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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 694 504 605
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 3.80% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.19% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 332 446
10th Percentile £375 £406 £413
25th Percentile £430 £465 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £690
90th Percentile £743 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £570 £558
% change year-on-year -7.89% +2.24% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £65.70 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £67.69 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £91.25 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £32.00 £55.47
% change year-on-year +132.06% -42.31% -20.76%

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 14,158 12,033 16,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.35% 90.69% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,486 7,785 11,599
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 348
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.98 £55.25 £50.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.15
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -5 78 £561 -4.06% 60
South London -5 27 £541 +13.87% 4
West London -21 7 £550 +34.47% 11
East London +4 2 £608 +3.85% 4
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 32 (4.61%) Confluence
2 14 (2.02%) Apache
3 7 (1.01%) Camunda
4 6 (0.86%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.86%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.86%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.86%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.72%) Mule
6 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.58%) CMS
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.15%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 371 (53.46%) AWS
2 252 (36.31%) Azure
3 123 (17.72%) Serverless
4 122 (17.58%) GCP
5 114 (16.43%) GitHub
6 76 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
7 74 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (9.08%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (9.08%) Amazon S3
8 63 (9.08%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (5.62%) Azure AKS
12 35 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (4.18%) SaaS
14 28 (4.03%) Entra ID
15 22 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (3.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.44%) HTTP
2 7 (1.01%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) SSL
4 4 (0.58%) DNS
4 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.66%) NoSQL
2 73 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (8.50%) MongoDB
4 49 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 47 (6.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 42 (6.05%) Relational Database
7 35 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
8 33 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.76%) MySQL
9 30 (4.32%) Redis
10 17 (2.45%) Big Data
11 16 (2.31%) Hadoop
12 15 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (2.02%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (1.30%) DB2
16 7 (1.01%) DocumentDB
17 6 (0.86%) Tableau
18 5 (0.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 90 (12.97%) Git
2 87 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 64 (9.22%) GitLab
4 57 (8.21%) JIRA
5 46 (6.63%) JUnit
6 24 (3.46%) Cucumber
7 21 (3.03%) Mockito
8 16 (2.31%) Selenium
9 15 (2.16%) Bitbucket
10 14 (2.02%) Maven
11 10 (1.44%) SpecFlow
12 8 (1.15%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.15%) Postman
12 8 (1.15%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.01%) MLflow
13 7 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.01%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.86%) Gatling
14 6 (0.86%) Gradle
14 6 (0.86%) Liquibase
General
1 187 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 166 (23.92%) Finance
3 110 (15.85%) Banking
4 67 (9.65%) Public Sector
5 58 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.59%) Front Office
7 17 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.87%) Retail
10 12 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.86%) Legal
14 3 (0.43%) Back Office
14 3 (0.43%) Military
15 2 (0.29%) Aviation
15 2 (0.29%) Marketing
15 2 (0.29%) Police
15 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 283 (40.78%) Developer
2 163 (23.49%) Senior
3 115 (16.57%) Architect
4 98 (14.12%) Java Developer
5 86 (12.39%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
7 46 (6.63%) Lead
8 45 (6.48%) Java Engineer
9 44 (6.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 39 (5.62%) Software Engineer
11 35 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (5.04%) Senior Java Developer
12 34 (4.90%) C# Developer
13 28 (4.03%) Backend Developer
14 24 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.17%) Technical Architect
16 20 (2.88%) Test Engineer
17 19 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (25.07%) Spring
2 160 (23.05%) Kafka
3 157 (22.62%) Spring Boot
4 132 (19.02%) RESTful
5 128 (18.44%) REST
6 127 (18.30%) React
7 109 (15.71%) .NET
8 96 (13.83%) Node.js
9 95 (13.69%) AngularJS
10 54 (7.78%) Middleware
11 41 (5.91%) gRPC
11 41 (5.91%) HTML
12 38 (5.48%) CSS
12 38 (5.48%) OAuth
13 29 (4.18%) Vue
14 28 (4.03%) .NET Core
14 28 (4.03%) Playwright
15 23 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
16 22 (3.17%) Entity Framework
16 22 (3.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 133 (19.16%) Cloud Native
2 106 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.31%) Derivative
6 15 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.73%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.59%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.30%) NHS
12 8 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.01%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.62%) Linux
2 15 (2.16%) Unix
3 7 (1.01%) Windows
4 4 (0.58%) zOS
5 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.29%) Solaris
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (52.16%) CI/CD
2 283 (40.78%) Agile
3 274 (39.48%) DevOps
4 186 (26.80%) Containerisation
5 156 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (21.61%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 113 (16.28%) Event-Driven
9 108 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 103 (14.84%) Test Automation
11 90 (12.97%) AI
11 90 (12.97%) TDD
12 82 (11.82%) Observability
13 75 (10.81%) Code Quality
13 75 (10.81%) SDLC
14 74 (10.66%) Scrum
15 64 (9.22%) Clean Code
15 64 (9.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 62 (8.93%) Design Patterns
17 61 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 302 (43.52%) Java
2 176 (25.36%) Python
3 160 (23.05%) SQL
4 108 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 97 (13.98%) TypeScript
6 93 (13.40%) C#
7 50 (7.20%) Go
8 20 (2.88%) Bicep
9 16 (2.31%) Ruby
10 9 (1.30%) Bash
11 8 (1.15%) C++
12 7 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.01%) PHP
12 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.86%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.86%) Scala
14 5 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 139 (20.03%) Security Cleared
2 120 (17.29%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.21%) Degree
4 41 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.72%) CCSP
13 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.72%) CISSP
14 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.36%) QA
2 25 (3.60%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.59%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.73%) ISO 20022
5 12 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.44%) NIST
7 9 (1.30%) PSD2
8 7 (1.01%) SEPA
9 6 (0.86%) WCAG
10 4 (0.58%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.29%) GRC
12 2 (0.29%) HL7
12 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 285 (41.07%) Docker
2 23 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 277 (39.91%) Kubernetes
2 121 (17.44%) Terraform
3 37 (5.33%) Grafana
4 28 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.59%) Argo
6 16 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.87%) Ansible
8 10 (1.44%) Istio
9 7 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.72%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.29%) Kibana
12 2 (0.29%) Knative
12 2 (0.29%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.29%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 71 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.04%) Google
3 33 (4.76%) Oracle
4 27 (3.89%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.17%) Databricks
6 17 (2.45%) Splunk
7 12 (1.73%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.73%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.73%) Software AG
8 9 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.15%) IBM
9 8 (1.15%) Sybase
10 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.86%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.86%) Foundry
11 6 (0.86%) Palantir
11 6 (0.86%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.72%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.58%) Solace