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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 53
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 799 552 729
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 4.48% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 4.85% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 379 535
10th Percentile £402 £398 £413
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £716 £688
90th Percentile £775 £803 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -14.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £37.48 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £41.19 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% -0.40% -30.56%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.00 -
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 16,789 11,383 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.79% 92.33% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,185 7,624 11,131
10th Percentile £360 £344 £343
25th Percentile £434 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -24.29%
75th Percentile £58.94 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -22 81 £555 -5.13% 41
South London -19 20 £541 +8.72%
East London +3 8 £432 +72.80% 5
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 20 (2.50%) Confluence
2 19 (2.38%) CMS
3 18 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.63%) Camunda
5 12 (1.50%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.38%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.25%) Apache
8 8 (1.00%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.88%) Mule
9 7 (0.88%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.75%) nginx
11 4 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.25%) Drupal
13 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.25%) WordPress
14 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (0.63%) 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 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.75%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.63%) Quorum
3 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.50%) Ripple
4 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 412 (51.56%) AWS
2 280 (35.04%) Azure
3 134 (16.77%) GCP
4 127 (15.89%) GitHub
5 100 (12.52%) Serverless
6 86 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
9 61 (7.63%) Amazon S3
10 49 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (3.63%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.50%) SaaS
18 22 (2.75%) PaaS
19 20 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 19 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.50%) HTTP
2 6 (0.75%) DNS
3 5 (0.63%) VPN
4 4 (0.50%) Network Security
5 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.38%) 5G
6 2 (0.25%) 4G
6 2 (0.25%) FTP
6 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.25%) Internet
6 2 (0.25%) LTE
6 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.25%) SSL
6 2 (0.25%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.13%) Firewall
7 1 (0.13%) NaaS
7 1 (0.13%) RFID
7 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 56 (7.01%) MongoDB
4 45 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 40 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.76%) Redis
7 36 (4.51%) Relational Database
8 33 (4.13%) DynamoDB
9 29 (3.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 24 (3.00%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.88%) MySQL
12 19 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 15 (1.88%) Power BI
14 14 (1.75%) Big Data
15 11 (1.38%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.38%) Flink
16 7 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 123 (15.39%) Jenkins
2 122 (15.27%) Git
3 88 (11.01%) GitLab
4 52 (6.51%) JUnit
5 38 (4.76%) JIRA
6 35 (4.38%) Mockito
7 27 (3.38%) Gradle
8 24 (3.00%) Maven
9 21 (2.63%) Postman
10 18 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.88%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.75%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.25%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.00%) MSTest
15 8 (1.00%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.88%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.88%) Selenium
16 7 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 209 (26.16%) Finance
2 178 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 127 (15.89%) Banking
4 90 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.25%) Front Office
7 25 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.50%) Retail
9 19 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.38%) Marketing
10 17 (2.13%) Law
11 16 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.63%) Legal
13 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.25%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.63%) Police
18 4 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
18 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 262 (32.79%) Developer
2 173 (21.65%) Senior
3 137 (17.15%) Architect
4 104 (13.02%) Java Developer
5 76 (9.51%) Lead
6 73 (9.14%) Senior Developer
6 73 (9.14%) Software Engineer
7 55 (6.88%) Java Engineer
8 46 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
9 42 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.26%) Analyst
12 33 (4.13%) C# Developer
13 32 (4.01%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.63%) Backend Developer
15 28 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 28 (3.50%) Senior Java Developer
16 24 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (2.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (27.91%) Spring
2 201 (25.16%) Spring Boot
3 179 (22.40%) Kafka
4 161 (20.15%) RESTful
5 157 (19.65%) REST
6 129 (16.15%) React
7 94 (11.76%) .NET
8 87 (10.89%) Node.js
9 71 (8.89%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.38%) Middleware
10 43 (5.38%) OAuth
11 38 (4.76%) CSS
12 37 (4.63%) HTML
13 35 (4.38%) OAuth2
13 35 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
14 33 (4.13%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (3.50%) JSON
16 27 (3.38%) gRPC
17 25 (3.13%) LangChain
18 24 (3.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 198 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 173 (21.65%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.75%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.00%) AI Agents
6 24 (3.00%) Derivative
6 24 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.38%) Algorithms
9 14 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 14 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.13%) Linux
2 19 (2.38%) Unix
3 8 (1.00%) Windows
4 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) 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 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (57.07%) CI/CD
2 335 (41.93%) DevOps
3 301 (37.67%) Agile
4 244 (30.54%) Containerisation
5 214 (26.78%) Software Engineering
6 194 (24.28%) Event-Driven
7 150 (18.77%) Observability
8 148 (18.52%) AI
8 148 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 117 (14.64%) Test Automation
10 116 (14.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 110 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (13.77%) Scrum
12 108 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 102 (12.77%) TDD
14 76 (9.51%) API Design
15 75 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (9.26%) Integration Patterns
17 73 (9.14%) Code Quality
18 70 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 367 (45.93%) Java
2 210 (26.28%) Python
3 198 (24.78%) SQL
4 132 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 107 (13.39%) JavaScript
6 95 (11.89%) C#
7 35 (4.38%) Go
8 26 (3.25%) Ruby
9 15 (1.88%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.38%) Bash
11 11 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.13%) PHP
13 8 (1.00%) Bicep
14 7 (0.88%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.75%) Solidity
16 4 (0.50%) C++
16 4 (0.50%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.50%) Rust
16 4 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.51%) Degree
4 39 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.01%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.13%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.88%) CISSP
11 7 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.50%) OSCP
13 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.38%) CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.38%) MBA
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.14%) QA
2 33 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.25%) NIST
4 16 (2.00%) GDPR
5 15 (1.88%) ISO 20022
6 14 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.63%) PSD2
8 11 (1.38%) SEPA
9 9 (1.13%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) WCAG
11 3 (0.38%) NCSC
11 3 (0.38%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 317 (39.67%) Docker
2 13 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.38%) Postfix
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 297 (37.17%) Kubernetes
2 113 (14.14%) Terraform
3 58 (7.26%) Grafana
4 49 (6.13%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.75%) Ansible
6 15 (1.88%) Istio
6 15 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.75%) Argo
8 9 (1.13%) Kibana
9 7 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.63%) Puppet
11 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.25%) 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 74 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.88%) Oracle
3 32 (4.01%) Google
4 23 (2.88%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.88%) IBM
7 14 (1.75%) Splunk
8 11 (1.38%) Sybase
9 10 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 10 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.25%) Software AG
10 9 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.88%) Confluent
11 7 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.88%) SAP
12 6 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.75%) Solace
13 4 (0.50%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.50%) Rapid7