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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 56 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 719 509 608
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 3.90% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 4.29% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 345 451
10th Percentile £375 £400 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £65.50 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £70.13 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.79% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £93.75 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £36.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +104.47% -24.63% -33.20%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -13 74 £525 -10.26% 83
South London -8 27 £541 +13.87% 3
West London -17 7 £550 +34.47% 4
East London -2 1 £675 +61.68% 7
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 29 (4.03%) Confluence
2 12 (1.67%) Apache
3 7 (0.97%) Camunda
3 7 (0.97%) CMS
3 7 (0.97%) Ethereum
3 7 (0.97%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.70%) Mule
5 5 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.28%) Drupal
6 2 (0.28%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 385 (53.55%) AWS
2 279 (38.80%) Azure
3 128 (17.80%) Serverless
4 126 (17.52%) GCP
5 116 (16.13%) GitHub
6 80 (11.13%) Azure DevOps
7 73 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
8 63 (8.76%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (8.34%) Amazon S3
10 45 (6.26%) Azure AKS
11 41 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 38 (5.29%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
14 35 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (3.89%) Entra ID
15 28 (3.89%) SaaS
16 26 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 26 (3.62%) Azure Functions
17 25 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.53%) HTTP
2 7 (0.97%) Network Security
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
3 5 (0.70%) SSL
4 4 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.56%) VPN
5 3 (0.42%) 3GPP
5 3 (0.42%) 5G
6 2 (0.28%) 4G
6 2 (0.28%) LTE
6 2 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (0.28%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) Multicast
7 1 (0.14%) NaaS
7 1 (0.14%) RFID
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (11.13%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (10.99%) NoSQL
3 59 (8.21%) MongoDB
4 49 (6.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 43 (5.98%) SQL Server
6 40 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 33 (4.59%) Redis
8 32 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (4.45%) DynamoDB
9 30 (4.17%) MySQL
10 16 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (2.09%) Big Data
12 14 (1.95%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.81%) Hadoop
14 12 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
16 9 (1.25%) DB2
17 7 (0.97%) DocumentDB
18 6 (0.83%) Pinecone
18 6 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 105 (14.60%) Git
2 93 (12.93%) Jenkins
3 67 (9.32%) GitLab
4 51 (7.09%) JIRA
5 48 (6.68%) JUnit
6 26 (3.62%) Mockito
7 25 (3.48%) Cucumber
8 15 (2.09%) Selenium
9 14 (1.95%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.95%) Maven
10 11 (1.53%) Postman
11 9 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 9 (1.25%) Zephyr
12 8 (1.11%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.11%) Liquibase
13 7 (0.97%) MLflow
13 7 (0.97%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.97%) Vite
14 6 (0.83%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.83%) SpecFlow
General
1 188 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 165 (22.95%) Finance
3 114 (15.86%) Banking
4 79 (10.99%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.06%) Front Office
7 18 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.81%) Retail
10 12 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.83%) Legal
12 6 (0.83%) Marketing
12 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.42%) Back Office
13 3 (0.42%) Law
13 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.42%) Military
14 2 (0.28%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 280 (38.94%) Developer
2 166 (23.09%) Senior
3 127 (17.66%) Architect
4 95 (13.21%) Java Developer
5 82 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 50 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
7 44 (6.12%) Lead
7 44 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 43 (5.98%) Java Engineer
9 40 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
10 36 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
11 32 (4.45%) C# Developer
12 30 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 30 (4.17%) Technical Architect
13 28 (3.89%) Backend Developer
14 25 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
15 24 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
16 22 (3.06%) Analyst
17 21 (2.92%) .NET Developer
17 21 (2.92%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (25.03%) Spring
2 158 (21.97%) Kafka
3 155 (21.56%) Spring Boot
4 136 (18.92%) RESTful
5 134 (18.64%) REST
6 132 (18.36%) React
7 108 (15.02%) .NET
8 105 (14.60%) Node.js
9 100 (13.91%) AngularJS
10 54 (7.51%) Middleware
11 45 (6.26%) CSS
11 45 (6.26%) HTML
12 44 (6.12%) gRPC
13 39 (5.42%) OAuth
14 32 (4.45%) Vue
15 30 (4.17%) .NET Core
16 24 (3.34%) OpenID
16 24 (3.34%) OpenTelemetry
16 24 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (3.20%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 110 (15.30%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.06%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.50%) Derivative
6 17 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 13 (1.81%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.98%) Linux
2 16 (2.23%) Unix
3 7 (0.97%) Windows
4 4 (0.56%) zOS
5 3 (0.42%) VMS
6 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.28%) Solaris
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (52.85%) CI/CD
2 303 (42.14%) DevOps
3 284 (39.50%) Agile
4 191 (26.56%) Containerisation
5 162 (22.53%) Software Engineering
6 151 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (16.69%) Event-Driven
8 118 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 106 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
10 104 (14.46%) AI
10 104 (14.46%) Test Automation
11 94 (13.07%) TDD
12 90 (12.52%) Observability
13 77 (10.71%) Code Quality
14 75 (10.43%) Scrum
15 73 (10.15%) SDLC
16 69 (9.60%) Migration
17 68 (9.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 64 (8.90%) Computer Science
18 64 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 303 (42.14%) Java
2 184 (25.59%) Python
3 174 (24.20%) SQL
4 109 (15.16%) TypeScript
5 104 (14.46%) JavaScript
6 88 (12.24%) C#
7 49 (6.82%) Go
8 19 (2.64%) Bicep
9 17 (2.36%) Ruby
10 10 (1.39%) Bash
11 9 (1.25%) C++
11 9 (1.25%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.97%) PHP
12 7 (0.97%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.83%) Scala
14 5 (0.70%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) RPG
Qualifications
1 151 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 129 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.21%) Degree
4 44 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.62%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.34%) Master's Degree
7 23 (3.20%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.83%) CCSP
12 6 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.83%) CISSP
12 6 (0.83%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (8.21%) QA
2 27 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.23%) GDPR
4 14 (1.95%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.95%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.53%) NIST
6 10 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.39%) PSD2
7 8 (1.11%) SEPA
8 6 (0.83%) WCAG
9 5 (0.70%) SLA
10 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.56%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.42%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.28%) GRC
12 2 (0.28%) HL7
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 286 (39.78%) Docker
2 23 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Postfix
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 286 (39.78%) Kubernetes
2 123 (17.11%) Terraform
3 40 (5.56%) Grafana
4 30 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.64%) Argo
6 17 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.81%) Ansible
8 11 (1.53%) Istio
9 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.70%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.42%) Rancher
12 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.28%) Kibana
12 2 (0.28%) Knative
12 2 (0.28%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.28%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 75 (10.43%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.87%) Oracle
3 33 (4.59%) Google
4 30 (4.17%) OpenAI
5 23 (3.20%) Databricks
6 16 (2.23%) Splunk
7 12 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 12 (1.67%) Software AG
8 9 (1.25%) MuleSoft
8 9 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.11%) IBM
9 8 (1.11%) Sybase
10 7 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.83%) Foundry
12 5 (0.70%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.70%) Palantir
12 5 (0.70%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.56%) ForgeRock