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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 57 54
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 781 520 680
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 4.17% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 4.53% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 361 499
10th Percentile £400 £400 £437
25th Percentile £450 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £734 £694
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -1.59% -3.00% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £65.50 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £70.75 £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 £96.25 £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 15,718 11,485 15,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.19% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,513 7,782 11,264
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 172 317
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.85
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -18 83 £555 -5.13% 81
South London -17 28 £536 +12.84% 2
East London 0 8 £432 +72.80% 10
West London -26 6 £572 +14.97% 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 (2.56%) Confluence
2 15 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 14 (1.79%) CMS
4 13 (1.66%) Apache
5 11 (1.41%) Camunda
6 8 (1.02%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.77%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.64%) Mule
10 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.38%) nginx
11 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) Solana
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%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 405 (51.86%) AWS
2 283 (36.24%) Azure
3 136 (17.41%) GCP
4 119 (15.24%) GitHub
4 119 (15.24%) Serverless
5 78 (9.99%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 74 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (7.94%) Amazon S3
9 54 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 39 (4.99%) Azure AKS
13 36 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
14 34 (4.35%) SaaS
15 33 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (3.07%) PaaS
19 21 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.54%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 5 (0.64%) VPN
4 4 (0.51%) Network Security
5 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.38%) 5G
5 3 (0.38%) SSL
6 2 (0.26%) 4G
6 2 (0.26%) Firewall
6 2 (0.26%) Internet
6 2 (0.26%) LTE
6 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.26%) WAN
7 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.13%) FTP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) NaaS
7 1 (0.13%) RFID
7 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.63%) NoSQL
2 79 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.43%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 39 (4.99%) Apache Cassandra
5 39 (4.99%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 34 (4.35%) Redis
8 29 (3.71%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (3.46%) MySQL
10 19 (2.43%) BigQuery
11 18 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (1.54%) Big Data
14 11 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.41%) Power BI
15 10 (1.28%) Flink
16 7 (0.90%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.90%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 110 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 109 (13.96%) Git
3 74 (9.48%) GitLab
4 49 (6.27%) JUnit
5 39 (4.99%) JIRA
6 34 (4.35%) Mockito
7 19 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.30%) Gradle
8 18 (2.30%) Maven
9 16 (2.05%) Postman
10 12 (1.54%) Liquibase
11 10 (1.28%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.15%) Zephyr
13 8 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.02%) Vite
14 7 (0.90%) MSTest
14 7 (0.90%) Selenium
15 6 (0.77%) Mocha
General
1 200 (25.61%) Finance
2 182 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 124 (15.88%) Banking
4 87 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.07%) Front Office
7 20 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (2.05%) Retail
9 15 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.79%) Marketing
11 13 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.66%) Legal
12 10 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.02%) Law
14 6 (0.77%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Billing
17 3 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 276 (35.34%) Developer
2 172 (22.02%) Senior
3 148 (18.95%) Architect
4 101 (12.93%) Java Developer
5 80 (10.24%) Senior Developer
6 64 (8.19%) Software Engineer
7 61 (7.81%) Lead
8 52 (6.66%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (6.02%) Java Engineer
10 39 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.74%) Technical Architect
12 36 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.10%) Analyst
13 32 (4.10%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.97%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.71%) C# Developer
16 25 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
17 22 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
18 21 (2.69%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (28.04%) Spring
2 197 (25.22%) Spring Boot
3 169 (21.64%) Kafka
4 154 (19.72%) RESTful
5 130 (16.65%) REST
6 124 (15.88%) React
7 101 (12.93%) .NET
8 88 (11.27%) Node.js
9 82 (10.50%) AngularJS
10 56 (7.17%) Middleware
11 37 (4.74%) CSS
11 37 (4.74%) HTML
12 35 (4.48%) OAuth
13 34 (4.35%) gRPC
14 31 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
15 29 (3.71%) .NET Core
16 27 (3.46%) OAuth2
16 27 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (2.82%) Web Services
18 21 (2.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 178 (22.79%) Cloud Native
2 156 (19.97%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.94%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (2.18%) Derivative
10 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.28%) NHS
14 9 (1.15%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.02%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Unix
3 9 (1.15%) Windows
4 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.51%) zOS
5 3 (0.38%) Solaris
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) VMS
7 1 (0.13%) Android
7 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 336 (43.02%) DevOps
3 288 (36.88%) Agile
4 237 (30.35%) Containerisation
5 199 (25.48%) Software Engineering
6 160 (20.49%) Event-Driven
7 148 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.16%) Observability
9 132 (16.90%) AI
10 119 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (14.47%) Test Automation
12 99 (12.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 98 (12.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 97 (12.42%) TDD
15 86 (11.01%) Scrum
16 84 (10.76%) Code Quality
17 73 (9.35%) Migration
18 68 (8.71%) Integration Patterns
19 67 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
20 66 (8.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 344 (44.05%) Java
2 196 (25.10%) Python
3 192 (24.58%) SQL
4 116 (14.85%) TypeScript
5 96 (12.29%) JavaScript
6 92 (11.78%) C#
7 40 (5.12%) Go
8 22 (2.82%) Ruby
9 15 (1.92%) Bicep
9 15 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.54%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.41%) Bash
12 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.77%) C++
13 6 (0.77%) PHP
13 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.64%) Scala
15 3 (0.38%) C
15 3 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 176 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 154 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.04%) Degree
4 42 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.41%) 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 61 (7.81%) QA
2 25 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.30%) GDPR
4 16 (2.05%) NIST
5 14 (1.79%) ISO 20022
6 13 (1.66%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.54%) 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
1 306 (39.18%) Docker
2 16 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 292 (37.39%) Kubernetes
2 117 (14.98%) Terraform
3 53 (6.79%) Grafana
4 42 (5.38%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.79%) Argo
6 13 (1.66%) Istio
6 13 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.54%) Ansible
8 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.77%) Kibana
10 5 (0.64%) Opsgenie
11 4 (0.51%) Puppet
12 3 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.26%) Knative
13 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.26%) Rancher
14 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
14 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 78 (9.99%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.25%) Oracle
3 32 (4.10%) Google
4 25 (3.20%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.18%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.18%) Splunk
6 13 (1.66%) Software AG
7 12 (1.54%) Databricks
7 12 (1.54%) IBM
8 9 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
9 8 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.77%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.77%) SAP
10 6 (0.77%) Solace
10 6 (0.77%) Sybase
11 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.64%) Rapid7