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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 654 489 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.66% 3.51% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.89% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 317 491
10th Percentile £375 £408 £419
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -8.46%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £67.13 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £79.25 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £73.88 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +89.44% -37.58% -14.41%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +2 77 £575 -2.25% 62
South London +7 22 £525 +10.53% 11
West London -16 8 £550 +34.47% 7
East London -1 4 £563 -3.85% 7
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 40 (6.12%) Confluence
2 19 (2.91%) Apache
3 7 (1.07%) CMS
3 7 (1.07%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.46%) Camunda
5 3 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.46%) nginx
5 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.31%) CICS
6 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Mule
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.07%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.31%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.15%) 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%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 330 (50.46%) AWS
2 241 (36.85%) Azure
3 131 (20.03%) Serverless
4 115 (17.58%) GitHub
5 109 (16.67%) GCP
6 80 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (8.10%) Amazon S3
10 48 (7.34%) Azure AKS
11 45 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
12 40 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (4.13%) Azure Functions
15 27 (4.13%) Entra ID
16 25 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.07%) Network Security
1 7 (1.07%) SSL
2 6 (0.92%) DNS
3 5 (0.76%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.61%) HTTP
5 3 (0.46%) Firewall
6 2 (0.31%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.62%) NoSQL
2 73 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (8.10%) SQL Server
4 51 (7.80%) MongoDB
5 43 (6.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 43 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 28 (4.28%) MySQL
6 28 (4.28%) Redis
7 27 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.67%) Big Data
8 24 (3.67%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.75%) Hadoop
10 17 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.99%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.22%) DB2
13 8 (1.22%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (13.30%) Git
2 80 (12.23%) Jenkins
3 61 (9.33%) JIRA
4 59 (9.02%) GitLab
5 33 (5.05%) JUnit
6 21 (3.21%) Cucumber
7 20 (3.06%) Mockito
8 18 (2.75%) Bitbucket
9 16 (2.45%) Selenium
10 15 (2.29%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.14%) Maven
11 14 (2.14%) Postman
12 12 (1.83%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.38%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.07%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.92%) Gatling
15 6 (0.92%) Gradle
15 6 (0.92%) Liquibase
16 5 (0.76%) MLflow
General
1 195 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 157 (24.01%) Finance
3 116 (17.74%) Banking
4 61 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.75%) Front Office
6 18 (2.75%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.38%) Retail
9 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.92%) Back Office
10 6 (0.92%) Legal
11 4 (0.61%) Military
12 3 (0.46%) Marketing
13 2 (0.31%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.31%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 284 (43.43%) Developer
2 152 (23.24%) Senior
3 108 (16.51%) Architect
4 97 (14.83%) Java Developer
5 82 (12.54%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 40 (6.12%) Lead
7 40 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.96%) C# Developer
9 35 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (5.20%) Java Engineer
11 32 (4.89%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.74%) Senior Java Developer
13 25 (3.82%) Angular Developer
14 23 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
14 23 (3.52%) Technical Architect
15 22 (3.36%) Backend Developer
16 19 (2.91%) .NET Developer
17 17 (2.60%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.60%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (23.55%) Kafka
2 149 (22.78%) Spring
3 141 (21.56%) Spring Boot
4 130 (19.88%) RESTful
5 117 (17.89%) REST
6 116 (17.74%) React
7 108 (16.51%) .NET
8 93 (14.22%) Node.js
9 87 (13.30%) AngularJS
10 40 (6.12%) gRPC
10 40 (6.12%) HTML
11 35 (5.35%) .NET Core
11 35 (5.35%) OAuth
12 34 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
13 33 (5.05%) Middleware
14 31 (4.74%) CSS
15 28 (4.28%) JSON
16 24 (3.67%) Vue
17 23 (3.52%) Entity Framework
17 23 (3.52%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 129 (19.72%) Cloud Native
2 107 (16.36%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.29%) Derivative
6 13 (1.99%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.99%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.22%) NHS
11 7 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.07%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.92%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.92%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.92%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.28%) Linux
2 16 (2.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.31%) Android
3 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.31%) VMS
3 2 (0.31%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 282 (43.12%) Agile
3 277 (42.35%) DevOps
4 163 (24.92%) Containerisation
5 158 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (21.56%) Software Engineering
7 108 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 101 (15.44%) Event-Driven
9 98 (14.98%) Test Automation
10 94 (14.37%) Full-Stack Development
11 81 (12.39%) TDD
12 75 (11.47%) Scrum
13 67 (10.24%) AI
13 67 (10.24%) Observability
14 65 (9.94%) Design Patterns
14 65 (9.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 64 (9.79%) SDLC
16 61 (9.33%) Code Quality
17 59 (9.02%) Migration
18 58 (8.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 270 (41.28%) Java
2 160 (24.46%) SQL
3 154 (23.55%) Python
4 104 (15.90%) C#
5 102 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 83 (12.69%) TypeScript
7 57 (8.72%) Go
8 19 (2.91%) Bicep
9 12 (1.83%) Ruby
10 11 (1.68%) Bash
11 10 (1.53%) C++
12 9 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.38%) PHP
12 9 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.92%) Scala
14 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.61%) Groovy
15 4 (0.61%) Perl
16 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 129 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 114 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.10%) Degree
4 40 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.76%) MCP
12 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.46%) CCSP
14 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (8.72%) QA
2 15 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.68%) GDPR
5 8 (1.22%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.92%) WCAG
7 5 (0.76%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.76%) NIST
8 4 (0.61%) PSD2
9 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.46%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.46%) NCSC
10 2 (0.31%) HL7
10 2 (0.31%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.31%) MiFID
10 2 (0.31%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) EMIR
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 271 (41.44%) Docker
2 27 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 276 (42.20%) Kubernetes
2 127 (19.42%) Terraform
3 28 (4.28%) Grafana
4 22 (3.36%) Ansible
5 21 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.91%) Argo
7 16 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.53%) Istio
9 6 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.61%) Opsgenie
11 4 (0.61%) Puppet
12 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.31%) Knative
14 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
14 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.15%) Foglight
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 74 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.27%) Google
3 28 (4.28%) Oracle
4 24 (3.67%) Databricks
5 22 (3.36%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.21%) Splunk
7 13 (1.99%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.38%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.22%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.22%) Foundry
10 8 (1.22%) Palantir
10 8 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.22%) Software AG
11 7 (1.07%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.92%) Confluent
13 5 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (0.76%) Calypso
13 5 (0.76%) OutSystems