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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 48 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 839 678 702
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 4.96% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.38% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 472 510
10th Percentile £407 £391 £400
25th Percentile £463 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £38.30 £42.93
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £46.19
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +53.85% -30.67%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £57.44
90th Percentile - £95.00 £60.48
England median hourly rate £72.22 £67.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year +7.79% +46.03% -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 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -14 95 £555 -5.13% 53
South London -18 24 £545 +2.91% 3
East London +6 9 £432 +12.21% 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 26 (3.10%) CMS
2 21 (2.50%) Confluence
3 20 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.19%) Apache
4 10 (1.19%) Camunda
4 10 (1.19%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.95%) nginx
6 7 (0.83%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.72%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Mule
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.72%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 422 (50.30%) AWS
2 317 (37.78%) Azure
3 159 (18.95%) GCP
4 149 (17.76%) GitHub
5 113 (13.47%) Serverless
6 92 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
7 86 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
8 63 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 53 (6.32%) Amazon S3
11 50 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
12 45 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.69%) Azure AKS
15 25 (2.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.74%) OpenShift
16 23 (2.74%) SaaS
17 21 (2.50%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) HTTP
1 7 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.18%) NoSQL
3 50 (5.96%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 42 (5.01%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.58%) DynamoDB
5 30 (3.58%) Redis
6 29 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.74%) MySQL
8 20 (2.38%) Power BI
9 18 (2.15%) Big Data
10 17 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 16 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.43%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.31%) Flink
15 10 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 145 (17.28%) Git
2 131 (15.61%) Jenkins
3 83 (9.89%) GitLab
4 55 (6.56%) JUnit
5 36 (4.29%) Mockito
6 34 (4.05%) Gradle
7 33 (3.93%) Maven
8 32 (3.81%) JIRA
9 24 (2.86%) Postman
10 19 (2.26%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.15%) SonarQube
12 15 (1.79%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.67%) Cucumber
14 13 (1.55%) Selenium
15 11 (1.31%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.31%) TeamCity
15 11 (1.31%) Vite
16 10 (1.19%) JMeter
16 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
17 8 (0.95%) Gatling
General
1 235 (28.01%) Finance
2 203 (24.20%) Social Skills
3 131 (15.61%) Banking
4 105 (12.51%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.22%) Front Office
6 27 (3.22%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.74%) Marketing
8 20 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.38%) Retail
9 19 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.03%) Law
11 12 (1.43%) Legal
11 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.31%) Billing
12 11 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 281 (33.49%) Developer
2 174 (20.74%) Senior
3 162 (19.31%) Architect
4 118 (14.06%) Java Developer
5 80 (9.54%) Lead
6 77 (9.18%) Senior Developer
7 75 (8.94%) Software Engineer
8 58 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.48%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 41 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 37 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
13 36 (4.29%) Senior Java Developer
14 33 (3.93%) Analyst
14 33 (3.93%) Technical Architect
15 31 (3.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.34%) Backend Developer
17 27 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
17 27 (3.22%) Senior Software Engineer
18 26 (3.10%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (26.46%) Spring
2 195 (23.24%) Spring Boot
3 191 (22.77%) REST
4 182 (21.69%) Kafka
5 166 (19.79%) RESTful
6 148 (17.64%) React
7 105 (12.51%) .NET
8 91 (10.85%) Node.js
9 61 (7.27%) AngularJS
10 53 (6.32%) CSS
11 50 (5.96%) HTML
12 43 (5.13%) OAuth
13 40 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (4.41%) OAuth2
15 32 (3.81%) JSON
16 29 (3.46%) Middleware
17 28 (3.34%) .NET Core
17 28 (3.34%) LangChain
17 28 (3.34%) Playwright
18 27 (3.22%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 234 (27.89%) Cloud Native
2 207 (24.67%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.93%) AI Agents
6 32 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 29 (3.46%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.22%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.10%) Derivative
10 23 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (2.26%) Virtual Team
12 18 (2.15%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
15 15 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.79%) Fixed Income
16 11 (1.31%) Public Cloud
17 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 10 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.48%) Linux
2 20 (2.38%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (61.03%) CI/CD
2 375 (44.70%) DevOps
3 337 (40.17%) Agile
4 272 (32.42%) Containerisation
5 246 (29.32%) Event-Driven
6 223 (26.58%) Software Engineering
7 182 (21.69%) AI
8 164 (19.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 164 (19.55%) Observability
9 156 (18.59%) Test Automation
10 147 (17.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 131 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 128 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
13 123 (14.66%) Scrum
14 101 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (11.92%) TDD
16 96 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (11.20%) Code Quality
18 83 (9.89%) API Design
18 83 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 378 (45.05%) Java
2 231 (27.53%) Python
3 202 (24.08%) SQL
4 157 (18.71%) TypeScript
5 131 (15.61%) JavaScript
6 110 (13.11%) C#
7 35 (4.17%) Go
8 25 (2.98%) Ruby
9 17 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.79%) Bash
12 14 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.43%) Bicep
14 9 (1.07%) PHP
15 7 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.60%) C++
16 5 (0.60%) Scala
16 5 (0.60%) Solidity
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (22.05%) Security Cleared
2 163 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.20%) Degree
4 38 (4.53%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) CISSP
13 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.48%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
16 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.94%) QA
2 34 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.26%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.79%) SEPA
5 14 (1.67%) GDPR
5 14 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.67%) NIST
6 10 (1.19%) PSD2
7 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) WCAG
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HL7
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 320 (38.14%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 309 (36.83%) Kubernetes
2 119 (14.18%) Terraform
3 59 (7.03%) Grafana
4 48 (5.72%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.58%) Ansible
6 10 (1.19%) Kibana
7 9 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.95%) Argo
8 8 (0.95%) Istio
9 7 (0.83%) Puppet
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) Bosun
11 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.24%) Rancher
13 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.12%) linkerd
13 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 92 (10.97%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.91%) Oracle
3 42 (5.01%) Google
4 27 (3.22%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.03%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.91%) IBM
7 15 (1.79%) Splunk
8 12 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.07%) SAP
9 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.07%) Solace
9 9 (1.07%) Sybase
10 8 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.95%) New Relic
11 6 (0.72%) Confluent
12 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.60%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.60%) Software AG
12 5 (0.60%) Workday