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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 52
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 769 517 671
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 4.12% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 4.47% 4.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 358 492
10th Percentile £385 £400 £425
25th Percentile £438 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £639 £725 £699
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £65.40 £36.65 -
25th Percentile £66.00 £39.13 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £44.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -28.80% -
75th Percentile £95.00 £72.88 -
90th Percentile - £89.15 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £49.75 £48.43
% change year-on-year +45.73% +2.73% -33.20%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 86 £555 -5.13% 80
South London -15 28 £535 +12.63% 8
West London -20 7 £550 +34.47% 10
East London +1 6 £432 +72.80% 11
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 18 (2.34%) Confluence
2 13 (1.69%) Apache
3 12 (1.56%) CMS
4 11 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) Camunda
6 8 (1.04%) Ethereum
7 7 (0.91%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.65%) Mule
9 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) Drupal
12 2 (0.26%) nginx
12 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.26%) WordPress
13 1 (0.13%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.13%) Maya
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
2 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Magento
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Quorum
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 408 (53.06%) AWS
2 284 (36.93%) Azure
3 135 (17.56%) GCP
4 124 (16.12%) Serverless
5 119 (15.47%) GitHub
6 80 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (10.01%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (8.19%) Amazon S3
10 58 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (5.72%) Azure AKS
12 42 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 39 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
15 33 (4.29%) SaaS
16 27 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (3.25%) Entra ID
18 24 (3.12%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.43%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) DNS
2 5 (0.65%) VPN
3 4 (0.52%) Firewall
3 4 (0.52%) Network Security
4 3 (0.39%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.39%) 5G
4 3 (0.39%) SSL
5 2 (0.26%) 4G
5 2 (0.26%) LTE
5 2 (0.26%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.26%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) 5G NR
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.13%) Internet
6 1 (0.13%) NaaS
6 1 (0.13%) RFID
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.66%) NoSQL
2 73 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (7.54%) MongoDB
4 42 (5.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 40 (5.20%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.94%) SQL Server
7 36 (4.68%) DynamoDB
8 35 (4.55%) Redis
9 31 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
10 28 (3.64%) MySQL
11 18 (2.34%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (1.43%) Big Data
14 11 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 9 (1.17%) Power BI
16 7 (0.91%) DocumentDB
16 7 (0.91%) Flink
16 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
16 7 (0.91%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 116 (15.08%) Git
2 105 (13.65%) Jenkins
3 69 (8.97%) GitLab
4 48 (6.24%) JUnit
5 40 (5.20%) JIRA
6 34 (4.42%) Mockito
7 20 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.95%) Postman
9 14 (1.82%) Maven
10 13 (1.69%) Gradle
11 12 (1.56%) Liquibase
12 11 (1.43%) Bitbucket
13 10 (1.30%) TeamCity
14 9 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (1.17%) Selenium
14 9 (1.17%) Zephyr
15 8 (1.04%) Vite
16 6 (0.78%) Gatling
16 6 (0.78%) MLflow
16 6 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 189 (24.58%) Finance
2 180 (23.41%) Social Skills
3 117 (15.21%) Banking
4 86 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 53 (6.89%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (2.99%) Front Office
7 18 (2.34%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.69%) Retail
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
12 12 (1.56%) Marketing
13 11 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Law
15 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Police
17 4 (0.52%) Billing
18 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 280 (36.41%) Developer
2 167 (21.72%) Senior
3 136 (17.69%) Architect
4 100 (13.00%) Java Developer
5 79 (10.27%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.80%) Lead
7 53 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 50 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (5.98%) Java Engineer
10 40 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
12 35 (4.55%) Technical Architect
13 31 (4.03%) Backend Developer
14 30 (3.90%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.77%) Analyst
15 29 (3.77%) C# Developer
16 25 (3.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 22 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
18 21 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
19 20 (2.60%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (27.83%) Spring
2 191 (24.84%) Spring Boot
3 163 (21.20%) Kafka
4 151 (19.64%) RESTful
5 129 (16.78%) REST
6 124 (16.12%) React
7 99 (12.87%) .NET
7 99 (12.87%) Node.js
8 81 (10.53%) AngularJS
9 55 (7.15%) Middleware
10 37 (4.81%) gRPC
11 36 (4.68%) CSS
11 36 (4.68%) HTML
11 36 (4.68%) OAuth
12 30 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 27 (3.51%) .NET Core
14 25 (3.25%) OAuth2
14 25 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (3.12%) Web Services
16 23 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 165 (21.46%) Cloud Native
2 150 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (5.46%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.25%) AI Agents
4 25 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 17 (2.21%) Derivative
8 16 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.30%) NHS
13 10 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.98%) Linux
2 15 (1.95%) Unix
3 8 (1.04%) Windows
4 4 (0.52%) zOS
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.26%) Solaris
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (55.27%) CI/CD
2 332 (43.17%) DevOps
3 282 (36.67%) Agile
4 231 (30.04%) Containerisation
5 188 (24.45%) Software Engineering
6 149 (19.38%) Event-Driven
7 148 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 127 (16.51%) Observability
9 126 (16.38%) AI
10 124 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
11 108 (14.04%) Test Automation
12 98 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 98 (12.74%) TDD
13 90 (11.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 88 (11.44%) Code Quality
15 82 (10.66%) Scrum
16 70 (9.10%) Migration
17 68 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 67 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
19 65 (8.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 340 (44.21%) Java
2 206 (26.79%) Python
3 183 (23.80%) SQL
4 112 (14.56%) TypeScript
5 93 (12.09%) JavaScript
6 86 (11.18%) C#
7 43 (5.59%) Go
8 25 (3.25%) Ruby
9 16 (2.08%) Bicep
10 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.30%) Bash
11 10 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.78%) C++
13 6 (0.78%) PHP
13 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.65%) Scala
15 3 (0.39%) C
15 3 (0.39%) RPG
15 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 147 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.89%) Degree
4 41 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.77%) AWS Certification
6 22 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) CISSP
10 5 (0.65%) OSCP
10 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) CCSP
11 4 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.39%) MBA
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.06%) QA
2 28 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.21%) GDPR
4 14 (1.82%) ISO 20022
4 14 (1.82%) NIST
5 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.30%) PSD2
7 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.04%) SEPA
8 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 5 (0.65%) WCAG
9 4 (0.52%) HL7
9 4 (0.52%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.39%) TARGET2
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 306 (39.79%) Docker
2 20 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Postfix
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 294 (38.23%) Kubernetes
2 120 (15.60%) Terraform
3 51 (6.63%) Grafana
4 40 (5.20%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.69%) Ansible
5 13 (1.69%) Istio
6 12 (1.56%) Argo
6 12 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.65%) Kibana
8 5 (0.65%) Opsgenie
9 4 (0.52%) Puppet
10 3 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.39%) Rancher
11 2 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.26%) Knative
11 2 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 81 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.59%) Oracle
3 34 (4.42%) Google
4 29 (3.77%) OpenAI
5 17 (2.21%) Dynatrace
5 17 (2.21%) Splunk
6 14 (1.82%) Databricks
7 13 (1.69%) Software AG
8 11 (1.43%) IBM
9 10 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.04%) Confluent
10 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.78%) AppDynamics
11 6 (0.78%) SAP
11 6 (0.78%) Solace
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.65%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.65%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.65%) Sybase