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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 738 507 636
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 4.00% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 4.38% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 342 468
10th Percentile £375 £385 £413
25th Percentile £429 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -3.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £699
90th Percentile £763 £813 £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% -32.03%

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 14,942 11,579 15,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.72% 91.43% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 7,821 11,436
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
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 229 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +14.75% -21.79%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.58% -12.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -8 81 £525 -10.26% 97
South London -9 25 £537 +13.05% 1
West London -20 7 £550 +34.47% 4
East London -3 5 £432 +3.47% 6
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 26 (3.52%) Confluence
2 14 (1.90%) Apache
3 8 (1.08%) CMS
3 8 (1.08%) Ethereum
4 7 (0.95%) Camunda
4 7 (0.95%) Hyperledger
5 6 (0.81%) Anypoint
6 5 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.68%) Mule
6 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.27%) Drupal
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.54%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.54%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) R3 Corda
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
1 395 (53.52%) AWS
2 282 (38.21%) Azure
3 128 (17.34%) GCP
4 126 (17.07%) Serverless
5 121 (16.40%) GitHub
6 82 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
8 64 (8.67%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (8.13%) Amazon S3
11 47 (6.37%) Azure AKS
12 43 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 28 (3.79%) Entra ID
16 28 (3.79%) SaaS
17 26 (3.52%) Azure Functions
18 25 (3.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.63%) HTTP
2 7 (0.95%) Network Security
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SSL
4 4 (0.54%) Firewall
4 4 (0.54%) VPN
5 3 (0.41%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.41%) 5G
6 2 (0.27%) 4G
6 2 (0.27%) LTE
6 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.27%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.27%) WAN
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) NaaS
7 1 (0.14%) RFID
7 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 78 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.86%) MongoDB
4 48 (6.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 39 (5.28%) Relational Database
6 38 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 34 (4.61%) DynamoDB
8 32 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (4.20%) Redis
10 29 (3.93%) MySQL
11 16 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.90%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.76%) Big Data
14 12 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.49%) Hadoop
16 10 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (1.22%) DB2
18 7 (0.95%) DocumentDB
19 6 (0.81%) Pinecone
19 6 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 116 (15.72%) Git
2 98 (13.28%) Jenkins
3 68 (9.21%) GitLab
4 51 (6.91%) JUnit
5 50 (6.78%) JIRA
6 29 (3.93%) Mockito
7 25 (3.39%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.90%) Bitbucket
8 14 (1.90%) Maven
8 14 (1.90%) Selenium
9 11 (1.49%) Liquibase
9 11 (1.49%) Postman
10 9 (1.22%) Gradle
10 9 (1.22%) Zephyr
11 8 (1.08%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
11 8 (1.08%) Vite
12 7 (0.95%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.81%) Gatling
13 6 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 188 (25.47%) Social Skills
2 168 (22.76%) Finance
3 114 (15.45%) Banking
4 87 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.85%) Front Office
7 17 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.76%) Retail
10 11 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.22%) Legal
12 7 (0.95%) Marketing
13 6 (0.81%) Law
13 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.54%) Police
15 3 (0.41%) Back Office
15 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 281 (38.08%) Developer
2 169 (22.90%) Senior
3 128 (17.34%) Architect
4 94 (12.74%) Java Developer
5 84 (11.38%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.05%) Lead
7 49 (6.64%) Software Engineer
8 48 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (6.10%) Java Engineer
10 39 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (4.61%) Technical Architect
13 31 (4.20%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (4.07%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.93%) C# Developer
16 25 (3.39%) Analyst
16 25 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
18 22 (2.98%) Python Engineer
19 21 (2.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (25.47%) Spring
2 163 (22.09%) Spring Boot
3 162 (21.95%) Kafka
4 140 (18.97%) RESTful
5 133 (18.02%) REST
6 132 (17.89%) React
7 105 (14.23%) Node.js
8 98 (13.28%) .NET
9 96 (13.01%) AngularJS
10 52 (7.05%) Middleware
11 43 (5.83%) gRPC
12 42 (5.69%) CSS
12 42 (5.69%) HTML
13 39 (5.28%) OAuth
14 30 (4.07%) Vue
15 27 (3.66%) .NET Core
16 26 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
18 24 (3.25%) JSON
18 24 (3.25%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 150 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 129 (17.48%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (5.01%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.98%) AI Agents
5 19 (2.57%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.30%) Derivative
7 16 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.76%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.22%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.96%) Linux
2 16 (2.17%) Unix
3 6 (0.81%) Windows
4 4 (0.54%) zOS
5 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (53.79%) CI/CD
2 308 (41.73%) DevOps
3 284 (38.48%) Agile
4 207 (28.05%) Containerisation
5 181 (24.53%) Software Engineering
6 146 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (18.16%) Event-Driven
8 128 (17.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 112 (15.18%) Test Automation
10 109 (14.77%) AI
11 102 (13.82%) TDD
12 101 (13.69%) Observability
13 100 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
14 81 (10.98%) Code Quality
15 79 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 78 (10.57%) Scrum
17 73 (9.89%) SDLC
18 67 (9.08%) Migration
19 66 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
20 64 (8.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 319 (43.22%) Java
2 194 (26.29%) Python
3 175 (23.71%) SQL
4 112 (15.18%) TypeScript
5 96 (13.01%) JavaScript
6 83 (11.25%) C#
7 49 (6.64%) Go
8 24 (3.25%) Ruby
9 16 (2.17%) Bicep
10 11 (1.49%) Bash
11 10 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.08%) C++
12 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.95%) PHP
13 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.81%) Scala
15 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) RPG
16 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (21.41%) Security Cleared
2 134 (18.16%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.32%) Degree
4 41 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.12%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.95%) CISSP
12 6 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.81%) CCSP
12 6 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.68%) OSCP
14 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.27%) QA
2 29 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.17%) GDPR
4 14 (1.90%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.90%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.63%) NIST
6 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.36%) PSD2
7 8 (1.08%) SEPA
8 7 (0.95%) WCAG
9 5 (0.68%) SLA
10 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.54%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.41%) HL7
11 3 (0.41%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.27%) GRC
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.27%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 293 (39.70%) Docker
2 23 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 284 (38.48%) Kubernetes
2 118 (15.99%) Terraform
3 43 (5.83%) Grafana
4 31 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.44%) Argo
6 17 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.90%) Ansible
8 11 (1.49%) Istio
9 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.68%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.41%) Puppet
11 3 (0.41%) Rancher
12 2 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.27%) Kibana
12 2 (0.27%) Knative
12 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.14%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 73 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.88%) Oracle
3 34 (4.61%) Google
4 29 (3.93%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.57%) Databricks
6 15 (2.03%) Splunk
7 12 (1.63%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.63%) Software AG
8 11 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.22%) IBM
9 9 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.08%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.08%) Sybase
11 7 (0.95%) Confluent
11 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.81%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.68%) Foundry
13 5 (0.68%) Rapid7
13 5 (0.68%) Solace
14 4 (0.54%) Atlassian