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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 69 62
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 689 511 666
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.81% 3.47% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 3.86% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 337 498
10th Percentile £375 £407 £419
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £589 £598
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% -1.42% -8.08%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £695
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.86% -4.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £67.13 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £79.25 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +73.08% -37.58% -14.70%

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 13,087 13,251 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.11% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,493 11,734
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +8 80 £569 -3.31% 238
South London +10 21 £531 +1.14% 28
West London -15 10 £530 +29.46% 6
East London +5 7 £540 -7.69% 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 46 (6.68%) Confluence
2 19 (2.76%) Apache
3 10 (1.45%) CMS
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.02%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.44%) Camunda
5 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.44%) nginx
5 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.29%) CICS
6 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) Mule
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) 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 8 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.73%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.73%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.58%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.29%) Endur
5 2 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 338 (49.06%) AWS
2 260 (37.74%) Azure
3 131 (19.01%) Serverless
4 112 (16.26%) GitHub
5 111 (16.11%) GCP
6 82 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (9.14%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (7.11%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.97%) Azure AKS
11 41 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
12 38 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 31 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (3.77%) Azure Functions
16 26 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
16 26 (3.77%) Entra ID
17 24 (3.48%) Azure Monitor
17 24 (3.48%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.89%) SSL
2 7 (1.02%) Network Security
3 5 (0.73%) HTTP
3 5 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
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%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Multicast
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.32%) NoSQL
2 76 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 54 (7.84%) MongoDB
5 45 (6.53%) Relational Database
6 41 (5.95%) Apache Cassandra
7 26 (3.77%) Redis
8 25 (3.63%) Big Data
8 25 (3.63%) MySQL
9 24 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (3.05%) DynamoDB
11 18 (2.61%) Hadoop
12 17 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.74%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.31%) Oracle Database
16 8 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.16%) DB2
17 7 (1.02%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (13.50%) Git
2 85 (12.34%) Jenkins
3 71 (10.30%) JIRA
4 57 (8.27%) GitLab
5 36 (5.22%) JUnit
6 23 (3.34%) Mockito
7 22 (3.19%) Cucumber
8 19 (2.76%) Bitbucket
8 19 (2.76%) Postman
9 18 (2.61%) Cypress.io
9 18 (2.61%) Maven
9 18 (2.61%) Selenium
10 12 (1.74%) SpecFlow
11 10 (1.45%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.45%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.16%) Gradle
13 7 (1.02%) JMeter
13 7 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.02%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.87%) Liquibase
General
1 208 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 172 (24.96%) Finance
3 122 (17.71%) Banking
4 66 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.19%) Investment Banking
7 21 (3.05%) Front Office
8 15 (2.18%) Retail
9 10 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.31%) Back Office
10 9 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.87%) Legal
13 4 (0.58%) Marketing
13 4 (0.58%) Military
14 3 (0.44%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.29%) Automotive
15 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 300 (43.54%) Developer
2 157 (22.79%) Senior
3 121 (17.56%) Architect
4 107 (15.53%) Java Developer
5 82 (11.90%) Senior Developer
6 45 (6.53%) Lead
7 40 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (5.66%) C# Developer
8 39 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
8 39 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (5.08%) Software Engineer
10 34 (4.93%) Java Engineer
11 33 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
12 26 (3.77%) Angular Developer
12 26 (3.77%) Technical Architect
13 24 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
13 24 (3.48%) Backend Developer
14 20 (2.90%) .NET Developer
15 19 (2.76%) Lead Developer
15 19 (2.76%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.64%) Spring
2 154 (22.35%) Kafka
3 146 (21.19%) Spring Boot
4 134 (19.45%) RESTful
5 127 (18.43%) REST
6 123 (17.85%) React
7 116 (16.84%) .NET
8 100 (14.51%) Node.js
9 99 (14.37%) AngularJS
10 52 (7.55%) HTML
11 44 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.81%) .NET Core
13 38 (5.52%) CSS
14 35 (5.08%) gRPC
14 35 (5.08%) JSON
15 30 (4.35%) OAuth
16 29 (4.21%) Middleware
17 28 (4.06%) SOAP
18 26 (3.77%) .NET Framework
18 26 (3.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (20.17%) Cloud Native
2 109 (15.82%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.47%) Derivative
6 13 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 12 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.16%) Hedge funds
11 8 (1.16%) NHS
12 7 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (0.87%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.87%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.77%) Linux
2 17 (2.47%) Unix
3 4 (0.58%) Android
4 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.29%) Windows
6 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (50.80%) CI/CD
2 310 (44.99%) Agile
3 288 (41.80%) DevOps
4 165 (23.95%) Containerisation
5 163 (23.66%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (20.32%) Software Engineering
7 109 (15.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (15.53%) Event-Driven
9 105 (15.24%) Test Automation
10 101 (14.66%) Full-Stack Development
11 89 (12.92%) Scrum
12 88 (12.77%) TDD
13 71 (10.30%) AI
14 69 (10.01%) SDLC
15 67 (9.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 65 (9.43%) Design Patterns
17 64 (9.29%) Code Quality
18 62 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (8.85%) Observability
20 59 (8.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 287 (41.65%) Java
2 162 (23.51%) Python
2 162 (23.51%) SQL
3 116 (16.84%) JavaScript
4 112 (16.26%) C#
5 88 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 55 (7.98%) Go
7 21 (3.05%) Bicep
8 13 (1.89%) Kotlin
9 11 (1.60%) Bash
9 11 (1.60%) Ruby
9 11 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.45%) C++
11 9 (1.31%) PHP
12 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.02%) Scala
13 6 (0.87%) Groovy
14 5 (0.73%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.58%) Perl
16 3 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 116 (16.84%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.84%) Degree
4 40 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 18 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.18%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.87%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) CCSP
13 3 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.44%) CISSP
13 3 (0.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.69%) QA
2 15 (2.18%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.74%) GDPR
4 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.73%) MiFID
5 5 (0.73%) WCAG
6 4 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.44%) NCSC
8 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.29%) HL7
8 2 (0.29%) PSD2
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.15%) SEPA
9 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 274 (39.77%) Docker
2 26 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 283 (41.07%) Kubernetes
2 128 (18.58%) Terraform
3 24 (3.48%) Grafana
4 23 (3.34%) Ansible
5 20 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
6 18 (2.61%) Argo
7 17 (2.47%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.31%) Istio
9 5 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.73%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.58%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.58%) Puppet
11 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.29%) Knative
13 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.15%) Control-M
13 1 (0.15%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.15%) Kibana
13 1 (0.15%) logstash
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 76 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.95%) Google
3 36 (5.22%) Oracle
4 26 (3.77%) Databricks
5 22 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.05%) Splunk
7 16 (2.32%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.31%) HP
11 8 (1.16%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.16%) BMC
11 8 (1.16%) Cloudera
11 8 (1.16%) Foundry
11 8 (1.16%) Ivanti
11 8 (1.16%) Palantir
11 8 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.16%) Remedy
12 7 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft