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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 51 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 858 678 695
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.22% 5.02% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 5.42% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 460 494
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £762 £775
England median daily rate £537 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.29% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile - £40.78 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £62.00 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £91.25 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -11 102 £564 -2.84% 63
South London -4 23 £535 -13.99% 12
East London +5 11 £432 -20.00% 5
West London -29 2 £500 +5.26% 34
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 32 (3.73%) Confluence
2 26 (3.03%) CMS
3 19 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.21%) Camunda
4 10 (1.17%) Apache
4 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.70%) Ethereum
5 6 (0.70%) nginx
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
7 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) Mule
9 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.23%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Quorum
4 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
4 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.23%) 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
1 424 (49.42%) AWS
2 316 (36.83%) Azure
3 159 (18.53%) GitHub
4 158 (18.41%) GCP
5 103 (12.00%) Serverless
6 99 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
7 95 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (5.71%) Amazon S3
11 46 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (3.26%) OpenShift
14 27 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.91%) SaaS
16 24 (2.80%) GitHub Copilot
17 23 (2.68%) Amazon EventBridge
17 23 (2.68%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) Network Security
2 5 (0.58%) HTTP
3 4 (0.47%) VPN
4 3 (0.35%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.23%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.12%) 4G
6 1 (0.12%) 5G
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) LTE
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.79%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.76%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.41%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.73%) MySQL
7 28 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 24 (2.80%) Redis
9 21 (2.45%) Power BI
10 18 (2.10%) Big Data
10 18 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.17%) Flink
14 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.82%) Pinecone
15 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 156 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 149 (17.37%) Git
3 100 (11.66%) GitLab
4 56 (6.53%) JUnit
5 44 (5.13%) JIRA
6 41 (4.78%) Gradle
6 41 (4.78%) Maven
7 38 (4.43%) Mockito
8 28 (3.26%) SonarQube
9 24 (2.80%) Cypress.io
10 23 (2.68%) Postman
11 19 (2.21%) REST Assured
12 17 (1.98%) Liquibase
13 16 (1.86%) Selenium
14 14 (1.63%) JMeter
15 10 (1.17%) Bitbucket
16 9 (1.05%) Claude Code
16 9 (1.05%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.93%) Gatling
18 7 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 250 (29.14%) Finance
2 229 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 141 (16.43%) Banking
4 98 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 87 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 26 (3.03%) Retail
7 24 (2.80%) Front Office
8 23 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.33%) Marketing
11 16 (1.86%) Law
12 14 (1.63%) Retail Banking
13 13 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.40%) Billing
15 11 (1.28%) Legal
16 10 (1.17%) Police
17 7 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 295 (34.38%) Developer
2 173 (20.16%) Senior
3 156 (18.18%) Architect
4 121 (14.10%) Java Developer
5 85 (9.91%) Lead
6 73 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 71 (8.28%) Senior Developer
8 59 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 56 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (6.06%) Java Engineer
11 39 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 38 (4.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.96%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.61%) Technical Architect
16 28 (3.26%) Analyst
16 28 (3.26%) Python Developer
17 26 (3.03%) .NET Developer
17 26 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (27.16%) Spring
2 225 (26.22%) REST
3 217 (25.29%) Spring Boot
4 203 (23.66%) Kafka
5 167 (19.46%) RESTful
6 161 (18.76%) React
7 130 (15.15%) Terraform
8 105 (12.24%) .NET
9 87 (10.14%) Node.js
10 59 (6.88%) HTML
11 58 (6.76%) AngularJS
11 58 (6.76%) CSS
12 50 (5.83%) OAuth
13 47 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
14 45 (5.24%) OAuth2
15 36 (4.20%) HTML5
16 35 (4.08%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.85%) CSS3
17 33 (3.85%) JSON
18 32 (3.73%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 269 (31.35%) Cloud Native
2 211 (24.59%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (11.07%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.20%) AI Agents
7 34 (3.96%) Onboarding
8 29 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 23 (2.68%) Derivative
10 22 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.45%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.45%) Virtual Team
12 19 (2.21%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.63%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 11 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
16 10 (1.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.59%) Linux
2 27 (3.15%) Unix
3 9 (1.05%) Windows
4 6 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (63.17%) CI/CD
2 398 (46.39%) DevOps
3 351 (40.91%) Agile
4 300 (34.97%) Event-Driven
5 258 (30.07%) Containerisation
6 227 (26.46%) Software Engineering
7 206 (24.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 195 (22.73%) AI
9 177 (20.63%) Observability
9 177 (20.63%) Test Automation
10 154 (17.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 142 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 140 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (15.15%) Scrum
14 115 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 114 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
16 109 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 103 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
18 99 (11.54%) TDD
19 93 (10.84%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 402 (46.85%) Java
2 247 (28.79%) Python
3 207 (24.13%) SQL
4 165 (19.23%) TypeScript
5 150 (17.48%) JavaScript
6 107 (12.47%) C#
7 29 (3.38%) Go
8 22 (2.56%) Ruby
9 20 (2.33%) Bash
10 18 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.28%) Bicep
14 7 (0.82%) PHP
15 5 (0.58%) C++
15 5 (0.58%) Scala
15 5 (0.58%) Solidity
16 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 204 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 180 (20.98%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.83%) Degree
4 41 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.93%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.58%) CISSP
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) GIAC
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
15 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.19%) QA
2 24 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.10%) ISO 20022
3 18 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.63%) NIST
4 14 (1.63%) SEPA
5 13 (1.52%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.17%) GDPR
7 7 (0.82%) SLA
8 6 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.70%) PSD2
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
9 4 (0.47%) WCAG
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.23%) HL7
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 318 (37.06%) Docker
2 5 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.23%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 306 (35.66%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.64%) Grafana
3 42 (4.90%) Prometheus
4 36 (4.20%) Ansible
5 10 (1.17%) Argo
5 10 (1.17%) Istio
5 10 (1.17%) Kibana
6 7 (0.82%) Puppet
7 5 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.35%) Bosun
9 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.23%) Control-M
10 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 94 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 65 (7.58%) Oracle
3 47 (5.48%) Google
4 23 (2.68%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.10%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.10%) IBM
5 18 (2.10%) Splunk
6 15 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.75%) SAP
7 12 (1.40%) Databricks
8 10 (1.17%) New Relic
9 8 (0.93%) Confluent
9 8 (0.93%) Veracode
10 7 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.82%) Solace
11 6 (0.70%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.70%) Sybase
11 6 (0.70%) Workday
12 5 (0.58%) Foundry
12 5 (0.58%) ServiceNow