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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 835 676 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.13% 5.05% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.45% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 452 445
10th Percentile £413 £406 £410
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% - -7.26%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £530 £530 £575
% change year-on-year - -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £54.95 £36.58
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £37.81
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +99.61% -46.56%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.86
90th Percentile - - £42.09
England median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £41.33
% change year-on-year -0.59% +62.12% -44.90%

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 17,967 12,400 14,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.57% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,762 8,167 9,402
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 240 183
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.22 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.03 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.12% -8.36%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £80.63 £64.78 £78.68
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -9 92 £555 -5.13% 105
South London -3 23 £535 -8.70% 11
East London 0 5 £750 +38.89% 5
West London -22 4 £500 +5.26% 19
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 35 (4.19%) Confluence
2 20 (2.40%) CMS
3 18 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.16%) Camunda
4 10 (1.20%) Apache
5 9 (1.08%) nginx
5 9 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.60%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.24%) Mule
9 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Quorum
3 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (49.22%) AWS
2 319 (38.20%) Azure
3 160 (19.16%) GitHub
4 155 (18.56%) GCP
5 101 (12.10%) Serverless
6 99 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
7 97 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (8.98%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (6.11%) Amazon S3
12 49 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (4.19%) OpenShift
16 29 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (3.11%) Anthropic Claude
17 26 (3.11%) SaaS
18 25 (2.99%) Amazon EventBridge
18 25 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) Network Security
1 6 (0.72%) VPN
2 4 (0.48%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.36%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (10.06%) NoSQL
3 64 (7.66%) SQL Server
4 56 (6.71%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.75%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.19%) MySQL
7 32 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
8 28 (3.35%) Redis
9 21 (2.51%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.16%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.04%) Big Data
11 17 (2.04%) Power BI
12 13 (1.56%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.20%) Metadata
15 9 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.08%) Oracle Database
16 8 (0.96%) Flink
16 8 (0.96%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 161 (19.28%) Jenkins
2 153 (18.32%) Git
3 115 (13.77%) GitLab
4 51 (6.11%) JUnit
5 45 (5.39%) JIRA
5 45 (5.39%) Maven
6 39 (4.67%) Gradle
7 34 (4.07%) Mockito
8 29 (3.47%) SonarQube
9 25 (2.99%) Cypress.io
10 23 (2.75%) Selenium
11 20 (2.40%) REST Assured
12 18 (2.16%) Cucumber
13 17 (2.04%) Postman
14 16 (1.92%) JMeter
15 12 (1.44%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.32%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.32%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.96%) Gatling
17 8 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 255 (30.54%) Finance
2 216 (25.87%) Social Skills
3 150 (17.96%) Banking
4 96 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 91 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.95%) Investment Banking
7 31 (3.71%) Retail
8 25 (2.99%) Front Office
9 22 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.92%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.68%) Law
12 14 (1.68%) Marketing
13 13 (1.56%) Police
13 13 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.44%) Billing
15 9 (1.08%) Local Government
16 7 (0.84%) Legal
16 7 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.84%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (34.25%) Developer
2 168 (20.12%) Senior
3 148 (17.72%) Architect
4 111 (13.29%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.22%) Lead
6 67 (8.02%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.90%) Software Engineer
8 65 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
9 60 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (6.47%) Java Engineer
11 45 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 41 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 38 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 29 (3.47%) .NET Developer
14 29 (3.47%) Python Developer
15 28 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
16 26 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
18 23 (2.75%) Backend Developer
19 22 (2.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (28.26%) REST
2 220 (26.35%) Spring
3 212 (25.39%) Kafka
4 203 (24.31%) Spring Boot
5 159 (19.04%) React
6 158 (18.92%) RESTful
7 149 (17.84%) Terraform
8 113 (13.53%) .NET
9 83 (9.94%) Node.js
10 68 (8.14%) AngularJS
11 64 (7.66%) CSS
11 64 (7.66%) HTML
12 58 (6.95%) OAuth
13 48 (5.75%) OAuth2
14 45 (5.39%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (4.67%) HTML5
16 36 (4.31%) SOAP
17 35 (4.19%) .NET Core
17 35 (4.19%) CSS3
18 33 (3.95%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 273 (32.69%) Cloud Native
2 207 (24.79%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (10.78%) Product Ownership
4 50 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (5.75%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.31%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.83%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (2.99%) Derivative
10 20 (2.40%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.28%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.80%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.68%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.44%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (7.07%) Linux
2 29 (3.47%) Unix
3 14 (1.68%) Windows
4 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 393 (47.07%) DevOps
3 350 (41.92%) Agile
4 307 (36.77%) Event-Driven
5 228 (27.31%) Containerisation
6 215 (25.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 214 (25.63%) Software Engineering
8 203 (24.31%) AI
9 184 (22.04%) Test Automation
10 173 (20.72%) Observability
11 146 (17.49%) Infrastructure as Code
12 145 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 136 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (15.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 122 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (14.37%) Scrum
17 118 (14.13%) Technical Leadership
18 90 (10.78%) Code Quality
19 89 (10.66%) TDD
20 88 (10.54%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 371 (44.43%) Java
2 245 (29.34%) Python
3 199 (23.83%) SQL
4 165 (19.76%) TypeScript
5 159 (19.04%) JavaScript
6 113 (13.53%) C#
7 34 (4.07%) Go
8 28 (3.35%) Bash
9 20 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.16%) PL/SQL
10 18 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.68%) Bicep
12 13 (1.56%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.08%) Ruby
14 8 (0.96%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 4 (0.48%) Solidity
17 3 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 197 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 176 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.99%) Degree
4 41 (4.91%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.71%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.60%) CISSP
13 5 (0.60%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
15 2 (0.24%) GIAC
15 2 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.74%) QA
2 21 (2.51%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.28%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.68%) NIST
5 14 (1.68%) SEPA
6 11 (1.32%) GDPR
7 6 (0.72%) NCSC
7 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.72%) PSD2
7 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 4 (0.48%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.36%) GRC
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 312 (37.37%) Docker
2 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Postfix
6 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 308 (36.89%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.66%) Grafana
3 47 (5.63%) Prometheus
4 42 (5.03%) Ansible
5 15 (1.80%) Kibana
6 10 (1.20%) Argo
7 9 (1.08%) Istio
8 8 (0.96%) Puppet
9 7 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) Bosun
11 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.24%) Control-M
13 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 95 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.07%) Oracle
3 55 (6.59%) Google
4 27 (3.23%) Splunk
5 25 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.04%) SAP
8 15 (1.80%) IBM
8 15 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.56%) Databricks
10 9 (1.08%) New Relic
11 8 (0.96%) Veracode
12 7 (0.84%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.72%) Confluent
13 6 (0.72%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.72%) Sybase
13 6 (0.72%) Workday
14 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.60%) Solace