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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 49 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 836 675 679
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.15% 5.05% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.46% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 455 474
10th Percentile £413 £413 £411
25th Percentile £467 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.25% -6.63%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £756 £775
England median daily rate £537 £528 £575
% change year-on-year +1.80% -8.26% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £54.95 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +42.55% -36.27%

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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 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 21 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 -10 99 £572 -1.38% 104
South London -8 23 £535 -13.99% 11
East London +3 7 £669 +23.89% 8
West London -31 2 £500 +5.26% 38
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 33 (3.95%) Confluence
2 24 (2.87%) CMS
3 20 (2.39%) Camunda
4 19 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.96%) Apache
7 7 (0.84%) nginx
8 5 (0.60%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Quorum
3 4 (0.48%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
3 4 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) 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
1 409 (48.92%) AWS
2 310 (37.08%) Azure
3 155 (18.54%) GCP
4 153 (18.30%) GitHub
5 100 (11.96%) Serverless
6 97 (11.60%) GitHub Actions
7 91 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.74%) Amazon S3
12 45 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (3.83%) OpenShift
15 29 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.11%) SaaS
17 23 (2.75%) Amazon EventBridge
17 23 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
18 22 (2.63%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) Network Security
2 5 (0.60%) VPN
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (9.69%) NoSQL
3 58 (6.94%) SQL Server
4 53 (6.34%) MongoDB
5 47 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 32 (3.83%) MySQL
7 28 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (2.87%) Redis
9 23 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.39%) Power BI
11 18 (2.15%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.03%) Big Data
13 14 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.96%) Flink
17 7 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (0.84%) Oracle Database
17 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 153 (18.30%) Jenkins
2 145 (17.34%) Git
3 100 (11.96%) GitLab
4 50 (5.98%) JUnit
5 43 (5.14%) JIRA
6 42 (5.02%) Maven
7 36 (4.31%) Gradle
8 33 (3.95%) Mockito
9 28 (3.35%) SonarQube
10 24 (2.87%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.51%) Postman
12 20 (2.39%) Selenium
13 19 (2.27%) REST Assured
14 15 (1.79%) JMeter
15 13 (1.56%) Cucumber
15 13 (1.56%) Liquibase
16 10 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 10 (1.20%) Claude Code
17 8 (0.96%) Gatling
18 7 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 253 (30.26%) Finance
2 221 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 145 (17.34%) Banking
4 97 (11.60%) Public Sector
5 84 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.11%) Front Office
7 26 (3.11%) Retail
8 22 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (2.15%) Marketing
11 16 (1.91%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.67%) Law
13 13 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.44%) Billing
15 11 (1.32%) Legal
16 10 (1.20%) Police
17 7 (0.84%) Local Government
18 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 286 (34.21%) Developer
2 166 (19.86%) Senior
3 156 (18.66%) Architect
4 116 (13.88%) Java Developer
5 83 (9.93%) Lead
6 69 (8.25%) Senior Developer
7 65 (7.78%) Software Engineer
8 61 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
9 59 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 51 (6.10%) Java Engineer
11 41 (4.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 38 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.71%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (3.23%) Python Developer
15 27 (3.23%) Technical Architect
16 25 (2.99%) .NET Developer
16 25 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.99%) Senior Software Engineer
17 23 (2.75%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (26.67%) REST
1 223 (26.67%) Spring
2 207 (24.76%) Spring Boot
3 198 (23.68%) Kafka
4 159 (19.02%) RESTful
5 152 (18.18%) React
6 131 (15.67%) Terraform
7 106 (12.68%) .NET
8 88 (10.53%) Node.js
9 57 (6.82%) AngularJS
9 57 (6.82%) HTML
10 56 (6.70%) CSS
11 52 (6.22%) OAuth
12 46 (5.50%) OAuth2
13 45 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
14 35 (4.19%) HTML5
15 34 (4.07%) .NET Core
16 32 (3.83%) CSS3
16 32 (3.83%) GraphQL
16 32 (3.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 265 (31.70%) Cloud Native
2 201 (24.04%) Distributed Systems
3 94 (11.24%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
5 41 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.31%) AI Agents
7 34 (4.07%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.87%) Derivative
10 22 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.51%) Virtual Team
12 20 (2.39%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.03%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
15 15 (1.79%) Fixed Income
16 14 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
17 12 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 11 (1.32%) Public Cloud
19 10 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.22%) Linux
2 28 (3.35%) Unix
3 10 (1.20%) Windows
4 6 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (62.92%) CI/CD
2 391 (46.77%) DevOps
3 341 (40.79%) Agile
4 294 (35.17%) Event-Driven
5 241 (28.83%) Containerisation
6 211 (25.24%) Software Engineering
7 202 (24.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 197 (23.56%) AI
9 173 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 172 (20.57%) Observability
11 144 (17.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 140 (16.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 136 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (14.95%) Scrum
15 119 (14.23%) Technical Leadership
16 118 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 112 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (12.32%) Integration Patterns
19 89 (10.65%) Code Quality
19 89 (10.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 386 (46.17%) Java
2 237 (28.35%) Python
3 199 (23.80%) SQL
4 160 (19.14%) TypeScript
5 151 (18.06%) JavaScript
6 109 (13.04%) C#
7 30 (3.59%) Go
8 19 (2.27%) Bash
9 18 (2.15%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.03%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 14 (1.67%) Ruby
13 11 (1.32%) Bicep
14 7 (0.84%) PHP
15 5 (0.60%) Scala
16 4 (0.48%) C++
16 4 (0.48%) Solidity
16 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.36%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 197 (23.56%) Security Cleared
2 175 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 49 (5.86%) Degree
4 41 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.96%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.60%) CISSP
14 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.48%) PhD
15 3 (0.36%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) GIAC
16 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (11.60%) QA
2 23 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.15%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.79%) NIST
6 14 (1.67%) SEPA
7 13 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.32%) GDPR
9 6 (0.72%) NCSC
9 6 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.72%) PSD2
9 6 (0.72%) SLA
10 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 4 (0.48%) WCAG
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.36%) GRC
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 305 (36.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 298 (35.65%) Kubernetes
2 59 (7.06%) Grafana
3 44 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.43%) Ansible
5 11 (1.32%) Kibana
6 9 (1.08%) Argo
6 9 (1.08%) Istio
7 6 (0.72%) Puppet
7 6 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.36%) Bosun
8 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.24%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 92 (11.00%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.42%) Oracle
3 51 (6.10%) Google
4 24 (2.87%) OpenAI
4 24 (2.87%) Splunk
5 20 (2.39%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.15%) IBM
7 16 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.91%) SAP
8 11 (1.32%) Databricks
9 10 (1.20%) New Relic
10 8 (0.96%) Veracode
11 7 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.84%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.72%) Confluent
12 6 (0.72%) Solace
12 6 (0.72%) Sybase
12 6 (0.72%) Workday
13 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.60%) ServiceNow