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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 776 517 680
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.31% 4.16% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.51% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 356 502
10th Percentile £400 £400 £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 £727 £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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -15 79 £555 -5.13% 77
South London -16 24 £541 +13.87% 1
East London 0 8 £432 +72.80% 5
West London -25 4 £552 +10.85% 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 21 (2.71%) Confluence
2 17 (2.19%) CMS
3 16 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.68%) Apache
5 12 (1.55%) Camunda
6 8 (1.03%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.90%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.64%) Anypoint
8 5 (0.64%) Mule
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
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%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.26%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) 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 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 396 (51.03%) AWS
2 275 (35.44%) Azure
3 132 (17.01%) GCP
4 113 (14.56%) GitHub
5 109 (14.05%) Serverless
6 72 (9.28%) GitHub Actions
7 71 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.35%) Amazon S3
10 46 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
11 39 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (4.25%) Azure AKS
14 32 (4.12%) SaaS
15 30 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 23 (2.96%) PaaS
19 20 (2.58%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 4 (0.52%) 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 87 (11.21%) NoSQL
2 81 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.47%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.77%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 34 (4.38%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.25%) Redis
9 30 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (2.96%) BigQuery
10 23 (2.96%) MySQL
11 18 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.55%) Big Data
13 11 (1.42%) Flink
13 11 (1.42%) Power BI
14 9 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.90%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.90%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 109 (14.05%) Git
2 105 (13.53%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.89%) GitLab
4 46 (5.93%) JUnit
5 40 (5.15%) JIRA
6 31 (3.99%) Mockito
7 20 (2.58%) Gradle
8 18 (2.32%) Maven
8 18 (2.32%) Postman
9 17 (2.19%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.55%) Liquibase
11 11 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.16%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.90%) MSTest
14 7 (0.90%) Vite
15 6 (0.77%) MLflow
15 6 (0.77%) Selenium
15 6 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 195 (25.13%) Finance
2 174 (22.42%) Social Skills
3 123 (15.85%) Banking
4 81 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.22%) Front Office
7 22 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.19%) Marketing
8 17 (2.19%) Retail
9 16 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.68%) Legal
10 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.29%) 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 (0.52%) Billing
16 4 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (35.31%) Developer
2 168 (21.65%) Senior
3 138 (17.78%) Architect
4 102 (13.14%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.44%) Senior Developer
6 67 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 60 (7.73%) Lead
8 48 (6.19%) Java Engineer
9 47 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
11 34 (4.38%) Analyst
12 33 (4.25%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (4.25%) Technical Architect
13 30 (3.87%) C# Developer
14 29 (3.74%) Backend Developer
15 27 (3.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (2.84%) Python Developer
17 21 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
18 20 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (28.09%) Spring
2 196 (25.26%) Spring Boot
3 173 (22.29%) Kafka
4 158 (20.36%) RESTful
5 129 (16.62%) REST
6 119 (15.34%) React
7 99 (12.76%) .NET
8 80 (10.31%) Node.js
9 75 (9.66%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.44%) Middleware
11 36 (4.64%) OAuth
12 33 (4.25%) CSS
12 33 (4.25%) HTML
13 32 (4.12%) gRPC
13 32 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
14 30 (3.87%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (3.74%) OAuth2
16 25 (3.22%) .NET Core
17 23 (2.96%) JSON
17 23 (2.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 169 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 158 (20.36%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.71%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.45%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.45%) Derivative
9 13 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.29%) NHS
13 9 (1.16%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.80%) Linux
2 17 (2.19%) Unix
3 9 (1.16%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) 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
1 421 (54.25%) CI/CD
2 323 (41.62%) DevOps
3 287 (36.98%) Agile
4 237 (30.54%) Containerisation
5 201 (25.90%) Software Engineering
6 169 (21.78%) Event-Driven
7 140 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.27%) Observability
9 132 (17.01%) AI
10 111 (14.30%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (13.92%) Test Automation
12 105 (13.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 97 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 97 (12.50%) TDD
14 93 (11.98%) Scrum
15 81 (10.44%) Code Quality
16 70 (9.02%) Migration
17 66 (8.51%) API Design
18 65 (8.38%) Clean Code
18 65 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 339 (43.69%) Java
2 197 (25.39%) SQL
3 190 (24.48%) Python
4 115 (14.82%) TypeScript
5 96 (12.37%) JavaScript
6 92 (11.86%) C#
7 40 (5.15%) Go
8 22 (2.84%) Ruby
9 15 (1.93%) Bicep
9 15 (1.93%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.16%) PHP
12 8 (1.03%) Bash
13 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.77%) C++
14 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.64%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.39%) C
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 175 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 152 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.22%) Degree
4 42 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.09%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.64%) CISSP
10 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) OSCP
12 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.39%) CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.39%) MBA
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.12%) QA
2 25 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.19%) GDPR
4 15 (1.93%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.93%) NIST
5 12 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.55%) PSD2
6 11 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.29%) SEPA
8 8 (1.03%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.64%) SLA
10 4 (0.52%) HL7
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.39%) WCAG
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) COBIT
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 309 (39.82%) Docker
2 15 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 287 (36.98%) Kubernetes
2 102 (13.14%) Terraform
3 50 (6.44%) Grafana
4 41 (5.28%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.68%) Ansible
5 13 (1.68%) Istio
5 13 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.77%) Kibana
9 5 (0.64%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.26%) Rancher
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 71 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.77%) Oracle
3 27 (3.48%) Google
4 23 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.19%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.93%) Splunk
7 12 (1.55%) IBM
7 12 (1.55%) Software AG
8 8 (1.03%) Confluent
8 8 (1.03%) Databricks
8 8 (1.03%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 7 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 7 (0.90%) Sybase
10 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.64%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.64%) SAP
11 5 (0.64%) Solace
12 4 (0.52%) New Relic