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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 60 58
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 707 544 702
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.96% 3.59% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 3.99% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 355 530
10th Percentile £375 £407 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £585
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +0.43% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £695
90th Percentile £738 £808 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.29% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £67.13 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £79.25 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% -48.00% +38.25%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £40.08 £76.53
% change year-on-year +68.42% -47.63% +4.48%

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 13,036 13,640 17,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.47% 89.99% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,595 8,770 12,218
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 164 234
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.31
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.65 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +6.23% -12.66%
75th Percentile £47.94 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +6 76 £563 -4.50% 57
South London +8 17 £525 +10.53% 13
West London -16 11 £509 +24.45% 6
East London +10 9 £540 -7.69% 6
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 53 (7.50%) Confluence
2 21 (2.97%) Apache
3 11 (1.56%) CMS
4 7 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.42%) Camunda
5 3 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.42%) nginx
5 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.28%) CICS
6 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.28%) IIS
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.14%) Appian
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.99%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.71%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.57%) Endur
4 4 (0.57%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 350 (49.50%) AWS
2 252 (35.64%) Azure
3 137 (19.38%) Serverless
4 110 (15.56%) GCP
5 108 (15.28%) GitHub
6 80 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
7 69 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (7.36%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.79%) Azure AKS
11 44 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 32 (4.53%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (4.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
16 25 (3.54%) Azure Functions
17 24 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (3.39%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.26%) SSL
2 7 (0.99%) Network Security
3 6 (0.85%) HTTP
4 5 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.57%) Firewall
6 2 (0.28%) DNS
6 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.14%) AMQP
7 1 (0.14%) Broadband
7 1 (0.14%) DSL
7 1 (0.14%) MQTT
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) SAN
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (10.61%) NoSQL
3 66 (9.34%) SQL Server
4 57 (8.06%) MongoDB
5 49 (6.93%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 28 (3.96%) Big Data
8 27 (3.82%) MySQL
9 26 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (3.39%) DynamoDB
11 23 (3.25%) Redis
12 19 (2.69%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.41%) DB2
15 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.99%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 92 (13.01%) Git
2 80 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 78 (11.03%) JIRA
4 53 (7.50%) GitLab
5 45 (6.36%) JUnit
6 27 (3.82%) Mockito
7 22 (3.11%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.83%) Maven
8 20 (2.83%) Postman
9 19 (2.69%) Bitbucket
10 18 (2.55%) Cypress.io
10 18 (2.55%) Selenium
11 14 (1.98%) SpecFlow
12 10 (1.41%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.13%) Gradle
13 8 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.99%) JMeter
14 7 (0.99%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.85%) SoapUI
General
1 218 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 176 (24.89%) Finance
3 124 (17.54%) Banking
4 66 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 58 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.54%) Front Office
7 24 (3.39%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.98%) Retail
9 12 (1.70%) Back Office
9 12 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.85%) Automotive
12 6 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
12 6 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.71%) Military
14 4 (0.57%) Marketing
15 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 318 (44.98%) Developer
2 164 (23.20%) Senior
3 131 (18.53%) Architect
4 122 (17.26%) Java Developer
5 89 (12.59%) Senior Developer
6 45 (6.36%) Lead
7 41 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 37 (5.23%) C# Developer
9 37 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 34 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (4.81%) Java Engineer
11 30 (4.24%) Angular Developer
12 26 (3.68%) Technical Architect
13 25 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (3.39%) Backend Developer
15 22 (3.11%) Lead Developer
16 19 (2.69%) .NET Developer
16 19 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (23.06%) Spring
2 156 (22.07%) Kafka
3 152 (21.50%) Spring Boot
4 137 (19.38%) REST
4 137 (19.38%) RESTful
5 125 (17.68%) React
6 122 (17.26%) .NET
7 105 (14.85%) AngularJS
8 97 (13.72%) Node.js
9 55 (7.78%) HTML
10 49 (6.93%) RabbitMQ
11 40 (5.66%) .NET Core
11 40 (5.66%) JSON
12 38 (5.37%) CSS
13 35 (4.95%) gRPC
14 33 (4.67%) Web Services
15 32 (4.53%) SOAP
16 30 (4.24%) .NET Framework
16 30 (4.24%) OAuth
17 26 (3.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 141 (19.94%) Cloud Native
2 108 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.40%) Derivative
6 15 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.13%) NHS
12 7 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.85%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.68%) Linux
2 17 (2.40%) Unix
3 5 (0.71%) Android
4 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.42%) Windows
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (49.79%) CI/CD
2 337 (47.67%) Agile
3 285 (40.31%) DevOps
4 175 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (22.49%) Containerisation
6 135 (19.09%) Software Engineering
7 104 (14.71%) Event-Driven
7 104 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
8 103 (14.57%) Test Automation
9 98 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 98 (13.86%) Scrum
10 85 (12.02%) TDD
11 71 (10.04%) SDLC
12 67 (9.48%) AI
12 67 (9.48%) Code Quality
13 66 (9.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 65 (9.19%) Design Patterns
15 64 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.91%) API Design
16 63 (8.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 308 (43.56%) Java
2 165 (23.34%) Python
3 163 (23.06%) SQL
4 121 (17.11%) JavaScript
5 117 (16.55%) C#
6 93 (13.15%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.64%) Go
8 21 (2.97%) Bicep
9 13 (1.84%) Kotlin
10 12 (1.70%) Bash
11 11 (1.56%) C++
11 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.27%) PHP
12 9 (1.27%) Ruby
13 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.99%) Scala
15 6 (0.85%) Groovy
15 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.57%) Perl
17 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 128 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 113 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.06%) Degree
4 39 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) CISSP
12 4 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.42%) OCP
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (7.64%) QA
2 15 (2.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.98%) GDPR
4 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.85%) MiFID
5 6 (0.85%) WCAG
6 5 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.42%) NCSC
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) HL7
10 1 (0.14%) EMIR
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 264 (37.34%) Docker
2 24 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 280 (39.60%) Kubernetes
2 125 (17.68%) Terraform
3 24 (3.39%) Ansible
4 21 (2.97%) Grafana
5 20 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.70%) Argo
8 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.57%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.57%) Puppet
10 3 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.28%) Knative
11 2 (0.28%) WMI
12 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.14%) Control-M
12 1 (0.14%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 75 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.80%) Oracle
3 37 (5.23%) Google
4 26 (3.68%) Databricks
5 25 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 21 (2.97%) OpenAI
7 20 (2.83%) Splunk
8 14 (1.98%) HP
9 13 (1.84%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.70%) BMC
10 12 (1.70%) Ivanti
10 12 (1.70%) Remedy
11 10 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
12 9 (1.27%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.27%) Foundry
12 9 (1.27%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.27%) Palantir
13 8 (1.13%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.99%) Red Hat