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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 47 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 832 676 700
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.18% 4.98% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.40% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 473 508
10th Percentile £407 £392 £403
25th Percentile £463 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £38.30 £42.93
25th Percentile £92.50 £43.25 £46.19
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +53.85% -30.67%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £57.44
90th Percentile - £95.00 £60.48
England median hourly rate £69.44 £67.00 £49.19
% change year-on-year +3.64% +36.21% -32.15%

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 17,727 12,515 14,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.25% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,711 8,371 10,405
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -17.47%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -6 95 £555 -5.13% 57
South London -19 23 £550 +3.77% 2
East London +5 9 £432 +12.21% 9
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 (3.13%) CMS
2 22 (2.64%) Confluence
3 20 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.20%) Apache
4 10 (1.20%) Camunda
4 10 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
6 7 (0.84%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.72%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.60%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.48%) Mule
9 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.24%) Drupal
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.12%) Maya
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.72%) R3 Corda
3 5 (0.60%) Quorum
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.48%) Ripple
5 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 421 (50.60%) AWS
2 317 (38.10%) Azure
3 158 (18.99%) GCP
4 148 (17.79%) GitHub
5 112 (13.46%) Serverless
6 90 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
7 87 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 49 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
12 44 (5.29%) Amazon SQS
13 35 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.73%) Azure AKS
15 25 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (2.88%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.64%) SaaS
18 21 (2.52%) Azure Functions
19 20 (2.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.84%) HTTP
1 7 (0.84%) VPN
2 6 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) Firewall
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.24%) Internet
4 2 (0.24%) LTE
4 2 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) NaaS
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 77 (9.25%) NoSQL
3 51 (6.13%) MongoDB
3 51 (6.13%) SQL Server
4 43 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 29 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (3.49%) Redis
7 22 (2.64%) MySQL
8 20 (2.40%) Power BI
9 18 (2.16%) Big Data
10 16 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
13 12 (1.44%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.32%) Flink
15 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
17 7 (0.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 144 (17.31%) Git
2 131 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 82 (9.86%) GitLab
4 54 (6.49%) JUnit
5 35 (4.21%) Mockito
6 34 (4.09%) JIRA
7 33 (3.97%) Gradle
7 33 (3.97%) Maven
8 24 (2.88%) Postman
9 20 (2.40%) Cypress.io
10 19 (2.28%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.80%) Liquibase
12 14 (1.68%) Cucumber
13 13 (1.56%) Selenium
14 11 (1.32%) JMeter
14 11 (1.32%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.32%) TeamCity
15 10 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.20%) Vite
16 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 235 (28.25%) Finance
2 201 (24.16%) Social Skills
3 132 (15.87%) Banking
4 105 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.25%) Front Office
6 27 (3.25%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.88%) Marketing
8 20 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.28%) Retail
10 17 (2.04%) Law
11 12 (1.44%) Billing
11 12 (1.44%) Legal
11 12 (1.44%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.60%) Police
15 5 (0.60%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 275 (33.05%) Developer
2 173 (20.79%) Senior
3 163 (19.59%) Architect
4 115 (13.82%) Java Developer
5 79 (9.50%) Lead
6 77 (9.25%) Software Engineer
7 75 (9.01%) Senior Developer
8 58 (6.97%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (5.41%) Java Engineer
10 41 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 40 (4.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (4.33%) Senior Java Developer
13 34 (4.09%) Technical Architect
14 33 (3.97%) Analyst
15 31 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 28 (3.37%) Backend Developer
16 28 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
17 27 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (26.08%) Spring
2 192 (23.08%) REST
3 191 (22.96%) Spring Boot
4 183 (22.00%) Kafka
5 164 (19.71%) RESTful
6 148 (17.79%) React
7 105 (12.62%) .NET
8 90 (10.82%) Node.js
9 60 (7.21%) AngularJS
10 53 (6.37%) CSS
11 50 (6.01%) HTML
12 42 (5.05%) OAuth
13 40 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (4.45%) OAuth2
15 32 (3.85%) JSON
16 29 (3.49%) .NET Core
17 28 (3.37%) Playwright
18 27 (3.25%) LangChain
18 27 (3.25%) Middleware
19 26 (3.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 233 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 206 (24.76%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 39 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (3.97%) AI Agents
6 32 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 27 (3.25%) Algorithms
9 26 (3.13%) Derivative
10 23 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 18 (2.16%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
14 15 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.80%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 10 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.53%) Linux
2 20 (2.40%) Unix
3 10 (1.20%) Windows
4 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (61.30%) CI/CD
2 373 (44.83%) DevOps
3 338 (40.63%) Agile
4 272 (32.69%) Containerisation
5 248 (29.81%) Event-Driven
6 221 (26.56%) Software Engineering
7 180 (21.63%) AI
8 166 (19.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 164 (19.71%) Observability
10 157 (18.87%) Test Automation
11 144 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 130 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
13 127 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (14.78%) Scrum
15 101 (12.14%) TDD
16 100 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 96 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (11.06%) Code Quality
19 85 (10.22%) Integration Patterns
20 84 (10.10%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 373 (44.83%) Java
2 229 (27.52%) Python
3 200 (24.04%) SQL
4 157 (18.87%) TypeScript
5 130 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 110 (13.22%) C#
7 33 (3.97%) Go
8 24 (2.88%) Ruby
9 18 (2.16%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.80%) Bash
12 14 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.44%) Bicep
14 9 (1.08%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) PowerShell
15 7 (0.84%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.72%) Scala
17 5 (0.60%) C++
17 5 (0.60%) Solidity
18 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 182 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 160 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.01%) Degree
4 38 (4.57%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.72%) CISSP
14 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.48%) PhD
16 3 (0.36%) GIAC
16 3 (0.36%) MBA
17 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.24%) OSCP
18 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.25%) QA
2 34 (4.09%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.40%) ISO 20022
4 17 (2.04%) SEPA
5 14 (1.68%) GDPR
5 14 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.68%) NIST
6 11 (1.32%) PSD2
7 9 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) WCAG
10 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.36%) NCSC
10 3 (0.36%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.24%) GRC
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 316 (37.98%) Docker
2 7 (0.84%) 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 (36.78%) Kubernetes
2 117 (14.06%) Terraform
3 60 (7.21%) Grafana
4 48 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.61%) Ansible
6 11 (1.32%) Kibana
7 8 (0.96%) Argo
7 8 (0.96%) Istio
7 8 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.84%) Puppet
9 4 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.36%) Bosun
10 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.24%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 90 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.73%) Oracle
3 41 (4.93%) Google
4 27 (3.25%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.16%) Dynatrace
6 16 (1.92%) IBM
6 16 (1.92%) Splunk
7 12 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.08%) SAP
8 9 (1.08%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.08%) Solace
8 9 (1.08%) Sybase
9 8 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 8 (0.96%) New Relic
10 6 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 6 (0.72%) Confluent
11 5 (0.60%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.60%) Workday