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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 827 674 657
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 5.03% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.43% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 451 450
10th Percentile £413 £406 £410
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £776
England median daily rate £533 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +0.47% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £54.95 £36.58
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £37.81
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +99.61% -51.42%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.86
90th Percentile - - £42.09
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.33
% change year-on-year -2.99% +62.12% -44.90%

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 17,901 12,416 14,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.82% 92.61% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,708 8,188 9,440
10th Percentile £358 £332 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 243 183
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.48% -2.52%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 92 £555 -5.13% 115
South London -4 24 £535 -13.99% 14
East London -1 5 £750 +38.89% 6
West London -25 4 £500 +5.26% 20
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 35 (4.23%) Confluence
2 22 (2.66%) CMS
3 18 (2.18%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.18%) Camunda
4 10 (1.21%) Apache
5 9 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.85%) nginx
7 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.60%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Quorum
3 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 402 (48.61%) AWS
2 310 (37.48%) Azure
3 156 (18.86%) GitHub
4 152 (18.38%) GCP
5 98 (11.85%) Serverless
6 97 (11.73%) GitHub Actions
7 93 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.93%) Amazon S3
12 47 (5.68%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (4.11%) OpenShift
15 33 (3.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.14%) Anthropic Claude
17 25 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (3.02%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (3.02%) SaaS
18 23 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.73%) Network Security
2 4 (0.48%) VPN
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (13.42%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (10.28%) NoSQL
3 60 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 56 (6.77%) MongoDB
5 44 (5.32%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.23%) MySQL
7 29 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.14%) Redis
9 19 (2.30%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.06%) Big Data
11 17 (2.06%) Power BI
12 13 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.97%) Flink
15 8 (0.97%) Metadata
15 8 (0.97%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.97%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 156 (18.86%) Jenkins
2 149 (18.02%) Git
3 111 (13.42%) GitLab
4 49 (5.93%) JUnit
5 46 (5.56%) JIRA
6 43 (5.20%) Maven
7 37 (4.47%) Gradle
8 32 (3.87%) Mockito
9 28 (3.39%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.90%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.66%) Selenium
12 20 (2.42%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.30%) Postman
14 16 (1.93%) Cucumber
14 16 (1.93%) JMeter
15 12 (1.45%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.33%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.33%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.97%) Gatling
17 8 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 252 (30.47%) Finance
2 210 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 149 (18.02%) Banking
4 91 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 86 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.75%) Investment Banking
6 31 (3.75%) Retail
7 25 (3.02%) Front Office
8 20 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.93%) Marketing
10 15 (1.81%) Retail Banking
11 13 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.45%) Billing
12 12 (1.45%) Law
13 9 (1.09%) Local Government
13 9 (1.09%) Police
14 7 (0.85%) Legal
14 7 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 287 (34.70%) Developer
2 163 (19.71%) Senior
3 144 (17.41%) Architect
4 109 (13.18%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.31%) Lead
6 66 (7.98%) Software Engineer
7 65 (7.86%) Senior Developer
8 63 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 57 (6.89%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (6.41%) Java Engineer
11 45 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 39 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 38 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.63%) Python Developer
15 28 (3.39%) .NET Developer
16 27 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
17 26 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.02%) Senior Software Engineer
19 24 (2.90%) Backend Developer
20 22 (2.66%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (27.69%) REST
2 217 (26.24%) Spring
3 210 (25.39%) Kafka
4 201 (24.30%) Spring Boot
5 158 (19.11%) RESTful
6 154 (18.62%) React
7 138 (16.69%) Terraform
8 108 (13.06%) .NET
9 84 (10.16%) Node.js
10 64 (7.74%) AngularJS
11 62 (7.50%) HTML
12 61 (7.38%) CSS
13 55 (6.65%) OAuth
14 45 (5.44%) OAuth2
15 43 (5.20%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (4.59%) HTML5
17 35 (4.23%) SOAP
18 34 (4.11%) .NET Core
18 34 (4.11%) CSS3
19 33 (3.99%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 266 (32.16%) Cloud Native
2 203 (24.55%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (11.12%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
5 45 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (4.47%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.87%) Onboarding
8 26 (3.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.90%) Derivative
10 19 (2.30%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.30%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.69%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.45%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 10 (1.21%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.89%) Linux
2 29 (3.51%) Unix
3 11 (1.33%) Windows
4 7 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (63.72%) CI/CD
2 383 (46.31%) DevOps
3 346 (41.84%) Agile
4 300 (36.28%) Event-Driven
5 224 (27.09%) Containerisation
6 210 (25.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 208 (25.15%) Software Engineering
8 200 (24.18%) AI
9 177 (21.40%) Test Automation
10 163 (19.71%) Observability
11 146 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
12 137 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 137 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 124 (14.99%) Scrum
14 120 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 116 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
16 113 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
17 89 (10.76%) TDD
18 88 (10.64%) Code Quality
19 87 (10.52%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 368 (44.50%) Java
2 243 (29.38%) Python
3 199 (24.06%) SQL
4 160 (19.35%) TypeScript
5 153 (18.50%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.54%) C#
7 33 (3.99%) Go
8 26 (3.14%) Bash
9 19 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.18%) PL/SQL
10 18 (2.18%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.57%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.45%) Bicep
13 10 (1.21%) Ruby
14 8 (0.97%) PHP
15 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 4 (0.48%) Solidity
17 3 (0.36%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 193 (23.34%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.68%) Degree
4 40 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.63%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.60%) CISSP
12 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) ISEB
14 2 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.61%) QA
2 22 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.30%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.69%) NIST
5 14 (1.69%) SEPA
6 11 (1.33%) GDPR
7 6 (0.73%) NCSC
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.73%) PSD2
7 6 (0.73%) SLA
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.36%) GRC
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 306 (37.00%) Docker
2 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 303 (36.64%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.38%) Grafana
3 47 (5.68%) Prometheus
4 41 (4.96%) Ansible
5 13 (1.57%) Kibana
6 11 (1.33%) Argo
7 9 (1.09%) Istio
8 7 (0.85%) Puppet
9 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.24%) Control-M
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 89 (10.76%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.77%) Oracle
3 53 (6.41%) Google
4 27 (3.26%) Splunk
5 25 (3.02%) OpenAI
6 17 (2.06%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.93%) SAP
8 15 (1.81%) IBM
8 15 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.33%) Databricks
10 9 (1.09%) New Relic
11 8 (0.97%) Veracode
12 7 (0.85%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.73%) Confluent
13 6 (0.73%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.73%) Sybase
13 6 (0.73%) Workday
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.60%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.60%) Solace