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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 64 59
Rank change year-on-year +14 -5 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 677 496 649
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.72% 3.48% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 3.85% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 325 488
10th Percentile £375 £408 £419
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% -1.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £689
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% -5.31%
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 £68.00 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +74.36% -37.58% -14.99%

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 13,101 12,867 15,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.42% 90.25% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,239 11,384
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.30%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 159 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.58 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +9 80 £575 -2.25% 71
South London +12 22 £525 - 9
West London -14 9 £550 +34.47% 7
East London +3 4 £563 -3.85% 7
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 44 (6.50%) Confluence
2 19 (2.81%) Apache
3 9 (1.33%) CMS
4 7 (1.03%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.44%) Camunda
6 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.44%) nginx
6 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.30%) CICS
7 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) Mule
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Traefik
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.59%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.30%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.15%) Endur
5 1 (0.15%) Magento
5 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 337 (49.78%) AWS
2 252 (37.22%) Azure
3 131 (19.35%) Serverless
4 117 (17.28%) GitHub
5 112 (16.54%) GCP
6 81 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (9.90%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (7.68%) Amazon S3
10 48 (7.09%) Azure AKS
11 45 (6.65%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (3.99%) Azure Functions
16 27 (3.99%) Entra ID
17 24 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
18 23 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.62%) SSL
2 7 (1.03%) Network Security
3 5 (0.74%) DNS
3 5 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.59%) HTTP
5 3 (0.44%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
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 77 (11.37%) NoSQL
2 74 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (7.98%) SQL Server
4 51 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 43 (6.35%) Apache Cassandra
5 43 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 29 (4.28%) Redis
7 27 (3.99%) MySQL
8 26 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (3.55%) Big Data
10 23 (3.40%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.66%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.92%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.18%) DB2
15 8 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (13.00%) Git
2 82 (12.11%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.75%) JIRA
4 60 (8.86%) GitLab
5 33 (4.87%) JUnit
6 21 (3.10%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.95%) Mockito
8 19 (2.81%) Bitbucket
9 17 (2.51%) Cypress.io
9 17 (2.51%) Selenium
10 16 (2.36%) Postman
11 15 (2.22%) Maven
12 12 (1.77%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.33%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.18%) REST Assured
15 7 (1.03%) Gradle
15 7 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
16 6 (0.89%) Gatling
16 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
17 5 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 202 (29.84%) Social Skills
2 163 (24.08%) Finance
3 120 (17.73%) Banking
4 67 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.95%) Front Office
7 19 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.62%) Retail
10 10 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.03%) Back Office
12 7 (1.03%) Legal
13 4 (0.59%) Marketing
13 4 (0.59%) Military
14 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 289 (42.69%) Developer
2 159 (23.49%) Senior
3 119 (17.58%) Architect
4 99 (14.62%) Java Developer
5 83 (12.26%) Senior Developer
6 43 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
7 42 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
8 40 (5.91%) C# Developer
8 40 (5.91%) Lead
9 35 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (5.02%) Java Engineer
11 32 (4.73%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 25 (3.69%) Angular Developer
13 25 (3.69%) Technical Architect
14 23 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.25%) Backend Developer
16 19 (2.81%) .NET Developer
17 17 (2.51%) Lead Developer
17 17 (2.51%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (22.90%) Kafka
2 149 (22.01%) Spring
3 142 (20.97%) Spring Boot
4 133 (19.65%) RESTful
5 122 (18.02%) REST
6 119 (17.58%) React
7 111 (16.40%) .NET
8 97 (14.33%) Node.js
9 92 (13.59%) AngularJS
10 44 (6.50%) HTML
11 40 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
12 39 (5.76%) gRPC
13 36 (5.32%) .NET Core
14 35 (5.17%) OAuth
15 34 (5.02%) Middleware
16 32 (4.73%) JSON
17 31 (4.58%) CSS
18 24 (3.55%) Vue
19 23 (3.40%) OAuth2
19 23 (3.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 134 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 108 (15.95%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.36%) Derivative
6 13 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.18%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.18%) NHS
10 7 (1.03%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (0.89%) Data Fabric
11 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.89%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.14%) Linux
2 16 (2.36%) Unix
3 3 (0.44%) Android
3 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
5 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (49.93%) CI/CD
2 297 (43.87%) Agile
3 288 (42.54%) DevOps
4 165 (24.37%) Containerisation
5 161 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (21.27%) Software Engineering
7 111 (16.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 104 (15.36%) Event-Driven
9 102 (15.07%) Test Automation
10 95 (14.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 84 (12.41%) Scrum
12 82 (12.11%) TDD
13 72 (10.64%) AI
14 67 (9.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 67 (9.90%) Observability
15 66 (9.75%) SDLC
16 65 (9.60%) Design Patterns
17 63 (9.31%) Code Quality
18 60 (8.86%) Migration
19 58 (8.57%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 274 (40.47%) Java
2 161 (23.78%) SQL
3 157 (23.19%) Python
4 108 (15.95%) JavaScript
5 107 (15.81%) C#
6 86 (12.70%) TypeScript
7 58 (8.57%) Go
8 20 (2.95%) Bicep
9 12 (1.77%) Ruby
10 11 (1.62%) Bash
10 11 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.48%) C++
12 9 (1.33%) PHP
12 9 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.89%) Scala
14 5 (0.74%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.59%) Groovy
15 4 (0.59%) Perl
16 3 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 135 (19.94%) Security Cleared
2 120 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.12%) Degree
4 41 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.22%) DV Cleared
8 14 (2.07%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.74%) MCP
12 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.44%) CCSP
14 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.27%) QA
2 16 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.92%) GDPR
3 13 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.89%) WCAG
6 5 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.59%) NIST
7 4 (0.59%) PSD2
8 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.44%) MiFID
8 3 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) HL7
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.30%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) EMIR
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 273 (40.32%) Docker
2 27 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 280 (41.36%) Kubernetes
2 130 (19.20%) Terraform
3 29 (4.28%) Grafana
4 22 (3.25%) Ansible
4 22 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (2.81%) Argo
7 10 (1.48%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.59%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.59%) Puppet
11 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.30%) Knative
13 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.15%) Control-M
13 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (11.37%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.06%) Google
3 29 (4.28%) Oracle
4 24 (3.55%) Databricks
5 22 (3.25%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.10%) Splunk
7 13 (1.92%) Dynatrace
7 13 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.62%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.18%) Cloudera
9 8 (1.18%) Foundry
9 8 (1.18%) HP
9 8 (1.18%) Palantir
9 8 (1.18%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.18%) Software AG
10 7 (1.03%) BMC
10 7 (1.03%) Ivanti
10 7 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.03%) Remedy