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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 827 669 711
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 4.90% 4.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.32% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 461 518
10th Percentile £406 £390 £403
25th Percentile £463 £450 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £548 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.29% -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile - £38.30 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £43.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £92.50 £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £67.00 £49.19
% change year-on-year +13.43% +36.21% -32.15%

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 17,611 12,570 15,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,652 8,414 10,744
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 239 254
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.63 £24.66 £20.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £33.53
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.53% -22.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.88 £51.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £70.73
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -14 92 £555 -5.13% 55
South London -17 22 £545 +2.43% 3
East London +3 9 £432 +12.21% 8
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 (3.02%) CMS
2 22 (2.66%) Confluence
3 20 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.45%) Ethereum
5 11 (1.33%) Camunda
5 11 (1.33%) Hyperledger
6 10 (1.21%) Apache
6 10 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.97%) nginx
8 6 (0.73%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.60%) Mule
10 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.24%) Drupal
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.73%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 415 (50.18%) AWS
2 308 (37.24%) Azure
3 149 (18.02%) GCP
4 142 (17.17%) GitHub
5 109 (13.18%) Serverless
6 91 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
7 87 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (6.53%) Amazon S3
10 52 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.75%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (2.90%) OpenShift
16 24 (2.90%) SaaS
17 20 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.45%) HTTP
2 6 (0.73%) Network Security
2 6 (0.73%) VPN
3 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.24%) 4G
3 2 (0.24%) 5G
3 2 (0.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.24%) FTP
3 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.24%) Internet
3 2 (0.24%) LTE
3 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) NaaS
4 1 (0.12%) RFID
4 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.29%) MongoDB
4 49 (5.93%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.96%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
6 30 (3.63%) DynamoDB
7 27 (3.26%) Redis
8 23 (2.78%) MySQL
9 20 (2.42%) Power BI
10 18 (2.18%) Big Data
11 16 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
11 16 (1.93%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.33%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.33%) Flink
14 10 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.85%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 149 (18.02%) Git
2 128 (15.48%) Jenkins
3 82 (9.92%) GitLab
4 60 (7.26%) JUnit
5 39 (4.72%) JIRA
6 37 (4.47%) Mockito
7 35 (4.23%) Gradle
8 33 (3.99%) Maven
9 24 (2.90%) Postman
10 18 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 17 (2.06%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.93%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.81%) Liquibase
14 14 (1.69%) Selenium
15 11 (1.33%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.33%) TeamCity
15 11 (1.33%) Vite
16 10 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.97%) JMeter
17 8 (0.97%) MSTest
General
1 227 (27.45%) Finance
2 196 (23.70%) Social Skills
3 130 (15.72%) Banking
4 102 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 71 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.26%) Front Office
7 26 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.78%) Marketing
9 19 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.06%) Law
12 16 (1.93%) Retail
13 13 (1.57%) Legal
14 12 (1.45%) Retail Banking
15 11 (1.33%) Billing
16 10 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.85%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 278 (33.62%) Developer
2 170 (20.56%) Senior
3 156 (18.86%) Architect
4 116 (14.03%) Java Developer
5 81 (9.79%) Lead
6 75 (9.07%) Software Engineer
7 73 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 55 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (4.11%) Analyst
14 33 (3.99%) Senior Java Developer
15 32 (3.87%) Technical Architect
16 30 (3.63%) Backend Developer
17 28 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 26 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
18 26 (3.14%) C# Developer
19 25 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (26.48%) Spring
2 193 (23.34%) Spring Boot
3 186 (22.49%) REST
4 176 (21.28%) Kafka
5 161 (19.47%) RESTful
6 147 (17.78%) React
7 108 (13.06%) .NET
8 90 (10.88%) Node.js
9 66 (7.98%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.17%) CSS
11 48 (5.80%) HTML
12 41 (4.96%) OAuth
13 37 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
14 34 (4.11%) OAuth2
15 29 (3.51%) Middleware
16 28 (3.39%) Playwright
17 27 (3.26%) .NET Core
17 27 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
18 26 (3.14%) JSON
19 25 (3.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 220 (26.60%) Cloud Native
2 196 (23.70%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (8.95%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.14%) AI Agents
6 26 (3.14%) Derivative
6 26 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.66%) Algorithms
9 21 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.18%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.06%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.69%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.33%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 9 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.68%) Linux
2 19 (2.30%) Unix
3 9 (1.09%) Windows
4 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (60.22%) CI/CD
2 360 (43.53%) DevOps
3 339 (40.99%) Agile
4 259 (31.32%) Containerisation
5 228 (27.57%) Event-Driven
6 217 (26.24%) Software Engineering
7 172 (20.80%) AI
8 151 (18.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 150 (18.14%) Observability
10 149 (18.02%) Test Automation
11 138 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 129 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
13 128 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
14 126 (15.24%) Scrum
15 100 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 99 (11.97%) TDD
17 93 (11.25%) Code Quality
18 88 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
19 80 (9.67%) API Design
20 78 (9.43%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 375 (45.34%) Java
2 226 (27.33%) Python
3 201 (24.30%) SQL
4 160 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 130 (15.72%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.54%) C#
7 35 (4.23%) Go
8 26 (3.14%) Ruby
9 17 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 15 (1.81%) Bash
11 14 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.33%) Bicep
13 9 (1.09%) PHP
14 7 (0.85%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.73%) Solidity
16 5 (0.60%) C++
16 5 (0.60%) Scala
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 184 (22.25%) Security Cleared
2 165 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.93%) Degree
4 37 (4.47%) AWS Certification
4 37 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.30%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.73%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
16 1 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (9.07%) QA
2 34 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.18%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.69%) GDPR
4 14 (1.69%) NIST
4 14 (1.69%) SEPA
5 12 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.09%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.09%) PSD2
7 8 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.48%) WCAG
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) HL7
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 15022
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 308 (37.24%) Docker
2 8 (0.97%) 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
1 297 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 110 (13.30%) Terraform
3 59 (7.13%) Grafana
4 47 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 29 (3.51%) Ansible
6 10 (1.21%) Kibana
6 10 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.97%) Istio
8 7 (0.85%) Argo
8 7 (0.85%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 92 (11.12%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.77%) Oracle
3 34 (4.11%) Google
4 22 (2.66%) OpenAI
5 15 (1.81%) Dynatrace
5 15 (1.81%) Splunk
6 14 (1.69%) IBM
7 10 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.09%) Sybase
9 8 (0.97%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.97%) SAP
9 8 (0.97%) Solace
10 6 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 6 (0.73%) Confluent
10 6 (0.73%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.73%) Software AG
11 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.60%) New Relic
12 4 (0.48%) AppDynamics