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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 716 512 595
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.41% 3.86% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.24% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 343 441
10th Percentile £375 £405 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.22% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £65.70 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £67.69 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £91.25 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +133.22% -43.11% -22.41%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -19 73 £543 -7.26% 119
South London -10 27 £541 +13.87% 17
West London -19 7 £550 +34.47% 15
East London -2 2 £608 +5.65% 11
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 30 (4.19%) Confluence
2 12 (1.68%) Apache
3 7 (0.98%) Camunda
3 7 (0.98%) Ethereum
3 7 (0.98%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.84%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.84%) CMS
4 6 (0.84%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.70%) Mule
5 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.28%) Drupal
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 384 (53.63%) AWS
2 271 (37.85%) Azure
3 129 (18.02%) GCP
4 124 (17.32%) Serverless
5 115 (16.06%) GitHub
6 74 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
9 64 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (8.38%) Amazon S3
11 43 (6.01%) Azure AKS
12 41 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.19%) Entra ID
16 29 (4.05%) SaaS
17 25 (3.49%) Azure Functions
18 24 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.40%) HTTP
2 7 (0.98%) Network Security
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
3 5 (0.70%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) 4G
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) NaaS
6 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 79 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (9.08%) MongoDB
4 52 (7.26%) SQL Server
5 51 (7.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 42 (5.87%) Relational Database
7 36 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.75%) MySQL
9 33 (4.61%) Redis
10 32 (4.47%) DynamoDB
11 16 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (2.09%) Big Data
12 15 (2.09%) Hadoop
13 14 (1.96%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.26%) DB2
17 7 (0.98%) DocumentDB
18 6 (0.84%) Tableau
19 5 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 99 (13.83%) Git
2 88 (12.29%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.22%) GitLab
4 53 (7.40%) JIRA
5 49 (6.84%) JUnit
6 25 (3.49%) Cucumber
6 25 (3.49%) Mockito
7 16 (2.23%) Maven
8 15 (2.09%) Selenium
9 14 (1.96%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.40%) Postman
10 10 (1.40%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (1.26%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.98%) Gatling
12 7 (0.98%) MLflow
13 6 (0.84%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.84%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 190 (26.54%) Social Skills
2 176 (24.58%) Finance
3 117 (16.34%) Banking
4 73 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.93%) Front Office
7 19 (2.65%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.96%) Retail
9 11 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.84%) Legal
13 5 (0.70%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.56%) Marketing
15 3 (0.42%) Back Office
15 3 (0.42%) Military
16 2 (0.28%) Billing
16 2 (0.28%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 293 (40.92%) Developer
2 167 (23.32%) Senior
3 118 (16.48%) Architect
4 101 (14.11%) Java Developer
5 88 (12.29%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (6.56%) Lead
8 44 (6.15%) Java Engineer
9 42 (5.87%) Full-Stack Developer
10 40 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.03%) C# Developer
12 35 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
13 33 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (4.33%) Backend Developer
15 25 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.49%) Technical Architect
16 24 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
17 23 (3.21%) .NET Developer
18 20 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 20 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (25.00%) Spring
2 161 (22.49%) Kafka
3 158 (22.07%) Spring Boot
4 137 (19.13%) RESTful
5 136 (18.99%) REST
6 130 (18.16%) React
7 113 (15.78%) .NET
8 103 (14.39%) Node.js
9 100 (13.97%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.68%) Middleware
11 44 (6.15%) HTML
12 43 (6.01%) gRPC
13 41 (5.73%) CSS
14 39 (5.45%) OAuth
15 31 (4.33%) Vue
16 30 (4.19%) .NET Core
17 29 (4.05%) Playwright
18 25 (3.49%) Hibernate
19 24 (3.35%) OAuth2
19 24 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 140 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.65%) Derivative
6 17 (2.37%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.54%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.12%) NHS
14 7 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.59%) Linux
2 15 (2.09%) Unix
3 7 (0.98%) Windows
4 4 (0.56%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.28%) Solaris
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (52.09%) CI/CD
2 287 (40.08%) Agile
2 287 (40.08%) DevOps
3 191 (26.68%) Containerisation
4 156 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
5 155 (21.65%) Software Engineering
6 120 (16.76%) Event-Driven
7 117 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 105 (14.66%) Test Automation
10 98 (13.69%) AI
11 89 (12.43%) TDD
12 87 (12.15%) Observability
13 78 (10.89%) Code Quality
14 73 (10.20%) SDLC
15 72 (10.06%) Scrum
16 70 (9.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 66 (9.22%) Clean Code
17 66 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (8.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 305 (42.60%) Java
2 181 (25.28%) Python
3 169 (23.60%) SQL
4 107 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 103 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 94 (13.13%) C#
7 49 (6.84%) Go
8 20 (2.79%) Bicep
9 16 (2.23%) Ruby
10 9 (1.26%) Bash
11 8 (1.12%) C++
11 8 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.98%) PHP
12 7 (0.98%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.84%) Scala
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.42%) Perl
16 3 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 145 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 125 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.96%) Degree
4 42 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 25 (3.49%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.40%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.84%) CCSP
11 6 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.84%) CISSP
11 6 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.24%) QA
2 28 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.37%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.54%) NIST
6 10 (1.40%) PSD2
7 8 (1.12%) SEPA
8 6 (0.84%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.56%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 2 (0.28%) HL7
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.14%) EMIR
System Software
1 286 (39.94%) Docker
2 24 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 282 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 124 (17.32%) Terraform
3 42 (5.87%) Grafana
4 32 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.51%) Argo
6 17 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.68%) Ansible
8 11 (1.54%) Istio
9 7 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.70%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.14%) linkerd
13 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.89%) Google
3 34 (4.75%) Oracle
4 27 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.07%) Databricks
6 17 (2.37%) Splunk
7 14 (1.96%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.68%) Software AG
9 9 (1.26%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.12%) IBM
10 8 (1.12%) Sybase
11 7 (0.98%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.98%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.70%) Foundry
12 5 (0.70%) Palantir
12 5 (0.70%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.56%) Atlassian