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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 845 669 697
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 5.00% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 5.41% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 460 501
10th Percentile £405 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.38% -9.38%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.95% -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 £47.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% +42.55% -35.17%

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 17,874 12,372 14,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.51% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 8,225 9,980
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 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 190
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.78% -11.88%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 -8 97 £555 -3.48% 43
South London -16 20 £535 -1.15% 1
East London +4 9 £432 -18.49% 5
West London -29 2 £500 +5.26% 44
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 (3.08%) CMS
1 26 (3.08%) Confluence
2 20 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.54%) Camunda
4 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 10 (1.18%) Apache
6 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.71%) nginx
7 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
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 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
4 2 (0.24%) Endur
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 409 (48.40%) AWS
2 325 (38.46%) Azure
3 152 (17.99%) GCP
4 149 (17.63%) GitHub
5 103 (12.19%) Serverless
6 97 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
10 45 (5.33%) Amazon S3
11 44 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.67%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.08%) OpenShift
16 24 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 23 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (2.72%) Power Platform
18 22 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.83%) VPN
2 6 (0.71%) Network Security
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) 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%) RTP
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (10.65%) NoSQL
3 55 (6.51%) SQL Server
4 54 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 44 (5.21%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.43%) Redis
7 27 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.72%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.72%) Power BI
9 22 (2.60%) MySQL
10 17 (2.01%) Big Data
10 17 (2.01%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.30%) Flink
14 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 145 (17.16%) Git
2 143 (16.92%) Jenkins
3 93 (11.01%) GitLab
4 51 (6.04%) JUnit
5 37 (4.38%) JIRA
6 36 (4.26%) Gradle
7 35 (4.14%) Mockito
8 32 (3.79%) Maven
9 25 (2.96%) Postman
10 24 (2.84%) Cypress.io
11 19 (2.25%) SonarQube
12 17 (2.01%) Liquibase
13 15 (1.78%) JMeter
14 14 (1.66%) Selenium
15 13 (1.54%) REST Assured
16 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
17 9 (1.07%) Bitbucket
17 9 (1.07%) Cucumber
17 9 (1.07%) Gatling
17 9 (1.07%) TeamCity
General
1 235 (27.81%) Finance
2 214 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 126 (14.91%) Banking
4 101 (11.95%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.08%) Front Office
6 26 (3.08%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.72%) Marketing
7 23 (2.72%) Retail
8 22 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.01%) Law
10 12 (1.42%) Billing
10 12 (1.42%) Retail Banking
11 10 (1.18%) Legal
12 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.83%) Police
14 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 285 (33.73%) Developer
2 169 (20.00%) Senior
3 154 (18.22%) Architect
4 117 (13.85%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.23%) Lead
6 76 (8.99%) Software Engineer
7 69 (8.17%) Senior Developer
8 53 (6.27%) Java Engineer
9 51 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
11 38 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 38 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 35 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
14 33 (3.91%) Technical Architect
15 31 (3.67%) Analyst
16 29 (3.43%) .NET Developer
17 27 (3.20%) C# Developer
18 26 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
19 25 (2.96%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (26.39%) Spring
2 213 (25.21%) REST
3 199 (23.55%) Spring Boot
4 183 (21.66%) Kafka
5 163 (19.29%) RESTful
6 151 (17.87%) React
7 124 (14.67%) Terraform
8 106 (12.54%) .NET
9 87 (10.30%) Node.js
10 58 (6.86%) AngularJS
11 53 (6.27%) CSS
12 51 (6.04%) HTML
13 46 (5.44%) OAuth
14 44 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (4.85%) OAuth2
16 35 (4.14%) .NET Core
17 33 (3.91%) JSON
18 30 (3.55%) LangChain
19 29 (3.43%) GraphQL
19 29 (3.43%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 256 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 211 (24.97%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (9.94%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (4.38%) AI Agents
6 36 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (4.02%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (2.96%) Derivative
10 21 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.37%) Algorithms
11 20 (2.37%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.01%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.66%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.07%) Distributed Applications
16 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.33%) Linux
2 26 (3.08%) Unix
3 8 (0.95%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Solaris
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (62.49%) CI/CD
2 394 (46.63%) DevOps
3 344 (40.71%) Agile
4 272 (32.19%) Event-Driven
5 258 (30.53%) Containerisation
6 228 (26.98%) Software Engineering
7 193 (22.84%) AI
8 183 (21.66%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 174 (20.59%) Observability
10 161 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 142 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 136 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (15.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 119 (14.08%) Scrum
15 104 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 102 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
17 99 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
18 97 (11.48%) Integration Patterns
19 92 (10.89%) TDD
20 88 (10.41%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 387 (45.80%) Java
2 236 (27.93%) Python
3 208 (24.62%) SQL
4 160 (18.93%) TypeScript
5 139 (16.45%) JavaScript
6 114 (13.49%) C#
7 30 (3.55%) Go
8 22 (2.60%) Ruby
9 21 (2.49%) Bash
10 19 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
11 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.30%) 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 2 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 199 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 174 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.33%) Degree
4 36 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (0.71%) CISSP
10 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) GIAC
13 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (10.06%) QA
2 27 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.89%) ISO 20022
3 16 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.66%) NIST
5 13 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.54%) SEPA
6 10 (1.18%) GDPR
7 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.83%) SLA
8 6 (0.71%) PSD2
9 5 (0.59%) WCAG
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
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 (37.04%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 307 (36.33%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.63%) Grafana
3 41 (4.85%) Prometheus
4 34 (4.02%) Ansible
5 10 (1.18%) Istio
6 9 (1.07%) Argo
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
7 7 (0.83%) Puppet
8 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) Control-M
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.57%) Oracle
3 43 (5.09%) Google
4 24 (2.84%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 16 (1.89%) Splunk
7 14 (1.66%) IBM
8 12 (1.42%) New Relic
8 12 (1.42%) SAP
9 9 (1.07%) Confluent
10 8 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.83%) Databricks
11 7 (0.83%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) Veracode