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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 784 526 673
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.30% 4.34% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.70% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 368 499
10th Percentile £400 £400 £418
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -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% -30.56%
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 16,108 11,188 15,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.41% 92.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,765 7,537 11,061
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 306
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.72
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.90% -28.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.88
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 78 £555 -5.13% 78
South London -19 25 £541 +11.52% 1
East London 0 8 £432 +72.80% 6
West London -31 3 £509 +7.16% 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 20 (2.55%) Confluence
2 17 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 17 (2.17%) CMS
3 12 (1.53%) Camunda
4 11 (1.40%) Apache
5 8 (1.02%) Ethereum
6 7 (0.89%) Hyperledger
7 5 (0.64%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.64%) Mule
8 4 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.26%) Drupal
10 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.26%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.13%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.38%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Endur
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.13%) Quorum
4 1 (0.13%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (51.40%) AWS
2 278 (35.46%) Azure
3 134 (17.09%) GCP
4 117 (14.92%) GitHub
5 110 (14.03%) Serverless
6 75 (9.57%) GitHub Actions
7 73 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (7.53%) Amazon S3
10 45 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
13 31 (3.95%) Azure AKS
14 30 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (3.83%) SaaS
15 29 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
16 24 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (2.93%) PaaS
18 21 (2.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.40%) HTTP
2 6 (0.77%) DNS
3 4 (0.51%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.38%) 5G
4 3 (0.38%) Network Security
4 3 (0.38%) 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 87 (11.10%) NoSQL
1 87 (11.10%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.27%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 36 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 34 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (4.34%) Apache Cassandra
6 34 (4.34%) Redis
7 23 (2.93%) BigQuery
7 23 (2.93%) MySQL
8 20 (2.55%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (1.53%) Big Data
10 11 (1.40%) Flink
10 11 (1.40%) Power BI
11 10 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.15%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 112 (14.29%) Git
2 106 (13.52%) Jenkins
3 71 (9.06%) GitLab
4 47 (5.99%) JUnit
5 39 (4.97%) JIRA
6 32 (4.08%) Mockito
7 21 (2.68%) Gradle
8 19 (2.42%) Maven
9 18 (2.30%) Postman
10 17 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.66%) Liquibase
12 12 (1.53%) SonarQube
13 10 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
13 10 (1.28%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.15%) Zephyr
15 7 (0.89%) MSTest
15 7 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.89%) Vite
16 6 (0.77%) JMeter
16 6 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 197 (25.13%) Finance
2 172 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 127 (16.20%) Banking
4 82 (10.46%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.19%) Front Office
7 23 (2.93%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.17%) Marketing
8 17 (2.17%) Retail
9 14 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.53%) Legal
11 9 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.15%) Law
12 8 (1.02%) Retail Banking
13 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.64%) Police
15 4 (0.51%) Billing
15 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 273 (34.82%) Developer
2 165 (21.05%) Senior
3 139 (17.73%) Architect
4 101 (12.88%) Java Developer
5 75 (9.57%) Senior Developer
6 67 (8.55%) Software Engineer
7 64 (8.16%) Lead
8 51 (6.51%) Java Engineer
9 48 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 38 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 35 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 34 (4.34%) Technical Architect
13 33 (4.21%) Analyst
14 32 (4.08%) Backend Developer
14 32 (4.08%) C# Developer
15 29 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
16 27 (3.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (2.93%) Python Developer
18 21 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 21 (2.68%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (27.93%) Spring
2 196 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 175 (22.32%) Kafka
4 162 (20.66%) RESTful
5 138 (17.60%) REST
6 122 (15.56%) React
7 98 (12.50%) .NET
8 83 (10.59%) Node.js
9 73 (9.31%) AngularJS
10 50 (6.38%) Middleware
11 39 (4.97%) OAuth
12 34 (4.34%) CSS
13 33 (4.21%) HTML
13 33 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
14 31 (3.95%) gRPC
14 31 (3.95%) OAuth2
14 31 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (3.32%) Web Services
16 24 (3.06%) .NET Core
16 24 (3.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 174 (22.19%) Cloud Native
2 165 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (6.89%) Product Ownership
4 27 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 23 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.81%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 19 (2.42%) Derivative
9 18 (2.30%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
11 12 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.28%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.15%) NHS
14 9 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.87%) Linux
2 17 (2.17%) Unix
3 9 (1.15%) Windows
4 5 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.51%) zOS
6 3 (0.38%) Solaris
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
8 1 (0.13%) Android
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 432 (55.10%) CI/CD
2 329 (41.96%) DevOps
3 290 (36.99%) Agile
4 237 (30.23%) Containerisation
5 201 (25.64%) Software Engineering
6 173 (22.07%) Event-Driven
7 138 (17.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 137 (17.47%) Observability
9 135 (17.22%) AI
10 109 (13.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 108 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (13.65%) Test Automation
13 99 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 99 (12.63%) TDD
14 97 (12.37%) Scrum
15 78 (9.95%) Code Quality
16 70 (8.93%) API Design
17 69 (8.80%) Migration
18 67 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
19 64 (8.16%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 343 (43.75%) Java
2 204 (26.02%) SQL
3 188 (23.98%) Python
4 115 (14.67%) TypeScript
5 100 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 94 (11.99%) C#
7 38 (4.85%) Go
8 23 (2.93%) Ruby
9 15 (1.91%) Bicep
9 15 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.53%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.02%) Bash
11 8 (1.02%) PHP
11 8 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.64%) Scala
14 4 (0.51%) C++
15 3 (0.38%) COBOL
15 3 (0.38%) RPG
Qualifications
1 177 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.14%) Degree
4 42 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 21 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 5 (0.64%) CISSP
11 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.51%) OSCP
13 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.38%) CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.38%) MBA
13 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.91%) QA
2 26 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.04%) GDPR
3 16 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 15 (1.91%) NIST
5 12 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.53%) PSD2
6 10 (1.28%) SEPA
7 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.64%) SLA
9 4 (0.51%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) TARGET2
10 3 (0.38%) WCAG
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 313 (39.92%) Docker
2 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) Postfix
4 2 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 293 (37.37%) Kubernetes
2 101 (12.88%) Terraform
3 53 (6.76%) Grafana
4 44 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.79%) Ansible
5 14 (1.79%) Istio
6 13 (1.66%) Argo
6 13 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.02%) Kibana
8 7 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.64%) Puppet
10 3 (0.38%) 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 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.97%) Oracle
3 28 (3.57%) Google
4 24 (3.06%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.79%) IBM
6 14 (1.79%) Splunk
7 12 (1.53%) Software AG
8 9 (1.15%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.02%) Confluent
9 8 (1.02%) Sybase
10 7 (0.89%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.89%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.77%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.77%) Databricks
11 6 (0.77%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.64%) SAP
12 5 (0.64%) Solace
13 4 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.51%) New Relic