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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 55 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Microservices 754 510 635
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.46% 4.04% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.42% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 346 469
10th Percentile £380 £383 £418
25th Percentile £432 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -3.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £65.50 £38.98 -
25th Percentile £70.13 £39.69 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £41.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.58% -33.20% +78.57%
75th Percentile £93.75 £44.19 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £45.13 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £44.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +67.71% -8.11% -30.99%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -13 81 £525 -10.26% 97
South London -12 25 £537 +13.05% 1
East London +5 7 £432 +3.47% 6
West London -24 7 £550 +34.47% 4
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 25 (3.32%) Confluence
2 16 (2.12%) Apache
3 10 (1.33%) CMS
4 8 (1.06%) Camunda
4 8 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 7 (0.93%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.80%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.66%) Mule
8 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.27%) Drupal
9 2 (0.27%) nginx
9 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.40%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.53%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.13%) Magento
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 406 (53.85%) AWS
2 289 (38.33%) Azure
3 129 (17.11%) Serverless
4 128 (16.98%) GCP
5 116 (15.38%) GitHub
6 83 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (8.22%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (7.96%) Amazon S3
11 50 (6.63%) Azure AKS
12 43 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
16 29 (3.85%) SaaS
17 28 (3.71%) Entra ID
18 27 (3.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 26 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (3.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.59%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) DNS
2 5 (0.66%) Network Security
2 5 (0.66%) VPN
3 4 (0.53%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.40%) 5G
4 3 (0.40%) SSL
5 2 (0.27%) 4G
5 2 (0.27%) LTE
5 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.27%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) Multicast
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.88%) NoSQL
2 74 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 46 (6.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 45 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 37 (4.91%) SQL Server
7 35 (4.64%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.38%) Redis
9 31 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (4.11%) MySQL
10 16 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (1.72%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.59%) Big Data
13 11 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.46%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.19%) DB2
15 8 (1.06%) Power BI
16 7 (0.93%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.93%) Flink
Development Applications
1 112 (14.85%) Git
2 99 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 69 (9.15%) GitLab
4 50 (6.63%) JUnit
5 48 (6.37%) JIRA
6 29 (3.85%) Mockito
7 24 (3.18%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.99%) Maven
9 14 (1.86%) Postman
10 13 (1.72%) Bitbucket
10 13 (1.72%) Selenium
11 12 (1.59%) Liquibase
12 10 (1.33%) Gradle
13 9 (1.19%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (1.06%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.06%) Vite
15 6 (0.80%) MLflow
15 6 (0.80%) REST Assured
General
1 188 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 176 (23.34%) Finance
3 116 (15.38%) Banking
4 87 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.79%) Front Office
7 18 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.72%) Retail
11 12 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.33%) Legal
13 9 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.19%) Marketing
14 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.80%) Law
16 4 (0.53%) Police
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.40%) Publishing
18 2 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 280 (37.14%) Developer
2 170 (22.55%) Senior
3 135 (17.90%) Architect
4 99 (13.13%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 57 (7.56%) Lead
7 53 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 52 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 46 (6.10%) Java Engineer
10 40 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.77%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
13 30 (3.98%) Backend Developer
13 30 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
14 27 (3.58%) Analyst
14 27 (3.58%) C# Developer
15 25 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
16 23 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (3.05%) Python Engineer
17 22 (2.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (25.73%) Spring
2 170 (22.55%) Spring Boot
3 164 (21.75%) Kafka
4 147 (19.50%) RESTful
5 136 (18.04%) REST
6 131 (17.37%) React
7 105 (13.93%) Node.js
8 96 (12.73%) .NET
9 90 (11.94%) AngularJS
10 53 (7.03%) Middleware
11 41 (5.44%) gRPC
12 40 (5.31%) OAuth
13 39 (5.17%) CSS
13 39 (5.17%) HTML
14 28 (3.71%) .NET Core
15 26 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
15 26 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (3.45%) Vue
16 24 (3.18%) OAuth2
16 24 (3.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (20.03%) Cloud Native
2 133 (17.64%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.32%) AI Agents
5 23 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.39%) Derivative
7 16 (2.12%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.97%) Linux
2 16 (2.12%) Unix
3 6 (0.80%) Windows
4 4 (0.53%) zOS
5 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Solaris
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (53.32%) CI/CD
2 318 (42.18%) DevOps
3 283 (37.53%) Agile
4 213 (28.25%) Containerisation
5 190 (25.20%) Software Engineering
6 142 (18.83%) Event-Driven
7 137 (18.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
9 117 (15.52%) AI
10 113 (14.99%) Observability
11 109 (14.46%) Test Automation
12 104 (13.79%) TDD
13 96 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
14 84 (11.14%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 82 (10.88%) Code Quality
16 78 (10.34%) Scrum
17 68 (9.02%) Migration
18 67 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
19 66 (8.75%) SDLC
19 66 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 324 (42.97%) Java
2 199 (26.39%) Python
3 180 (23.87%) SQL
4 111 (14.72%) TypeScript
5 97 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 82 (10.88%) C#
7 45 (5.97%) Go
8 23 (3.05%) Ruby
9 16 (2.12%) Bicep
10 11 (1.46%) Bash
10 11 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.06%) C++
11 8 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.80%) PHP
14 5 (0.66%) Scala
15 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.40%) RPG
16 3 (0.40%) Rust
16 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 135 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.16%) Degree
4 42 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.71%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.66%) CISSP
12 5 (0.66%) OSCP
13 4 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.53%) CCSP
13 4 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.40%) MBA
14 3 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.09%) QA
2 29 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 15 (1.99%) GDPR
4 14 (1.86%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.72%) NIST
6 12 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.33%) PSD2
8 9 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.06%) SEPA
10 7 (0.93%) WCAG
11 5 (0.66%) SLA
12 4 (0.53%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.53%) HL7
12 4 (0.53%) ISO 8583
13 3 (0.40%) TARGET2
14 2 (0.27%) GRC
14 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
14 2 (0.27%) NCSC
14 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 292 (38.73%) Docker
2 23 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 285 (37.80%) Kubernetes
2 121 (16.05%) Terraform
3 44 (5.84%) Grafana
4 32 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.72%) Ansible
6 13 (1.72%) Argo
7 11 (1.46%) Istio
8 7 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.66%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.40%) Puppet
10 3 (0.40%) Rancher
11 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.27%) Kibana
11 2 (0.27%) Knative
11 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 81 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.57%) Oracle
3 34 (4.51%) Google
4 30 (3.98%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.52%) Databricks
6 15 (1.99%) Splunk
7 14 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 12 (1.59%) Software AG
9 11 (1.46%) IBM
10 9 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 8 (1.06%) Confluent
11 8 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.06%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.06%) Sybase
12 6 (0.80%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.80%) Solace
13 5 (0.66%) Cloudera
13 5 (0.66%) Foundry
13 5 (0.66%) Rapid7