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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 55
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 844 682 681
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 5.04% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.46% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 470 497
10th Percentile £405 £399 £413
25th Percentile £463 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £692 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £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 £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 -13 99 £555 +1.37% 81
South London -13 24 £535 +0.94% 2
East London +1 9 £432 -16.92% 4
West London -28 1 £500 +5.26% 15
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 27 (3.20%) CMS
2 23 (2.73%) Confluence
3 20 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.42%) Camunda
5 11 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.18%) Apache
7 7 (0.83%) nginx
8 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.59%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.24%) Mule
12 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
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
2 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.59%) Quorum
3 5 (0.59%) R3 Corda
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.47%) Ripple
5 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 414 (49.05%) AWS
2 318 (37.68%) Azure
3 153 (18.13%) GitHub
4 152 (18.01%) GCP
5 107 (12.68%) Serverless
6 97 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
7 92 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
8 64 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
9 60 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
10 50 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
10 50 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 46 (5.45%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (3.67%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (2.96%) OpenShift
17 22 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 22 (2.61%) Power Platform
17 22 (2.61%) 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%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 87 (10.31%) NoSQL
3 52 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 50 (5.92%) MongoDB
5 40 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (3.32%) Redis
8 27 (3.20%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.61%) Power BI
10 20 (2.37%) MySQL
11 17 (2.01%) Big Data
11 17 (2.01%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.30%) Flink
15 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
17 6 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 143 (16.94%) Git
2 138 (16.35%) Jenkins
3 89 (10.55%) GitLab
4 53 (6.28%) JUnit
5 36 (4.27%) Mockito
6 35 (4.15%) Gradle
7 34 (4.03%) Maven
8 32 (3.79%) JIRA
9 25 (2.96%) Postman
10 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
11 21 (2.49%) SonarQube
12 16 (1.90%) Liquibase
13 14 (1.66%) JMeter
14 11 (1.30%) Selenium
15 10 (1.18%) Cucumber
15 10 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
15 10 (1.18%) TeamCity
16 9 (1.07%) Vite
17 8 (0.95%) Bitbucket
17 8 (0.95%) REST Assured
General
1 228 (27.01%) Finance
2 210 (24.88%) Social Skills
3 126 (14.93%) Banking
4 99 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (3.20%) Front Office
6 27 (3.20%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.73%) Marketing
8 22 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (2.49%) Retail
10 16 (1.90%) Law
11 13 (1.54%) Retail Banking
12 12 (1.42%) Billing
13 10 (1.18%) Legal
14 9 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
17 5 (0.59%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 282 (33.41%) Developer
2 176 (20.85%) Senior
3 155 (18.36%) Architect
4 117 (13.86%) Java Developer
5 78 (9.24%) Lead
5 78 (9.24%) Software Engineer
6 74 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 53 (6.28%) Solutions Architect
8 50 (5.92%) Java Engineer
9 43 (5.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (4.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 36 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 33 (3.91%) Analyst
13 33 (3.91%) Technical Architect
14 29 (3.44%) .NET Developer
15 28 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.20%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (26.30%) Spring
2 210 (24.88%) REST
3 197 (23.34%) Spring Boot
4 185 (21.92%) Kafka
5 165 (19.55%) RESTful
6 146 (17.30%) React
7 104 (12.32%) .NET
8 84 (9.95%) Node.js
9 58 (6.87%) AngularJS
10 51 (6.04%) CSS
11 48 (5.69%) HTML
12 44 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (5.09%) OAuth
14 38 (4.50%) OAuth2
15 33 (3.91%) .NET Core
15 33 (3.91%) JSON
16 30 (3.55%) LangChain
17 27 (3.20%) FastAPI
17 27 (3.20%) GraphQL
18 26 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 243 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 210 (24.88%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.27%) AI Agents
6 34 (4.03%) Onboarding
7 33 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (3.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (3.20%) Derivative
10 22 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (2.49%) Algorithms
12 18 (2.13%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.66%) Fixed Income
14 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 9 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.45%) Linux
2 23 (2.73%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.24%) Solaris
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (61.26%) CI/CD
2 383 (45.38%) DevOps
3 346 (41.00%) Agile
4 262 (31.04%) Containerisation
4 262 (31.04%) Event-Driven
5 226 (26.78%) Software Engineering
6 191 (22.63%) AI
7 177 (20.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 169 (20.02%) Observability
9 156 (18.48%) Test Automation
10 143 (16.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 132 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
12 131 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
13 115 (13.63%) Scrum
14 107 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
15 103 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
16 94 (11.14%) Integration Patterns
17 93 (11.02%) Code Quality
17 93 (11.02%) TDD
18 92 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 381 (45.14%) Java
2 234 (27.73%) Python
3 206 (24.41%) SQL
4 161 (19.08%) TypeScript
5 139 (16.47%) JavaScript
6 111 (13.15%) C#
7 33 (3.91%) Go
8 23 (2.73%) Ruby
9 17 (2.01%) Bash
9 17 (2.01%) Kotlin
9 17 (2.01%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.30%) Bicep
13 7 (0.83%) PHP
14 6 (0.71%) Scala
14 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.59%) C++
15 5 (0.59%) Solidity
16 3 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 192 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 169 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.57%) Degree
4 38 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 20 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.71%) CISSP
11 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (0.47%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) GIAC
13 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.24%) OSCP
15 1 (0.12%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.48%) QA
2 26 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.01%) ISO 20022
4 16 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.66%) SEPA
6 13 (1.54%) GDPR
6 13 (1.54%) NIST
7 12 (1.42%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.07%) PSD2
9 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.71%) SLA
11 4 (0.47%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 15022
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 310 (36.73%) Docker
2 6 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.36%) Postfix
5 1 (0.12%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 303 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 121 (14.34%) Terraform
3 55 (6.52%) Grafana
4 42 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 30 (3.55%) Ansible
6 9 (1.07%) Istio
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
7 8 (0.95%) Argo
8 7 (0.83%) Puppet
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%) Rancher
12 1 (0.12%) Amdocs OSS
12 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.12%) linkerd
12 1 (0.12%) Packer
12 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 95 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.11%) Oracle
3 44 (5.21%) Google
4 24 (2.84%) OpenAI
5 16 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 15 (1.78%) IBM
6 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
7 14 (1.66%) Splunk
8 11 (1.30%) SAP
9 10 (1.18%) New Relic
10 9 (1.07%) Confluent
10 9 (1.07%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.95%) Sybase
12 7 (0.83%) Solace
13 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.71%) Workday
14 5 (0.59%) Amplitude
14 5 (0.59%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.59%) Veracode
15 4 (0.47%) Foundry