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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 48 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 846 672 679
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 4.99% 4.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.39% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 457 478
10th Percentile £413 £413 £410
25th Percentile £469 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -2.13% -6.75%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £766 £777
England median daily rate £535 £530 £575
% change year-on-year +0.94% -7.83% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
10th Percentile - £54.95 £36.72
25th Percentile £92.50 £68.25 £38.16
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.16
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +94.39% -50.12%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.99
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -44.67%

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 18,055 12,462 14,540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.83% 92.50% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 8,241 9,589
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
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 315 249 183
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.42 £25.04 £23.98
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -16.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 September 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 September 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 -12 98 £555 -5.13% 112
South London -7 23 £535 -13.99% 15
East London +1 7 £669 +23.89% 8
West London -30 3 £500 +5.26% 35
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 34 (4.02%) Confluence
2 24 (2.84%) CMS
3 21 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.36%) Camunda
5 13 (1.54%) Apache
6 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.59%) Ethereum
8 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Quorum
4 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
5 3 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.24%) Endur
7 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 412 (48.70%) AWS
2 318 (37.59%) Azure
3 157 (18.56%) GCP
3 157 (18.56%) GitHub
4 102 (12.06%) Serverless
5 97 (11.47%) GitHub Actions
6 93 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
8 60 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
9 51 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 47 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
11 34 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (3.90%) OpenShift
13 31 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 27 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
15 26 (3.07%) SaaS
16 24 (2.84%) Amazon EventBridge
16 24 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
2 5 (0.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.35%) DNS
3 3 (0.35%) HTTP
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.12%) RTP
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (9.69%) NoSQL
3 60 (7.09%) SQL Server
4 55 (6.50%) MongoDB
5 51 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 36 (4.26%) MySQL
7 28 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.07%) Redis
9 24 (2.84%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.36%) Power BI
11 19 (2.25%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.01%) Big Data
13 14 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 13 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.30%) Flink
16 10 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
17 8 (0.95%) Pinecone
18 7 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
18 7 (0.83%) Metadata
18 7 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 155 (18.32%) Jenkins
2 143 (16.90%) Git
3 101 (11.94%) GitLab
4 51 (6.03%) JUnit
5 44 (5.20%) Maven
6 43 (5.08%) JIRA
7 38 (4.49%) Gradle
8 34 (4.02%) Mockito
9 29 (3.43%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.72%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.48%) Postman
11 21 (2.48%) Selenium
12 19 (2.25%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.77%) Cucumber
13 15 (1.77%) JMeter
14 13 (1.54%) Liquibase
15 11 (1.30%) Claude Code
16 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.95%) Gatling
18 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 253 (29.91%) Finance
2 222 (26.24%) Social Skills
3 150 (17.73%) Banking
4 91 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.55%) Retail
7 29 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.07%) Front Office
9 21 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.13%) Marketing
12 16 (1.89%) Retail Banking
13 13 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.42%) Billing
14 12 (1.42%) Law
15 8 (0.95%) Legal
15 8 (0.95%) Police
16 7 (0.83%) Local Government
16 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 292 (34.52%) Developer
2 173 (20.45%) Senior
3 152 (17.97%) Architect
4 117 (13.83%) Java Developer
5 81 (9.57%) Lead
6 70 (8.27%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.80%) Software Engineer
8 59 (6.97%) Full-Stack Developer
8 59 (6.97%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (6.38%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 40 (4.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 31 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
14 28 (3.31%) Python Developer
15 26 (3.07%) .NET Developer
15 26 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (2.96%) Technical Architect
17 23 (2.72%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (26.95%) REST
2 226 (26.71%) Spring
3 211 (24.94%) Spring Boot
4 206 (24.35%) Kafka
5 164 (19.39%) RESTful
6 156 (18.44%) React
7 138 (16.31%) Terraform
8 109 (12.88%) .NET
9 91 (10.76%) Node.js
10 62 (7.33%) AngularJS
11 59 (6.97%) HTML
12 58 (6.86%) CSS
12 58 (6.86%) OAuth
13 48 (5.67%) OAuth2
14 45 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
15 36 (4.26%) HTML5
16 35 (4.14%) .NET Core
16 35 (4.14%) SOAP
17 32 (3.78%) GraphQL
17 32 (3.78%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 271 (32.03%) Cloud Native
2 204 (24.11%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (11.47%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
5 42 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (4.73%) AI Agents
7 36 (4.26%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 25 (2.96%) Derivative
10 22 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.48%) Virtual Team
12 20 (2.36%) Data Structures
13 17 (2.01%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.77%) Fixed Income
14 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
16 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 11 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.26%) Linux
2 28 (3.31%) Unix
3 10 (1.18%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Android
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 395 (46.69%) DevOps
3 343 (40.54%) Agile
4 302 (35.70%) Event-Driven
5 242 (28.61%) Containerisation
6 213 (25.18%) Software Engineering
7 209 (24.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 202 (23.88%) AI
9 179 (21.16%) Test Automation
10 172 (20.33%) Observability
11 144 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
12 143 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 139 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (14.54%) Scrum
15 118 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
16 115 (13.59%) Technical Leadership
17 113 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 100 (11.82%) Integration Patterns
19 92 (10.87%) Code Quality
20 89 (10.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 386 (45.63%) Java
2 243 (28.72%) Python
3 200 (23.64%) SQL
4 161 (19.03%) TypeScript
5 154 (18.20%) JavaScript
6 112 (13.24%) C#
7 32 (3.78%) Go
8 20 (2.36%) Bash
9 18 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
10 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.77%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.42%) Ruby
13 11 (1.30%) Bicep
14 8 (0.95%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.47%) C++
16 4 (0.47%) Solidity
17 3 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 195 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 173 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.91%) Degree
4 42 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.55%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.59%) CISSP
14 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.47%) PhD
15 3 (0.35%) MBA
16 2 (0.24%) GIAC
16 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (11.58%) QA
2 22 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.25%) ISO 20022
5 15 (1.77%) NIST
6 14 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.65%) SEPA
7 12 (1.42%) GDPR
8 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.71%) PSD2
8 6 (0.71%) SLA
9 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.35%) GRC
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 311 (36.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 305 (36.05%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.09%) Grafana
3 46 (5.44%) Prometheus
4 38 (4.49%) Ansible
5 11 (1.30%) Argo
5 11 (1.30%) Kibana
6 9 (1.06%) Istio
7 6 (0.71%) Puppet
7 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.35%) Bosun
8 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.24%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 94 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.21%) Oracle
3 52 (6.15%) Google
4 25 (2.96%) OpenAI
4 25 (2.96%) Splunk
5 19 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 17 (2.01%) IBM
6 17 (2.01%) SAP
7 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.30%) Databricks
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
10 8 (0.95%) Veracode
11 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.83%) Confluent
11 7 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.71%) Solace
12 6 (0.71%) Sybase
12 6 (0.71%) Workday
13 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow