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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 777 516 682
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 4.18% 3.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.53% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 359 504
10th Percentile £400 £398 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £729 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £39.13 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile £96.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +50.00% +6.03% -34.96%

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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -17 78 £555 -5.13% 67
South London -19 25 £541 +13.87% 1
East London 0 8 £432 +72.80% 5
West London -29 4 £552 +16.11% 3
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 20 (2.57%) Confluence
2 17 (2.19%) CMS
3 16 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.54%) Camunda
5 11 (1.42%) Apache
6 8 (1.03%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.64%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.64%) Mule
9 4 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) Drupal
11 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (51.48%) AWS
2 275 (35.39%) Azure
3 133 (17.12%) GCP
4 116 (14.93%) GitHub
5 109 (14.03%) Serverless
6 74 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
9 58 (7.46%) Amazon S3
10 45 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.99%) SaaS
14 30 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (2.96%) PaaS
18 21 (2.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) VPN
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) Network Security
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) Firewall
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.58%) NoSQL
2 85 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
3 57 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 44 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.63%) DynamoDB
7 35 (4.50%) Apache Cassandra
8 34 (4.38%) Redis
9 33 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (2.96%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.96%) MySQL
11 20 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.42%) Big Data
12 11 (1.42%) Flink
12 11 (1.42%) Power BI
13 10 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (14.41%) Git
2 106 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.88%) GitLab
4 47 (6.05%) JUnit
5 39 (5.02%) JIRA
6 32 (4.12%) Mockito
7 20 (2.57%) Gradle
8 19 (2.45%) Maven
9 18 (2.32%) Postman
10 17 (2.19%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.54%) Liquibase
11 12 (1.54%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
12 10 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.16%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.90%) MSTest
14 7 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.90%) Vite
15 6 (0.77%) JMeter
15 6 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 196 (25.23%) Finance
2 174 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 124 (15.96%) Banking
4 82 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.09%) Front Office
7 22 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.19%) Marketing
8 17 (2.19%) Retail
9 16 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.54%) Legal
12 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.16%) Law
13 7 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.64%) Police
16 4 (0.51%) Billing
16 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 272 (35.01%) Developer
2 164 (21.11%) Senior
3 140 (18.02%) Architect
4 99 (12.74%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.91%) Senior Developer
6 67 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 63 (8.11%) Lead
8 51 (6.56%) Java Engineer
9 48 (6.18%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.38%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.25%) Analyst
13 32 (4.12%) C# Developer
14 30 (3.86%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.73%) Backend Developer
16 27 (3.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.83%) Python Developer
18 20 (2.57%) Java Software Engineer
18 20 (2.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (28.19%) Spring
2 197 (25.35%) Spring Boot
3 172 (22.14%) Kafka
4 160 (20.59%) RESTful
5 135 (17.37%) REST
6 124 (15.96%) React
7 98 (12.61%) .NET
8 83 (10.68%) Node.js
9 75 (9.65%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.44%) Middleware
11 38 (4.89%) OAuth
12 35 (4.50%) CSS
13 34 (4.38%) HTML
14 32 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
15 31 (3.99%) gRPC
16 30 (3.86%) OAuth2
17 29 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
18 25 (3.22%) .NET Core
19 24 (3.09%) JSON
19 24 (3.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 162 (20.85%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.45%) Derivative
9 18 (2.32%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.42%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.29%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.16%) Hedge funds
14 9 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.92%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Unix
3 9 (1.16%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) zOS
6 3 (0.39%) Solaris
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (54.95%) CI/CD
2 326 (41.96%) DevOps
3 288 (37.07%) Agile
4 236 (30.37%) Containerisation
5 199 (25.61%) Software Engineering
6 168 (21.62%) Event-Driven
7 136 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.25%) AI
8 134 (17.25%) Observability
9 109 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 105 (13.51%) Test Automation
12 100 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 98 (12.61%) TDD
14 95 (12.23%) Scrum
15 80 (10.30%) Code Quality
16 68 (8.75%) API Design
16 68 (8.75%) Migration
17 67 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (8.11%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 339 (43.63%) Java
2 203 (26.13%) SQL
3 184 (23.68%) Python
4 114 (14.67%) TypeScript
5 101 (13.00%) JavaScript
6 93 (11.97%) C#
7 38 (4.89%) Go
8 23 (2.96%) Ruby
9 15 (1.93%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.80%) Bicep
11 12 (1.54%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.03%) Bash
12 8 (1.03%) PHP
12 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.64%) Scala
15 4 (0.51%) C++
15 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.39%) COBOL
16 3 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 176 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 152 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.21%) Degree
4 42 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.22%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.70%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.64%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.51%) OSCP
13 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.39%) CCSP
13 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) MBA
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.72%) QA
2 26 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.06%) GDPR
3 16 (2.06%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.93%) NIST
5 12 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.54%) PSD2
6 10 (1.29%) SEPA
7 7 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.64%) SLA
9 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.39%) HL7
10 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.39%) WCAG
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 311 (40.03%) Docker
2 15 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 291 (37.45%) Kubernetes
2 98 (12.61%) Terraform
3 52 (6.69%) Grafana
4 43 (5.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.80%) Ansible
6 13 (1.67%) Istio
6 13 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.54%) Argo
8 8 (1.03%) Kibana
9 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.64%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.26%) Rancher
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
13 1 (0.13%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 73 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.02%) Oracle
3 28 (3.60%) Google
4 23 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.32%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.80%) Splunk
7 12 (1.54%) IBM
7 12 (1.54%) Software AG
8 9 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.03%) Confluent
10 7 (0.90%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.90%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.90%) Sybase
11 6 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.77%) Databricks
11 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.77%) SAP
12 5 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.51%) Jaspersoft