Microservices Contracts in London

Microservices
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 51 41
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 616 742 1,265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.70% 4.21% 5.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 4.76% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 536 960
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £450 £500 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £696 £750
90th Percentile £788 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £37.48 £45.10 £47.00
25th Percentile £41.19 £51.63 £65.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -24.24% +24.64%
75th Percentile £85.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile £94.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £45.88 £72.50
% change year-on-year +19.88% -36.72% +14.62%

All Process and 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 12,082 15,598 22,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,067 11,123 16,628
10th Percentile £331 £341 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 298 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in London.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in London

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in London.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in London

Microservices
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microservices in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 90 £585 -4.49% 344
South London +15 35 £495 -3.41% 22
West London -9 10 £475 +11.76% 39
East London +12 4 £250 -53.70% 19
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (5.19%) Confluence
2 13 (2.11%) Apache
3 10 (1.62%) CMS
4 7 (1.14%) Camunda
5 6 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.81%) JBoss
7 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.49%) nginx
8 3 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.32%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.32%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.32%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.16%) Appian
10 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.27%) FLEXCUBE
1 14 (2.27%) Oracle BPM
2 9 (1.46%) Endur
3 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.16%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.16%) Eikon
6 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.16%) RMDS
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.16%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 300 (48.70%) AWS
2 157 (25.49%) Azure
3 83 (13.47%) Serverless
4 78 (12.66%) GCP
5 47 (7.63%) GitHub
6 45 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
8 35 (5.68%) Amazon S3
9 26 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (4.22%) Azure AKS
10 24 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (3.41%) Azure Sentinel
13 19 (3.08%) OpenShift
14 18 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.76%) PaaS
16 14 (2.27%) SaaS
17 12 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (1.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.57%) Firewall
2 19 (3.08%) HTTP
3 12 (1.95%) SSL
4 11 (1.79%) DNS
5 7 (1.14%) FTP
5 7 (1.14%) SMTP
5 7 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.81%) VPN
7 2 (0.32%) Internet
7 2 (0.32%) LAN
7 2 (0.32%) SMS
8 1 (0.16%) AMQP
8 1 (0.16%) DSL
8 1 (0.16%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (8.60%) MongoDB
3 52 (8.44%) NoSQL
4 49 (7.95%) Relational Database
5 39 (6.33%) SQL Server
6 32 (5.19%) MySQL
7 31 (5.03%) Redis
8 30 (4.87%) Apache Cassandra
9 17 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.44%) Big Data
10 15 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.62%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.30%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.14%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.14%) Power BI
14 7 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (14.61%) Jenkins
2 72 (11.69%) Git
3 53 (8.60%) JUnit
4 50 (8.12%) JIRA
5 39 (6.33%) GitLab
6 31 (5.03%) Maven
7 30 (4.87%) Mockito
8 24 (3.90%) SonarQube
9 23 (3.73%) Gradle
10 21 (3.41%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.44%) Postman
11 15 (2.44%) TeamCity
12 13 (2.11%) Cypress.io
13 11 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (1.79%) CircleCI
13 11 (1.79%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.79%) Liquibase
14 10 (1.62%) IntelliJ
14 10 (1.62%) JMeter
14 10 (1.62%) REST Assured
General
1 186 (30.19%) Finance
2 183 (29.71%) Social Skills
3 114 (18.51%) Banking
4 80 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 70 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 29 (4.71%) Front Office
8 22 (3.57%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.08%) Marketing
10 18 (2.92%) Military
11 11 (1.79%) Electronics
11 11 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.62%) Retail
13 9 (1.46%) Back Office
14 8 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.97%) Automotive
16 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 2 (0.32%) Legal
Job Titles
1 269 (43.67%) Developer
2 109 (17.69%) Architect
2 109 (17.69%) Senior
3 106 (17.21%) Java Developer
4 58 (9.42%) Senior Developer
5 44 (7.14%) Lead
6 42 (6.82%) Software Engineer
7 40 (6.49%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 28 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 25 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 25 (4.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 24 (3.90%) C# Developer
12 22 (3.57%) Technical Architect
13 21 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.25%) Senior Architect
15 17 (2.76%) .NET Developer
15 17 (2.76%) React Developer
16 16 (2.60%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (23.21%) Spring
2 136 (22.08%) Kafka
3 124 (20.13%) Spring Boot
4 101 (16.40%) React
5 98 (15.91%) .NET
6 73 (11.85%) REST
7 65 (10.55%) RESTful
8 63 (10.23%) AngularJS
8 63 (10.23%) Node.js
9 48 (7.79%) HTML
10 38 (6.17%) Web Services
11 33 (5.36%) gRPC
12 32 (5.19%) CSS
13 31 (5.03%) Swagger
14 25 (4.06%) OpenAPI
15 24 (3.90%) GraphQL
15 24 (3.90%) JSON
16 23 (3.73%) SOAP
17 22 (3.57%) .NET Core
18 21 (3.41%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.53%) Cloud Native
2 66 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 16 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 13 (2.11%) Derivative
8 13 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.95%) PKI
10 11 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.14%) Distributed Applications
14 7 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.97%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.55%) Linux
2 22 (3.57%) Windows
3 18 (2.92%) Unix
4 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.97%) Android
6 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) AIX
7 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (40.75%) Agile
2 241 (39.12%) CI/CD
3 230 (37.34%) DevOps
4 143 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (22.08%) Software Engineering
6 113 (18.34%) Containerisation
7 110 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 83 (13.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (13.31%) Event-Driven
9 82 (13.31%) TDD
10 65 (10.55%) Scrum
11 60 (9.74%) Test Automation
12 53 (8.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 50 (8.12%) Mentoring
14 48 (7.79%) Roadmaps
15 47 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
16 46 (7.47%) Observability
17 44 (7.14%) API Development
17 44 (7.14%) Code Quality
17 44 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 292 (47.40%) Java
2 146 (23.70%) SQL
3 130 (21.10%) Python
4 112 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 101 (16.40%) C#
6 86 (13.96%) TypeScript
7 41 (6.66%) Go
8 29 (4.71%) PowerShell
9 28 (4.55%) PL/SQL
10 23 (3.73%) Bash
11 20 (3.25%) Bicep
12 17 (2.76%) C++
12 17 (2.76%) Kotlin
13 13 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.14%) Groovy
14 7 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (1.14%) Scala
15 4 (0.65%) Perl
15 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 141 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.63%) Degree
4 20 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 9 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.81%) CISSP
11 5 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.65%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.49%) CEH
13 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.32%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.66%) QA
2 10 (1.62%) GDPR
3 7 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.65%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.32%) HL7
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.32%) MiFID
6 2 (0.32%) WCAG
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) FATCA
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
7 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 180 (29.22%) Docker
2 8 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.49%) Lustre
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.16%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 238 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 92 (14.94%) Terraform
3 51 (8.28%) Grafana
4 45 (7.31%) Prometheus
5 23 (3.73%) Ansible
6 14 (2.27%) Puppet
7 9 (1.46%) Istio
8 8 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.81%) Podman
11 4 (0.65%) Perfmon
12 3 (0.49%) Control-M
12 3 (0.49%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.49%) Kibana
12 3 (0.49%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.32%) Argo
13 2 (0.32%) WMI
14 1 (0.16%) CASB
14 1 (0.16%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (7.79%) Oracle
2 47 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.19%) Google
4 31 (5.03%) Splunk
5 19 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 15 (2.44%) IBM
7 15 (2.44%) SAP
8 14 (2.27%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.62%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.62%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.46%) Databricks
11 7 (1.14%) OpenLink
12 6 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (0.97%) Citrix
12 6 (0.97%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.97%) Foundry
12 6 (0.97%) HP
12 6 (0.97%) Palantir
13 5 (0.81%) Virgin Media