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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 65 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 673 496 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.66% 3.54% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.92% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 325 490
10th Percentile £375 £409 £418
25th Percentile £447 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £581
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.23% -10.58%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -7.70%
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 £88.75 £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £36.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +103.45% -24.63% -33.66%

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 13,189 12,665 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.32% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,718 8,082 11,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 276
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.69
25th Percentile £24.69 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.45 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.29
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.14% +15.12%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +2 78 £563 -4.26% 76
South London +7 22 £525 +10.53% 11
West London -17 8 £550 +34.47% 7
East London +1 4 £563 -3.85% 9
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 41 (6.09%) Confluence
2 17 (2.53%) Apache
3 7 (1.04%) CMS
3 7 (1.04%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) Camunda
5 3 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 3 (0.45%) nginx
5 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) CICS
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 8 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.30%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
3 2 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
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
1 347 (51.56%) AWS
2 242 (35.96%) Azure
3 133 (19.76%) Serverless
4 118 (17.53%) GitHub
5 108 (16.05%) GCP
6 79 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
8 65 (9.66%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (8.62%) Amazon S3
10 53 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (7.13%) Azure AKS
12 42 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (4.01%) Entra ID
17 26 (3.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (3.86%) Azure Functions
18 23 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (3.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.04%) Network Security
1 7 (1.04%) SSL
2 6 (0.89%) DNS
3 5 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.59%) HTTP
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) 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 79 (11.74%) NoSQL
2 72 (10.70%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (8.02%) MongoDB
3 54 (8.02%) SQL Server
4 44 (6.54%) Apache Cassandra
4 44 (6.54%) Relational Database
5 32 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (4.31%) MySQL
7 28 (4.16%) Redis
8 26 (3.86%) DynamoDB
9 22 (3.27%) Big Data
10 18 (2.67%) Hadoop
11 17 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.34%) DB2
15 8 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 88 (13.08%) Git
2 87 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.96%) GitLab
4 62 (9.21%) JIRA
5 35 (5.20%) JUnit
6 20 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 20 (2.97%) Mockito
7 18 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.38%) Selenium
9 15 (2.23%) Maven
10 14 (2.08%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.93%) Postman
12 12 (1.78%) SpecFlow
13 8 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.19%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.89%) Gatling
14 6 (0.89%) Gradle
14 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
14 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.74%) MLflow
General
1 196 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 163 (24.22%) Finance
3 120 (17.83%) Banking
4 62 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 54 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 18 (2.67%) Front Office
8 13 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.34%) Retail
11 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.89%) Back Office
13 6 (0.89%) Legal
14 4 (0.59%) Military
15 3 (0.45%) Marketing
16 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 290 (43.09%) Developer
2 151 (22.44%) Senior
3 107 (15.90%) Architect
4 99 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 82 (12.18%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (6.24%) Full-Stack Developer
7 41 (6.09%) Lead
8 40 (5.94%) Java Engineer
8 40 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (5.79%) C# Developer
10 33 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 31 (4.61%) Software Engineer
12 24 (3.57%) Angular Developer
13 23 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.42%) Backend Developer
13 23 (3.42%) Technical Architect
14 20 (2.97%) .NET Developer
15 17 (2.53%) Analyst
15 17 (2.53%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (23.92%) Spring
2 155 (23.03%) Kafka
3 148 (21.99%) Spring Boot
4 138 (20.51%) RESTful
5 120 (17.83%) REST
6 118 (17.53%) React
7 109 (16.20%) .NET
8 97 (14.41%) Node.js
9 88 (13.08%) AngularJS
10 44 (6.54%) HTML
11 38 (5.65%) gRPC
12 35 (5.20%) .NET Core
12 35 (5.20%) CSS
12 35 (5.20%) Middleware
12 35 (5.20%) OAuth
13 32 (4.75%) RabbitMQ
14 27 (4.01%) JSON
15 24 (3.57%) Entity Framework
15 24 (3.57%) Vue
16 23 (3.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 136 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 105 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.12%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.38%) Derivative
6 14 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.93%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.19%) NHS
13 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.74%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 5 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.01%) Linux
2 16 (2.38%) Unix
3 4 (0.59%) zOS
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 348 (51.71%) CI/CD
2 286 (42.50%) Agile
3 280 (41.60%) DevOps
4 176 (26.15%) Containerisation
5 161 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (20.65%) Software Engineering
7 110 (16.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (15.90%) Event-Driven
9 104 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
10 100 (14.86%) Test Automation
11 84 (12.48%) TDD
12 80 (11.89%) Scrum
13 71 (10.55%) AI
14 69 (10.25%) Observability
15 67 (9.96%) SDLC
16 66 (9.81%) Design Patterns
16 66 (9.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 63 (9.36%) Code Quality
18 61 (9.06%) Clean Code
19 60 (8.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 285 (42.35%) Java
2 164 (24.37%) SQL
3 159 (23.63%) Python
4 104 (15.45%) JavaScript
5 100 (14.86%) C#
6 85 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 56 (8.32%) Go
8 19 (2.82%) Bicep
9 12 (1.78%) Ruby
10 10 (1.49%) Bash
11 9 (1.34%) C++
11 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
13 7 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.74%) Scala
15 4 (0.59%) Perl
15 4 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.45%) Groovy
16 3 (0.45%) RPG
Qualifications
1 131 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 113 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 54 (8.02%) Degree
4 40 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.12%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.93%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.89%) MCP
12 5 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.74%) CCSP
12 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.74%) CISSP
13 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.92%) QA
2 18 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.08%) GDPR
4 12 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.19%) NIST
7 6 (0.89%) WCAG
8 5 (0.74%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.59%) PSD2
10 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) HL7
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) EMIR
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 285 (42.35%) Docker
2 27 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 288 (42.79%) Kubernetes
2 129 (19.17%) Terraform
3 30 (4.46%) Grafana
4 22 (3.27%) Ansible
4 22 (3.27%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.82%) Argo
6 15 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.49%) Istio
8 6 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.74%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.74%) Puppet
10 4 (0.59%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.30%) Knative
13 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.15%) Foglight
13 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.54%) Google
3 26 (3.86%) Oracle
4 24 (3.57%) Databricks
5 22 (3.27%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.12%) Splunk
7 12 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.19%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.19%) Software AG
9 7 (1.04%) Cloudera
9 7 (1.04%) Foundry
9 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.04%) Palantir
10 6 (0.89%) Confluent
11 5 (0.74%) Calypso
11 5 (0.74%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.74%) Sybase