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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 47 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 840 674 692
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.08% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.49% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 462 496
10th Percentile £407 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £775
England median daily rate £535 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £39.13 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £49.50 £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 £85.63 £42.12
90th Percentile - £93.75 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.33
% change year-on-year -2.99% +62.12% -43.00%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £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 £660 £675 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 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 2 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 -7 101 £555 -4.31% 65
South London -14 21 £535 -13.99% 7
East London +6 10 £432 -20.00% 3
West London -25 2 £500 +5.26% 44
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 31 (3.69%) Confluence
2 25 (2.98%) CMS
3 18 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.90%) Camunda
5 12 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.60%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Quorum
3 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
4 3 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 411 (48.93%) AWS
2 316 (37.62%) Azure
3 153 (18.21%) GitHub
4 147 (17.50%) GCP
5 102 (12.14%) Serverless
6 101 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (11.31%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (5.71%) Amazon S3
11 47 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.21%) Azure AKS
16 25 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.98%) OpenShift
17 24 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (2.86%) SaaS
18 23 (2.74%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
1 6 (0.71%) VPN
2 5 (0.60%) HTTP
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.12%) 4G
5 1 (0.12%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) LTE
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
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
1 102 (12.14%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 54 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 50 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 28 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.33%) Redis
7 27 (3.21%) MySQL
8 24 (2.86%) DynamoDB
9 21 (2.50%) Power BI
10 17 (2.02%) Big Data
10 17 (2.02%) BigQuery
11 13 (1.55%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.19%) Flink
15 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.95%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 153 (18.21%) Jenkins
2 145 (17.26%) Git
3 96 (11.43%) GitLab
4 55 (6.55%) JUnit
5 41 (4.88%) JIRA
6 40 (4.76%) Gradle
7 39 (4.64%) Maven
8 37 (4.40%) Mockito
9 26 (3.10%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.74%) Cypress.io
10 23 (2.74%) Postman
11 18 (2.14%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.79%) REST Assured
12 15 (1.79%) Selenium
13 14 (1.67%) JMeter
14 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
15 9 (1.07%) Vite
16 8 (0.95%) Gatling
16 8 (0.95%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 232 (27.62%) Finance
2 216 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 127 (15.12%) Banking
4 99 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 84 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.74%) Retail
8 22 (2.62%) Front Office
8 22 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.50%) Marketing
10 17 (2.02%) Law
11 12 (1.43%) Billing
11 12 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.95%) Police
14 6 (0.71%) Local Government
14 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (33.57%) Developer
2 168 (20.00%) Senior
3 151 (17.98%) Architect
4 119 (14.17%) Java Developer
5 84 (10.00%) Lead
6 74 (8.81%) Software Engineer
7 68 (8.10%) Senior Developer
8 54 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
9 52 (6.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 52 (6.19%) Java Engineer
10 39 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 39 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 38 (4.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
13 31 (3.69%) Technical Architect
14 28 (3.33%) Analyst
15 26 (3.10%) .NET Developer
15 26 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.98%) Python Developer
17 24 (2.86%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (27.26%) Spring
2 215 (25.60%) REST
3 208 (24.76%) Spring Boot
4 193 (22.98%) Kafka
5 163 (19.40%) RESTful
6 155 (18.45%) React
7 128 (15.24%) Terraform
8 102 (12.14%) .NET
9 87 (10.36%) Node.js
10 58 (6.90%) AngularJS
11 56 (6.67%) CSS
12 54 (6.43%) HTML
13 48 (5.71%) OAuth
14 45 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
15 43 (5.12%) OAuth2
16 34 (4.05%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.93%) JSON
18 32 (3.81%) HTML5
19 31 (3.69%) LangChain
20 30 (3.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 256 (30.48%) Cloud Native
2 209 (24.88%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (10.24%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (4.40%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.81%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (2.74%) Derivative
10 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 20 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 19 (2.26%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.55%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.83%) Linux
2 27 (3.21%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
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
1 531 (63.21%) CI/CD
2 395 (47.02%) DevOps
3 340 (40.48%) Agile
4 279 (33.21%) Event-Driven
5 255 (30.36%) Containerisation
6 228 (27.14%) Software Engineering
7 194 (23.10%) AI
8 189 (22.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 177 (21.07%) Observability
10 167 (19.88%) Test Automation
11 148 (17.62%) Infrastructure as Code
12 138 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
13 132 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (14.76%) Scrum
15 103 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
16 102 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
17 98 (11.67%) TDD
18 97 (11.55%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (10.71%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 394 (46.90%) Java
2 240 (28.57%) Python
3 203 (24.17%) SQL
4 161 (19.17%) TypeScript
5 145 (17.26%) JavaScript
6 109 (12.98%) C#
7 30 (3.57%) Go
8 22 (2.62%) Ruby
9 21 (2.50%) Bash
10 18 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.31%) Bicep
15 7 (0.83%) PHP
16 5 (0.60%) Scala
16 5 (0.60%) Solidity
17 4 (0.48%) C++
17 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.24%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 196 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 173 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.60%) Degree
4 38 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.60%) CISSP
12 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (10.48%) QA
2 23 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.67%) NIST
6 13 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.55%) SEPA
7 10 (1.19%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.60%) PSD2
11 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.48%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 315 (37.50%) Docker
2 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) 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
1 308 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.79%) Grafana
3 42 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.40%) Ansible
5 10 (1.19%) Argo
5 10 (1.19%) Istio
5 10 (1.19%) Kibana
6 7 (0.83%) Puppet
7 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 96 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.62%) Oracle
3 44 (5.24%) Google
4 25 (2.98%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.02%) IBM
6 17 (2.02%) Splunk
7 15 (1.79%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.43%) SAP
9 10 (1.19%) Databricks
9 10 (1.19%) New Relic
10 8 (0.95%) Confluent
11 7 (0.83%) Solace
11 7 (0.83%) Veracode
12 6 (0.71%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.60%) Foundry
13 5 (0.60%) ServiceNow