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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 55
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 838 687 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 5.07% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.49% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 475 499
10th Percentile £405 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.62% -9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £691 £697
90th Percentile £775 £762 £775
England median daily rate £528 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.48% -6.25% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £39.13 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £49.50 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £85.63 £42.12
90th Percentile - £93.75 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 August 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
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 17 August 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 -4 98 £555 +1.83% 46
South London -13 23 £535 +0.94% 1
East London 0 9 £432 -16.92% 4
West London -28 2 £500 +5.26% 15
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 26 (3.10%) CMS
2 24 (2.86%) Confluence
3 20 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.43%) Camunda
5 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 7 (0.84%) nginx
8 6 (0.72%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.60%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Solana
Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
3 5 (0.60%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 410 (48.93%) AWS
2 316 (37.71%) Azure
3 153 (18.26%) GitHub
4 151 (18.02%) GCP
5 105 (12.53%) Serverless
6 97 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
7 93 (11.10%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (5.97%) Amazon S3
11 45 (5.37%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.70%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.10%) OpenShift
16 22 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.63%) Power Platform
17 21 (2.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) VPN
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
3 5 (0.60%) HTTP
4 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (10.50%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 50 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 42 (5.01%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (3.34%) Redis
8 27 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.63%) Power BI
10 20 (2.39%) MySQL
11 17 (2.03%) Big Data
11 17 (2.03%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.55%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.31%) Flink
15 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
17 6 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 144 (17.18%) Git
2 140 (16.71%) Jenkins
3 91 (10.86%) GitLab
4 54 (6.44%) JUnit
5 37 (4.42%) Mockito
6 35 (4.18%) Gradle
7 34 (4.06%) Maven
8 33 (3.94%) JIRA
9 24 (2.86%) Postman
10 23 (2.74%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.51%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.91%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.67%) JMeter
14 12 (1.43%) Selenium
15 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.19%) TeamCity
16 9 (1.07%) Cucumber
16 9 (1.07%) Vite
17 8 (0.95%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 225 (26.85%) Finance
2 205 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 122 (14.56%) Banking
4 99 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 79 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.22%) Front Office
6 27 (3.22%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (2.63%) Marketing
8 21 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.51%) Retail
9 16 (1.91%) Law
10 13 (1.55%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.43%) Billing
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.72%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (33.77%) Developer
2 174 (20.76%) Senior
3 150 (17.90%) Architect
4 119 (14.20%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.31%) Lead
6 76 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 74 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.09%) Java Engineer
9 49 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (4.42%) Senior Java Developer
12 36 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.82%) Analyst
13 32 (3.82%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.46%) .NET Developer
15 28 (3.34%) C# Developer
16 27 (3.22%) Backend Developer
17 26 (3.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (26.73%) Spring
2 208 (24.82%) REST
3 199 (23.75%) Spring Boot
4 187 (22.32%) Kafka
5 166 (19.81%) RESTful
6 147 (17.54%) React
7 100 (11.93%) .NET
8 84 (10.02%) Node.js
9 56 (6.68%) AngularJS
10 50 (5.97%) CSS
11 47 (5.61%) HTML
12 45 (5.37%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (5.25%) OAuth
14 39 (4.65%) OAuth2
15 33 (3.94%) .NET Core
15 33 (3.94%) JSON
16 30 (3.58%) LangChain
17 27 (3.22%) FastAPI
17 27 (3.22%) JWT
17 27 (3.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 245 (29.24%) Cloud Native
2 210 (25.06%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.95%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.30%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.06%) Onboarding
7 33 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (3.22%) Derivative
10 21 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 21 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.15%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.67%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.37%) Linux
2 23 (2.74%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (61.69%) CI/CD
2 381 (45.47%) DevOps
3 339 (40.45%) Agile
4 264 (31.50%) Event-Driven
5 263 (31.38%) Containerisation
6 225 (26.85%) Software Engineering
7 189 (22.55%) AI
8 178 (21.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 170 (20.29%) Observability
10 157 (18.74%) Test Automation
11 142 (16.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 130 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
14 114 (13.60%) Scrum
15 104 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 103 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (11.22%) Integration Patterns
17 94 (11.22%) TDD
18 92 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (10.86%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 381 (45.47%) Java
2 231 (27.57%) Python
3 207 (24.70%) SQL
4 160 (19.09%) TypeScript
5 135 (16.11%) JavaScript
6 109 (13.01%) C#
7 33 (3.94%) Go
8 23 (2.74%) Ruby
9 17 (2.03%) Bash
9 17 (2.03%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.03%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.31%) Bicep
13 7 (0.84%) PHP
14 5 (0.60%) C++
14 5 (0.60%) Scala
14 5 (0.60%) Solidity
14 5 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 193 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 170 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.37%) Degree
4 37 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.72%) CISSP
10 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) GIAC
13 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.24%) OSCP
15 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.67%) QA
2 26 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.67%) NIST
5 13 (1.55%) SEPA
6 12 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.31%) GDPR
8 7 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.72%) PSD2
9 6 (0.72%) SLA
10 4 (0.48%) WCAG
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) GRC
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 310 (36.99%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 303 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 122 (14.56%) Terraform
3 56 (6.68%) Grafana
4 43 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.70%) Ansible
6 9 (1.07%) Argo
6 9 (1.07%) Istio
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
7 7 (0.84%) Puppet
7 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (11.10%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.28%) Oracle
3 45 (5.37%) Google
4 24 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 16 (1.91%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.79%) IBM
6 15 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.67%) Splunk
8 11 (1.31%) SAP
9 10 (1.19%) New Relic
10 9 (1.07%) Confluent
10 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.95%) Sybase
12 7 (0.84%) Solace
13 6 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.72%) Workday
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.60%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.60%) Veracode
15 4 (0.48%) Jaspersoft