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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 51 54
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 781 543 699
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.47% 3.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.85% 4.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 374 509
10th Percentile £402 £400 £418
25th Percentile £450 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £723 £688
90th Percentile £775 £809 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £39.13 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -30.56%
75th Percentile £96.88 £72.88 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +40.91% +16.64% -34.96%

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 16,474 11,204 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.30% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,987 7,490 11,076
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 196 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -23 76 £555 -5.13% 79
South London -19 20 £541 +11.52% 1
East London +1 8 £432 +72.80% 4
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 21 (2.69%) Confluence
2 18 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.30%) CMS
3 13 (1.66%) Camunda
4 12 (1.54%) Ethereum
5 11 (1.41%) Apache
5 11 (1.41%) Hyperledger
6 7 (0.90%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.77%) Mule
7 6 (0.77%) nginx
8 5 (0.64%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.64%) Quorum
3 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.51%) Ripple
4 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (51.22%) AWS
2 274 (35.08%) Azure
3 129 (16.52%) GCP
4 123 (15.75%) GitHub
5 101 (12.93%) Serverless
6 82 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.17%) Amazon S3
10 44 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.97%) Amazon SQS
13 31 (3.97%) SaaS
14 30 (3.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.46%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.33%) PaaS
18 19 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 19 (2.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 5 (0.64%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.52%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (10.37%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.17%) MongoDB
4 46 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (4.61%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.48%) Redis
8 33 (4.23%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.84%) Apache Cassandra
10 24 (3.07%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.94%) MySQL
12 18 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.79%) Power BI
14 12 (1.54%) Big Data
15 11 (1.41%) Flink
16 10 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (15.11%) Git
2 115 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 81 (10.37%) GitLab
4 49 (6.27%) JUnit
5 40 (5.12%) JIRA
6 35 (4.48%) Mockito
7 25 (3.20%) Gradle
8 22 (2.82%) Maven
9 20 (2.56%) Postman
10 18 (2.30%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.92%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.79%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (1.41%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.15%) Zephyr
15 8 (1.02%) MSTest
16 7 (0.90%) Gatling
16 7 (0.90%) JMeter
16 7 (0.90%) Selenium
16 7 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 202 (25.86%) Finance
2 178 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 123 (15.75%) Banking
4 85 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.33%) Front Office
7 23 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.43%) Retail
9 18 (2.30%) Marketing
10 16 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.66%) Legal
12 12 (1.54%) Law
12 12 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.15%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 258 (33.03%) Developer
2 169 (21.64%) Senior
3 140 (17.93%) Architect
4 97 (12.42%) Java Developer
5 74 (9.48%) Senior Developer
6 72 (9.22%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.83%) Lead
8 52 (6.66%) Java Engineer
9 47 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.61%) Technical Architect
12 34 (4.35%) C# Developer
13 32 (4.10%) Analyst
14 30 (3.84%) Backend Developer
15 28 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
17 24 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
18 22 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
18 22 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (27.66%) Spring
2 195 (24.97%) Spring Boot
3 175 (22.41%) Kafka
4 158 (20.23%) RESTful
5 148 (18.95%) REST
6 126 (16.13%) React
7 99 (12.68%) .NET
8 82 (10.50%) Node.js
9 72 (9.22%) AngularJS
10 42 (5.38%) Middleware
11 41 (5.25%) OAuth
12 37 (4.74%) CSS
13 35 (4.48%) HTML
14 34 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
15 33 (4.23%) OAuth2
16 31 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (3.46%) gRPC
18 25 (3.20%) JSON
18 25 (3.20%) Web Services
19 24 (3.07%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 187 (23.94%) Cloud Native
2 164 (21.00%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (2.82%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.69%) Derivative
8 21 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (2.18%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.66%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.89%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Unix
3 8 (1.02%) Windows
4 7 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.38%) zOS
7 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (56.34%) CI/CD
2 323 (41.36%) DevOps
3 291 (37.26%) Agile
4 234 (29.96%) Containerisation
5 208 (26.63%) Software Engineering
6 184 (23.56%) Event-Driven
7 148 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 145 (18.57%) Observability
9 139 (17.80%) AI
10 115 (14.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 114 (14.60%) Test Automation
12 105 (13.44%) Scrum
13 104 (13.32%) Full-Stack Development
14 103 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
15 99 (12.68%) TDD
16 74 (9.48%) Code Quality
17 72 (9.22%) API Design
18 71 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 68 (8.71%) Migration
20 67 (8.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 351 (44.94%) Java
2 203 (25.99%) SQL
3 199 (25.48%) Python
4 128 (16.39%) TypeScript
5 104 (13.32%) JavaScript
6 96 (12.29%) C#
7 36 (4.61%) Go
8 26 (3.33%) Ruby
9 15 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.66%) Bicep
10 13 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.41%) Bash
13 9 (1.15%) PHP
14 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Solidity
16 4 (0.51%) C++
16 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.51%) Scala
17 3 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 172 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 148 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.17%) Degree
4 43 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.77%) CISSP
11 6 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.51%) OSCP
14 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.38%) CCSP
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) MBA
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.32%) QA
2 29 (3.71%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.18%) NIST
4 16 (2.05%) GDPR
5 15 (1.92%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.66%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.66%) PSD2
7 12 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.28%) SEPA
9 9 (1.15%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.64%) SLA
11 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.38%) TARGET2
12 3 (0.38%) WCAG
13 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.26%) NCSC
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 308 (39.44%) Docker
2 15 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) Postfix
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 290 (37.13%) Kubernetes
2 111 (14.21%) Terraform
3 58 (7.43%) Grafana
4 49 (6.27%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.43%) Ansible
6 15 (1.92%) Istio
7 14 (1.79%) Argo
7 14 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.15%) Kibana
9 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.77%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.26%) Rancher
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
13 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 75 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.89%) Oracle
3 28 (3.59%) Google
4 20 (2.56%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.79%) IBM
6 14 (1.79%) Splunk
7 10 (1.28%) Software AG
7 10 (1.28%) Sybase
8 9 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
9 8 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.77%) SAP
12 5 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.51%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.51%) New Relic