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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 844 681 685
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.01% 4.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.42% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 477 501
10th Percentile £405 £396 £413
25th Percentile £463 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £768 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £38.30 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -44.90%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £95.00 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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
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 12 August 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 -10 101 £555 -1.33% 72
South London -13 24 £543 +2.36% 7
East London +6 9 £432 +12.21% 3
West London -28 1 £500 +5.26% 14
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 27 (3.20%) CMS
2 24 (2.84%) Confluence
3 20 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.42%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 8 (0.95%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.59%) Quorum
3 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 414 (49.05%) AWS
2 316 (37.44%) Azure
3 153 (18.13%) GCP
3 153 (18.13%) GitHub
4 108 (12.80%) Serverless
5 98 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
6 93 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
9 51 (6.04%) Amazon S3
10 44 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (3.79%) Azure AKS
13 26 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (2.96%) OpenShift
15 24 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.61%) Power Platform
16 22 (2.61%) SaaS
17 21 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) HTTP
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 4 (0.47%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (10.07%) NoSQL
3 50 (5.92%) MongoDB
3 50 (5.92%) SQL Server
4 38 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.32%) DynamoDB
6 28 (3.32%) Redis
7 22 (2.61%) Power BI
8 20 (2.37%) MySQL
9 17 (2.01%) Big Data
9 17 (2.01%) BigQuery
10 13 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.30%) Flink
13 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 141 (16.71%) Git
2 137 (16.23%) Jenkins
3 88 (10.43%) GitLab
4 51 (6.04%) JUnit
5 36 (4.27%) Mockito
6 34 (4.03%) Gradle
6 34 (4.03%) JIRA
7 33 (3.91%) Maven
8 25 (2.96%) Postman
9 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 21 (2.49%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.90%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.66%) JMeter
13 12 (1.42%) Selenium
14 11 (1.30%) Cucumber
15 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.18%) TeamCity
16 9 (1.07%) Vite
17 8 (0.95%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 231 (27.37%) Finance
2 204 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 128 (15.17%) Banking
4 101 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 78 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.20%) Front Office
6 27 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.73%) Marketing
8 21 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.49%) Retail
9 16 (1.90%) Law
10 13 (1.54%) Retail Banking
11 12 (1.42%) Billing
12 10 (1.18%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.71%) Local Government
15 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 277 (32.82%) Developer
2 174 (20.62%) Senior
3 159 (18.84%) Architect
4 113 (13.39%) Java Developer
5 80 (9.48%) Lead
6 78 (9.24%) Software Engineer
7 73 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 54 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
9 49 (5.81%) Java Engineer
10 42 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 34 (4.03%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.91%) Analyst
15 27 (3.20%) .NET Developer
15 27 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.20%) C# Developer
15 27 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (25.95%) Spring
2 203 (24.05%) REST
3 191 (22.63%) Spring Boot
4 183 (21.68%) Kafka
5 161 (19.08%) RESTful
6 147 (17.42%) React
7 104 (12.32%) .NET
8 86 (10.19%) Node.js
9 57 (6.75%) AngularJS
10 50 (5.92%) CSS
11 47 (5.57%) HTML
12 43 (5.09%) OAuth
12 43 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
13 38 (4.50%) OAuth2
14 33 (3.91%) JSON
15 31 (3.67%) .NET Core
16 29 (3.44%) LangChain
17 27 (3.20%) FastAPI
17 27 (3.20%) Playwright
18 26 (3.08%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 245 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 208 (24.64%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (9.00%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.15%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (3.20%) Derivative
10 22 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.49%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.78%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (1.18%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.33%) Linux
2 20 (2.37%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 383 (45.38%) DevOps
3 344 (40.76%) Agile
4 266 (31.52%) Containerisation
5 259 (30.69%) Event-Driven
6 228 (27.01%) Software Engineering
7 190 (22.51%) AI
8 175 (20.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 169 (20.02%) Observability
10 156 (18.48%) Test Automation
11 143 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
12 130 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (13.98%) Scrum
15 103 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
17 95 (11.26%) Integration Patterns
17 95 (11.26%) TDD
18 92 (10.90%) Code Quality
19 88 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 378 (44.79%) Java
2 234 (27.73%) Python
3 202 (23.93%) SQL
4 162 (19.19%) TypeScript
5 140 (16.59%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.27%) C#
7 33 (3.91%) Go
8 23 (2.73%) Ruby
9 18 (2.13%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.01%) Bash
10 17 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.78%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.30%) Bicep
14 7 (0.83%) PHP
15 6 (0.71%) C++
15 6 (0.71%) Scala
15 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) Solidity
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 194 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.45%) Degree
4 39 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.71%) CISSP
13 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.24%) OSCP
16 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.60%) QA
2 27 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.13%) ISO 20022
4 16 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.78%) SEPA
6 13 (1.54%) GDPR
6 13 (1.54%) NIST
7 11 (1.30%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.07%) PSD2
9 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.71%) SLA
11 4 (0.47%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 314 (37.20%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 306 (36.26%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.86%) Terraform
3 55 (6.52%) Grafana
4 43 (5.09%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.55%) Ansible
6 9 (1.07%) Istio
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
7 8 (0.95%) Argo
7 8 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.83%) Puppet
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 93 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.75%) Oracle
3 43 (5.09%) Google
4 24 (2.84%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.01%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.90%) IBM
7 14 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.66%) Splunk
8 10 (1.18%) New Relic
8 10 (1.18%) SAP
8 10 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.95%) Confluent
9 8 (0.95%) Sybase
10 7 (0.83%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.83%) Solace
11 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.59%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.59%) Veracode
11 5 (0.59%) Workday
12 4 (0.47%) Zscaler