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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 682 606 802
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 3.86% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.30% 4.33% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 408 601
10th Percentile £390 £404 £425
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £615
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -4.88% -3.15%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £719
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £68.25 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £71.19 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.54% -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% +4.50%

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 12,862 13,995 18,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.11% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,472 9,006 13,076
10th Percentile £331 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 165 238
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £25.01 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.20% +1.52% -
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £61.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +14 79 £550 -15.38% 427
South London +6 16 £541 +3.10% 6
East London +8 9 £540 -6.90% 16
West London -20 8 £475 -5.00% 16
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 57 (8.36%) Confluence
2 21 (3.08%) Apache
3 15 (2.20%) CMS
4 8 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.73%) Camunda
7 4 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.44%) nginx
8 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.15%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.03%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.17%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (1.17%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle Retail
5 4 (0.59%) Endur
5 4 (0.59%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.59%) thinkFolio
6 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.15%) Avolution ABACUS
7 1 (0.15%) Eikon
7 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.15%) RMDS
7 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 339 (49.71%) AWS
2 216 (31.67%) Azure
3 112 (16.42%) Serverless
4 104 (15.25%) GCP
5 102 (14.96%) GitHub
6 58 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
8 51 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 46 (6.74%) Amazon S3
10 37 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
11 30 (4.40%) Azure AKS
12 29 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
13 24 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.08%) OpenShift
16 20 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (2.79%) Azure Functions
18 18 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.20%) SSL
2 5 (0.73%) HTTP
2 5 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (0.59%) Network Security
4 3 (0.44%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.15%) AMQP
6 1 (0.15%) Broadband
6 1 (0.15%) DSL
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) SAN
6 1 (0.15%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (10.12%) SQL Server
3 62 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 47 (6.89%) Relational Database
5 41 (6.01%) MongoDB
6 39 (5.72%) Apache Cassandra
7 31 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.40%) Big Data
9 27 (3.96%) MySQL
10 24 (3.52%) Redis
11 21 (3.08%) DynamoDB
11 21 (3.08%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.61%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.47%) DB2
15 8 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (1.17%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.03%) Tableau
17 6 (0.88%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 87 (12.76%) Git
2 83 (12.17%) JIRA
3 79 (11.58%) Jenkins
4 44 (6.45%) GitLab
4 44 (6.45%) JUnit
5 26 (3.81%) Maven
6 25 (3.67%) Mockito
7 22 (3.23%) Cucumber
8 21 (3.08%) Postman
9 18 (2.64%) Cypress.io
10 17 (2.49%) Selenium
10 17 (2.49%) SpecFlow
11 15 (2.20%) Bitbucket
12 13 (1.91%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.76%) SonarQube
14 10 (1.47%) Gradle
15 9 (1.32%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.32%) TeamCity
16 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (1.17%) SoapUI
General
1 211 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 187 (27.42%) Finance
3 123 (18.04%) Banking
4 63 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (8.94%) Public Sector
6 27 (3.96%) Front Office
7 22 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.20%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.05%) Back Office
10 13 (1.91%) Military
11 11 (1.61%) Retail
12 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.88%) Automotive
15 5 (0.73%) Legal
16 4 (0.59%) Marketing
17 3 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 309 (45.31%) Developer
2 154 (22.58%) Senior
3 129 (18.91%) Architect
4 119 (17.45%) Java Developer
5 85 (12.46%) Senior Developer
6 54 (7.92%) Lead
7 42 (6.16%) C# Developer
7 42 (6.16%) Software Engineer
8 37 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (5.28%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (5.13%) Angular Developer
10 35 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (4.69%) Java Engineer
12 28 (4.11%) Technical Architect
13 27 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.81%) Lead Developer
15 25 (3.67%) Senior Architect
16 22 (3.23%) .NET Developer
16 22 (3.23%) Backend Developer
16 22 (3.23%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (21.85%) Kafka
2 144 (21.11%) Spring
3 137 (20.09%) REST
4 136 (19.94%) Spring Boot
5 126 (18.48%) RESTful
6 116 (17.01%) .NET
6 116 (17.01%) React
7 102 (14.96%) AngularJS
8 90 (13.20%) Node.js
9 52 (7.62%) HTML
10 43 (6.30%) RabbitMQ
11 40 (5.87%) JSON
12 38 (5.57%) Web Services
13 37 (5.43%) .NET Framework
13 37 (5.43%) SOAP
14 36 (5.28%) CSS
15 34 (4.99%) gRPC
16 30 (4.40%) .NET Core
17 29 (4.25%) OAuth
18 27 (3.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 125 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 91 (13.34%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.89%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
5 18 (2.64%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.35%) Derivative
7 13 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.17%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.17%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.73%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.67%) Linux
2 18 (2.64%) Unix
3 6 (0.88%) Android
4 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) Windows
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (48.97%) Agile
2 315 (46.19%) CI/CD
3 232 (34.02%) DevOps
4 172 (25.22%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (20.09%) Containerisation
6 133 (19.50%) Software Engineering
7 111 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 105 (15.40%) Scrum
9 101 (14.81%) Event-Driven
10 93 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 86 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
12 84 (12.32%) TDD
13 66 (9.68%) API Design
14 65 (9.53%) Mentoring
15 64 (9.38%) SDLC
16 62 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 62 (9.09%) Design Patterns
17 61 (8.94%) AI
17 61 (8.94%) Code Quality
18 58 (8.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 301 (44.13%) Java
2 154 (22.58%) SQL
3 146 (21.41%) Python
4 118 (17.30%) C#
5 114 (16.72%) JavaScript
6 97 (14.22%) TypeScript
7 53 (7.77%) Go
8 18 (2.64%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.20%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.76%) Bash
10 12 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.61%) C++
12 10 (1.47%) Bicep
13 9 (1.32%) Groovy
13 9 (1.32%) Ruby
14 7 (1.03%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.88%) PHP
15 6 (0.88%) Scala
16 4 (0.59%) Perl
17 3 (0.44%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 120 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.96%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.50%) Degree
4 32 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.35%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.76%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.73%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.59%) CISSP
12 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.29%) CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) OCP
14 2 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.06%) QA
2 17 (2.49%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.20%) GDPR
4 9 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.88%) WCAG
6 5 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.73%) MiFID
7 4 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 15022
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.15%) FATCA
10 1 (0.15%) NIST
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 236 (34.60%) Docker
2 20 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 253 (37.10%) Kubernetes
2 103 (15.10%) Terraform
3 30 (4.40%) Grafana
4 28 (4.11%) Ansible
5 24 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.47%) Argo
8 7 (1.03%) Puppet
9 6 (0.88%) Istio
10 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.29%) WMI
12 1 (0.15%) Control-M
12 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.15%) Kibana
12 1 (0.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 62 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.74%) Oracle
3 37 (5.43%) Google
4 26 (3.81%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.52%) Splunk
6 18 (2.64%) Databricks
7 15 (2.20%) HP
8 13 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.76%) BMC
9 12 (1.76%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.76%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.76%) Remedy
10 11 (1.61%) CA Agile Central
11 10 (1.47%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.47%) Cloudera
11 10 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.47%) Foundry
11 10 (1.47%) Palantir
12 9 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.32%) Salesforce