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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 787 547 706
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 4.47% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.74% 4.85% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 377 515
10th Percentile £402 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £691
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £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% -30.56%
75th Percentile £96.88 £72.88 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +40.91% +16.64% -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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -22 76 £555 -5.13% 65
South London -18 20 £541 +11.52%
East London +1 8 £432 +72.80% 2
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 (2.67%) Confluence
2 18 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 18 (2.29%) CMS
3 13 (1.65%) Camunda
4 12 (1.52%) Ethereum
5 11 (1.40%) Apache
5 11 (1.40%) Hyperledger
6 7 (0.89%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.76%) Mule
7 6 (0.76%) nginx
7 6 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.76%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.64%) Quorum
3 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.51%) Ripple
4 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (51.21%) AWS
2 274 (34.82%) Azure
3 130 (16.52%) GCP
4 121 (15.37%) GitHub
5 102 (12.96%) Serverless
6 81 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
7 69 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
9 57 (7.24%) Amazon S3
10 45 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (4.07%) SaaS
14 31 (3.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 27 (3.43%) Azure AKS
17 26 (3.30%) PaaS
18 19 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 19 (2.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.52%) HTTP
2 6 (0.76%) DNS
3 5 (0.64%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Network Security
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) LTE
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) SSL
5 2 (0.25%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.44%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 55 (6.99%) MongoDB
4 45 (5.72%) SQL Server
5 39 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (4.57%) Relational Database
7 35 (4.45%) Redis
8 33 (4.19%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.81%) Apache Cassandra
10 24 (3.05%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.92%) MySQL
12 18 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.78%) Power BI
14 13 (1.65%) Big Data
15 11 (1.40%) Flink
16 10 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (1.27%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
18 7 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
18 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 117 (14.87%) Git
2 115 (14.61%) Jenkins
3 81 (10.29%) GitLab
4 49 (6.23%) JUnit
5 40 (5.08%) JIRA
6 35 (4.45%) Mockito
7 25 (3.18%) Gradle
8 22 (2.80%) Maven
9 20 (2.54%) Postman
10 18 (2.29%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.91%) Liquibase
12 13 (1.65%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.27%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.14%) Zephyr
16 8 (1.02%) MSTest
17 7 (0.89%) Gatling
17 7 (0.89%) JMeter
17 7 (0.89%) Selenium
17 7 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 204 (25.92%) Finance
2 180 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 125 (15.88%) Banking
4 84 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.30%) Front Office
7 23 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.41%) Retail
9 18 (2.29%) Marketing
10 16 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.65%) Legal
11 13 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.52%) Law
13 9 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.14%) Retail Banking
14 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 257 (32.66%) Developer
2 171 (21.73%) Senior
3 140 (17.79%) Architect
4 98 (12.45%) Java Developer
5 74 (9.40%) Senior Developer
6 72 (9.15%) Software Engineer
7 71 (9.02%) Lead
8 54 (6.86%) Java Engineer
9 47 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.57%) Technical Architect
12 33 (4.19%) C# Developer
13 32 (4.07%) Analyst
14 30 (3.81%) Backend Developer
15 28 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 27 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
17 24 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
18 22 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
18 22 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (27.45%) Spring
2 197 (25.03%) Spring Boot
3 176 (22.36%) Kafka
4 157 (19.95%) RESTful
5 149 (18.93%) REST
6 126 (16.01%) React
7 98 (12.45%) .NET
8 82 (10.42%) Node.js
9 72 (9.15%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.46%) Middleware
11 42 (5.34%) OAuth
12 37 (4.70%) CSS
13 35 (4.45%) HTML
14 34 (4.32%) OAuth2
14 34 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
15 30 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (3.43%) gRPC
16 27 (3.43%) JSON
17 25 (3.18%) Web Services
18 24 (3.05%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 190 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 165 (20.97%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.05%) AI Agents
7 23 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.80%) Derivative
8 22 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 17 (2.16%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.78%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
13 11 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.40%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
14 10 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.23%) Linux
2 20 (2.54%) Unix
3 8 (1.02%) Windows
4 7 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.38%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.38%) zOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (56.29%) CI/CD
2 325 (41.30%) DevOps
3 294 (37.36%) Agile
4 236 (29.99%) Containerisation
5 210 (26.68%) Software Engineering
6 188 (23.89%) Event-Driven
7 149 (18.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 147 (18.68%) Observability
9 142 (18.04%) AI
10 115 (14.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 114 (14.49%) Test Automation
12 105 (13.34%) Scrum
13 104 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
13 104 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (12.83%) TDD
15 73 (9.28%) API Design
15 73 (9.28%) Code Quality
16 72 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 70 (8.89%) Migration
18 69 (8.77%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 354 (44.98%) Java
2 203 (25.79%) Python
3 202 (25.67%) SQL
4 130 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 104 (13.21%) JavaScript
6 95 (12.07%) C#
7 35 (4.45%) Go
8 26 (3.30%) Ruby
9 15 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 14 (1.78%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.65%) Bicep
12 11 (1.40%) Bash
12 11 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.14%) PHP
14 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.76%) Solidity
16 4 (0.51%) C++
16 4 (0.51%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.51%) Scala
17 3 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 171 (21.73%) Security Cleared
2 147 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.99%) Degree
4 42 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.43%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.80%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.76%) CISSP
11 6 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.51%) OSCP
14 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.38%) CCSP
14 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.38%) MBA
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.26%) QA
2 29 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.16%) NIST
4 16 (2.03%) GDPR
4 16 (2.03%) ISO 20022
5 13 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.65%) PSD2
6 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.27%) SEPA
8 9 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.64%) SLA
10 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.38%) ISO 15022
11 3 (0.38%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.38%) WCAG
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
12 2 (0.25%) NCSC
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 308 (39.14%) Docker
2 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) Postfix
4 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 291 (36.98%) Kubernetes
2 112 (14.23%) Terraform
3 58 (7.37%) Grafana
4 49 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.41%) Ansible
6 15 (1.91%) Istio
7 14 (1.78%) Argo
7 14 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.14%) Kibana
9 7 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.76%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.25%) Rancher
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
13 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.13%) Packer
13 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.97%) Oracle
3 30 (3.81%) Google
4 21 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.29%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.91%) IBM
6 15 (1.91%) Splunk
7 10 (1.27%) Software AG
7 10 (1.27%) Sybase
8 9 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.14%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
10 7 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.89%) SAP
11 6 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.51%) New Relic
13 4 (0.51%) Rapid7