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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 66 60
Rank change year-on-year +17 -6 -27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 671 496 642
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.67% 3.53% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.11% 3.91% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 322 477
10th Percentile £375 £409 £416
25th Percentile £448 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £592 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +1.63% -10.38%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -6.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £66.90 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £73.50 £39.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.46% - -
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £73.88 £39.00 £62.48
% change year-on-year +89.44% -37.58% -14.41%

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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
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 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +1 79 £569 -3.19% 68
South London +9 22 £525 +10.53% 12
West London -15 8 £550 +34.47% 7
East London 0 4 £563 -3.85% 10
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 40 (5.96%) 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 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Bloomberg AIM
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
1 346 (51.56%) AWS
2 244 (36.36%) Azure
3 132 (19.67%) Serverless
4 119 (17.73%) GitHub
5 110 (16.39%) GCP
6 78 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
8 66 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (8.49%) Amazon S3
10 52 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (7.15%) Azure AKS
12 41 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (4.02%) Entra ID
17 26 (3.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (3.87%) Azure Functions
18 23 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
19 22 (3.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.04%) Network Security
1 7 (1.04%) SSL
2 6 (0.89%) DNS
3 5 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.60%) HTTP
5 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.15%) Broadband
7 1 (0.15%) Multicast
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.62%) NoSQL
2 74 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (7.75%) MongoDB
3 52 (7.75%) SQL Server
4 44 (6.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 44 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 28 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (4.02%) MySQL
6 27 (4.02%) Redis
7 26 (3.87%) DynamoDB
8 22 (3.28%) Big Data
9 17 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (2.38%) Hadoop
11 13 (1.94%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.34%) DB2
14 8 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
15 7 (1.04%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 87 (12.97%) Git
2 85 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 66 (9.84%) GitLab
4 61 (9.09%) JIRA
5 34 (5.07%) JUnit
6 20 (2.98%) Cucumber
7 19 (2.83%) Mockito
8 18 (2.68%) Bitbucket
9 16 (2.38%) Selenium
10 15 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 15 (2.24%) Maven
11 13 (1.94%) Postman
12 12 (1.79%) SpecFlow
13 8 (1.19%) TeamCity
14 7 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.89%) Gatling
15 6 (0.89%) Gradle
15 6 (0.89%) Liquibase
15 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.75%) MLflow
General
1 196 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 159 (23.70%) Finance
3 120 (17.88%) Banking
4 62 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.68%) Front Office
6 18 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (1.34%) Retail
9 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.89%) Back Office
10 6 (0.89%) Legal
11 4 (0.60%) Military
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
13 2 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 291 (43.37%) Developer
2 157 (23.40%) Senior
3 107 (15.95%) Architect
4 100 (14.90%) Java Developer
5 84 (12.52%) Senior Developer
6 42 (6.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 41 (6.11%) Lead
8 40 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (5.66%) C# Developer
11 37 (5.51%) Java Engineer
12 33 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
13 30 (4.47%) Software Engineer
14 24 (3.58%) Angular Developer
14 24 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.43%) Backend Developer
15 23 (3.43%) Technical Architect
16 20 (2.98%) .NET Developer
17 17 (2.53%) Analyst
17 17 (2.53%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (23.70%) Spring
2 155 (23.10%) Kafka
3 148 (22.06%) Spring Boot
4 136 (20.27%) RESTful
5 120 (17.88%) React
5 120 (17.88%) REST
6 107 (15.95%) .NET
7 98 (14.61%) Node.js
8 89 (13.26%) AngularJS
9 44 (6.56%) HTML
10 40 (5.96%) gRPC
11 35 (5.22%) .NET Core
11 35 (5.22%) CSS
11 35 (5.22%) Middleware
11 35 (5.22%) OAuth
12 33 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
13 28 (4.17%) JSON
14 24 (3.58%) Entity Framework
14 24 (3.58%) Vue
15 23 (3.43%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 133 (19.82%) Cloud Native
2 106 (15.80%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 20 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.24%) Derivative
6 13 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 12 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
8 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.19%) NHS
10 7 (1.04%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
12 5 (0.75%) Data Fabric
12 5 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.02%) Linux
2 16 (2.38%) Unix
3 3 (0.45%) zOS
4 2 (0.30%) Android
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
4 2 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (51.42%) CI/CD
2 290 (43.22%) Agile
3 283 (42.18%) DevOps
4 173 (25.78%) Containerisation
5 161 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (20.86%) Software Engineering
7 112 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 103 (15.35%) Event-Driven
9 101 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 99 (14.75%) Test Automation
11 84 (12.52%) TDD
12 80 (11.92%) Scrum
13 72 (10.73%) AI
14 68 (10.13%) Observability
15 67 (9.99%) Design Patterns
16 65 (9.69%) SDLC
17 64 (9.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 63 (9.39%) Code Quality
19 61 (9.09%) Migration
20 59 (8.79%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 282 (42.03%) Java
2 167 (24.89%) SQL
3 157 (23.40%) Python
4 104 (15.50%) JavaScript
5 100 (14.90%) C#
6 86 (12.82%) TypeScript
7 58 (8.64%) Go
8 19 (2.83%) Bicep
9 12 (1.79%) Ruby
10 10 (1.49%) Bash
11 9 (1.34%) C++
11 9 (1.34%) PHP
11 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.75%) Scala
15 4 (0.60%) Perl
16 3 (0.45%) Groovy
16 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 131 (19.52%) Security Cleared
2 114 (16.99%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.20%) Degree
4 41 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.94%) Azure Certification
7 13 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.79%) 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 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.75%) CCSP
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) CISSP
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (8.94%) QA
2 18 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.94%) GDPR
4 12 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.04%) NIST
7 6 (0.89%) WCAG
8 5 (0.75%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.60%) 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%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 282 (42.03%) Docker
2 27 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 286 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 131 (19.52%) Terraform
3 29 (4.32%) Grafana
4 22 (3.28%) Ansible
5 21 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.83%) Argo
7 16 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.49%) Istio
9 6 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.75%) Puppet
11 4 (0.60%) Opsgenie
12 3 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.30%) Knative
14 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
14 1 (0.15%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.15%) Foglight
14 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
14 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.41%) Google
3 27 (4.02%) Oracle
4 24 (3.58%) Databricks
5 22 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 21 (3.13%) Splunk
7 12 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.64%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.34%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.19%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.19%) Software AG
11 7 (1.04%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.04%) Foundry
11 7 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.04%) Palantir
12 6 (0.89%) Confluent
13 5 (0.75%) Calypso
13 5 (0.75%) OutSystems
13 5 (0.75%) Sybase