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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 675 500 635
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.58% 3.62% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.04% 4.00% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 321 471
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £429 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £698
90th Percentile £744 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 2
10th Percentile £65.80 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% -
75th Percentile £90.00 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +133.22% -48.80% -14.38%

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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -8 73 £525 -10.26% 99
South London +4 21 £537 +13.05% 10
West London -22 7 £550 +34.47% 16
East London +1 4 £563 -3.85% 17
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 32 (4.74%) Confluence
2 14 (2.07%) Apache
3 8 (1.19%) Camunda
4 6 (0.89%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.89%) CMS
4 6 (0.89%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.89%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.89%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.74%) Mule
6 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) Drupal
6 3 (0.44%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.44%) WordPress
7 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 346 (51.26%) AWS
2 235 (34.81%) Azure
3 119 (17.63%) Serverless
4 109 (16.15%) GitHub
5 107 (15.85%) GCP
6 76 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
8 59 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
9 54 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 44 (6.52%) Azure AKS
11 36 (5.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (3.85%) Entra ID
14 26 (3.85%) SaaS
15 25 (3.70%) Azure Functions
16 22 (3.26%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.33%) HTTP
2 7 (1.04%) Network Security
3 6 (0.89%) DNS
4 5 (0.74%) SSL
5 3 (0.44%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 67 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (9.19%) MongoDB
4 51 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 46 (6.81%) Apache Cassandra
6 44 (6.52%) Relational Database
7 34 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (4.59%) MySQL
9 29 (4.30%) Redis
10 25 (3.70%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.96%) Big Data
12 18 (2.67%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (2.07%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (1.19%) DB2
17 7 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (13.93%) Git
2 88 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 62 (9.19%) GitLab
4 60 (8.89%) JIRA
5 42 (6.22%) JUnit
6 21 (3.11%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.96%) Mockito
8 16 (2.37%) Maven
9 15 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.22%) Selenium
10 12 (1.78%) Postman
10 12 (1.78%) SpecFlow
11 10 (1.48%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.04%) Gradle
12 7 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.89%) Gatling
13 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.89%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 193 (28.59%) Social Skills
2 164 (24.30%) Finance
3 118 (17.48%) Banking
4 59 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.67%) Front Office
6 18 (2.67%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.63%) Retail
10 10 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 6 (0.89%) Back Office
14 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.59%) Military
16 2 (0.30%) Aviation
16 2 (0.30%) Marketing
16 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 289 (42.81%) Developer
2 152 (22.52%) Senior
3 107 (15.85%) Architect
4 98 (14.52%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.74%) Senior Developer
6 45 (6.67%) Java Engineer
7 44 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 44 (6.52%) Lead
7 44 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (5.63%) C# Developer
9 37 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 33 (4.89%) Software Engineer
12 27 (4.00%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.41%) Technical Architect
14 22 (3.26%) Angular Developer
14 22 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.81%) .NET Developer
17 18 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (25.33%) Spring
2 157 (23.26%) Spring Boot
3 156 (23.11%) Kafka
4 140 (20.74%) RESTful
5 120 (17.78%) REST
6 117 (17.33%) React
7 108 (16.00%) .NET
8 93 (13.78%) AngularJS
9 92 (13.63%) Node.js
10 43 (6.37%) gRPC
10 43 (6.37%) Middleware
11 39 (5.78%) HTML
12 35 (5.19%) .NET Core
13 33 (4.89%) CSS
13 33 (4.89%) OAuth
14 26 (3.85%) Vue
15 25 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (3.56%) Entity Framework
16 24 (3.56%) Hibernate
16 24 (3.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 131 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 103 (15.26%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.52%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.37%) Derivative
6 15 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.93%) AI Agents
7 13 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.19%) NHS
9 8 (1.19%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.19%) Linux
2 17 (2.52%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) zOS
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.30%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (49.93%) CI/CD
2 274 (40.59%) Agile
3 269 (39.85%) DevOps
4 174 (25.78%) Containerisation
5 161 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (20.89%) Software Engineering
7 107 (15.85%) Full-Stack Development
8 104 (15.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (14.96%) Event-Driven
10 95 (14.07%) Test Automation
11 83 (12.30%) TDD
12 74 (10.96%) Scrum
13 72 (10.67%) AI
14 69 (10.22%) Observability
14 69 (10.22%) SDLC
15 66 (9.78%) Code Quality
16 63 (9.33%) Clean Code
17 61 (9.04%) Design Patterns
18 60 (8.89%) Computer Science
19 58 (8.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 292 (43.26%) Java
2 163 (24.15%) SQL
3 153 (22.67%) Python
4 98 (14.52%) C#
4 98 (14.52%) JavaScript
5 86 (12.74%) TypeScript
6 50 (7.41%) Go
7 19 (2.81%) Bicep
8 14 (2.07%) Ruby
9 10 (1.48%) Bash
9 10 (1.48%) PHP
9 10 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.19%) C++
11 6 (0.89%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.89%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.74%) Scala
13 4 (0.59%) Perl
14 3 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.44%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.59%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.59%) Degree
4 43 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.07%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.74%) CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.74%) CISSP
12 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.41%) QA
2 19 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.07%) GDPR
4 12 (1.78%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.33%) NIST
7 6 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.89%) PSD2
7 6 (0.89%) WCAG
8 4 (0.59%) SEPA
8 4 (0.59%) SLA
9 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.44%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.30%) HL7
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) TARGET2
11 1 (0.15%) EMIR
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 281 (41.63%) Docker
2 22 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 276 (40.89%) Kubernetes
2 120 (17.78%) Terraform
3 30 (4.44%) Grafana
4 22 (3.26%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.96%) Argo
6 15 (2.22%) Ansible
6 15 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.48%) Istio
8 7 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.74%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.30%) Knative
11 2 (0.30%) Puppet
12 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.15%) Foglight
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.07%) Google
3 31 (4.59%) Oracle
4 23 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.26%) Databricks
6 19 (2.81%) Splunk
7 11 (1.63%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.48%) Software AG
9 9 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.33%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.89%) Cloudera
10 6 (0.89%) Confluent
10 6 (0.89%) Foundry
10 6 (0.89%) Palantir
10 6 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.74%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.74%) Sybase
12 4 (0.59%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.59%) New Relic