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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 54 60
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -30
Contract jobs citing Microservices 691 606 776
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.95% 3.91% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 4.38% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 403 580
10th Percentile £385 £401 £413
25th Percentile £458 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £710
90th Percentile £740 £793 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
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% +2.04%
75th Percentile £87.50 £40.62 -
90th Percentile - £41.29 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £46.83 £75.77
% change year-on-year +43.08% -38.19% +4.14%

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 12,903 13,835 18,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.34% 89.23% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,481 8,908 12,964
10th Percentile £333 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 165 248
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.35 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +3.21% -3.11%
75th Percentile £47.25 £55.75 £62.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.45 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +28.57%

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 18 November 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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +7 80 £563 -8.09% 271
South London +3 16 £531 +1.19% 6
West London -21 10 £475 -5.00% 19
East London +11 9 £540 -6.90% 18
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 55 (7.96%) Confluence
2 21 (3.04%) Apache
3 15 (2.17%) CMS
4 7 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.72%) Camunda
7 4 (0.58%) Cloud Foundry
8 3 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.43%) nginx
8 3 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.29%) IIS
9 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.14%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) CICS
10 1 (0.14%) SAS
10 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 7 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
2 6 (0.87%) Oracle BPM
3 5 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.58%) Endur
4 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.58%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.14%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.14%) Eikon
6 1 (0.14%) Magento
6 1 (0.14%) RMDS
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 348 (50.36%) AWS
2 230 (33.29%) Azure
3 119 (17.22%) Serverless
4 108 (15.63%) GCP
5 104 (15.05%) GitHub
6 63 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (7.24%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (5.79%) Azure AKS
11 37 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
12 34 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (4.34%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (3.04%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (3.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (2.89%) Amazon Kinesis
16 20 (2.89%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.17%) SSL
2 6 (0.87%) HTTP
3 5 (0.72%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) DNS
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) AMQP
6 1 (0.14%) Broadband
6 1 (0.14%) DSL
6 1 (0.14%) Internet
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) MQTT
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) SAN
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
6 1 (0.14%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (9.55%) SQL Server
3 62 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 48 (6.95%) Relational Database
5 47 (6.80%) MongoDB
6 40 (5.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 31 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (4.49%) MySQL
8 26 (3.76%) Big Data
9 25 (3.62%) Redis
10 23 (3.33%) DynamoDB
11 20 (2.89%) Hadoop
12 14 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.45%) DB2
14 10 (1.45%) Oracle Database
15 7 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.01%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (12.88%) Git
2 81 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 79 (11.43%) JIRA
4 49 (7.09%) GitLab
5 45 (6.51%) JUnit
6 26 (3.76%) Mockito
7 23 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 23 (3.33%) Maven
8 20 (2.89%) Postman
9 19 (2.75%) Cypress.io
10 18 (2.60%) Bitbucket
10 18 (2.60%) Selenium
11 15 (2.17%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.59%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.30%) Gradle
13 9 (1.30%) SonarQube
13 9 (1.30%) TeamCity
14 8 (1.16%) CircleCI
14 8 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (1.01%) SoapUI
General
1 214 (30.97%) Social Skills
2 184 (26.63%) Finance
3 117 (16.93%) Banking
4 62 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 59 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.91%) Front Office
7 22 (3.18%) Investment Banking
8 14 (2.03%) Back Office
9 13 (1.88%) Retail
9 13 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.45%) Military
11 9 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.87%) Automotive
14 5 (0.72%) Legal
15 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.58%) Marketing
16 3 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.29%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 303 (43.85%) Developer
2 156 (22.58%) Senior
3 131 (18.96%) Architect
4 116 (16.79%) Java Developer
5 82 (11.87%) Senior Developer
6 51 (7.38%) Lead
7 45 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 41 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (5.79%) C# Developer
10 38 (5.50%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (5.21%) Java Engineer
12 35 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 33 (4.78%) Angular Developer
14 31 (4.49%) Technical Architect
15 29 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (3.47%) Senior Architect
17 23 (3.33%) Backend Developer
18 22 (3.18%) Lead Developer
19 21 (3.04%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (21.85%) Spring
2 149 (21.56%) Kafka
3 139 (20.12%) REST
4 137 (19.83%) Spring Boot
5 129 (18.67%) RESTful
6 122 (17.66%) React
7 116 (16.79%) .NET
8 105 (15.20%) AngularJS
9 97 (14.04%) Node.js
10 54 (7.81%) HTML
11 45 (6.51%) RabbitMQ
12 40 (5.79%) JSON
13 38 (5.50%) CSS
14 36 (5.21%) Web Services
15 35 (5.07%) .NET Framework
16 34 (4.92%) gRPC
16 34 (4.92%) SOAP
17 32 (4.63%) .NET Core
18 31 (4.49%) OAuth
19 27 (3.91%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 131 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 98 (14.18%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.46%) Virtual Team
6 16 (2.32%) Derivative
7 15 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.16%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.01%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
14 5 (0.72%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.91%) Linux
2 17 (2.46%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Android
4 5 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.43%) Windows
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (48.63%) CI/CD
2 333 (48.19%) Agile
3 251 (36.32%) DevOps
4 170 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (20.84%) Containerisation
6 135 (19.54%) Software Engineering
7 115 (16.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 104 (15.05%) Scrum
9 102 (14.76%) Event-Driven
10 96 (13.89%) Test Automation
11 95 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 87 (12.59%) TDD
13 65 (9.41%) API Design
13 65 (9.41%) Code Quality
13 65 (9.41%) Design Patterns
13 65 (9.41%) SDLC
14 63 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (8.97%) Mentoring
16 59 (8.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 58 (8.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 308 (44.57%) Java
2 151 (21.85%) Python
3 150 (21.71%) SQL
4 117 (16.93%) C#
5 113 (16.35%) JavaScript
6 102 (14.76%) TypeScript
7 54 (7.81%) Go
8 18 (2.60%) Kotlin
9 15 (2.17%) Bash
10 12 (1.74%) Bicep
10 12 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.45%) C++
13 9 (1.30%) Ruby
14 7 (1.01%) Groovy
14 7 (1.01%) PHP
14 7 (1.01%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.87%) Scala
16 4 (0.58%) Perl
17 3 (0.43%) R
Qualifications
1 122 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 104 (15.05%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.96%) Degree
4 32 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.75%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.72%) CISSP
11 5 (0.72%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.43%) CCSP
14 2 (0.29%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.96%) QA
2 17 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.32%) GDPR
4 10 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 6 (0.87%) WCAG
6 5 (0.72%) MiFID
7 4 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.43%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
10 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 247 (35.75%) Docker
2 21 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 267 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 116 (16.79%) Terraform
3 31 (4.49%) Grafana
4 26 (3.76%) Ansible
5 23 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.74%) Argo
8 5 (0.72%) Istio
8 5 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.72%) Puppet
9 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.29%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.29%) WMI
11 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
11 1 (0.14%) Control-M
11 1 (0.14%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.14%) Kibana
11 1 (0.14%) logstash
11 1 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 68 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.51%) Oracle
3 39 (5.64%) Google
4 26 (3.76%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.47%) Splunk
6 19 (2.75%) Databricks
7 15 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 14 (2.03%) HP
9 12 (1.74%) BMC
9 12 (1.74%) Ivanti
9 12 (1.74%) MuleSoft
9 12 (1.74%) Remedy
10 11 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
12 9 (1.30%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.30%) Foundry
12 9 (1.30%) Palantir
13 8 (1.16%) Red Hat