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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 844 660 646
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.12% 4.93% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.33% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 442 443
10th Percentile £413 £402 £407
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% -1.71% -2.90%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £771 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £563
% change year-on-year -0.47% -6.31% -6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £58.90 £54.95 £36.58
25th Percentile £71.50 £68.25 £37.81
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £40.08
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +99.61% -46.56%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £41.86
90th Percentile - - £42.09
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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £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 £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -10 93 £564 -3.68% 29
South London -4 21 £550 -6.14% 2
East London 0 5 £750 +38.89% 4
West London -26 5 £450 -5.26% 14
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 36 (4.27%) Confluence
2 19 (2.25%) CMS
3 18 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.01%) Camunda
5 10 (1.18%) Apache
6 9 (1.07%) nginx
6 9 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.59%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
9 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.36%) SAS
10 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.24%) Mule
10 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.47%) Quorum
3 4 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.47%) Ripple
3 4 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 418 (49.53%) AWS
2 325 (38.51%) Azure
3 162 (19.19%) GitHub
4 154 (18.25%) GCP
5 109 (12.91%) Serverless
6 100 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
7 97 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
9 66 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (6.52%) Amazon S3
12 53 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
14 39 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (4.15%) OpenShift
16 33 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (3.20%) Amazon EventBridge
17 27 (3.20%) Anthropic Claude
18 26 (3.08%) Azure AKS
19 25 (2.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
1 6 (0.71%) VPN
2 4 (0.47%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) HTTP
3 3 (0.36%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.12%) Firewall
4 1 (0.12%) FTP
4 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.12%) Internet
4 1 (0.12%) MPLS
4 1 (0.12%) MQTT
4 1 (0.12%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.12%) RTP
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.83%) NoSQL
3 69 (8.18%) SQL Server
4 60 (7.11%) MongoDB
5 50 (5.92%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.50%) MySQL
7 35 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (3.20%) Redis
9 26 (3.08%) DynamoDB
10 17 (2.01%) Big Data
10 17 (2.01%) Power BI
11 16 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.30%) Metadata
14 10 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.18%) Oracle Database
15 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.95%) Flink
16 8 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 164 (19.43%) Jenkins
2 156 (18.48%) Git
3 114 (13.51%) GitLab
4 52 (6.16%) JUnit
5 47 (5.57%) Maven
6 45 (5.33%) JIRA
7 42 (4.98%) Gradle
8 35 (4.15%) Mockito
9 30 (3.55%) SonarQube
10 26 (3.08%) Cypress.io
11 23 (2.73%) Selenium
12 20 (2.37%) REST Assured
13 19 (2.25%) Cucumber
14 16 (1.90%) JMeter
14 16 (1.90%) Postman
15 12 (1.42%) Bitbucket
16 11 (1.30%) Claude Code
16 11 (1.30%) Liquibase
17 8 (0.95%) Gatling
17 8 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 258 (30.57%) Finance
2 216 (25.59%) Social Skills
3 154 (18.25%) Banking
4 97 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 94 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (4.03%) Investment Banking
7 32 (3.79%) Retail
8 25 (2.96%) Front Office
9 22 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.78%) Retail Banking
11 14 (1.66%) Law
11 14 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.54%) Marketing
12 13 (1.54%) Police
13 11 (1.30%) Billing
14 9 (1.07%) Local Government
15 7 (0.83%) Legal
15 7 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.83%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (34.12%) Developer
2 170 (20.14%) Senior
3 154 (18.25%) Architect
4 114 (13.51%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.24%) Lead
6 70 (8.29%) Senior Developer
7 66 (7.82%) Software Engineer
7 66 (7.82%) Solutions Architect
8 65 (7.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 55 (6.52%) Java Engineer
10 46 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 41 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 32 (3.79%) Senior Java Developer
14 30 (3.55%) .NET Developer
15 29 (3.44%) Python Developer
16 25 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (2.84%) Python Engineer
17 24 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
18 23 (2.73%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (28.32%) REST
2 225 (26.66%) Spring
3 215 (25.47%) Kafka
4 208 (24.64%) Spring Boot
5 160 (18.96%) RESTful
6 158 (18.72%) React
7 157 (18.60%) Terraform
8 110 (13.03%) .NET
9 85 (10.07%) Node.js
10 72 (8.53%) AngularJS
11 64 (7.58%) CSS
11 64 (7.58%) HTML
12 59 (6.99%) OAuth
13 49 (5.81%) OAuth2
14 45 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (4.62%) HTML5
16 36 (4.27%) .NET Core
16 36 (4.27%) SOAP
17 35 (4.15%) CSS3
18 34 (4.03%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 282 (33.41%) Cloud Native
2 212 (25.12%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (10.66%) Product Ownership
4 56 (6.64%) Legacy Systems
5 53 (6.28%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (4.27%) AI Agents
7 30 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (2.84%) Derivative
10 19 (2.25%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.25%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.01%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.90%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
14 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 12 (1.42%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.11%) Linux
2 30 (3.55%) Unix
3 14 (1.66%) Windows
4 7 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.47%) macOS
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.12%) Solaris
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (63.74%) CI/CD
2 397 (47.04%) DevOps
3 354 (41.94%) Agile
4 318 (37.68%) Event-Driven
5 227 (26.90%) Containerisation
6 221 (26.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 220 (26.07%) Software Engineering
8 203 (24.05%) AI
9 187 (22.16%) Test Automation
10 177 (20.97%) Observability
11 147 (17.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 146 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 139 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 124 (14.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 122 (14.45%) Technical Leadership
17 121 (14.34%) Scrum
18 91 (10.78%) Code Quality
18 91 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
19 89 (10.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 380 (45.02%) Java
2 245 (29.03%) Python
3 200 (23.70%) SQL
4 167 (19.79%) TypeScript
5 160 (18.96%) JavaScript
6 111 (13.15%) C#
7 35 (4.15%) Go
8 28 (3.32%) Bash
9 20 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 19 (2.25%) PL/SQL
11 18 (2.13%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.66%) Bicep
12 14 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 9 (1.07%) Ruby
14 8 (0.95%) PHP
15 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.59%) C++
17 4 (0.47%) Scala
17 4 (0.47%) Solidity
18 3 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 192 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 172 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.92%) Degree
4 44 (5.21%) AWS Certification
5 34 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.67%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 17 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 2 (0.24%) CSPO
14 2 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (11.85%) QA
2 21 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.37%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.37%) ISO 20022
4 16 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
5 14 (1.66%) SEPA
6 10 (1.18%) GDPR
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
7 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.71%) PSD2
7 6 (0.71%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
8 4 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.36%) GRC
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 316 (37.44%) Docker
2 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Postfix
6 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 307 (36.37%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.18%) Grafana
3 49 (5.81%) Prometheus
4 43 (5.09%) Ansible
5 15 (1.78%) Kibana
6 10 (1.18%) Argo
7 8 (0.95%) Puppet
8 7 (0.83%) Istio
8 7 (0.83%) 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%) Control-M
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 97 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.23%) Oracle
3 56 (6.64%) Google
4 29 (3.44%) Splunk
5 25 (2.96%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.90%) IBM
7 16 (1.90%) SAP
8 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.66%) Databricks
10 10 (1.18%) New Relic
11 8 (0.95%) Veracode
12 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
12 7 (0.83%) Confluent
13 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.71%) Sybase
14 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.59%) Solace
14 5 (0.59%) Workday