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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 771 522 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 4.11% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.47% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 361 481
10th Percentile £381 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% -2.32% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.13 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £49.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +49.27% +2.73% -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 15,485 11,688 15,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 91.95% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,369 7,938 11,291
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £757 £802 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 334
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.94
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.13 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -16 87 £530 -9.40% 85
South London -14 29 £530 +11.58% 4
West London -24 7 £550 +34.47% 7
East London -1 6 £432 +3.47% 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 20 (2.59%) Confluence
2 15 (1.95%) Apache
3 13 (1.69%) CMS
4 9 (1.17%) Camunda
5 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.65%) Mule
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) nginx
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) 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%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 412 (53.44%) AWS
2 290 (37.61%) Azure
3 132 (17.12%) Serverless
4 131 (16.99%) GCP
5 119 (15.43%) GitHub
6 86 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
8 68 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (8.69%) Amazon S3
10 62 (8.04%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (6.23%) Azure AKS
12 46 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (4.54%) Amazon EKS
15 34 (4.41%) SaaS
16 29 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 28 (3.63%) Entra ID
18 27 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (3.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.56%) 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%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
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 (11.41%) NoSQL
2 75 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (7.78%) MongoDB
4 43 (5.58%) Apache Cassandra
4 43 (5.58%) Relational Database
5 40 (5.19%) DynamoDB
6 35 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.41%) SQL Server
8 33 (4.28%) Redis
9 29 (3.76%) MySQL
10 16 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (1.95%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.95%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.30%) Big Data
14 9 (1.17%) DB2
14 9 (1.17%) Power BI
15 8 (1.04%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.91%) Flink
16 7 (0.91%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 116 (15.05%) Git
2 98 (12.71%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.95%) GitLab
4 49 (6.36%) JUnit
5 45 (5.84%) JIRA
6 32 (4.15%) Mockito
7 19 (2.46%) Cucumber
8 16 (2.08%) Postman
9 14 (1.82%) Maven
10 13 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.69%) Liquibase
11 12 (1.56%) Gradle
12 10 (1.30%) Selenium
12 10 (1.30%) Zephyr
13 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
13 8 (1.04%) Vite
14 7 (0.91%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.78%) Gatling
15 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 184 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 180 (23.35%) Finance
3 114 (14.79%) Banking
4 87 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.59%) Front Office
7 16 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.69%) Retail
10 12 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.56%) Legal
10 12 (1.56%) Marketing
11 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.78%) Law
14 4 (0.52%) Billing
14 4 (0.52%) Police
15 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 284 (36.84%) Developer
2 173 (22.44%) Senior
3 137 (17.77%) Architect
4 105 (13.62%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.51%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.78%) Lead
7 53 (6.87%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (5.84%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.54%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.28%) Backend Developer
12 33 (4.28%) Full-Stack Developer
12 33 (4.28%) Senior Java Developer
13 29 (3.76%) Analyst
14 26 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 24 (3.11%) C# Developer
17 21 (2.72%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (27.24%) Spring
2 188 (24.38%) Spring Boot
3 166 (21.53%) Kafka
4 151 (19.58%) RESTful
5 127 (16.47%) React
6 126 (16.34%) REST
7 106 (13.75%) Node.js
8 95 (12.32%) .NET
9 85 (11.02%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.13%) Middleware
11 38 (4.93%) CSS
11 38 (4.93%) gRPC
11 38 (4.93%) HTML
12 37 (4.80%) OAuth
13 29 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
14 27 (3.50%) .NET Core
15 25 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
15 25 (3.24%) Vue
16 24 (3.11%) Web Services
17 23 (2.98%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 162 (21.01%) Cloud Native
2 141 (18.29%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (5.58%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.37%) AI Agents
4 26 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.46%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 14 (1.82%) Derivative
9 13 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.43%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.30%) NHS
13 9 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.71%) Linux
2 13 (1.69%) Unix
3 6 (0.78%) 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 (54.73%) CI/CD
2 332 (43.06%) DevOps
3 285 (36.96%) Agile
4 230 (29.83%) Containerisation
5 187 (24.25%) Software Engineering
6 150 (19.46%) Event-Driven
7 147 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 129 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
9 124 (16.08%) AI
10 123 (15.95%) Observability
11 108 (14.01%) Test Automation
12 106 (13.75%) TDD
13 97 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 91 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 87 (11.28%) Code Quality
16 80 (10.38%) Scrum
17 69 (8.95%) Migration
18 68 (8.82%) SDLC
19 67 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 341 (44.23%) Java
2 206 (26.72%) Python
3 184 (23.87%) SQL
4 110 (14.27%) TypeScript
5 94 (12.19%) JavaScript
6 79 (10.25%) C#
7 43 (5.58%) Go
8 23 (2.98%) Ruby
9 16 (2.08%) Bicep
10 11 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.17%) Bash
13 7 (0.91%) C++
13 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.78%) 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
1 170 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 144 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.87%) Degree
4 41 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.65%) CISSP
12 5 (0.65%) OSCP
12 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.52%) CCSP
13 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.39%) MBA
14 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.78%) QA
2 31 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.08%) GDPR
4 14 (1.82%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.69%) NIST
6 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.30%) PSD2
8 9 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.04%) SEPA
10 7 (0.91%) WCAG
11 6 (0.78%) 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
15 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 300 (38.91%) Docker
2 23 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 291 (37.74%) Kubernetes
2 124 (16.08%) Terraform
3 48 (6.23%) Grafana
4 36 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.82%) Istio
6 13 (1.69%) Argo
7 12 (1.56%) Ansible
7 12 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.39%) Rancher
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Kibana
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 84 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.45%) Oracle
3 34 (4.41%) Google
4 31 (4.02%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.46%) Databricks
6 15 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.95%) Splunk
7 13 (1.69%) Software AG
8 11 (1.43%) IBM
8 11 (1.43%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.04%) Confluent
9 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.04%) Sybase
10 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.78%) SAP
10 6 (0.78%) Solace
11 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
11 5 (0.65%) Red Hat