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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 708 508 597
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.41% 3.86% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.25% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 339 442
10th Percentile £375 £405 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £554
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +3.84% -14.81%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.18% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £65.70 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £67.69 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £91.25 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +133.22% -43.11% -22.41%

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 14,498 11,963 16,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.24% 90.92% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,728 7,826 11,476
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £78.04 £71.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -7 73 £543 -7.26% 90
South London -10 27 £541 +13.87% 25
West London -22 7 £550 +34.47% 19
East London -2 2 £608 +5.65% 11
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 30 (4.24%) Confluence
2 12 (1.69%) Apache
3 7 (0.99%) Camunda
3 7 (0.99%) Ethereum
3 7 (0.99%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Mule
5 5 (0.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.28%) Drupal
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.13%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 383 (54.10%) AWS
2 266 (37.57%) Azure
3 129 (18.22%) GCP
4 122 (17.23%) Serverless
5 114 (16.10%) GitHub
6 73 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
9 60 (8.47%) Amazon S3
10 42 (5.93%) Azure AKS
11 41 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (4.24%) Entra ID
15 29 (4.10%) SaaS
16 24 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (3.25%) Azure Functions
17 23 (3.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.41%) HTTP
2 7 (0.99%) Network Security
3 5 (0.71%) DNS
3 5 (0.71%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.28%) 5G
5 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) 4G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LTE
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) NaaS
6 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.16%) PostgreSQL
2 78 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 64 (9.04%) MongoDB
4 51 (7.20%) Apache Cassandra
4 51 (7.20%) SQL Server
5 42 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 36 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (4.80%) MySQL
8 32 (4.52%) DynamoDB
8 32 (4.52%) Redis
9 16 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (2.12%) Big Data
10 15 (2.12%) Hadoop
11 14 (1.98%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 10 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.27%) DB2
15 7 (0.99%) DocumentDB
16 6 (0.85%) Tableau
17 5 (0.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 96 (13.56%) Git
2 88 (12.43%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.32%) GitLab
4 53 (7.49%) JIRA
5 49 (6.92%) JUnit
6 25 (3.53%) Cucumber
6 25 (3.53%) Mockito
7 16 (2.26%) Maven
8 15 (2.12%) Selenium
9 14 (1.98%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.41%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.27%) Postman
11 9 (1.27%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.99%) Gatling
13 7 (0.99%) MLflow
14 6 (0.85%) Gradle
14 6 (0.85%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.85%) REST Assured
General
1 187 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 174 (24.58%) Finance
3 115 (16.24%) Banking
4 73 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.82%) Front Office
7 18 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.98%) Retail
9 11 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.85%) Legal
13 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.42%) Back Office
14 3 (0.42%) Marketing
14 3 (0.42%) Military
15 2 (0.28%) Billing
15 2 (0.28%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 287 (40.54%) Developer
2 167 (23.59%) Senior
3 118 (16.67%) Architect
4 99 (13.98%) Java Developer
5 88 (12.43%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (6.64%) Lead
8 44 (6.21%) Java Engineer
9 42 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 40 (5.65%) Software Engineer
11 35 (4.94%) C# Developer
11 35 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.10%) Backend Developer
14 25 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) Technical Architect
15 24 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.11%) .NET Developer
17 20 (2.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 20 (2.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (25.00%) Spring
2 161 (22.74%) Kafka
3 158 (22.32%) Spring Boot
4 135 (19.07%) REST
5 134 (18.93%) RESTful
6 128 (18.08%) React
7 110 (15.54%) .NET
8 102 (14.41%) Node.js
9 98 (13.84%) AngularJS
10 55 (7.77%) Middleware
11 43 (6.07%) gRPC
11 43 (6.07%) HTML
12 40 (5.65%) CSS
13 39 (5.51%) OAuth
14 30 (4.24%) Vue
15 29 (4.10%) .NET Core
15 29 (4.10%) Playwright
16 24 (3.39%) OAuth2
16 24 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (3.25%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 139 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 110 (15.54%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.54%) Derivative
6 16 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 16 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.13%) NHS
13 7 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.65%) Linux
2 15 (2.12%) Unix
3 7 (0.99%) Windows
4 4 (0.56%) zOS
5 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.28%) Solaris
5 2 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (52.12%) CI/CD
2 284 (40.11%) DevOps
3 282 (39.83%) Agile
4 188 (26.55%) Containerisation
5 155 (21.89%) Software Engineering
6 153 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (16.67%) Event-Driven
8 117 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 106 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (14.69%) Test Automation
11 97 (13.70%) AI
12 89 (12.57%) TDD
13 87 (12.29%) Observability
14 78 (11.02%) Code Quality
15 73 (10.31%) SDLC
16 71 (10.03%) Scrum
17 68 (9.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 64 (9.04%) Clean Code
18 64 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
19 63 (8.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 302 (42.66%) Java
2 180 (25.42%) Python
3 164 (23.16%) SQL
4 107 (15.11%) JavaScript
5 102 (14.41%) TypeScript
6 91 (12.85%) C#
7 49 (6.92%) Go
8 20 (2.82%) Bicep
9 16 (2.26%) Ruby
10 9 (1.27%) Bash
11 8 (1.13%) C++
11 8 (1.13%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.99%) PHP
12 7 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 143 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 123 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.05%) Degree
4 42 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 25 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 12 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.85%) CCSP
11 6 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.85%) CISSP
11 6 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.33%) QA
2 25 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.40%) GDPR
4 14 (1.98%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.55%) NIST
6 10 (1.41%) PSD2
7 8 (1.13%) SEPA
8 5 (0.71%) WCAG
9 4 (0.56%) ISO 8583
9 4 (0.56%) SLA
10 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.28%) GRC
11 2 (0.28%) HL7
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 283 (39.97%) Docker
2 24 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 278 (39.27%) Kubernetes
2 124 (17.51%) Terraform
3 42 (5.93%) Grafana
4 32 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.54%) Argo
6 17 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.69%) Ansible
8 11 (1.55%) Istio
9 7 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.71%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 69 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.94%) Google
3 34 (4.80%) Oracle
4 27 (3.81%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.11%) Databricks
6 17 (2.40%) Splunk
7 14 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.69%) Software AG
9 9 (1.27%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.27%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.13%) IBM
10 8 (1.13%) Sybase
11 7 (0.99%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.71%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.71%) Foundry
12 5 (0.71%) Palantir
12 5 (0.71%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.56%) Atlassian