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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 53
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 841 676 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.19% 5.02% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.44% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 467 499
10th Percentile £404 £396 £413
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £589
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -4.92% -9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £697
90th Percentile £775 £768 £775
England median daily rate £528 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.48% -6.25% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £39.13 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £49.50 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £76.75 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +85.71% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £85.63 £42.12
90th Percentile - £93.75 £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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 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 18 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 -7 97 £555 +1.37% 46
South London -14 22 £535 +0.94% 1
East London 0 9 £432 -16.92% 5
West London -30 2 £500 +5.26% 12
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 26 (3.09%) CMS
2 25 (2.97%) Confluence
3 20 (2.38%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.43%) Camunda
5 11 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.48%) 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
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.59%) Quorum
2 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.48%) Ripple
4 2 (0.24%) Endur
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (48.87%) AWS
2 320 (38.05%) Azure
3 153 (18.19%) GitHub
4 152 (18.07%) GCP
5 104 (12.37%) Serverless
6 97 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
7 95 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.83%) Amazon S3
12 45 (5.35%) Amazon SQS
13 34 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.69%) Azure AKS
15 29 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (3.09%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (2.62%) Power Platform
18 21 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.48%) DNS
5 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) 5G
5 2 (0.24%) FTP
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) Internet
5 2 (0.24%) LTE
5 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) NaaS
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (10.58%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 51 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 42 (4.99%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.45%) Redis
7 26 (3.09%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.62%) Power BI
9 20 (2.38%) MySQL
10 17 (2.02%) Big Data
10 17 (2.02%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.31%) Flink
14 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
16 6 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 145 (17.24%) Git
2 142 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 93 (11.06%) GitLab
4 54 (6.42%) JUnit
5 36 (4.28%) Mockito
6 35 (4.16%) Gradle
6 35 (4.16%) JIRA
7 33 (3.92%) Maven
8 24 (2.85%) Postman
9 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 20 (2.38%) SonarQube
11 16 (1.90%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.78%) JMeter
13 14 (1.66%) Selenium
14 10 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.19%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.19%) TeamCity
15 9 (1.07%) Bitbucket
15 9 (1.07%) Gatling
15 9 (1.07%) Vite
General
1 230 (27.35%) Finance
2 208 (24.73%) Social Skills
3 126 (14.98%) Banking
4 98 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 80 (9.51%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.21%) Investment Banking
7 26 (3.09%) Front Office
8 22 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.62%) Marketing
9 21 (2.50%) Retail
10 17 (2.02%) Law
11 13 (1.55%) Retail Banking
12 12 (1.43%) Billing
13 10 (1.19%) Legal
14 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
16 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 282 (33.53%) Developer
2 175 (20.81%) Senior
3 152 (18.07%) Architect
4 118 (14.03%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.39%) Lead
6 75 (8.92%) Software Engineer
7 73 (8.68%) Senior Developer
8 52 (6.18%) Java Engineer
9 49 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
10 44 (5.23%) Full-Stack Developer
11 37 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 37 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
12 36 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 32 (3.80%) Analyst
13 32 (3.80%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.45%) .NET Developer
15 28 (3.33%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.09%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (26.52%) Spring
2 209 (24.85%) REST
3 198 (23.54%) Spring Boot
4 186 (22.12%) Kafka
5 166 (19.74%) RESTful
6 147 (17.48%) React
7 101 (12.01%) .NET
8 83 (9.87%) Node.js
9 56 (6.66%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.06%) CSS
11 48 (5.71%) HTML
12 45 (5.35%) RabbitMQ
13 44 (5.23%) OAuth
14 39 (4.64%) OAuth2
15 34 (4.04%) .NET Core
16 33 (3.92%) JSON
17 30 (3.57%) LangChain
18 27 (3.21%) FastAPI
18 27 (3.21%) JWT
18 27 (3.21%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 247 (29.37%) Cloud Native
2 210 (24.97%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.28%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (4.04%) Onboarding
7 29 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (3.21%) Derivative
9 21 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.14%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.14%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.66%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.35%) Linux
2 24 (2.85%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 387 (46.02%) DevOps
3 341 (40.55%) Agile
4 267 (31.75%) Event-Driven
5 261 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 224 (26.63%) Software Engineering
7 189 (22.47%) AI
8 180 (21.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 172 (20.45%) Observability
10 161 (19.14%) Test Automation
11 144 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 133 (15.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 133 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
13 116 (13.79%) Scrum
14 105 (12.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (12.25%) Technical Leadership
16 96 (11.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 94 (11.18%) TDD
18 93 (11.06%) Integration Patterns
19 91 (10.82%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 382 (45.42%) Java
2 231 (27.47%) Python
3 206 (24.49%) SQL
4 160 (19.02%) TypeScript
5 137 (16.29%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.32%) C#
7 31 (3.69%) Go
8 23 (2.73%) Ruby
9 18 (2.14%) Bash
10 17 (2.02%) Kotlin
10 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.31%) Bicep
13 7 (0.83%) PHP
14 5 (0.59%) C++
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
14 5 (0.59%) Solidity
14 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 195 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 172 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.35%) Degree
4 37 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.73%) Azure Certification
7 21 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.71%) CISSP
10 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.48%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) GIAC
13 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.99%) QA
2 27 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 13 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.55%) SEPA
7 11 (1.31%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) PSD2
10 4 (0.48%) NCSC
10 4 (0.48%) WCAG
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) GRC
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.24%) HL7
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 313 (37.22%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 306 (36.39%) Kubernetes
2 124 (14.74%) Terraform
3 56 (6.66%) Grafana
4 43 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 31 (3.69%) Ansible
6 9 (1.07%) Argo
6 9 (1.07%) Istio
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
7 7 (0.83%) Puppet
7 7 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) linkerd
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 94 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.25%) Oracle
3 45 (5.35%) Google
4 24 (2.85%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.78%) IBM
6 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.66%) Splunk
8 11 (1.31%) New Relic
8 11 (1.31%) SAP
9 9 (1.07%) Confluent
9 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.95%) Sybase
11 7 (0.83%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.59%) Veracode
14 4 (0.48%) Zscaler