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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 834 670 701
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 4.93% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.35% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 469 507
10th Percentile £407 £390 £402
25th Percentile £463 £454 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £775
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -13.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile - £38.30 £45.10
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.22 £67.00 £49.19
% change year-on-year +7.79% +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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
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 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 -12 95 £555 -5.13% 58
South London -17 24 £545 +2.67% 3
East London +4 9 £432 +12.21% 10
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 (3.12%) CMS
2 21 (2.52%) Confluence
3 20 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.20%) Apache
4 10 (1.20%) Camunda
4 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
6 7 (0.84%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.72%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Mule
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 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 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.72%) 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 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 419 (50.24%) AWS
2 315 (37.77%) Azure
3 158 (18.94%) GCP
4 149 (17.87%) GitHub
5 112 (13.43%) Serverless
6 93 (11.15%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (7.43%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (6.35%) Amazon S3
11 49 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.72%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.76%) OpenShift
16 23 (2.76%) SaaS
17 21 (2.52%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) HTTP
1 7 (0.84%) VPN
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.75%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 50 (6.00%) MongoDB
3 50 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 42 (5.04%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.60%) DynamoDB
5 30 (3.60%) Redis
6 29 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.76%) MySQL
8 20 (2.40%) Power BI
9 18 (2.16%) Big Data
10 17 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 16 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.32%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.32%) Flink
14 10 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 145 (17.39%) Git
2 130 (15.59%) Jenkins
3 82 (9.83%) GitLab
4 55 (6.59%) JUnit
5 36 (4.32%) Mockito
6 34 (4.08%) Gradle
7 32 (3.84%) JIRA
7 32 (3.84%) Maven
8 24 (2.88%) Postman
9 19 (2.28%) Cypress.io
10 17 (2.04%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.80%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.68%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.56%) Selenium
14 11 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.32%) TeamCity
14 11 (1.32%) Vite
15 10 (1.20%) JMeter
15 10 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.96%) Gatling
General
1 231 (27.70%) Finance
2 201 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 129 (15.47%) Banking
4 105 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.24%) Front Office
6 27 (3.24%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.76%) Marketing
8 20 (2.40%) Retail
9 19 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.04%) Law
12 12 (1.44%) Legal
12 12 (1.44%) Retail Banking
13 11 (1.32%) Billing
13 11 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 280 (33.57%) Developer
2 173 (20.74%) Senior
3 159 (19.06%) Architect
4 117 (14.03%) Java Developer
5 80 (9.59%) Lead
6 76 (9.11%) Senior Developer
7 75 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 56 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.52%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.04%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 33 (3.96%) Analyst
15 32 (3.84%) Technical Architect
16 31 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 28 (3.36%) Backend Developer
18 27 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
18 27 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
19 26 (3.12%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (26.62%) Spring
2 195 (23.38%) Spring Boot
3 191 (22.90%) REST
4 181 (21.70%) Kafka
5 165 (19.78%) RESTful
6 148 (17.75%) React
7 106 (12.71%) .NET
8 90 (10.79%) Node.js
9 61 (7.31%) AngularJS
10 53 (6.35%) CSS
11 50 (6.00%) HTML
12 42 (5.04%) OAuth
13 40 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (4.32%) OAuth2
15 32 (3.84%) JSON
16 29 (3.48%) Middleware
17 28 (3.36%) .NET Core
17 28 (3.36%) LangChain
17 28 (3.36%) Playwright
18 27 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 232 (27.82%) Cloud Native
2 207 (24.82%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.63%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.96%) AI Agents
6 31 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 26 (3.12%) Algorithms
8 26 (3.12%) Derivative
9 23 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.28%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.80%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.52%) Linux
2 20 (2.40%) Unix
3 9 (1.08%) Windows
4 7 (0.84%) 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
1 508 (60.91%) CI/CD
2 372 (44.60%) DevOps
3 336 (40.29%) Agile
4 270 (32.37%) Containerisation
5 242 (29.02%) Event-Driven
6 221 (26.50%) Software Engineering
7 180 (21.58%) AI
8 161 (19.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 161 (19.30%) Observability
9 155 (18.59%) Test Automation
10 146 (17.51%) Infrastructure as Code
11 131 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (14.75%) Scrum
14 101 (12.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (11.87%) TDD
16 92 (11.03%) Code Quality
16 92 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
17 81 (9.71%) API Design
17 81 (9.71%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 376 (45.08%) Java
2 230 (27.58%) Python
3 203 (24.34%) SQL
4 156 (18.71%) TypeScript
5 131 (15.71%) JavaScript
6 111 (13.31%) C#
7 35 (4.20%) Go
8 25 (3.00%) Ruby
9 17 (2.04%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.80%) Bash
12 14 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.44%) Bicep
14 9 (1.08%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.60%) C++
16 5 (0.60%) Scala
16 5 (0.60%) Solidity
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 184 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 162 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.24%) Degree
4 38 (4.56%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
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%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (9.11%) QA
2 34 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.28%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.68%) GDPR
4 14 (1.68%) NIST
4 14 (1.68%) SEPA
5 13 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.08%) PSD2
7 8 (0.96%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.48%) WCAG
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
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/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 319 (38.25%) Docker
2 8 (0.96%) 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
1 307 (36.81%) Kubernetes
2 117 (14.03%) Terraform
3 59 (7.07%) Grafana
4 48 (5.76%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.60%) Ansible
6 10 (1.20%) Kibana
7 9 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.96%) Istio
9 7 (0.84%) Argo
9 7 (0.84%) Puppet
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) Bosun
11 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.24%) Rancher
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.12%) linkerd
13 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 93 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.95%) Oracle
3 41 (4.92%) Google
4 27 (3.24%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.80%) IBM
6 15 (1.80%) Splunk
7 12 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.08%) SAP
8 9 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.08%) Sybase
9 8 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.96%) New Relic
9 8 (0.96%) Solace
10 6 (0.72%) Confluent
11 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.60%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.60%) Software AG
11 5 (0.60%) Workday