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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 48 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 846 675 694
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 5.04% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 5.45% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 463 500
10th Percentile £404 £392 £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 £700 £689
90th Percentile £775 £772 £775
England median daily rate £528 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +0.48% -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 £41.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +61.45% -42.76%

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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £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 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 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 21 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 -3 98 £555 -3.48% 44
South London -14 20 £535 +0.71% 1
East London +1 9 £432 -18.49% 7
West London -31 2 £500 +5.26% 13
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 (3.07%) CMS
2 24 (2.84%) Confluence
3 20 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.54%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
12 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%) 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
1 415 (49.05%) AWS
2 326 (38.53%) Azure
3 155 (18.32%) GCP
4 149 (17.61%) GitHub
5 101 (11.94%) Serverless
6 95 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
9 57 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (5.56%) Amazon S3
11 45 (5.32%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.66%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.96%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (2.60%) Power Platform
17 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 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (10.40%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.15%) MongoDB
3 52 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 44 (5.20%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.55%) Redis
6 28 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (2.84%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.60%) Power BI
9 20 (2.36%) MySQL
10 17 (2.01%) Big Data
10 17 (2.01%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.65%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
12 12 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.30%) Flink
14 9 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
15 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 146 (17.26%) Git
2 143 (16.90%) Jenkins
3 93 (10.99%) GitLab
4 52 (6.15%) JUnit
5 36 (4.26%) Gradle
5 36 (4.26%) Mockito
6 35 (4.14%) JIRA
7 33 (3.90%) Maven
8 25 (2.96%) Postman
9 24 (2.84%) Cypress.io
10 20 (2.36%) SonarQube
11 17 (2.01%) Liquibase
12 15 (1.77%) JMeter
13 14 (1.65%) Selenium
14 12 (1.42%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.18%) Bitbucket
15 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 9 (1.06%) Cucumber
16 9 (1.06%) Gatling
16 9 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 231 (27.30%) Finance
2 210 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 122 (14.42%) Banking
4 101 (11.94%) Public Sector
5 81 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.07%) Front Office
7 25 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 23 (2.72%) Retail
9 22 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.60%) Marketing
10 17 (2.01%) Law
11 13 (1.54%) Retail Banking
12 12 (1.42%) Billing
13 10 (1.18%) Legal
14 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.83%) Police
16 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 283 (33.45%) Developer
2 170 (20.09%) Senior
3 154 (18.20%) Architect
4 116 (13.71%) Java Developer
5 77 (9.10%) Lead
6 76 (8.98%) Software Engineer
7 71 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 51 (6.03%) Java Engineer
8 51 (6.03%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (5.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 38 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (4.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (4.14%) Senior Java Developer
12 33 (3.90%) Technical Architect
13 31 (3.66%) Analyst
14 29 (3.43%) .NET Developer
15 27 (3.19%) C# Developer
16 26 (3.07%) Backend Developer
16 26 (3.07%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (26.24%) Spring
2 212 (25.06%) REST
3 198 (23.40%) Spring Boot
4 185 (21.87%) Kafka
5 167 (19.74%) RESTful
6 150 (17.73%) React
7 125 (14.78%) Terraform
8 104 (12.29%) .NET
9 84 (9.93%) Node.js
10 56 (6.62%) AngularJS
11 50 (5.91%) CSS
12 48 (5.67%) HTML
13 45 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
14 43 (5.08%) OAuth
15 38 (4.49%) OAuth2
16 35 (4.14%) .NET Core
17 32 (3.78%) JSON
18 30 (3.55%) LangChain
19 27 (3.19%) FastAPI
19 27 (3.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 253 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 214 (25.30%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (9.57%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (4.37%) AI Agents
6 35 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (4.02%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (3.07%) Derivative
10 21 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (2.36%) Algorithms
11 20 (2.36%) Virtual Team
12 17 (2.01%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.65%) Fixed Income
15 11 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.06%) Distributed Applications
16 9 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.32%) Linux
2 25 (2.96%) Unix
3 8 (0.95%) Windows
4 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.35%) 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
1 529 (62.53%) CI/CD
2 396 (46.81%) DevOps
3 340 (40.19%) Agile
4 271 (32.03%) Event-Driven
5 260 (30.73%) Containerisation
6 230 (27.19%) Software Engineering
7 193 (22.81%) AI
8 182 (21.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 176 (20.80%) Observability
10 162 (19.15%) Test Automation
11 145 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 135 (15.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 134 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (13.83%) Scrum
15 107 (12.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 104 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
18 96 (11.35%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (10.64%) TDD
20 89 (10.52%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 382 (45.15%) Java
2 236 (27.90%) Python
3 206 (24.35%) SQL
4 159 (18.79%) TypeScript
5 137 (16.19%) JavaScript
6 115 (13.59%) C#
7 31 (3.66%) Go
8 23 (2.72%) Ruby
9 19 (2.25%) Bash
10 18 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.89%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.30%) Bicep
14 7 (0.83%) PHP
15 5 (0.59%) C++
15 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
15 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 200 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 174 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.20%) Degree
4 38 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 23 (2.72%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.71%) CISSP
10 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.47%) PhD
12 3 (0.35%) GIAC
12 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.35%) MBA
13 2 (0.24%) CSPO
13 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (10.05%) QA
2 27 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.77%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.65%) NIST
6 13 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.54%) SEPA
7 11 (1.30%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) PSD2
10 5 (0.59%) WCAG
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
12 3 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.35%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 15022
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 311 (36.76%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.35%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 305 (36.05%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.86%) Grafana
3 43 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 33 (3.90%) Ansible
5 10 (1.18%) Istio
6 9 (1.06%) Argo
6 9 (1.06%) Kibana
7 7 (0.83%) Puppet
8 6 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Bosun
10 3 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 3 (0.35%) 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 (11.47%) Microsoft
2 62 (7.33%) Oracle
3 46 (5.44%) Google
4 24 (2.84%) OpenAI
5 19 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.77%) Splunk
7 13 (1.54%) IBM
8 12 (1.42%) New Relic
8 12 (1.42%) SAP
9 9 (1.06%) Confluent
10 8 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.83%) AppDynamics
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
14 4 (0.47%) Zscaler