazon EventBridge
18 23 (2.71%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 4 (0.47%) HTTP
2 4 (0.47%) VPN
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
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%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 57 (6.71%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.36%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.77%) MySQL
7 27 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.83%) DynamoDB
8 24 (2.83%) Redis
9 21 (2.47%) Power BI
10 18 (2.12%) Big Data
10 18 (2.12%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.18%) Flink
14 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.82%) Pinecone
14 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 155 (18.26%) Jenkins
2 148 (17.43%) Git
3 99 (11.66%) GitLab
4 54 (6.36%) JUnit
5 44 (5.18%) JIRA
6 41 (4.83%) Maven
7 40 (4.71%) Gradle
8 36 (4.24%) Mockito
9 28 (3.30%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.83%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.59%) Postman
12 19 (2.24%) REST Assured
13 16 (1.88%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.88%) Selenium
14 15 (1.77%) JMeter
15 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
16 9 (1.06%) Claude Code
16 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.94%) Gatling
18 7 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 251 (29.56%) Finance
2 226 (26.62%) Social Skills
3 141 (16.61%) Banking
4 96 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 86 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.06%) Investment Banking
6 26 (3.06%) Retail
7 24 (2.83%) Front Office
8 22 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.24%) Marketing
10 15 (1.77%) Law
10 15 (1.77%) Retail Banking
11 13 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.41%) Billing
13 11 (1.30%) Legal
14 10 (1.18%) Police
15 6 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 291 (34.28%) Developer
2 172 (20.26%) Senior
3 155 (18.26%) Architect
4 119 (14.02%) Java Developer
5 85 (10.01%) Lead
6 71 (8.36%) Senior Developer
7 70 (8.24%) Software Engineer
8 58 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 58 (6.83%) Solutions Architect
9 51 (6.01%) Java Engineer
10 39 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 38 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 34 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
13 29 (3.42%) Technical Architect
14 28 (3.30%) Python Developer
15 26 (3.06%) Analyst
15 26 (3.06%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.94%) .NET Developer
17 24 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (26.86%) Spring
2 223 (26.27%) REST
3 213 (25.09%) Spring Boot
4 201 (23.67%) Kafka
5 163 (19.20%) RESTful
6 156 (18.37%) React
7 129 (15.19%) Terraform
8 104 (12.25%) .NET
9 86 (10.13%) Node.js
10 57 (6.71%) HTML
11 56 (6.60%) AngularJS
11 56 (6.60%) CSS
12 50 (5.89%) OAuth
13 46 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
14 45 (5.30%) OAuth2
15 35 (4.12%) HTML5
16 34 (4.00%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.89%) FastAPI
17 33 (3.89%) JSON
18 32 (3.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 267 (31.45%) Cloud Native
2 211 (24.85%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (11.07%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (4.12%) AI Agents
7 34 (4.00%) Onboarding
8 29 (3.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (2.71%) Derivative
10 22 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.47%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.47%) Virtual Team
12 19 (2.24%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
16 10 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.54%) Linux
2 27 (3.18%) Unix
3 9 (1.06%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (63.02%) CI/CD
2 393 (46.29%) DevOps
3 346 (40.75%) Agile
4 299 (35.22%) Event-Driven
5 254 (29.92%) Containerisation
6 223 (26.27%) Software Engineering
7 207 (24.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 198 (23.32%) AI
9 178 (20.97%) Observability
10 175 (20.61%) Test Automation
11 150 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 140 (16.49%) Full-Stack Development
12 140 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (14.96%) Scrum
14 119 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 115 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
16 109 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 103 (12.13%) Integration Patterns
18 94 (11.07%) TDD
19 93 (10.95%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 394 (46.41%) Java
2 245 (28.86%) Python
3 203 (23.91%) SQL
4 162 (19.08%) TypeScript
5 149 (17.55%) JavaScript
6 106 (12.49%) C#
7 29 (3.42%) Go
8 20 (2.36%) Bash
8 20 (2.36%) Ruby
9 18 (2.12%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.77%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.30%) Bicep
13 7 (0.82%) PHP
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
15 4 (0.47%) C++
15 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 201 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 178 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.77%) Degree
4 41 (4.83%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.30%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.59%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.94%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) GIAC
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.54%) QA
2 24 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.12%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.65%) NIST
5 14 (1.65%) SEPA
6 13 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.30%) GDPR
8 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 6 (0.71%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 4 (0.47%) WCAG
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 315 (37.10%) 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%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 304 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.95%) Grafana
3 43 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.24%) Ansible
5 10 (1.18%) Kibana
6 9 (1.06%) Argo
6 9 (1.06%) Istio
7 7 (0.82%) Puppet
8 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Control-M
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.30%) Oracle
3 49 (5.77%) Google
4 24 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.24%) Dynatrace
5 19 (2.24%) Splunk
6 18 (2.12%) IBM
7 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.77%) SAP
8 11 (1.30%) Databricks
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
10 8 (0.94%) Confluent
10 8 (0.94%) Veracode
11 7 (0.82%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.82%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow