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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 770 524 681
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.36% 4.17% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.52% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 367 497
10th Percentile £393 £400 £425
25th Percentile £447 £457 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £729 £695
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 £45.10
25th Percentile £66.00 £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 - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £50.00 £47.16
% change year-on-year +45.00% +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 15,622 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,456 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -17 87 £555 -5.13% 85
South London -12 27 £536 +12.84% 8
East London -1 6 £432 +72.80% 8
West London -21 6 £572 +23.14% 17
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 19 (2.47%) Confluence
2 14 (1.82%) Apache
2 14 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.82%) CMS
3 11 (1.43%) Camunda
4 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
5 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.65%) Mule
8 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) nginx
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Solana
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%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 408 (52.99%) AWS
2 286 (37.14%) Azure
3 135 (17.53%) GCP
4 119 (15.45%) Serverless
5 116 (15.06%) GitHub
6 79 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
8 72 (9.35%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (7.92%) Amazon S3
10 54 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
11 42 (5.45%) Azure AKS
12 40 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 38 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
14 33 (4.29%) SaaS
15 32 (4.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.12%) PaaS
19 23 (2.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.56%) HTTP
2 6 (0.78%) DNS
3 5 (0.65%) 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%) Firewall
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%) 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 83 (10.78%) NoSQL
2 73 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.53%) MongoDB
4 40 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
4 40 (5.19%) SQL Server
5 39 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 35 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 35 (4.55%) Redis
7 29 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.51%) MySQL
9 19 (2.47%) BigQuery
10 17 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 14 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.56%) Big Data
13 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.30%) Power BI
15 9 (1.17%) Flink
16 7 (0.91%) Data Lake
16 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.91%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 111 (14.42%) Git
2 105 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.96%) GitLab
4 48 (6.23%) JUnit
5 38 (4.94%) JIRA
6 34 (4.42%) Mockito
7 20 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 17 (2.21%) Postman
9 16 (2.08%) Maven
10 14 (1.82%) Gradle
11 11 (1.43%) Liquibase
11 11 (1.43%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
12 9 (1.17%) Selenium
12 9 (1.17%) Zephyr
13 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.04%) Vite
14 6 (0.78%) Gatling
14 6 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 193 (25.06%) Finance
2 181 (23.51%) Social Skills
3 118 (15.32%) Banking
4 87 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (3.12%) Front Office
7 19 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.82%) Marketing
10 14 (1.82%) Retail
11 13 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
13 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.04%) Law
15 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Police
17 4 (0.52%) Billing
17 4 (0.52%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 278 (36.10%) Developer
2 170 (22.08%) Senior
3 138 (17.92%) Architect
4 100 (12.99%) Java Developer
5 81 (10.52%) Senior Developer
6 61 (7.92%) Lead
7 57 (7.40%) Software Engineer
8 52 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (6.10%) Java Engineer
10 38 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.55%) Technical Architect
13 32 (4.16%) Analyst
14 31 (4.03%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.90%) Backend Developer
16 29 (3.77%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 21 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
19 20 (2.60%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (27.92%) Spring
2 191 (24.81%) Spring Boot
3 166 (21.56%) Kafka
4 151 (19.61%) RESTful
5 129 (16.75%) REST
6 122 (15.84%) React
7 102 (13.25%) .NET
8 93 (12.08%) Node.js
9 78 (10.13%) AngularJS
10 56 (7.27%) Middleware
11 36 (4.68%) CSS
12 35 (4.55%) gRPC
12 35 (4.55%) HTML
12 35 (4.55%) OAuth
13 30 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (3.77%) .NET Core
15 27 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (3.38%) OAuth2
17 25 (3.25%) Web Services
18 21 (2.73%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 169 (21.95%) Cloud Native
2 149 (19.35%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 24 (3.12%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.21%) Derivative
7 17 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.30%) NHS
12 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.84%) Linux
2 16 (2.08%) Unix
3 8 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.52%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (54.94%) CI/CD
2 334 (43.38%) DevOps
3 285 (37.01%) Agile
4 230 (29.87%) Containerisation
5 192 (24.94%) Software Engineering
6 157 (20.39%) Event-Driven
7 147 (19.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 129 (16.75%) Observability
9 127 (16.49%) AI
10 118 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (14.55%) Test Automation
12 100 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 99 (12.86%) TDD
14 97 (12.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 88 (11.43%) Code Quality
16 85 (11.04%) Scrum
17 72 (9.35%) Migration
18 69 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (8.70%) Integration Patterns
19 67 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 340 (44.16%) Java
2 201 (26.10%) Python
3 186 (24.16%) SQL
4 112 (14.55%) TypeScript
5 93 (12.08%) JavaScript
6 90 (11.69%) C#
7 41 (5.32%) Go
8 23 (2.99%) Ruby
9 15 (1.95%) Bicep
10 14 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.43%) Kotlin
12 10 (1.30%) Bash
13 6 (0.78%) C++
13 6 (0.78%) PHP
13 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.65%) PowerShell
14 5 (0.65%) Scala
15 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.39%) C
16 3 (0.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 169 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 146 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.88%) Degree
4 41 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.65%) CISSP
11 5 (0.65%) OSCP
11 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.52%) CCSP
12 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.39%) MBA
13 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.05%) QA
2 27 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.21%) GDPR
4 14 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.82%) NIST
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.43%) PSD2
7 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.17%) SEPA
9 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.65%) SLA
11 4 (0.52%) HL7
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
11 4 (0.52%) WCAG
12 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
13 2 (0.26%) GRC
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.26%) NCSC
13 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 301 (39.09%) Docker
2 18 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 292 (37.92%) Kubernetes
2 117 (15.19%) Terraform
3 51 (6.62%) Grafana
4 40 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.69%) Argo
5 13 (1.69%) Istio
6 12 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.43%) Ansible
8 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.65%) Kibana
9 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.52%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.39%) Rancher
12 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.26%) Knative
12 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.13%) Amdocs OSS
13 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.13%) linkerd
Vendors
1 81 (10.52%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.19%) Oracle
3 32 (4.16%) Google
4 27 (3.51%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 16 (2.08%) Splunk
7 13 (1.69%) Databricks
7 13 (1.69%) Software AG
8 11 (1.43%) IBM
9 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
10 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.78%) SAP
11 6 (0.78%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.65%) Sybase