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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Microservices 803 569 729
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.24% 4.58% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.96% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 389 537
10th Percentile £402 £398 £413
25th Percentile £453 £450 £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 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £75.00 £37.48 £45.10
25th Percentile £85.00 £41.19 £51.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.58% -0.40% -30.56%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £94.00 -
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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -23 80 £555 -5.13% 30
South London -19 20 £541 +9.27%
East London +4 8 £432 +72.80% 6
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 (2.62%) CMS
2 20 (2.49%) Confluence
3 18 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.62%) Camunda
5 12 (1.49%) Ethereum
6 11 (1.37%) Hyperledger
7 10 (1.25%) Apache
8 9 (1.12%) SharePoint
9 8 (1.00%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.87%) Mule
11 6 (0.75%) nginx
12 4 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
14 2 (0.25%) Drupal
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.37%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
1 6 (0.75%) R3 Corda
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.62%) Quorum
3 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.50%) Ripple
4 3 (0.37%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (51.43%) AWS
2 283 (35.24%) Azure
3 132 (16.44%) GCP
4 127 (15.82%) GitHub
5 103 (12.83%) Serverless
6 87 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (7.85%) Amazon S3
10 52 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
11 46 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
12 42 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
14 34 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 29 (3.61%) Azure AKS
17 27 (3.36%) SaaS
18 22 (2.74%) PaaS
19 20 (2.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 18 (2.24%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.49%) HTTP
2 6 (0.75%) DNS
2 6 (0.75%) VPN
3 5 (0.62%) Network Security
4 3 (0.37%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.37%) 5G
5 2 (0.25%) 4G
5 2 (0.25%) FTP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) LTE
5 2 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.25%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) RFID
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (10.46%) NoSQL
3 56 (6.97%) MongoDB
4 45 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 41 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.73%) Redis
7 36 (4.48%) Relational Database
8 33 (4.11%) DynamoDB
9 28 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
10 23 (2.86%) MySQL
11 20 (2.49%) BigQuery
12 18 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (1.99%) Power BI
14 15 (1.87%) Big Data
15 11 (1.37%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.37%) Flink
16 7 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
16 7 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 123 (15.32%) Git
2 122 (15.19%) Jenkins
3 86 (10.71%) GitLab
4 54 (6.72%) JUnit
5 38 (4.73%) JIRA
6 36 (4.48%) Mockito
7 28 (3.49%) Gradle
8 25 (3.11%) Maven
9 22 (2.74%) Postman
10 16 (1.99%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.87%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.74%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.25%) TeamCity
15 8 (1.00%) MSTest
15 8 (1.00%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.87%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.87%) Selenium
16 7 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.87%) Vite
General
1 209 (26.03%) Finance
2 181 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 130 (16.19%) Banking
4 95 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.36%) Front Office
7 26 (3.24%) Investment Banking
8 20 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.49%) Marketing
9 17 (2.12%) Law
10 16 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.99%) Retail
11 13 (1.62%) Legal
12 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.62%) Local Government
15 5 (0.62%) Police
16 4 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 262 (32.63%) Developer
2 174 (21.67%) Senior
3 139 (17.31%) Architect
4 106 (13.20%) Java Developer
5 76 (9.46%) Software Engineer
6 75 (9.34%) Lead
7 73 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 56 (6.97%) Java Engineer
9 48 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
10 42 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (4.36%) Analyst
13 33 (4.11%) C# Developer
14 31 (3.86%) Technical Architect
15 29 (3.61%) Backend Developer
15 29 (3.61%) Senior Java Developer
16 28 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 26 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
17 26 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
18 23 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (27.40%) Spring
2 197 (24.53%) Spring Boot
3 180 (22.42%) Kafka
4 162 (20.17%) RESTful
5 160 (19.93%) REST
6 127 (15.82%) React
7 97 (12.08%) .NET
8 80 (9.96%) Node.js
9 65 (8.09%) AngularJS
10 43 (5.35%) OAuth
11 42 (5.23%) Middleware
12 38 (4.73%) CSS
13 36 (4.48%) HTML
13 36 (4.48%) OAuth2
14 35 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
15 32 (3.99%) OpenTelemetry
16 28 (3.49%) JSON
17 26 (3.24%) gRPC
18 25 (3.11%) OpenID
19 24 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 204 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 180 (22.42%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.60%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.11%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.11%) Derivative
6 25 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 15 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 14 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.37%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 10 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.23%) Linux
2 19 (2.37%) Unix
3 8 (1.00%) Windows
4 7 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.37%) Solaris
6 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.37%) zOS
7 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (57.29%) CI/CD
2 342 (42.59%) DevOps
3 309 (38.48%) Agile
4 242 (30.14%) Containerisation
5 213 (26.53%) Software Engineering
6 204 (25.40%) Event-Driven
7 149 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 148 (18.43%) AI
9 147 (18.31%) Observability
10 124 (15.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 121 (15.07%) Test Automation
12 112 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (13.70%) Scrum
14 107 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (12.58%) TDD
16 78 (9.71%) API Design
16 78 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 76 (9.46%) Integration Patterns
18 74 (9.22%) Code Quality
19 72 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 372 (46.33%) Java
2 215 (26.77%) Python
3 201 (25.03%) SQL
4 134 (16.69%) TypeScript
5 109 (13.57%) JavaScript
6 99 (12.33%) C#
7 36 (4.48%) Go
8 25 (3.11%) Ruby
9 15 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 13 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.37%) Bash
11 11 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.00%) Bicep
12 8 (1.00%) PHP
13 7 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.75%) Solidity
15 5 (0.62%) C++
15 5 (0.62%) Rust
16 4 (0.50%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 179 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 155 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.35%) Degree
4 38 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.62%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.62%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.87%) CISSP
11 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.50%) OSCP
13 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.37%) GIAC
13 3 (0.37%) MBA
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.34%) QA
2 34 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.37%) NIST
4 17 (2.12%) GDPR
5 15 (1.87%) ISO 20022
6 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.62%) PSD2
8 11 (1.37%) SEPA
9 9 (1.12%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 8583
10 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) WCAG
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
11 3 (0.37%) TARGET2
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 319 (39.73%) Docker
2 14 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.37%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 299 (37.24%) Kubernetes
2 116 (14.45%) Terraform
3 59 (7.35%) Grafana
4 50 (6.23%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.86%) Ansible
6 14 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.37%) Istio
8 10 (1.25%) Argo
9 9 (1.12%) Kibana
10 7 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.62%) Puppet
12 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.25%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.25%) Rancher
14 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
14 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.12%) linkerd
14 1 (0.12%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.12%) Packer
14 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 76 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.85%) Oracle
3 29 (3.61%) Google
4 23 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.37%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.87%) IBM
6 15 (1.87%) Splunk
7 11 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.37%) Sybase
8 10 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.12%) Software AG
10 7 (0.87%) Confluent
10 7 (0.87%) SAP
11 6 (0.75%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.75%) Solace
12 4 (0.50%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.50%) Jaspersoft
12 4 (0.50%) Rapid7