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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing Microservices 781 519 680
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.34% 4.19% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 4.54% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 359 502
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £729 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £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 £96.50 £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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -21 79 £555 -5.13% 70
South London -18 25 £541 +13.87% 1
East London -1 8 £432 +72.80% 5
West London -25 4 £552 +16.11% 3
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 (2.69%) Confluence
2 17 (2.18%) CMS
3 16 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.66%) Apache
5 12 (1.54%) Camunda
6 8 (1.02%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.64%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.64%) Mule
9 4 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.38%) nginx
10 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
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 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (51.22%) AWS
2 275 (35.21%) Azure
3 132 (16.90%) GCP
4 115 (14.72%) GitHub
5 111 (14.21%) Serverless
6 73 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
8 58 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 46 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (4.10%) SaaS
13 31 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (3.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (3.84%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.71%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (2.94%) PaaS
18 21 (2.69%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.41%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 3 (0.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.27%) NoSQL
2 84 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (7.17%) MongoDB
4 44 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 38 (4.87%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.61%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
8 34 (4.35%) Redis
9 33 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (2.94%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.94%) MySQL
11 20 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.66%) Big Data
13 11 (1.41%) Flink
13 11 (1.41%) Power BI
14 10 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.02%) Data Lake
17 7 (0.90%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 111 (14.21%) Git
2 106 (13.57%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.83%) GitLab
4 47 (6.02%) JUnit
5 40 (5.12%) JIRA
6 32 (4.10%) Mockito
7 20 (2.56%) Gradle
8 19 (2.43%) Maven
9 18 (2.30%) Postman
10 17 (2.18%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.54%) Liquibase
11 12 (1.54%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (1.28%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.15%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.90%) MSTest
14 7 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.90%) Vite
15 6 (0.77%) Bitbucket
15 6 (0.77%) Gatling
General
1 197 (25.22%) Finance
2 176 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 124 (15.88%) Banking
4 81 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.20%) Front Office
7 22 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.18%) Marketing
8 17 (2.18%) Retail
9 16 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (1.66%) Legal
12 10 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.15%) Law
14 7 (0.90%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.64%) Police
17 4 (0.51%) Billing
17 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (35.08%) Developer
2 165 (21.13%) Senior
3 139 (17.80%) Architect
4 100 (12.80%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.86%) Senior Developer
6 68 (8.71%) Software Engineer
7 62 (7.94%) Lead
8 51 (6.53%) Java Engineer
9 47 (6.02%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.35%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.23%) Analyst
13 32 (4.10%) C# Developer
14 30 (3.84%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.71%) Backend Developer
16 28 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.82%) Python Developer
18 21 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
19 20 (2.56%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (27.91%) Spring
2 196 (25.10%) Spring Boot
3 174 (22.28%) Kafka
4 161 (20.61%) RESTful
5 134 (17.16%) REST
6 124 (15.88%) React
7 100 (12.80%) .NET
8 83 (10.63%) Node.js
9 74 (9.48%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.53%) Middleware
11 37 (4.74%) OAuth
12 34 (4.35%) CSS
13 33 (4.23%) HTML
14 32 (4.10%) OpenTelemetry
15 31 (3.97%) gRPC
16 30 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (3.71%) OAuth2
18 25 (3.20%) .NET Core
19 24 (3.07%) JSON
19 24 (3.07%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 161 (20.61%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.04%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.69%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.43%) Derivative
9 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.28%) NHS
13 9 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.89%) Linux
2 17 (2.18%) Unix
3 9 (1.15%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) zOS
6 3 (0.38%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 326 (41.74%) DevOps
3 290 (37.13%) Agile
4 237 (30.35%) Containerisation
5 200 (25.61%) Software Engineering
6 168 (21.51%) Event-Driven
7 136 (17.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.16%) AI
8 134 (17.16%) Observability
9 111 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 104 (13.32%) Test Automation
12 100 (12.80%) Full-Stack Development
13 99 (12.68%) TDD
14 96 (12.29%) Scrum
15 79 (10.12%) Code Quality
16 69 (8.83%) Migration
17 68 (8.71%) API Design
18 65 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
19 64 (8.19%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 341 (43.66%) Java
2 203 (25.99%) SQL
3 187 (23.94%) Python
4 114 (14.60%) TypeScript
5 101 (12.93%) JavaScript
6 94 (12.04%) C#
7 39 (4.99%) Go
8 23 (2.94%) Ruby
9 15 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.79%) Bicep
11 12 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 9 (1.15%) PHP
13 8 (1.02%) Bash
13 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.77%) C++
14 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.64%) Scala
16 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.38%) COBOL
17 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 176 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.17%) Degree
4 42 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.20%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.64%) CISSP
10 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.51%) OSCP
12 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.38%) CCSP
12 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.38%) MBA
12 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.81%) QA
2 26 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.18%) GDPR
4 16 (2.05%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.92%) NIST
6 12 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 12 (1.54%) PSD2
7 11 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.28%) SEPA
9 7 (0.90%) 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%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 311 (39.82%) Docker
2 15 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 289 (37.00%) Kubernetes
2 98 (12.55%) Terraform
3 53 (6.79%) Grafana
4 43 (5.51%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.79%) Ansible
6 13 (1.66%) Istio
6 13 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.54%) Argo
8 8 (1.02%) Kibana
9 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.64%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.26%) Rancher
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.99%) Oracle
3 27 (3.46%) Google
4 23 (2.94%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.92%) Splunk
7 12 (1.54%) IBM
7 12 (1.54%) Software AG
8 9 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
10 7 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.90%) Sybase
11 6 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.77%) Databricks
11 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.77%) SAP
12 5 (0.64%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.51%) New Relic