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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 56 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 772 522 679
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 4.17% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.52% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 360 501
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £727 £688
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £73.00 £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% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile £96.50 £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +50.00% +6.03% -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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -19 79 £555 -5.13% 78
South London -14 25 £541 +13.87% 1
East London -1 8 £432 +72.80% 8
West London -25 4 £552 +10.85% 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 21 (2.72%) Confluence
2 16 (2.07%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.07%) CMS
3 13 (1.68%) Apache
4 12 (1.55%) Camunda
5 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.65%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.65%) Mule
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.39%) nginx
9 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 394 (51.04%) AWS
2 273 (35.36%) Azure
3 132 (17.10%) GCP
4 114 (14.77%) GitHub
5 109 (14.12%) Serverless
6 73 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
7 72 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (7.25%) Amazon S3
10 47 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (4.40%) Azure AKS
14 32 (4.15%) SaaS
15 30 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 23 (2.98%) PaaS
19 20 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.42%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) DNS
3 4 (0.52%) VPN
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) Network Security
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) 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
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (11.14%) NoSQL
2 79 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.51%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 37 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 33 (4.27%) DynamoDB
7 33 (4.27%) Redis
8 27 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (2.98%) MySQL
10 22 (2.85%) BigQuery
11 18 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.55%) Big Data
13 11 (1.42%) Flink
13 11 (1.42%) Power BI
14 9 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.91%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.91%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 106 (13.73%) Git
2 104 (13.47%) Jenkins
3 70 (9.07%) GitLab
4 46 (5.96%) JUnit
5 40 (5.18%) JIRA
6 31 (4.02%) Mockito
7 20 (2.59%) Gradle
8 18 (2.33%) Maven
9 17 (2.20%) Cucumber
9 17 (2.20%) Postman
10 12 (1.55%) Liquibase
11 11 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (1.17%) Zephyr
14 7 (0.91%) MSTest
14 7 (0.91%) Vite
15 6 (0.78%) Gatling
15 6 (0.78%) MLflow
15 6 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 194 (25.13%) Finance
2 175 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 123 (15.93%) Banking
4 82 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.24%) Front Office
7 22 (2.85%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.20%) Retail
9 16 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (2.07%) Marketing
10 13 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.68%) Legal
10 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.17%) Law
12 7 (0.91%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.65%) Police
15 4 (0.52%) Billing
15 4 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 272 (35.23%) Developer
2 167 (21.63%) Senior
3 138 (17.88%) Architect
4 100 (12.95%) Java Developer
5 79 (10.23%) Senior Developer
6 68 (8.81%) Software Engineer
7 59 (7.64%) Lead
8 48 (6.22%) Java Engineer
9 47 (6.09%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 36 (4.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.27%) Analyst
11 33 (4.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 33 (4.27%) Technical Architect
12 30 (3.89%) Backend Developer
12 30 (3.89%) C# Developer
13 27 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (2.85%) Senior Software Engineer
15 20 (2.59%) AWS Developer
15 20 (2.59%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (27.98%) Spring
2 195 (25.26%) Spring Boot
3 171 (22.15%) Kafka
4 158 (20.47%) RESTful
5 126 (16.32%) REST
6 122 (15.80%) React
7 100 (12.95%) .NET
8 82 (10.62%) Node.js
9 73 (9.46%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.48%) Middleware
11 36 (4.66%) OAuth
12 33 (4.27%) CSS
12 33 (4.27%) HTML
13 32 (4.15%) gRPC
13 32 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.76%) OAuth2
15 28 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (3.37%) .NET Core
17 23 (2.98%) LangChain
18 22 (2.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 171 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 155 (20.08%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 26 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (2.85%) AI Agents
6 22 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.46%) Derivative
9 13 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.42%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.30%) NHS
13 9 (1.17%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.83%) Linux
2 17 (2.20%) Unix
3 9 (1.17%) Windows
4 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) zOS
6 3 (0.39%) Solaris
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (54.40%) CI/CD
2 322 (41.71%) DevOps
3 282 (36.53%) Agile
4 236 (30.57%) Containerisation
5 201 (26.04%) Software Engineering
6 165 (21.37%) Event-Driven
7 141 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 134 (17.36%) Observability
9 133 (17.23%) AI
10 112 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (14.12%) Test Automation
12 101 (13.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 97 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 95 (12.31%) TDD
15 89 (11.53%) Scrum
16 81 (10.49%) Code Quality
17 70 (9.07%) Migration
18 65 (8.42%) API Design
19 64 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
19 64 (8.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 334 (43.26%) Java
2 193 (25.00%) SQL
3 189 (24.48%) Python
4 116 (15.03%) TypeScript
5 95 (12.31%) JavaScript
6 93 (12.05%) C#
7 39 (5.05%) Go
8 22 (2.85%) Ruby
9 16 (2.07%) Bicep
10 15 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.55%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.04%) Bash
12 8 (1.04%) PHP
13 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.78%) C++
14 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.65%) Scala
16 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.39%) RPG
17 3 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 175 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 152 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.12%) Degree
4 42 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.11%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.65%) CISSP
10 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) OSCP
12 3 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.39%) CCSP
12 3 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.39%) MBA
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.03%) QA
2 25 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.20%) GDPR
4 15 (1.94%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.94%) NIST
5 12 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.55%) PSD2
6 11 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.30%) SEPA
8 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.65%) SLA
10 4 (0.52%) HL7
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
11 3 (0.39%) WCAG
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 306 (39.64%) Docker
2 15 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 283 (36.66%) Kubernetes
2 105 (13.60%) Terraform
3 50 (6.48%) Grafana
4 41 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.68%) Ansible
5 13 (1.68%) Istio
5 13 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.55%) Argo
7 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.78%) Kibana
9 5 (0.65%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) Opsgenie
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.26%) Rancher
12 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.13%) linkerd
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
12 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.79%) Oracle
3 27 (3.50%) Google
4 24 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.94%) Splunk
7 12 (1.55%) IBM
7 12 (1.55%) Software AG
8 9 (1.17%) Databricks
9 8 (1.04%) Confluent
9 8 (1.04%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.91%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.78%) Sybase
12 5 (0.65%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.65%) SAP
12 5 (0.65%) Solace
13 4 (0.52%) New Relic