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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 849 683 690
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 5.07% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.49% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 470 496
10th Percentile £406 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £762 £775
England median daily rate £533 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +1.43% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £39.13 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £49.50 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £85.63 £42.12
90th Percentile - £93.75 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 August 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
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 29 August 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 98 £555 -4.31% 55
South London -14 21 £535 -13.99% 7
East London +6 10 £432 -20.00% 4
West London -28 2 £500 +5.26% 46
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 29 (3.42%) Confluence
2 27 (3.18%) CMS
3 19 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.88%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.59%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Quorum
3 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
4 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 410 (48.29%) AWS
2 321 (37.81%) Azure
3 153 (18.02%) GitHub
4 149 (17.55%) GCP
5 102 (12.01%) Serverless
6 99 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
8 63 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (5.42%) Amazon S3
11 45 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.18%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (3.53%) Azure AKS
15 27 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (2.94%) OpenShift
17 24 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 23 (2.71%) Power Platform
19 22 (2.59%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.82%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (10.48%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 53 (6.24%) MongoDB
5 46 (5.42%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.53%) Redis
7 28 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.83%) MySQL
9 23 (2.71%) Power BI
10 22 (2.59%) DynamoDB
11 17 (2.00%) Big Data
11 17 (2.00%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.53%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.18%) Flink
16 7 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (0.82%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 150 (17.67%) Jenkins
2 147 (17.31%) Git
3 99 (11.66%) GitLab
4 55 (6.48%) JUnit
5 39 (4.59%) Gradle
5 39 (4.59%) JIRA
6 37 (4.36%) Maven
6 37 (4.36%) Mockito
7 25 (2.94%) Postman
8 24 (2.83%) Cypress.io
8 24 (2.83%) SonarQube
9 17 (2.00%) Liquibase
10 15 (1.77%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.77%) Selenium
11 14 (1.65%) JMeter
12 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.06%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.06%) Vite
14 8 (0.94%) Cucumber
General
1 231 (27.21%) Finance
2 218 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 130 (15.31%) Banking
4 98 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 81 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.18%) Investment Banking
7 25 (2.94%) Front Office
8 23 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (2.71%) Marketing
8 23 (2.71%) Retail
9 22 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.00%) Law
11 12 (1.41%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.30%) Billing
12 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.18%) Legal
14 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.94%) Police
15 7 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 288 (33.92%) Developer
2 165 (19.43%) Senior
3 151 (17.79%) Architect
4 120 (14.13%) Java Developer
5 83 (9.78%) Lead
6 75 (8.83%) Software Engineer
7 68 (8.01%) Senior Developer
8 53 (6.24%) Java Engineer
9 52 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 39 (4.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 38 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.65%) Technical Architect
16 30 (3.53%) Analyst
17 28 (3.30%) .NET Developer
18 26 (3.06%) C# Developer
19 25 (2.94%) Python Developer
19 25 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (26.97%) Spring
2 211 (24.85%) REST
3 206 (24.26%) Spring Boot
4 193 (22.73%) Kafka
5 163 (19.20%) RESTful
6 155 (18.26%) React
7 127 (14.96%) Terraform
8 105 (12.37%) .NET
9 87 (10.25%) Node.js
10 58 (6.83%) AngularJS
11 56 (6.60%) CSS
12 54 (6.36%) HTML
13 46 (5.42%) OAuth
14 45 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (4.83%) OAuth2
16 36 (4.24%) .NET Core
17 34 (4.00%) JSON
18 31 (3.65%) HTML5
19 30 (3.53%) LangChain
20 29 (3.42%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 254 (29.92%) Cloud Native
2 212 (24.97%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (10.13%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (4.48%) AI Agents
6 36 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (3.89%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (2.94%) Derivative
10 21 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.36%) Algorithms
11 20 (2.36%) Virtual Team
12 19 (2.24%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.65%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.77%) Linux
2 27 (3.18%) Unix
3 9 (1.06%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (62.66%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.88%) DevOps
3 345 (40.64%) Agile
4 276 (32.51%) Event-Driven
5 257 (30.27%) Containerisation
6 228 (26.86%) Software Engineering
7 194 (22.85%) AI
8 186 (21.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 176 (20.73%) Observability
10 164 (19.32%) Test Automation
11 148 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 138 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (14.37%) Scrum
15 105 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
16 101 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 100 (11.78%) Stakeholder Management
18 97 (11.43%) Integration Patterns
19 96 (11.31%) TDD
20 90 (10.60%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 395 (46.53%) Java
2 238 (28.03%) Python
3 210 (24.73%) SQL
4 158 (18.61%) TypeScript
5 143 (16.84%) JavaScript
6 114 (13.43%) C#
7 31 (3.65%) Go
8 22 (2.59%) Ruby
9 21 (2.47%) Bash
10 19 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.00%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.00%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.88%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.30%) Bicep
14 7 (0.82%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
16 4 (0.47%) C++
16 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.24%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 200 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 177 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 48 (5.65%) Degree
4 39 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.71%) CISSP
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 3 (0.35%) GIAC
14 3 (0.35%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.25%) QA
2 26 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.77%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.77%) NIST
5 13 (1.53%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.41%) SEPA
7 10 (1.18%) GDPR
8 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.82%) SLA
9 5 (0.59%) PSD2
9 5 (0.59%) WCAG
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.35%) GRC
11 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 318 (37.46%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 313 (36.87%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.60%) Grafana
3 41 (4.83%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.36%) Ansible
5 11 (1.30%) Istio
6 10 (1.18%) Argo
6 10 (1.18%) Kibana
7 7 (0.82%) Puppet
8 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Control-M
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 99 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.54%) Oracle
3 45 (5.30%) Google
4 24 (2.83%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.12%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.00%) IBM
6 17 (2.00%) Splunk
7 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.41%) SAP
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
10 8 (0.94%) Confluent
10 8 (0.94%) Databricks
11 7 (0.82%) Solace
11 7 (0.82%) Veracode
12 6 (0.71%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow