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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 57 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 703 509 607
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.51% 3.76% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.15% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 333 452
10th Percentile £375 £406 £413
25th Percentile £430 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +1.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £689
90th Percentile £738 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -9.00%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +132.06% -48.80% -12.28%

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 14,107 12,276 16,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.50% 90.65% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,418 7,891 11,536
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 342
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -9 75 £560 -4.27% 79
South London 0 27 £541 +13.87% 11
West London -22 7 £550 +34.47% 19
East London -1 3 £585 - 10
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 34 (4.84%) Confluence
2 14 (1.99%) Apache
3 8 (1.14%) Camunda
4 6 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.85%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.85%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Mule
6 4 (0.57%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.14%) 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%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.71%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.57%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.14%) Endur
5 1 (0.14%) Magento
5 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 376 (53.49%) AWS
2 254 (36.13%) Azure
3 126 (17.92%) GCP
4 120 (17.07%) Serverless
5 113 (16.07%) GitHub
6 73 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
8 60 (8.53%) Amazon ECS
9 59 (8.39%) Amazon S3
10 39 (5.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (5.55%) Azure AKS
11 38 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (3.98%) SaaS
14 27 (3.84%) Entra ID
15 23 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (3.13%) PaaS
17 21 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.42%) HTTP
2 7 (1.00%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) SSL
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) 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 73 (10.38%) NoSQL
1 73 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (8.53%) MongoDB
3 50 (7.11%) SQL Server
4 49 (6.97%) Apache Cassandra
5 42 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 33 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (4.55%) MySQL
8 30 (4.27%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.27%) Redis
9 17 (2.42%) Big Data
10 16 (2.28%) Hadoop
11 15 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.00%) DB2
15 7 (1.00%) DocumentDB
16 6 (0.85%) Data Lake
16 6 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (13.23%) Git
2 92 (13.09%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.39%) GitLab
4 60 (8.53%) JIRA
5 44 (6.26%) JUnit
6 24 (3.41%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.99%) Mockito
8 16 (2.28%) Selenium
9 15 (2.13%) Maven
10 13 (1.85%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.42%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.28%) Postman
13 8 (1.14%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.14%) Zephyr
14 7 (1.00%) MLflow
14 7 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.00%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.85%) Gatling
15 6 (0.85%) Gradle
15 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
General
1 191 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 170 (24.18%) Finance
3 116 (16.50%) Banking
4 69 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.70%) Front Office
7 18 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.85%) Retail
10 12 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.85%) Legal
14 4 (0.57%) Back Office
14 4 (0.57%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Marketing
15 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.28%) Aviation
16 2 (0.28%) Police
16 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 287 (40.83%) Developer
2 163 (23.19%) Senior
3 120 (17.07%) Architect
4 99 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 87 (12.38%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.40%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (6.69%) Lead
8 46 (6.54%) Full-Stack Developer
9 43 (6.12%) Java Engineer
10 40 (5.69%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.98%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (4.84%) C# Developer
14 27 (3.84%) Backend Developer
15 24 (3.41%) Technical Architect
16 23 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (2.84%) Test Engineer
18 19 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
19 18 (2.56%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (25.04%) Spring
2 163 (23.19%) Kafka
3 157 (22.33%) Spring Boot
4 133 (18.92%) RESTful
5 129 (18.35%) REST
6 127 (18.07%) React
7 109 (15.50%) .NET
8 95 (13.51%) AngularJS
8 95 (13.51%) Node.js
9 53 (7.54%) Middleware
10 44 (6.26%) gRPC
11 41 (5.83%) HTML
12 38 (5.41%) CSS
13 37 (5.26%) OAuth
14 29 (4.13%) .NET Core
14 29 (4.13%) Vue
15 26 (3.70%) Playwright
16 24 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (3.13%) Entity Framework
17 22 (3.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 109 (15.50%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.42%) Derivative
4 17 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.99%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.28%) NHS
11 9 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.26%) Linux
2 16 (2.28%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Windows
4 4 (0.57%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (51.78%) CI/CD
2 284 (40.40%) Agile
3 276 (39.26%) DevOps
4 183 (26.03%) Containerisation
5 158 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (22.05%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 108 (15.36%) Event-Driven
8 108 (15.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 105 (14.94%) Test Automation
10 89 (12.66%) AI
11 87 (12.38%) TDD
12 81 (11.52%) Observability
13 77 (10.95%) Scrum
14 74 (10.53%) SDLC
15 73 (10.38%) Code Quality
16 63 (8.96%) Clean Code
17 62 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (8.82%) Design Patterns
18 61 (8.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 305 (43.39%) Java
2 177 (25.18%) Python
3 157 (22.33%) SQL
4 107 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 95 (13.51%) C#
5 95 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 54 (7.68%) Go
7 20 (2.84%) Bicep
8 15 (2.13%) Ruby
9 9 (1.28%) Bash
9 9 (1.28%) C++
9 9 (1.28%) PHP
9 9 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.85%) Scala
12 4 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.43%) C
13 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 142 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 121 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.11%) Degree
4 41 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.56%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.71%) CCSP
12 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.71%) CISSP
13 4 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.39%) QA
2 26 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.42%) GDPR
4 13 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 11 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.42%) NIST
7 9 (1.28%) PSD2
8 7 (1.00%) SEPA
9 6 (0.85%) WCAG
10 4 (0.57%) SLA
11 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.43%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.43%) NCSC
11 3 (0.43%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) MiFID
13 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 290 (41.25%) Docker
2 23 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 285 (40.54%) Kubernetes
2 121 (17.21%) Terraform
3 37 (5.26%) Grafana
4 28 (3.98%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.56%) Argo
6 17 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.85%) Ansible
8 10 (1.42%) Istio
9 7 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.71%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.12%) Google
3 31 (4.41%) Oracle
4 27 (3.84%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.13%) Databricks
6 18 (2.56%) Splunk
7 12 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.71%) Software AG
8 11 (1.56%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.28%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.85%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.85%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.85%) Foundry
11 6 (0.85%) IBM
11 6 (0.85%) Palantir
11 6 (0.85%) Sybase
12 5 (0.71%) Confluent
12 5 (0.71%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.71%) ServiceNow