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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 51
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 784 518 675
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 4.18% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.53% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 358 498
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £554
% change year-on-year -0.94% -4.29% -11.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £39.13 £51.63
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 £96.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +50.00% +6.03% -34.96%

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 15,904 11,443 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.34% 92.27% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,637 7,743 11,096
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £806 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 176 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.16 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.88 £63.75 £66.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 May 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 81 £555 -5.13% 78
South London -16 25 £541 +13.87% 1
East London -1 8 £432 +72.80% 11
West London -22 5 £550 +10.55% 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 21 (2.68%) Confluence
2 16 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.04%) CMS
3 13 (1.66%) Apache
4 12 (1.53%) Camunda
5 8 (1.02%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.89%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.64%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.64%) Mule
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (51.40%) AWS
2 277 (35.33%) Azure
3 134 (17.09%) GCP
4 117 (14.92%) Serverless
5 116 (14.80%) GitHub
6 75 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (9.31%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (7.91%) Amazon S3
9 54 (6.89%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 35 (4.46%) Azure AKS
13 34 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (4.21%) SaaS
15 32 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (3.06%) PaaS
18 23 (2.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (2.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.40%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 3 (0.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
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%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
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 86 (10.97%) NoSQL
2 79 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.40%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.72%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.59%) Apache Cassandra
7 34 (4.34%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.21%) Redis
9 30 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (2.93%) MySQL
11 22 (2.81%) BigQuery
12 18 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.53%) Big Data
14 11 (1.40%) Flink
14 11 (1.40%) Power BI
15 9 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.89%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.89%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 107 (13.65%) Git
1 107 (13.65%) Jenkins
2 73 (9.31%) GitLab
3 46 (5.87%) JUnit
4 40 (5.10%) JIRA
5 31 (3.95%) Mockito
6 20 (2.55%) Gradle
7 18 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 18 (2.30%) Maven
7 18 (2.30%) Postman
8 12 (1.53%) Liquibase
9 11 (1.40%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (1.15%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.89%) MSTest
12 7 (0.89%) Selenium
12 7 (0.89%) Vite
13 6 (0.77%) JMeter
13 6 (0.77%) Mocha
General
1 197 (25.13%) Finance
2 177 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 123 (15.69%) Banking
4 82 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.19%) Front Office
7 22 (2.81%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.17%) Retail
9 16 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.04%) Marketing
10 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.66%) Legal
12 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.15%) Law
13 7 (0.89%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Billing
16 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 272 (34.69%) Developer
2 169 (21.56%) Senior
3 139 (17.73%) Architect
4 100 (12.76%) Java Developer
5 79 (10.08%) Senior Developer
6 69 (8.80%) Software Engineer
7 61 (7.78%) Lead
8 51 (6.51%) Java Engineer
9 47 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
10 37 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (4.46%) Analyst
13 33 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
13 33 (4.21%) Technical Architect
14 30 (3.83%) Backend Developer
14 30 (3.83%) C# Developer
15 27 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (2.81%) Senior Software Engineer
17 21 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
18 20 (2.55%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (27.93%) Spring
2 197 (25.13%) Spring Boot
3 171 (21.81%) Kafka
4 161 (20.54%) RESTful
5 127 (16.20%) REST
6 122 (15.56%) React
7 101 (12.88%) .NET
8 84 (10.71%) Node.js
9 73 (9.31%) AngularJS
10 52 (6.63%) Middleware
11 37 (4.72%) OAuth
12 33 (4.21%) CSS
12 33 (4.21%) HTML
13 32 (4.08%) gRPC
13 32 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.70%) OAuth2
15 28 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (3.32%) .NET Core
17 23 (2.93%) LangChain
18 22 (2.81%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 175 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 160 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.81%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.42%) Derivative
9 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.28%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.12%) Linux
2 17 (2.17%) Unix
3 9 (1.15%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) zOS
6 3 (0.38%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (54.59%) CI/CD
2 331 (42.22%) DevOps
3 284 (36.22%) Agile
4 240 (30.61%) Containerisation
5 202 (25.77%) Software Engineering
6 167 (21.30%) Event-Driven
7 146 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 137 (17.47%) Observability
9 134 (17.09%) AI
10 117 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (14.16%) Test Automation
12 101 (12.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 98 (12.50%) TDD
14 97 (12.37%) Full-Stack Development
15 89 (11.35%) Scrum
16 81 (10.33%) Code Quality
17 70 (8.93%) Migration
18 67 (8.55%) Clean Code
18 67 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 66 (8.42%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 342 (43.62%) Java
2 195 (24.87%) SQL
3 194 (24.74%) Python
4 117 (14.92%) TypeScript
5 95 (12.12%) JavaScript
6 93 (11.86%) C#
7 40 (5.10%) Go
8 22 (2.81%) Ruby
9 16 (2.04%) Bicep
10 15 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 11 (1.40%) Bash
13 8 (1.02%) PHP
14 7 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.77%) C++
15 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.64%) Scala
17 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.38%) C
18 3 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 176 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.02%) Degree
4 42 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.44%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.77%) CISSP
12 5 (0.64%) OSCP
12 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.51%) CCSP
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) MBA
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (8.16%) QA
2 25 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.04%) NIST
5 15 (1.91%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.53%) PSD2
8 10 (1.28%) SEPA
9 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.64%) SLA
11 4 (0.51%) HL7
11 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.38%) TARGET2
12 3 (0.38%) WCAG
13 2 (0.26%) GRC
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.26%) NCSC
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (39.67%) Docker
2 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 287 (36.61%) Kubernetes
2 110 (14.03%) Terraform
3 50 (6.38%) Grafana
4 41 (5.23%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.66%) Ansible
5 13 (1.66%) Istio
5 13 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.53%) Argo
7 7 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.77%) Kibana
9 5 (0.64%) Puppet
10 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.38%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.26%) Rancher
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 72 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.72%) Oracle
3 29 (3.70%) Google
4 24 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.91%) Splunk
7 12 (1.53%) IBM
7 12 (1.53%) Software AG
8 9 (1.15%) Databricks
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
9 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.89%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.77%) Sybase
12 5 (0.64%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.64%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.64%) SAP
12 5 (0.64%) Solace