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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 811 597 743
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.65% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.04% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 409 538
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £453 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £698
90th Percentile £763 £790 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -14.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £37.48 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £41.19 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% -0.40% -24.24%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +40.91% +19.88% -36.72%

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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -15 86 £555 -5.13% 39
South London -20 16 £538 +8.67%
East London +4 8 £432 +72.80% 6
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 (2.59%) CMS
2 20 (2.47%) Confluence
3 18 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.60%) Camunda
5 12 (1.48%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.36%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.23%) Apache
7 10 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.99%) Anypoint
8 8 (0.99%) nginx
9 7 (0.86%) Mule
10 4 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.25%) Drupal
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.74%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.62%) Quorum
3 4 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.49%) Ripple
4 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 416 (51.29%) AWS
2 286 (35.27%) Azure
3 134 (16.52%) GCP
4 132 (16.28%) GitHub
5 110 (13.56%) Serverless
6 87 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
7 78 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (7.77%) Amazon S3
10 56 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (5.06%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (3.82%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.33%) SaaS
17 21 (2.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (2.47%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.47%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.74%) DNS
2 6 (0.74%) VPN
3 5 (0.62%) Network Security
4 3 (0.37%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.37%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) FTP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) LTE
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) RFID
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 86 (10.60%) NoSQL
3 57 (7.03%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 41 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (4.81%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.32%) Redis
8 34 (4.19%) DynamoDB
9 26 (3.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 25 (3.08%) MySQL
11 18 (2.22%) Power BI
12 17 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
12 17 (2.10%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.97%) Big Data
14 11 (1.36%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.36%) Flink
15 8 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 132 (16.28%) Git
2 125 (15.41%) Jenkins
3 84 (10.36%) GitLab
4 61 (7.52%) JUnit
5 37 (4.56%) JIRA
5 37 (4.56%) Mockito
6 30 (3.70%) Gradle
7 28 (3.45%) Maven
8 23 (2.84%) Postman
9 17 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.85%) Liquibase
10 15 (1.85%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (1.36%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.23%) Vite
13 8 (0.99%) MSTest
13 8 (0.99%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.99%) Selenium
14 7 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 209 (25.77%) Finance
2 182 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 130 (16.03%) Banking
4 99 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.45%) Front Office
6 28 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 20 (2.47%) Marketing
8 19 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.10%) Law
10 15 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.85%) Retail
11 12 (1.48%) Legal
12 11 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 10 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.62%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.62%) Local Government
15 5 (0.62%) Police
Job Titles
1 272 (33.54%) Developer
2 172 (21.21%) Senior
3 141 (17.39%) Architect
4 113 (13.93%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.74%) Software Engineer
6 76 (9.37%) Lead
7 74 (9.12%) Senior Developer
8 57 (7.03%) Java Engineer
9 48 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
10 41 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.44%) Analyst
12 35 (4.32%) DevOps Engineer
13 33 (4.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 32 (3.95%) Technical Architect
15 30 (3.70%) Backend Developer
15 30 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
16 29 (3.58%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
19 24 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (27.99%) Spring
2 199 (24.54%) Spring Boot
3 179 (22.07%) Kafka
4 173 (21.33%) REST
5 166 (20.47%) RESTful
6 134 (16.52%) React
7 101 (12.45%) .NET
8 82 (10.11%) Node.js
9 68 (8.38%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.55%) OAuth
11 40 (4.93%) CSS
12 38 (4.69%) HTML
12 38 (4.69%) Middleware
13 37 (4.56%) OAuth2
14 35 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
16 27 (3.33%) gRPC
16 27 (3.33%) JSON
17 26 (3.21%) OpenID
18 24 (2.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 215 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 185 (22.81%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (7.77%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 27 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (3.21%) Derivative
7 25 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 24 (2.96%) AI Agents
8 24 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (2.34%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.97%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.85%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.48%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.36%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.17%) Linux
2 19 (2.34%) Unix
3 8 (0.99%) Windows
4 7 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.37%) zOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (58.20%) CI/CD
2 346 (42.66%) DevOps
3 322 (39.70%) Agile
4 249 (30.70%) Containerisation
5 215 (26.51%) Software Engineering
6 212 (26.14%) Event-Driven
7 149 (18.37%) AI
8 144 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (17.76%) Observability
9 129 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 128 (15.78%) Test Automation
11 120 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 118 (14.55%) Scrum
13 117 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (12.58%) TDD
15 81 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (9.74%) API Design
17 78 (9.62%) Integration Patterns
18 77 (9.49%) Code Quality
19 74 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 383 (47.23%) Java
2 220 (27.13%) Python
3 201 (24.78%) SQL
4 148 (18.25%) TypeScript
5 116 (14.30%) JavaScript
6 103 (12.70%) C#
7 38 (4.69%) Go
8 26 (3.21%) Ruby
9 16 (1.97%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.36%) Bash
11 11 (1.36%) Bicep
12 8 (0.99%) PHP
13 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.74%) Solidity
15 5 (0.62%) C++
16 4 (0.49%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.49%) Rust
16 4 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 178 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 155 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.41%) Degree
4 39 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.97%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.86%) CISSP
10 7 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.49%) OSCP
12 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.37%) CCSP
12 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.37%) GIAC
12 3 (0.37%) MBA
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (8.63%) QA
2 35 (4.32%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.34%) NIST
4 17 (2.10%) GDPR
5 14 (1.73%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.73%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.36%) PSD2
7 10 (1.23%) SEPA
8 9 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.49%) SLA
9 4 (0.49%) WCAG
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.37%) NCSC
10 3 (0.37%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 317 (39.09%) Docker
2 9 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.37%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 304 (37.48%) Kubernetes
2 118 (14.55%) Terraform
3 55 (6.78%) Grafana
4 44 (5.43%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.71%) Ansible
6 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.11%) Istio
7 9 (1.11%) Kibana
8 8 (0.99%) Argo
9 5 (0.62%) Puppet
10 4 (0.49%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.25%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 81 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.29%) Oracle
3 28 (3.45%) Google
4 22 (2.71%) OpenAI
5 16 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.85%) IBM
6 15 (1.85%) Splunk
7 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.36%) Sybase
9 10 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.99%) Software AG
12 7 (0.86%) SAP
13 6 (0.74%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.74%) Confluent
13 6 (0.74%) Red Hat
13 6 (0.74%) Solace
14 5 (0.62%) Amplitude
15 4 (0.49%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.49%) Rapid7