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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 64 60
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -25
Contract jobs citing Microservices 681 492 634
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 3.56% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 3.94% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 315 473
10th Percentile £375 £418 £413
25th Percentile £430 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £65.80 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £39.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.95% -37.60% -
75th Percentile £90.00 £40.62 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £36.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +104.47% -41.60% -14.09%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -6 75 £563 -3.85% 84
South London 0 20 £537 +13.05% 17
West London -18 8 £550 +34.47% 17
East London +3 4 £563 -3.85% 17
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 (4.70%) Confluence
2 14 (2.06%) Apache
3 7 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.03%) Camunda
4 6 (0.88%) CMS
4 6 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.73%) Ethereum
5 5 (0.73%) Hyperledger
6 4 (0.59%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (0.44%) Mule
7 3 (0.44%) nginx
7 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.15%) SAS
9 1 (0.15%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.15%) Endur
4 1 (0.15%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 349 (51.25%) AWS
2 236 (34.65%) Azure
3 122 (17.91%) Serverless
4 110 (16.15%) GitHub
5 106 (15.57%) GCP
6 76 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
7 71 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (8.22%) Amazon S3
10 55 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (6.46%) Azure AKS
12 37 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (3.82%) Entra ID
15 26 (3.82%) SaaS
16 25 (3.67%) Azure Functions
17 22 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.17%) HTTP
2 7 (1.03%) Network Security
3 6 (0.88%) DNS
4 5 (0.73%) SSL
5 3 (0.44%) Firewall
6 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 69 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (8.66%) MongoDB
4 52 (7.64%) SQL Server
5 46 (6.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 43 (6.31%) Relational Database
7 34 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (4.41%) MySQL
9 29 (4.26%) Redis
10 25 (3.67%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.94%) Big Data
12 19 (2.79%) Hadoop
13 17 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (2.06%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
16 8 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (1.17%) DB2
17 7 (1.03%) Data Lake
17 7 (1.03%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 91 (13.36%) Git
2 89 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 63 (9.25%) GitLab
4 59 (8.66%) JIRA
5 39 (5.73%) JUnit
6 21 (3.08%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.94%) Mockito
8 17 (2.50%) Maven
9 16 (2.35%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.20%) Selenium
11 12 (1.76%) Postman
11 12 (1.76%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.62%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.17%) Gradle
13 8 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.88%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.88%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.88%) Zephyr
15 5 (0.73%) Gatling
15 5 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 197 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 163 (23.94%) Finance
3 119 (17.47%) Banking
4 60 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.79%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.64%) Front Office
8 15 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.62%) Retail
11 10 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.03%) Legal
13 7 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.88%) Back Office
15 4 (0.59%) Military
16 2 (0.29%) Aviation
16 2 (0.29%) Marketing
16 2 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 294 (43.17%) Developer
2 154 (22.61%) Senior
3 104 (15.27%) Architect
4 99 (14.54%) Java Developer
5 85 (12.48%) Senior Developer
6 44 (6.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 44 (6.46%) Java Engineer
6 44 (6.46%) Lead
7 42 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
8 39 (5.73%) C# Developer
9 38 (5.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (5.29%) Senior Java Developer
11 34 (4.99%) Software Engineer
12 26 (3.82%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.38%) Technical Architect
14 22 (3.23%) Angular Developer
15 20 (2.94%) .NET Developer
15 20 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 17 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (24.82%) Spring
2 156 (22.91%) Kafka
3 154 (22.61%) Spring Boot
4 142 (20.85%) RESTful
5 119 (17.47%) REST
6 117 (17.18%) React
7 110 (16.15%) .NET
8 93 (13.66%) Node.js
9 92 (13.51%) AngularJS
10 43 (6.31%) gRPC
11 42 (6.17%) Middleware
12 40 (5.87%) HTML
13 35 (5.14%) .NET Core
14 34 (4.99%) CSS
15 33 (4.85%) OAuth
16 26 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (3.52%) Entity Framework
17 24 (3.52%) JSON
17 24 (3.52%) Playwright
17 24 (3.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 136 (19.97%) Cloud Native
2 104 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.50%) Derivative
4 17 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 13 (1.91%) AI Agents
6 13 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.17%) NHS
9 8 (1.17%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.03%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.99%) Linux
2 17 (2.50%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) zOS
4 3 (0.44%) Windows
5 2 (0.29%) Android
5 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (50.51%) CI/CD
2 282 (41.41%) Agile
3 273 (40.09%) DevOps
4 172 (25.26%) Containerisation
5 164 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (21.15%) Software Engineering
7 107 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
7 107 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 102 (14.98%) Event-Driven
9 98 (14.39%) Test Automation
10 81 (11.89%) TDD
11 76 (11.16%) Scrum
12 74 (10.87%) AI
13 69 (10.13%) SDLC
14 68 (9.99%) Observability
15 66 (9.69%) Code Quality
16 64 (9.40%) Clean Code
17 60 (8.81%) Design Patterns
18 59 (8.66%) Computer Science
18 59 (8.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 291 (42.73%) Java
2 168 (24.67%) SQL
3 156 (22.91%) Python
4 100 (14.68%) C#
5 99 (14.54%) JavaScript
6 87 (12.78%) TypeScript
7 51 (7.49%) Go
8 19 (2.79%) Bicep
9 14 (2.06%) Ruby
10 10 (1.47%) Bash
10 10 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.17%) C++
11 8 (1.17%) PHP
12 7 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.88%) Scala
14 4 (0.59%) Perl
14 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.44%) Groovy
15 3 (0.44%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 111 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 56 (8.22%) Degree
4 42 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.79%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.88%) MCP
13 5 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.73%) CCSP
13 5 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.73%) CISSP
14 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.78%) QA
2 18 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.20%) GDPR
4 12 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.76%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.32%) NIST
6 6 (0.88%) WCAG
7 4 (0.59%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.59%) PSD2
7 4 (0.59%) SLA
8 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.44%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.29%) SEPA
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) EMIR
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 285 (41.85%) Docker
2 22 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 278 (40.82%) Kubernetes
2 122 (17.91%) Terraform
3 31 (4.55%) Grafana
4 23 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.94%) Argo
6 16 (2.35%) Ansible
7 15 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.62%) Istio
9 7 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.73%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.44%) Puppet
12 2 (0.29%) Knative
13 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.15%) Foglight
13 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 71 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.31%) Google
3 32 (4.70%) Oracle
4 23 (3.38%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.23%) Databricks
6 20 (2.94%) Splunk
7 12 (1.76%) Dynatrace
8 10 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.47%) Software AG
9 9 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.88%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.88%) Confluent
11 6 (0.88%) Foundry
11 6 (0.88%) Palantir
11 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.73%) OutSystems
12 5 (0.73%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.73%) Sybase
13 4 (0.59%) New Relic