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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 775 521 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 4.12% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 4.49% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 361 475
10th Percentile £380 £400 £419
25th Percentile £436 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £65.40 £48.93 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £57.44 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £72.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.57% +15.60% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £86.44 -
90th Percentile - £94.58 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £57.25 £48.43
% change year-on-year +29.71% +18.21% -32.11%

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 15,454 11,600 15,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 91.69% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,348 7,869 11,316
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.49%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 166 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.42 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £23.90 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £48.92
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.54 £32.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year +26.69% -6.46% -8.77%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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 13 April 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 88 £525 -10.26% 89
South London -11 28 £530 +11.58% 5
West London -22 7 £550 +34.47% 7
East London -1 6 £432 +3.47% 3
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 23 (2.97%) Confluence
2 15 (1.94%) Apache
3 12 (1.55%) CMS
4 8 (1.03%) Ethereum
5 7 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.90%) Camunda
5 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.77%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.65%) Mule
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.26%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 413 (53.29%) AWS
2 288 (37.16%) Azure
3 133 (17.16%) Serverless
4 130 (16.77%) GCP
5 118 (15.23%) GitHub
6 86 (11.10%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
9 65 (8.39%) Amazon S3
10 64 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (6.45%) Azure AKS
12 46 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (4.26%) SaaS
16 29 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (3.74%) Entra ID
17 26 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
17 26 (3.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.55%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) DNS
2 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 5 (0.65%) VPN
3 4 (0.52%) Firewall
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.35%) NoSQL
2 76 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (7.87%) MongoDB
4 46 (5.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 44 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.03%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.52%) SQL Server
8 34 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
8 34 (4.39%) Redis
9 32 (4.13%) MySQL
10 16 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.94%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.29%) Big Data
15 9 (1.16%) DB2
15 9 (1.16%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.16%) Power BI
16 7 (0.90%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.90%) Flink
Development Applications
1 116 (14.97%) Git
2 99 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 68 (8.77%) GitLab
4 50 (6.45%) JUnit
5 47 (6.06%) JIRA
6 31 (4.00%) Mockito
7 21 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.06%) Postman
9 13 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 13 (1.68%) Liquibase
9 13 (1.68%) Maven
10 12 (1.55%) Gradle
10 12 (1.55%) Selenium
11 9 (1.16%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.03%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.03%) Vite
13 7 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.77%) Gatling
14 6 (0.77%) REST Assured
General
1 188 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 179 (23.10%) Finance
3 118 (15.23%) Banking
4 86 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.58%) Front Office
7 17 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.68%) Retail
11 12 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.42%) Legal
12 11 (1.42%) Marketing
13 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.90%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.77%) Law
16 4 (0.52%) Police
17 3 (0.39%) Billing
17 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 286 (36.90%) Developer
2 172 (22.19%) Senior
3 138 (17.81%) Architect
4 104 (13.42%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.45%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.74%) Lead
7 53 (6.84%) Software Engineer
8 52 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.94%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.52%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
12 33 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 32 (4.13%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.74%) Analyst
15 26 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.35%) C# Developer
16 25 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 22 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (26.58%) Spring
2 184 (23.74%) Spring Boot
3 166 (21.42%) Kafka
4 151 (19.48%) RESTful
5 131 (16.90%) REST
6 128 (16.52%) React
7 108 (13.94%) Node.js
8 97 (12.52%) .NET
9 87 (11.23%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.10%) Middleware
11 39 (5.03%) gRPC
11 39 (5.03%) OAuth
12 38 (4.90%) CSS
12 38 (4.90%) HTML
13 29 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
14 27 (3.48%) .NET Core
15 25 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (3.23%) Vue
15 25 (3.23%) Web Services
16 24 (3.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 159 (20.52%) Cloud Native
2 137 (17.68%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.42%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.48%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.35%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 17 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.06%) Derivative
9 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.29%) NHS
14 9 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.94%) Linux
2 16 (2.06%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) Windows
4 4 (0.52%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (54.45%) CI/CD
2 330 (42.58%) DevOps
3 287 (37.03%) Agile
4 227 (29.29%) Containerisation
5 189 (24.39%) Software Engineering
6 148 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 145 (18.71%) Event-Driven
8 137 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (15.61%) AI
9 121 (15.61%) Observability
10 111 (14.32%) Test Automation
11 106 (13.68%) TDD
12 96 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
13 88 (11.35%) Code Quality
14 86 (11.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 79 (10.19%) Scrum
16 70 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
17 69 (8.90%) Migration
18 68 (8.77%) Technical Leadership
19 67 (8.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 337 (43.48%) Java
2 207 (26.71%) Python
3 187 (24.13%) SQL
4 109 (14.06%) TypeScript
5 94 (12.13%) JavaScript
6 82 (10.58%) C#
7 44 (5.68%) Go
8 24 (3.10%) Ruby
9 16 (2.06%) Bicep
10 12 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.42%) Bash
12 9 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.90%) C++
13 7 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.77%) PHP
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 169 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 142 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.97%) Degree
4 42 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.74%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.65%) CISSP
12 5 (0.65%) OSCP
13 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.52%) CCSP
13 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.39%) MBA
14 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.74%) QA
2 29 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.06%) GDPR
4 14 (1.81%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.68%) NIST
6 12 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.29%) PSD2
8 9 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.03%) SEPA
10 7 (0.90%) WCAG
11 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.65%) SLA
13 4 (0.52%) HL7
13 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
14 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
15 2 (0.26%) GRC
15 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
15 2 (0.26%) NCSC
15 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 302 (38.97%) Docker
2 24 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 293 (37.81%) Kubernetes
2 127 (16.39%) Terraform
3 47 (6.06%) Grafana
4 36 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.81%) Ansible
5 14 (1.81%) Istio
6 13 (1.68%) Argo
6 13 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Kibana
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 85 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.42%) Oracle
3 34 (4.39%) Google
4 30 (3.87%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.45%) Databricks
6 15 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.94%) Splunk
7 12 (1.55%) Software AG
8 11 (1.42%) IBM
9 10 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.03%) Confluent
10 8 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.03%) Sybase
11 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.77%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.65%) SAP
13 4 (0.52%) Adobe