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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 60 63
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -26
Contract jobs citing Microservices 691 499 614
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.49% 3.73% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 4.11% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 325 457
10th Percentile £375 £407 £413
25th Percentile £430 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +1.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £734 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £65.70 £36.03 -
25th Percentile £67.69 £36.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £37.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +125.17% -39.60% +78.57%
75th Percentile £91.25 £38.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £39.28 -
England median hourly rate £74.63 £32.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +133.22% -48.80% -12.28%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -4 74 £560 -4.27% 95
South London -2 24 £541 +13.87% 11
West London -20 7 £550 +34.47% 17
East London -1 3 £585 - 10
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 33 (4.78%) Confluence
2 14 (2.03%) Apache
3 8 (1.16%) Camunda
4 6 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.87%) Ethereum
4 6 (0.87%) Hyperledger
4 6 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
5 5 (0.72%) CMS
5 5 (0.72%) Mule
6 4 (0.58%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.29%) Drupal
8 2 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.29%) nginx
8 2 (0.29%) WordPress
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 8 (1.16%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.43%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.14%) Maya
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
2 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Endur
4 1 (0.14%) Magento
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 368 (53.26%) AWS
2 250 (36.18%) Azure
3 123 (17.80%) GCP
4 118 (17.08%) Serverless
5 112 (16.21%) GitHub
6 73 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
7 72 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (8.68%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
10 58 (8.39%) Amazon S3
11 39 (5.64%) Azure AKS
12 38 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
14 28 (4.05%) SaaS
15 27 (3.91%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (3.18%) PaaS
18 20 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.45%) HTTP
2 7 (1.01%) Network Security
3 5 (0.72%) DNS
3 5 (0.72%) SSL
4 4 (0.58%) Firewall
5 2 (0.29%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.14%) 3GPP
6 1 (0.14%) 5G
6 1 (0.14%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.14%) RFID
6 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 69 (9.99%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (8.54%) MongoDB
4 49 (7.09%) SQL Server
5 46 (6.66%) Apache Cassandra
6 42 (6.08%) Relational Database
7 32 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (4.63%) MySQL
8 30 (4.34%) Redis
9 29 (4.20%) DynamoDB
10 17 (2.46%) Big Data
11 16 (2.32%) Hadoop
12 15 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (2.03%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
16 7 (1.01%) DB2
16 7 (1.01%) DocumentDB
17 6 (0.87%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 90 (13.02%) Git
1 90 (13.02%) Jenkins
2 65 (9.41%) GitLab
3 59 (8.54%) JIRA
4 41 (5.93%) JUnit
5 23 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 19 (2.75%) Mockito
7 15 (2.17%) Selenium
8 14 (2.03%) Maven
9 13 (1.88%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.45%) SpecFlow
11 9 (1.30%) Postman
12 8 (1.16%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.16%) Zephyr
13 7 (1.01%) MLflow
13 7 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.01%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.87%) Gatling
14 6 (0.87%) Gradle
14 6 (0.87%) Liquibase
General
1 189 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 168 (24.31%) Finance
3 113 (16.35%) Banking
4 66 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.60%) Front Office
7 17 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.88%) Retail
10 12 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.87%) Legal
14 4 (0.58%) Back Office
14 4 (0.58%) Military
15 3 (0.43%) Marketing
15 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.29%) Aviation
16 2 (0.29%) Police
16 2 (0.29%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (40.52%) Developer
2 159 (23.01%) Senior
3 119 (17.22%) Architect
4 96 (13.89%) Java Developer
5 84 (12.16%) Senior Developer
6 52 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (6.80%) Lead
8 46 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
9 43 (6.22%) Java Engineer
10 39 (5.64%) Software Engineer
11 37 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 34 (4.92%) C# Developer
12 34 (4.92%) Senior Java Developer
13 25 (3.62%) Backend Developer
14 24 (3.47%) Technical Architect
15 23 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
16 19 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (2.75%) Test Engineer
17 18 (2.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (24.75%) Spring
2 158 (22.87%) Kafka
3 154 (22.29%) Spring Boot
4 131 (18.96%) RESTful
5 124 (17.95%) React
5 124 (17.95%) REST
6 109 (15.77%) .NET
7 93 (13.46%) AngularJS
7 93 (13.46%) Node.js
8 52 (7.53%) Middleware
9 43 (6.22%) gRPC
10 39 (5.64%) HTML
11 37 (5.35%) OAuth
12 35 (5.07%) CSS
13 29 (4.20%) .NET Core
14 28 (4.05%) Vue
15 26 (3.76%) Playwright
16 24 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
17 22 (3.18%) Entity Framework
18 21 (3.04%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 132 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 107 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 17 (2.46%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.32%) Derivative
6 15 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.88%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.30%) NHS
12 9 (1.30%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.21%) Linux
2 16 (2.32%) Unix
3 6 (0.87%) Windows
4 4 (0.58%) zOS
5 2 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Solaris
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (51.81%) CI/CD
2 276 (39.94%) Agile
3 275 (39.80%) DevOps
4 180 (26.05%) Containerisation
5 155 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (22.14%) Software Engineering
7 114 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 107 (15.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 105 (15.20%) Event-Driven
10 102 (14.76%) Test Automation
11 88 (12.74%) AI
12 85 (12.30%) TDD
13 80 (11.58%) Observability
14 75 (10.85%) Scrum
15 73 (10.56%) SDLC
16 72 (10.42%) Code Quality
17 62 (8.97%) Clean Code
18 61 (8.83%) Design Patterns
18 61 (8.83%) Technical Leadership
19 60 (8.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 299 (43.27%) Java
2 171 (24.75%) Python
3 153 (22.14%) SQL
4 105 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 95 (13.75%) C#
6 93 (13.46%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.53%) Go
8 20 (2.89%) Bicep
9 15 (2.17%) Ruby
10 9 (1.30%) Bash
10 9 (1.30%) C++
10 9 (1.30%) PHP
10 9 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.16%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.87%) Scala
13 4 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.43%) C
14 3 (0.43%) RPG
Qualifications
1 138 (19.97%) Security Cleared
2 118 (17.08%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.25%) Degree
4 41 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.87%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (0.72%) CCSP
12 5 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.72%) CISSP
13 4 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (8.39%) QA
2 26 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.46%) GDPR
4 13 (1.88%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.45%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.45%) NIST
7 9 (1.30%) PSD2
8 6 (0.87%) SEPA
8 6 (0.87%) WCAG
9 4 (0.58%) SLA
10 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.43%) NCSC
10 3 (0.43%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.29%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
11 2 (0.29%) HL7
11 2 (0.29%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.29%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 285 (41.24%) Docker
2 23 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 283 (40.96%) Kubernetes
2 121 (17.51%) Terraform
3 34 (4.92%) Grafana
4 27 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.75%) Argo
6 17 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (1.88%) Ansible
8 10 (1.45%) Istio
9 7 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.72%) Opsgenie
11 3 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.29%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.29%) Kibana
12 2 (0.29%) Knative
12 2 (0.29%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.29%) Puppet
13 1 (0.14%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.14%) Foglight
13 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 71 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.21%) Google
3 31 (4.49%) Oracle
4 27 (3.91%) OpenAI
5 22 (3.18%) Databricks
6 17 (2.46%) Splunk
7 12 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 12 (1.74%) Software AG
8 11 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.30%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.87%) Cloudera
11 6 (0.87%) Foundry
11 6 (0.87%) IBM
11 6 (0.87%) Palantir
11 6 (0.87%) Sybase
12 5 (0.72%) AppDynamics
12 5 (0.72%) Confluent
12 5 (0.72%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.72%) ServiceNow