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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 51 60
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 -32
Contract jobs citing Microservices 703 614 764
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.96% 3.91% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.38% 4.38% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 406 568
10th Percentile £386 £406 £417
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -6.47%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £710
90th Percentile £738 £797 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £67.35 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.13% -48.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £46.83 £75.77
% change year-on-year +43.08% -38.19% +4.14%

All Process and 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 13,068 14,030 17,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.28% 89.29% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 9,056 12,811
10th Percentile £334 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £655 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.50 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.94 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.87 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 81 £563 -11.42% 271
South London +4 17 £530 +0.95% 11
East London +11 9 £540 -6.90% 11
West London -17 9 £475 -5.00% 15
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 56 (7.97%) Confluence
2 23 (3.27%) Apache
3 14 (1.99%) CMS
4 7 (1.00%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.71%) Camunda
7 4 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.43%) nginx
8 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.28%) IIS
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.00%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.85%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.85%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.71%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.57%) Endur
4 4 (0.57%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.14%) Eikon
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) RMDS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (50.21%) AWS
2 232 (33.00%) Azure
3 122 (17.35%) Serverless
4 108 (15.36%) GCP
5 106 (15.08%) GitHub
6 65 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 57 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (6.97%) Amazon S3
10 44 (6.26%) Azure AKS
11 40 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
18 20 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (2.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.13%) SSL
2 6 (0.85%) HTTP
3 5 (0.71%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.57%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) DNS
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
6 1 (0.14%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) MQTT
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) SAN
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (9.39%) SQL Server
3 61 (8.68%) NoSQL
4 50 (7.11%) MongoDB
5 48 (6.83%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 32 (4.55%) MySQL
8 31 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
9 28 (3.98%) Big Data
10 23 (3.27%) Redis
11 22 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 21 (2.99%) Hadoop
13 15 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (1.42%) DB2
15 10 (1.42%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
17 7 (1.00%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.00%) RDBMS
17 7 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (12.80%) Git
2 83 (11.81%) Jenkins
3 80 (11.38%) JIRA
4 51 (7.25%) GitLab
5 44 (6.26%) JUnit
6 25 (3.56%) Mockito
7 23 (3.27%) Maven
8 22 (3.13%) Cucumber
9 20 (2.84%) Postman
10 19 (2.70%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.56%) Bitbucket
11 18 (2.56%) Selenium
12 15 (2.13%) SpecFlow
13 11 (1.56%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.28%) Gradle
14 9 (1.28%) SonarQube
14 9 (1.28%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.14%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (1.00%) SoapUI
General
1 218 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 182 (25.89%) Finance
3 116 (16.50%) Banking
4 65 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.98%) Front Office
7 22 (3.13%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.99%) Back Office
9 13 (1.85%) Retail
9 13 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.42%) Military
11 8 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.85%) Automotive
13 6 (0.85%) Legal
14 4 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.57%) Marketing
15 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.28%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 307 (43.67%) Developer
2 163 (23.19%) Senior
3 132 (18.78%) Architect
4 120 (17.07%) Java Developer
5 85 (12.09%) Senior Developer
6 50 (7.11%) Lead
7 47 (6.69%) Software Engineer
8 41 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (5.69%) C# Developer
10 38 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
11 36 (5.12%) Java Engineer
12 33 (4.69%) Angular Developer
13 31 (4.41%) Technical Architect
14 29 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
15 24 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (3.41%) Senior Architect
16 23 (3.27%) Backend Developer
17 22 (3.13%) Lead Developer
18 21 (2.99%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (21.91%) Spring
2 152 (21.62%) Kafka
3 141 (20.06%) Spring Boot
4 139 (19.77%) REST
5 133 (18.92%) RESTful
6 124 (17.64%) React
7 119 (16.93%) .NET
8 110 (15.65%) AngularJS
9 96 (13.66%) Node.js
10 53 (7.54%) HTML
11 46 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.69%) JSON
13 37 (5.26%) CSS
14 35 (4.98%) .NET Framework
14 35 (4.98%) gRPC
14 35 (4.98%) Web Services
15 34 (4.84%) SOAP
16 33 (4.69%) .NET Core
17 31 (4.41%) OAuth
18 27 (3.84%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 133 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 101 (14.37%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.42%) Derivative
5 17 (2.42%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.14%) Hedge funds
11 7 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (1.00%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.00%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.84%) Linux
2 17 (2.42%) Unix
3 6 (0.85%) Android
4 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.43%) Windows
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (48.36%) Agile
2 339 (48.22%) CI/CD
3 259 (36.84%) DevOps
4 173 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 141 (20.06%) Software Engineering
7 115 (16.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 106 (15.08%) Event-Driven
8 106 (15.08%) Scrum
9 101 (14.37%) Test Automation
10 99 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 87 (12.38%) TDD
12 67 (9.53%) Code Quality
12 67 (9.53%) Design Patterns
12 67 (9.53%) SDLC
13 65 (9.25%) API Design
14 63 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (8.82%) Mentoring
16 61 (8.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 59 (8.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 315 (44.81%) Java
2 161 (22.90%) Python
3 153 (21.76%) SQL
4 118 (16.79%) C#
5 116 (16.50%) JavaScript
6 105 (14.94%) TypeScript
7 56 (7.97%) Go
8 18 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.13%) Bash
10 14 (1.99%) Bicep
11 13 (1.85%) C++
12 12 (1.71%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.28%) Ruby
15 8 (1.14%) PHP
16 7 (1.00%) Groovy
16 7 (1.00%) PowerShell
17 6 (0.85%) Scala
18 4 (0.57%) Perl
19 3 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 129 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 111 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.82%) Degree
4 32 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.71%) CISSP
11 5 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.43%) CCSP
14 2 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.53%) QA
2 17 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.42%) GDPR
3 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 6 (0.85%) MiFID
4 6 (0.85%) WCAG
5 5 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.43%) HL7
7 3 (0.43%) NCSC
8 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) EMIR
9 1 (0.14%) FATCA
9 1 (0.14%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 249 (35.42%) Docker
2 21 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 270 (38.41%) Kubernetes
2 124 (17.64%) Terraform
3 31 (4.41%) Grafana
4 26 (3.70%) Ansible
5 23 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.71%) Argo
8 5 (0.71%) Istio
8 5 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.71%) Puppet
9 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.28%) WMI
11 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.14%) Kibana
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
11 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 69 (9.82%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.40%) Oracle
3 39 (5.55%) Google
4 26 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.41%) Splunk
6 22 (3.13%) Databricks
7 15 (2.13%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.99%) HP
9 12 (1.71%) BMC
9 12 (1.71%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.71%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.71%) Remedy
10 11 (1.56%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.42%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.42%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.42%) Foundry
11 10 (1.42%) Palantir
12 9 (1.28%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.14%) Red Hat