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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -11
Contract jobs citing Microservices 804 580 736
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 4.61% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.99% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 398 541
10th Percentile £401 £400 £413
25th Percentile £452 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £695
90th Percentile £771 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -14.06%
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% -30.56%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.00 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year +40.91% +13.57% -33.20%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
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 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -20 80 £555 -5.13% 36
South London -24 17 £535 +8.08%
East London +5 8 £432 +72.80% 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 21 (2.61%) CMS
2 20 (2.49%) Confluence
3 18 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.62%) Camunda
5 12 (1.49%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.37%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.24%) Apache
8 9 (1.12%) SharePoint
9 8 (1.00%) Anypoint
9 8 (1.00%) nginx
10 7 (0.87%) Mule
11 4 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.25%) Drupal
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
13 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 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.75%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Quorum
3 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.50%) 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
1 414 (51.49%) AWS
2 284 (35.32%) Azure
3 132 (16.42%) GCP
4 128 (15.92%) GitHub
5 105 (13.06%) Serverless
6 86 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
7 74 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (7.71%) Amazon S3
10 52 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
12 41 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (3.73%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.48%) SaaS
18 21 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 19 (2.36%) PaaS
20 18 (2.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.49%) HTTP
2 6 (0.75%) DNS
2 6 (0.75%) 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 97 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.97%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.09%) SQL Server
5 40 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 37 (4.60%) Redis
8 34 (4.23%) DynamoDB
9 27 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 23 (2.86%) MySQL
11 17 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 17 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.99%) Power BI
13 15 (1.87%) Big Data
14 11 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.37%) Flink
15 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 128 (15.92%) Git
2 124 (15.42%) Jenkins
3 86 (10.70%) GitLab
4 56 (6.97%) JUnit
5 37 (4.60%) Mockito
6 36 (4.48%) JIRA
7 29 (3.61%) Gradle
8 26 (3.23%) Maven
9 22 (2.74%) Postman
10 16 (1.99%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.87%) Liquibase
11 15 (1.87%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (1.24%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.12%) Vite
15 8 (1.00%) MSTest
16 7 (0.87%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.87%) Selenium
16 7 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 208 (25.87%) Finance
2 183 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 129 (16.04%) Banking
4 99 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.36%) Front Office
7 26 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.49%) Marketing
9 18 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (2.11%) Law
11 15 (1.87%) Retail
12 12 (1.49%) Legal
13 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.37%) Retail Banking
14 9 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.62%) Local Government
16 5 (0.62%) Police
17 4 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 265 (32.96%) Developer
2 173 (21.52%) Senior
3 140 (17.41%) Architect
4 108 (13.43%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.70%) Software Engineer
6 75 (9.33%) Lead
7 73 (9.08%) Senior Developer
8 57 (7.09%) Java Engineer
9 48 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (4.23%) Analyst
13 32 (3.98%) C# Developer
13 32 (3.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.98%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.61%) Backend Developer
14 29 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
15 26 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
16 23 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (27.49%) Spring
2 196 (24.38%) Spring Boot
3 179 (22.26%) Kafka
4 166 (20.65%) RESTful
5 165 (20.52%) REST
6 132 (16.42%) React
7 101 (12.56%) .NET
8 80 (9.95%) Node.js
9 64 (7.96%) AngularJS
10 45 (5.60%) OAuth
11 41 (5.10%) Middleware
12 38 (4.73%) CSS
13 37 (4.60%) OAuth2
14 36 (4.48%) HTML
15 35 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
16 32 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
17 28 (3.48%) JSON
18 27 (3.36%) gRPC
19 26 (3.23%) OpenID
20 24 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 207 (25.75%) Cloud Native
2 181 (22.51%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (7.84%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 25 (3.11%) Derivative
5 25 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.99%) AI Agents
7 23 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.36%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.37%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.22%) Linux
2 19 (2.36%) Unix
3 8 (1.00%) Windows
4 7 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) 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
1 463 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 339 (42.16%) DevOps
3 315 (39.18%) Agile
4 244 (30.35%) Containerisation
5 215 (26.74%) Software Engineering
6 207 (25.75%) Event-Driven
7 148 (18.41%) AI
7 148 (18.41%) Observability
8 145 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 126 (15.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 124 (15.42%) Test Automation
11 113 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
11 113 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (14.05%) Scrum
12 103 (12.81%) TDD
13 79 (9.83%) API Design
13 79 (9.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 76 (9.45%) Integration Patterns
15 75 (9.33%) Technical Leadership
16 74 (9.20%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 376 (46.77%) Java
2 218 (27.11%) Python
3 200 (24.88%) SQL
4 142 (17.66%) TypeScript
5 113 (14.05%) JavaScript
6 103 (12.81%) C#
7 38 (4.73%) Go
8 26 (3.23%) Ruby
9 15 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.37%) Bash
12 9 (1.12%) Bicep
13 8 (1.00%) PHP
14 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.75%) Solidity
16 5 (0.62%) C++
16 5 (0.62%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 158 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.34%) Degree
4 38 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.61%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.87%) CISSP
11 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.50%) OSCP
13 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.37%) GIAC
13 3 (0.37%) MBA
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.46%) QA
2 35 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.36%) NIST
4 16 (1.99%) GDPR
5 15 (1.87%) ISO 20022
6 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.49%) PSD2
8 11 (1.37%) SEPA
9 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) WCAG
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.37%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 314 (39.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.37%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 300 (37.31%) Kubernetes
2 117 (14.55%) Terraform
3 60 (7.46%) Grafana
4 49 (6.09%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.86%) Ansible
6 11 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.12%) Argo
7 9 (1.12%) Istio
7 9 (1.12%) Kibana
8 5 (0.62%) Puppet
9 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.25%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 76 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.34%) Oracle
3 27 (3.36%) Google
4 23 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.24%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.99%) Splunk
7 15 (1.87%) IBM
8 11 (1.37%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.37%) Sybase
9 10 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.12%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.12%) Software AG
11 7 (0.87%) Confluent
11 7 (0.87%) SAP
12 6 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.75%) Solace
13 4 (0.50%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.50%) Rapid7