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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -25
Contract jobs citing Microservices 668 684 963
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.01% 4.26% 4.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 4.78% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 480 719
10th Percentile £410 £412 £450
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £752 £775 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £40.78 £40.59 £76.50
25th Percentile £62.00 £40.62 £78.75
Median hourly rate £76.75 £41.33 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -49.91% +12.24%
75th Percentile £87.50 £42.12 £86.25
90th Percentile £91.25 £42.20 £88.50
England median hourly rate £67.00 £41.50 £73.75
% change year-on-year +61.45% -43.73% +8.46%

All Process and 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 12,340 14,309 20,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.56% 89.21% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,163 9,544 14,525
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 180 230
10th Percentile £17.02 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.81
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%
75th Percentile £48.75 £55.00 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 86 £585 -14.91% 81
South London +6 23 £622 +27.59% 4
West London -10 11 £475 -2.56% 6
East London +12 8 £540 -2.26%
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (7.78%) Confluence
2 15 (2.25%) Apache
2 15 (2.25%) CMS
3 7 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.60%) Camunda
6 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.30%) IIS
7 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) CICS
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.15%) Mule
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.65%) FLEXCUBE
2 11 (1.65%) Oracle BPM
3 7 (1.05%) Endur
4 6 (0.90%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
6 4 (0.60%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.60%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
9 1 (0.15%) Eikon
9 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.15%) RMDS
9 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 311 (46.56%) AWS
2 181 (27.10%) Azure
3 101 (15.12%) Serverless
4 91 (13.62%) GCP
5 83 (12.43%) GitHub
6 44 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 30 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (3.89%) Azure AKS
12 23 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 20 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.54%) SaaS
17 16 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.84%) SSL
2 17 (2.54%) HTTP
3 13 (1.95%) Firewall
4 12 (1.80%) DNS
5 6 (0.90%) FTP
5 6 (0.90%) SMTP
5 6 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (0.45%) VPN
8 2 (0.30%) Internet
8 2 (0.30%) LAN
8 2 (0.30%) SMS
9 1 (0.15%) AMQP
9 1 (0.15%) Broadband
9 1 (0.15%) DSL
9 1 (0.15%) MQTT
9 1 (0.15%) SAN
9 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.77%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (10.03%) SQL Server
3 65 (9.73%) NoSQL
4 44 (6.59%) Relational Database
5 42 (6.29%) MongoDB
6 34 (5.09%) Apache Cassandra
7 31 (4.64%) Redis
8 25 (3.74%) Big Data
9 22 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.99%) MySQL
11 19 (2.84%) DynamoDB
12 17 (2.54%) Hadoop
13 11 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.65%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.20%) DB2
15 7 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.05%) RDBMS
16 6 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
17 5 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
17 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 88 (13.17%) Jenkins
2 86 (12.87%) Git
3 72 (10.78%) JIRA
4 42 (6.29%) JUnit
5 41 (6.14%) GitLab
6 32 (4.79%) Mockito
7 23 (3.44%) Bitbucket
7 23 (3.44%) Maven
7 23 (3.44%) Postman
8 20 (2.99%) Cypress.io
9 19 (2.84%) Gradle
10 18 (2.69%) SonarQube
11 16 (2.40%) TeamCity
12 15 (2.25%) Cucumber
13 14 (2.10%) REST Assured
14 13 (1.95%) SpecFlow
15 10 (1.50%) JMeter
15 10 (1.50%) Liquibase
15 10 (1.50%) Selenium
15 10 (1.50%) SoapUI
General
1 214 (32.04%) Finance
2 193 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 143 (21.41%) Banking
4 70 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 58 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.94%) Front Office
6 33 (4.94%) Investment Banking
7 27 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.40%) Marketing
9 14 (2.10%) Military
10 13 (1.95%) Back Office
11 12 (1.80%) Retail
12 10 (1.50%) Electronics
12 10 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Automotive
15 6 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.90%) Legal
16 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 288 (43.11%) Developer
2 131 (19.61%) Architect
2 131 (19.61%) Senior
3 112 (16.77%) Java Developer
4 73 (10.93%) Senior Developer
5 54 (8.08%) Lead
6 46 (6.89%) Software Engineer
7 40 (5.99%) C# Developer
8 39 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 32 (4.79%) Java Engineer
12 29 (4.34%) Angular Developer
13 28 (4.19%) Senior Architect
14 24 (3.59%) Technical Architect
15 23 (3.44%) Lead Developer
16 20 (2.99%) .NET Developer
16 20 (2.99%) Backend Developer
16 20 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.99%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (23.80%) Kafka
2 143 (21.41%) Spring
3 138 (20.66%) Spring Boot
4 116 (17.37%) React
5 111 (16.62%) REST
6 109 (16.32%) .NET
7 96 (14.37%) RESTful
8 88 (13.17%) Node.js
9 82 (12.28%) AngularJS
10 57 (8.53%) HTML
11 41 (6.14%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.99%) gRPC
12 40 (5.99%) Web Services
13 37 (5.54%) CSS
14 35 (5.24%) JSON
14 35 (5.24%) SOAP
15 33 (4.94%) HTML5
15 33 (4.94%) Swagger
16 31 (4.64%) GraphQL
17 29 (4.34%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 111 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 96 (14.37%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.54%) Derivative
7 14 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 14 (2.10%) Mobile App
8 13 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.20%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.44%) Linux
2 16 (2.40%) Unix
3 11 (1.65%) Windows
4 6 (0.90%) Android
5 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) AIX
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (47.60%) Agile
2 292 (43.71%) CI/CD
3 240 (35.93%) DevOps
4 144 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (20.51%) Software Engineering
6 115 (17.22%) Containerisation
7 111 (16.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (15.72%) Scrum
9 101 (15.12%) Event-Driven
10 87 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 79 (11.83%) Test Automation
12 78 (11.68%) TDD
13 68 (10.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 61 (9.13%) Migration
15 57 (8.53%) Roadmaps
16 56 (8.38%) Clean Code
16 56 (8.38%) Mentoring
17 54 (8.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 53 (7.93%) API Development
18 53 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 298 (44.61%) Java
2 143 (21.41%) SQL
3 136 (20.36%) Python
4 122 (18.26%) JavaScript
5 121 (18.11%) C#
6 93 (13.92%) TypeScript
7 53 (7.93%) Go
8 20 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 18 (2.69%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.54%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.54%) Shell Script
11 15 (2.25%) C++
12 13 (1.95%) Bash
13 11 (1.65%) Groovy
14 10 (1.50%) Bicep
15 8 (1.20%) Scala
16 7 (1.05%) PHP
17 4 (0.60%) COBOL
17 4 (0.60%) PromQL
18 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 115 (17.22%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.34%) Degree
4 23 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.54%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 10 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.60%) CISSP
11 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.45%) CEH
11 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.93%) QA
2 14 (2.10%) GDPR
3 9 (1.35%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.75%) MiFID
6 4 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.45%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.45%) WCAG
8 2 (0.30%) HL7
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 15022
8 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.15%) FATCA
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 206 (30.84%) Docker
2 11 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 233 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 96 (14.37%) Terraform
3 33 (4.94%) Grafana
4 27 (4.04%) Prometheus
5 21 (3.14%) Ansible
6 16 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.65%) Puppet
8 8 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.75%) Istio
10 3 (0.45%) Kibana
11 2 (0.30%) Argo
11 2 (0.30%) WMI
12 1 (0.15%) Control-M
12 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.15%) logstash
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.74%) Oracle
3 39 (5.84%) Google
4 27 (4.04%) Splunk
5 24 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 17 (2.54%) SAP
7 15 (2.25%) HP
8 14 (2.10%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.80%) BMC
9 12 (1.80%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.80%) Remedy
9 12 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
11 9 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.35%) Foundry
11 9 (1.35%) IBM
11 9 (1.35%) Palantir
12 8 (1.20%) Databricks