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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 63 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -24
Contract jobs citing Microservices 667 491 651
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.66% 3.52% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.90% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 318 485
10th Percentile £375 £409 £415
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +2.14% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £67.13 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £79.25 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £73.88 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +89.44% -37.58% -14.41%

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 13,078 12,600 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.28% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,638 8,043 11,412
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.60 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.60 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -1 77 £575 -2.25% 71
South London +8 22 £525 +10.53% 12
West London -15 8 £550 +34.47% 7
East London 0 4 £563 -3.85% 8
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 41 (6.15%) Confluence
2 19 (2.85%) Apache
3 7 (1.05%) CMS
3 7 (1.05%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) Camunda
5 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.30%) CICS
6 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Mule
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 337 (50.52%) AWS
2 243 (36.43%) Azure
3 134 (20.09%) Serverless
4 117 (17.54%) GitHub
5 109 (16.34%) GCP
6 81 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (8.40%) Amazon S3
10 48 (7.20%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (7.20%) Azure AKS
11 41 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (4.05%) Azure Functions
15 27 (4.05%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.05%) Network Security
1 7 (1.05%) SSL
2 6 (0.90%) DNS
3 5 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.60%) HTTP
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.84%) NoSQL
2 75 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (8.10%) SQL Server
4 52 (7.80%) MongoDB
5 45 (6.75%) Apache Cassandra
5 45 (6.75%) Relational Database
6 29 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (4.20%) MySQL
7 28 (4.20%) Redis
8 26 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 24 (3.60%) Big Data
10 18 (2.70%) Hadoop
11 17 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.95%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.50%) DB2
15 8 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (1.20%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.05%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 88 (13.19%) Git
2 81 (12.14%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.45%) JIRA
4 59 (8.85%) GitLab
5 35 (5.25%) JUnit
6 21 (3.15%) Cucumber
7 20 (3.00%) Mockito
8 18 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 16 (2.40%) Selenium
10 15 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 14 (2.10%) Maven
11 14 (2.10%) Postman
12 12 (1.80%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.35%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.05%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.90%) Gatling
15 6 (0.90%) Gradle
15 6 (0.90%) Liquibase
16 5 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 197 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 161 (24.14%) Finance
3 120 (17.99%) Banking
4 62 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (3.00%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.85%) Front Office
8 12 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.35%) Retail
10 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.90%) Back Office
11 6 (0.90%) Legal
12 4 (0.60%) Military
13 3 (0.45%) Marketing
14 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (43.18%) Developer
2 158 (23.69%) Senior
3 108 (16.19%) Architect
4 99 (14.84%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.89%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 41 (6.15%) Lead
8 40 (6.00%) C# Developer
8 40 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (5.25%) Java Engineer
10 33 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
10 33 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 25 (3.75%) Angular Developer
12 24 (3.60%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.45%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.45%) Technical Architect
14 20 (3.00%) .NET Developer
15 18 (2.70%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (23.69%) Kafka
2 153 (22.94%) Spring
3 143 (21.44%) Spring Boot
4 134 (20.09%) RESTful
5 119 (17.84%) REST
6 116 (17.39%) React
7 109 (16.34%) .NET
8 94 (14.09%) Node.js
9 87 (13.04%) AngularJS
10 41 (6.15%) gRPC
11 40 (6.00%) HTML
12 36 (5.40%) .NET Core
13 35 (5.25%) OAuth
14 34 (5.10%) Middleware
14 34 (5.10%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (4.65%) CSS
16 28 (4.20%) JSON
17 24 (3.60%) Entity Framework
17 24 (3.60%) Vue
18 23 (3.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 131 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 108 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.25%) Derivative
6 13 (1.95%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.20%) NHS
11 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.90%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.90%) Hedge funds
12 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.20%) Linux
2 17 (2.55%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) zOS
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (50.52%) CI/CD
2 289 (43.33%) Agile
3 283 (42.43%) DevOps
4 165 (24.74%) Containerisation
5 160 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (21.44%) Software Engineering
7 110 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 104 (15.59%) Event-Driven
9 99 (14.84%) Test Automation
10 95 (14.24%) Full-Stack Development
11 85 (12.74%) TDD
12 77 (11.54%) Scrum
13 68 (10.19%) AI
13 68 (10.19%) Design Patterns
13 68 (10.19%) Observability
14 67 (10.04%) SDLC
15 66 (9.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 61 (9.15%) Code Quality
17 59 (8.85%) Clean Code
17 59 (8.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 275 (41.23%) Java
2 166 (24.89%) SQL
3 156 (23.39%) Python
4 105 (15.74%) C#
5 102 (15.29%) JavaScript
6 85 (12.74%) TypeScript
7 58 (8.70%) Go
8 19 (2.85%) Bicep
9 12 (1.80%) Ruby
10 11 (1.65%) Bash
11 10 (1.50%) C++
11 10 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.35%) PHP
13 6 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.90%) Scala
14 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.60%) Groovy
15 4 (0.60%) Perl
16 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 131 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 116 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.10%) Degree
4 40 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.85%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.10%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.75%) MCP
13 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.45%) CCSP
15 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.85%) QA
2 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.65%) GDPR
5 8 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.90%) WCAG
7 5 (0.75%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.75%) NIST
8 4 (0.60%) PSD2
9 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.30%) HL7
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
10 2 (0.30%) SEPA
10 2 (0.30%) SLA
11 1 (0.15%) EMIR
11 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 276 (41.38%) Docker
2 27 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 280 (41.98%) Kubernetes
2 129 (19.34%) Terraform
3 28 (4.20%) Grafana
4 22 (3.30%) Ansible
5 21 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.85%) Argo
7 16 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.50%) Istio
9 6 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.75%) Puppet
11 4 (0.60%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.30%) Knative
14 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
14 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.15%) Foglight
14 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 74 (11.09%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.15%) Google
3 28 (4.20%) Oracle
4 24 (3.60%) Databricks
5 22 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.15%) Splunk
7 13 (1.95%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.20%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.20%) Cloudera
10 8 (1.20%) Foundry
10 8 (1.20%) Palantir
10 8 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.20%) Software AG
11 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.90%) Confluent
13 5 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
13 5 (0.75%) Calypso
13 5 (0.75%) OutSystems