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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 54 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -17
Contract jobs citing Microservices 767 522 683
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.31% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.68% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 365 504
10th Percentile £400 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £39.13 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -30.56%
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile £96.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £52.50 £47.16
% change year-on-year +44.76% +11.33% -34.96%

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 16,097 11,157 15,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.20% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,758 7,514 11,083
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £761 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 181 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.81 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +20.11% +10.33% -29.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.84 £63.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%

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 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -21 79 £555 -5.13% 45
South London -17 23 £538 +10.91% 2
East London +1 8 £432 +72.80% 4
West London -30 3 £509 +7.16% 4
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 19 (2.48%) Confluence
2 17 (2.22%) CMS
3 16 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.56%) Camunda
5 11 (1.43%) Apache
6 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.65%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.65%) Mule
9 4 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.52%) nginx
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (50.72%) AWS
2 268 (34.94%) Azure
3 131 (17.08%) GCP
4 115 (14.99%) GitHub
5 106 (13.82%) Serverless
6 75 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.43%) Amazon S3
10 43 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (4.04%) Azure AKS
14 30 (3.91%) SaaS
15 29 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (3.13%) PaaS
17 23 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 21 (2.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) DNS
3 4 (0.52%) VPN
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) Network Security
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (10.82%) NoSQL
3 55 (7.17%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.61%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.69%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.43%) Apache Cassandra
8 33 (4.30%) Redis
9 24 (3.13%) BigQuery
10 23 (3.00%) MySQL
11 19 (2.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.43%) Big Data
12 11 (1.43%) Flink
12 11 (1.43%) Power BI
13 10 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.17%) Data Lake
15 8 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (14.60%) Git
2 105 (13.69%) Jenkins
3 69 (9.00%) GitLab
4 48 (6.26%) JUnit
5 38 (4.95%) JIRA
6 33 (4.30%) Mockito
7 21 (2.74%) Gradle
8 20 (2.61%) Maven
9 19 (2.48%) Postman
10 17 (2.22%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.69%) Liquibase
12 12 (1.56%) SonarQube
13 10 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.17%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.91%) Gatling
15 7 (0.91%) JMeter
15 7 (0.91%) MSTest
15 7 (0.91%) Selenium
15 7 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 193 (25.16%) Finance
2 170 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 124 (16.17%) Banking
4 79 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.26%) Front Office
7 23 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.22%) Marketing
8 17 (2.22%) Retail
9 14 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.69%) Legal
10 13 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.17%) Law
12 8 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.65%) Police
15 4 (0.52%) Billing
15 4 (0.52%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 267 (34.81%) Developer
2 163 (21.25%) Senior
3 136 (17.73%) Architect
4 101 (13.17%) Java Developer
5 75 (9.78%) Senior Developer
6 66 (8.60%) Software Engineer
7 64 (8.34%) Lead
8 50 (6.52%) Java Engineer
9 46 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
10 35 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.43%) Technical Architect
12 32 (4.17%) C# Developer
13 31 (4.04%) Analyst
13 31 (4.04%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.78%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (2.87%) Python Developer
17 21 (2.74%) AWS Developer
18 20 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (27.51%) Spring
2 191 (24.90%) Spring Boot
3 171 (22.29%) Kafka
4 158 (20.60%) RESTful
5 135 (17.60%) REST
6 121 (15.78%) React
7 97 (12.65%) .NET
8 81 (10.56%) Node.js
9 73 (9.52%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.87%) Middleware
11 39 (5.08%) OAuth
12 34 (4.43%) CSS
13 33 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
14 31 (4.04%) gRPC
14 31 (4.04%) HTML
14 31 (4.04%) OAuth2
15 30 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
16 25 (3.26%) Web Services
17 24 (3.13%) JSON
17 24 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 170 (22.16%) Cloud Native
2 163 (21.25%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.87%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.48%) Derivative
9 18 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.87%) Linux
2 17 (2.22%) Unix
3 9 (1.17%) Windows
4 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.39%) Solaris
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) zOS
7 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (55.28%) CI/CD
2 318 (41.46%) DevOps
3 282 (36.77%) Agile
4 229 (29.86%) Containerisation
5 197 (25.68%) Software Engineering
6 171 (22.29%) Event-Driven
7 138 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 133 (17.34%) AI
8 133 (17.34%) Observability
9 109 (14.21%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 105 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (13.69%) Test Automation
11 98 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 96 (12.52%) Scrum
13 94 (12.26%) TDD
14 75 (9.78%) Code Quality
15 69 (9.00%) API Design
16 67 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (8.74%) Migration
17 64 (8.34%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 339 (44.20%) Java
2 202 (26.34%) SQL
3 187 (24.38%) Python
4 115 (14.99%) TypeScript
5 99 (12.91%) JavaScript
6 93 (12.13%) C#
7 40 (5.22%) Go
8 23 (3.00%) Ruby
9 15 (1.96%) Bicep
9 15 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.56%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.04%) PHP
13 7 (0.91%) Bash
14 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) C++
16 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 169 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 145 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.17%) Degree
4 41 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.26%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.65%) CISSP
12 4 (0.52%) OSCP
13 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.39%) CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) MBA
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.95%) QA
2 26 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.09%) GDPR
4 15 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.96%) NIST
5 12 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.56%) PSD2
6 10 (1.30%) SEPA
7 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.65%) SLA
9 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.39%) WCAG
11 2 (0.26%) HL7
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 307 (40.03%) Docker
2 15 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Postfix
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 287 (37.42%) Kubernetes
2 101 (13.17%) Terraform
3 53 (6.91%) Grafana
4 44 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.83%) Ansible
5 14 (1.83%) Istio
6 13 (1.69%) Argo
6 13 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.04%) Kibana
8 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.65%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.26%) Rancher
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) Knative
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.22%) Oracle
3 28 (3.65%) Google
4 22 (2.87%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.35%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.83%) Splunk
7 13 (1.69%) IBM
8 11 (1.43%) Software AG
9 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.17%) Sybase
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
11 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.91%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.78%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.65%) Databricks
13 5 (0.65%) SAP
13 5 (0.65%) Solace
14 4 (0.52%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.52%) Zscaler