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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -29
Contract jobs citing Microservices 711 578 727
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.97% 3.70% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 4.12% 4.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 383 546
10th Percentile £375 £405 £413
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% - -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £736 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £67.35 £36.30 -
25th Percentile £68.25 £37.13 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £39.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +105.13% -48.00% +38.25%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £40.08 £76.53
% change year-on-year +69.67% -47.63% +4.84%

All Process and 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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +13 78 £563 -12.45% 56
South London +8 19 £528 +0.48% 13
West London -14 11 £509 +24.45% 7
East London +9 9 £540 -6.90% 8
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 53 (7.45%) Confluence
2 22 (3.09%) Apache
3 11 (1.55%) CMS
4 7 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.98%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.56%) Camunda
5 4 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.42%) nginx
6 3 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.42%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.28%) CICS
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) IIS
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) Appian
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (0.98%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.84%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.56%) Endur
4 4 (0.56%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.14%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 358 (50.35%) AWS
2 247 (34.74%) Azure
3 134 (18.85%) Serverless
4 112 (15.75%) GCP
5 104 (14.63%) GitHub
6 74 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (9.56%) AWS Lambda
8 54 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (7.45%) Amazon S3
10 48 (6.75%) Azure AKS
11 44 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (5.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (4.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 24 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
18 22 (3.09%) Azure Functions
18 22 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
19 20 (2.81%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.25%) SSL
2 7 (0.98%) Network Security
3 6 (0.84%) HTTP
4 5 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.56%) Firewall
6 2 (0.28%) DNS
6 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.14%) AMQP
7 1 (0.14%) Broadband
7 1 (0.14%) DSL
7 1 (0.14%) MQTT
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) SAN
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (10.41%) NoSQL
3 65 (9.14%) SQL Server
4 55 (7.74%) MongoDB
5 48 (6.75%) Relational Database
6 42 (5.91%) Apache Cassandra
7 30 (4.22%) MySQL
8 29 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 29 (4.08%) Big Data
9 24 (3.38%) DynamoDB
10 23 (3.23%) Redis
11 20 (2.81%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.41%) DB2
14 10 (1.41%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.98%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (13.08%) Git
2 81 (11.39%) Jenkins
3 76 (10.69%) JIRA
4 53 (7.45%) GitLab
5 46 (6.47%) JUnit
6 26 (3.66%) Mockito
7 22 (3.09%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.95%) Maven
9 20 (2.81%) Postman
10 19 (2.67%) Bitbucket
11 18 (2.53%) Cypress.io
11 18 (2.53%) Selenium
12 14 (1.97%) SpecFlow
13 10 (1.41%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.27%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.13%) Gradle
15 8 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.98%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.84%) Liquibase
17 6 (0.84%) SoapUI
General
1 215 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 176 (24.75%) Finance
3 120 (16.88%) Banking
4 66 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 58 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.52%) Front Office
7 23 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.83%) Retail
9 12 (1.69%) Back Office
9 12 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.84%) Automotive
12 6 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.84%) Legal
12 6 (0.84%) Military
13 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.56%) Marketing
15 2 (0.28%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 318 (44.73%) Developer
2 162 (22.78%) Senior
3 126 (17.72%) Java Developer
4 125 (17.58%) Architect
5 85 (11.95%) Senior Developer
6 48 (6.75%) Lead
7 42 (5.91%) Software Engineer
8 39 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 39 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (5.06%) C# Developer
9 36 (5.06%) Java Engineer
10 34 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 31 (4.36%) Angular Developer
12 24 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.23%) Technical Architect
14 22 (3.09%) Backend Developer
14 22 (3.09%) Lead Developer
15 20 (2.81%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.53%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (23.35%) Spring
2 154 (21.66%) Kafka
3 153 (21.52%) Spring Boot
4 139 (19.55%) REST
5 138 (19.41%) RESTful
6 127 (17.86%) React
7 118 (16.60%) .NET
8 107 (15.05%) AngularJS
9 97 (13.64%) Node.js
10 55 (7.74%) HTML
11 48 (6.75%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.63%) JSON
13 38 (5.34%) CSS
14 36 (5.06%) .NET Core
15 35 (4.92%) gRPC
16 33 (4.64%) SOAP
16 33 (4.64%) Web Services
17 31 (4.36%) .NET Framework
18 30 (4.22%) OAuth
19 25 (3.52%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 141 (19.83%) Cloud Native
2 109 (15.33%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.39%) Derivative
5 17 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.27%) NHS
12 8 (1.13%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 5 (0.70%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.52%) Linux
2 15 (2.11%) Unix
3 5 (0.70%) Android
4 4 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.42%) Windows
6 2 (0.28%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (49.51%) CI/CD
2 342 (48.10%) Agile
3 275 (38.68%) DevOps
4 176 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
5 159 (22.36%) Containerisation
6 139 (19.55%) Software Engineering
7 107 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 103 (14.49%) Test Automation
9 102 (14.35%) Event-Driven
10 100 (14.06%) Scrum
11 94 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 85 (11.95%) TDD
13 71 (9.99%) SDLC
14 69 (9.70%) Code Quality
15 68 (9.56%) Design Patterns
16 66 (9.28%) AI
17 64 (9.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 63 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 62 (8.72%) API Design
20 59 (8.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 315 (44.30%) Java
2 169 (23.77%) Python
3 160 (22.50%) SQL
4 122 (17.16%) JavaScript
5 117 (16.46%) C#
6 93 (13.08%) TypeScript
7 57 (8.02%) Go
8 16 (2.25%) Bicep
9 15 (2.11%) Bash
10 13 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.69%) C++
12 9 (1.27%) PHP
12 9 (1.27%) Ruby
12 9 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.13%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.98%) Scala
15 6 (0.84%) Groovy
15 6 (0.84%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.56%) Perl
17 3 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 131 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 115 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.59%) Degree
4 35 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.67%) AWS Certification
5 19 (2.67%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.55%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.56%) CISSP
11 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.42%) OCP
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.74%) QA
2 15 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.11%) GDPR
3 10 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.84%) MiFID
4 6 (0.84%) WCAG
5 5 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 5 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.42%) HL7
6 3 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) EMIR
8 1 (0.14%) FATCA
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 262 (36.85%) Docker
2 22 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 277 (38.96%) Kubernetes
2 118 (16.60%) Terraform
3 24 (3.38%) Ansible
4 23 (3.23%) Grafana
5 20 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (2.25%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.69%) Argo
8 5 (0.70%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.56%) Opsgenie
10 3 (0.42%) Istio
10 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.42%) Puppet
11 2 (0.28%) Knative
11 2 (0.28%) WMI
12 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.14%) Control-M
12 1 (0.14%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.14%) Kibana
12 1 (0.14%) logstash
12 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 72 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.63%) Oracle
3 38 (5.34%) Google
4 26 (3.66%) Databricks
5 25 (3.52%) ServiceNow
6 22 (3.09%) Splunk
7 21 (2.95%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.97%) HP
9 12 (1.69%) BMC
9 12 (1.69%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.69%) Remedy
9 12 (1.69%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
10 10 (1.41%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.27%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.27%) Foundry
11 9 (1.27%) Palantir
12 8 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.98%) Red Hat