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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 56 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing Microservices 749 510 640
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 4.04% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.42% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 346 474
10th Percentile £375 £386 £419
25th Percentile £431 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £700
90th Percentile £770 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £65.50 £38.98 -
25th Percentile £70.13 £39.69 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £41.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.58% -33.20% +78.57%
75th Percentile £93.75 £44.19 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £45.13 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £44.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +67.71% -8.11% -32.03%

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 15,109 11,547 15,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.66% 91.42% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,127 7,832 11,395
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £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 235 169 335
10th Percentile £18.14 £19.16 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.66 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% -1.05% -12.00%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -13 82 £525 -10.26% 97
South London -10 25 £537 +13.05% 1
West London -17 7 £550 +34.47% 4
East London 0 6 £432 +3.47% 6
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 25 (3.34%) Confluence
2 16 (2.14%) Apache
3 8 (1.07%) Camunda
3 8 (1.07%) CMS
3 8 (1.07%) Ethereum
4 7 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.93%) Hyperledger
5 6 (0.80%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.67%) Mule
6 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.53%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 404 (53.94%) AWS
2 289 (38.58%) Azure
3 131 (17.49%) GCP
4 130 (17.36%) Serverless
5 117 (15.62%) GitHub
6 85 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (8.41%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (8.01%) Amazon S3
11 50 (6.68%) Azure AKS
12 44 (5.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (3.87%) SaaS
17 28 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (3.74%) Entra ID
18 26 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
18 26 (3.47%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.60%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) DNS
2 5 (0.67%) Network Security
3 4 (0.53%) Firewall
3 4 (0.53%) VPN
4 3 (0.40%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.40%) 5G
4 3 (0.40%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Multicast
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.08%) NoSQL
2 75 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (7.88%) MongoDB
4 48 (6.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 47 (6.28%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.34%) SQL Server
7 36 (4.81%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.41%) Redis
9 32 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (4.14%) MySQL
11 16 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.74%) Big Data
12 13 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.47%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.20%) DB2
16 8 (1.07%) Flink
17 7 (0.93%) DocumentDB
17 7 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 111 (14.82%) Git
2 98 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 69 (9.21%) GitLab
4 50 (6.68%) JUnit
5 49 (6.54%) JIRA
6 29 (3.87%) Mockito
7 24 (3.20%) Cucumber
8 15 (2.00%) Maven
9 13 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.74%) Selenium
10 12 (1.60%) Liquibase
11 11 (1.47%) Postman
12 10 (1.34%) Gradle
13 9 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.20%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.07%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.07%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.07%) Vite
15 6 (0.80%) MLflow
15 6 (0.80%) REST Assured
General
1 190 (25.37%) Social Skills
2 175 (23.36%) Finance
3 115 (15.35%) Banking
4 85 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.80%) Front Office
7 18 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.74%) Retail
11 11 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (1.20%) Legal
13 7 (0.93%) Marketing
13 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.80%) Law
15 4 (0.53%) Police
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Military
16 3 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 282 (37.65%) Developer
2 170 (22.70%) Senior
3 132 (17.62%) Architect
4 97 (12.95%) Java Developer
5 83 (11.08%) Senior Developer
6 55 (7.34%) Lead
7 51 (6.81%) Software Engineer
7 51 (6.81%) Solutions Architect
8 45 (6.01%) Java Engineer
9 38 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 35 (4.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (4.67%) Technical Architect
11 30 (4.01%) Backend Developer
11 30 (4.01%) Senior Java Developer
12 29 (3.87%) C# Developer
13 25 (3.34%) Analyst
13 25 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
14 24 (3.20%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (25.77%) Spring
2 171 (22.83%) Spring Boot
3 166 (22.16%) Kafka
4 145 (19.36%) RESTful
5 137 (18.29%) REST
6 131 (17.49%) React
7 105 (14.02%) Node.js
8 98 (13.08%) .NET
9 93 (12.42%) AngularJS
10 52 (6.94%) Middleware
11 43 (5.74%) gRPC
12 39 (5.21%) CSS
12 39 (5.21%) HTML
13 38 (5.07%) OAuth
14 28 (3.74%) .NET Core
15 27 (3.60%) Vue
16 26 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
16 26 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (3.20%) JSON
17 24 (3.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 132 (17.62%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 22 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.40%) Derivative
7 16 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.87%) Algorithms
8 14 (1.87%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.74%) Linux
2 15 (2.00%) Unix
3 6 (0.80%) Windows
4 4 (0.53%) zOS
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (53.54%) CI/CD
2 315 (42.06%) DevOps
3 285 (38.05%) Agile
4 213 (28.44%) Containerisation
5 193 (25.77%) Software Engineering
6 141 (18.83%) Event-Driven
7 140 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 113 (15.09%) AI
9 113 (15.09%) Test Automation
10 112 (14.95%) Observability
11 105 (14.02%) TDD
12 96 (12.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 83 (11.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 79 (10.55%) Code Quality
15 78 (10.41%) Scrum
16 69 (9.21%) SDLC
17 67 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 67 (8.95%) Migration
18 66 (8.81%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 322 (42.99%) Java
2 197 (26.30%) Python
3 179 (23.90%) SQL
4 110 (14.69%) TypeScript
5 96 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 84 (11.21%) C#
7 48 (6.41%) Go
8 22 (2.94%) Ruby
9 16 (2.14%) Bicep
10 11 (1.47%) Bash
11 10 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.07%) C++
12 8 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.93%) Scala
14 6 (0.80%) PHP
15 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) RPG
16 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 133 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.34%) Degree
4 42 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.07%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.67%) CISSP
10 5 (0.67%) OSCP
11 4 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.53%) CCSP
11 4 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) MBA
12 3 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.88%) QA
2 28 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.87%) GDPR
3 14 (1.87%) ISO 20022
4 12 (1.60%) NIST
4 12 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.34%) PSD2
6 8 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.07%) SEPA
7 7 (0.93%) WCAG
8 5 (0.67%) SLA
9 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.53%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.40%) HL7
10 3 (0.40%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 294 (39.25%) Docker
2 23 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 285 (38.05%) Kubernetes
2 120 (16.02%) Terraform
3 44 (5.87%) Grafana
4 32 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.00%) Ansible
5 15 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.74%) Argo
7 11 (1.47%) Istio
8 7 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.67%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.27%) Knative
11 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 78 (10.41%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.47%) Oracle
3 34 (4.54%) Google
4 30 (4.01%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.54%) Databricks
6 15 (2.00%) Splunk
7 14 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.60%) Software AG
9 10 (1.34%) IBM
10 9 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.07%) Confluent
11 8 (1.07%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.07%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.07%) Sybase
12 6 (0.80%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.67%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.67%) Foundry
13 5 (0.67%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.67%) Solace