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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Microservices 843 676 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 5.10% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.51% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 462 493
10th Percentile £410 £400 £413
25th Percentile £463 £468 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £774 £775
England median daily rate £534 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +1.67% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile - £39.95 £40.59
25th Percentile £92.50 £55.75 £40.62
Median hourly rate £95.00 £80.00 £41.33
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +93.58% -49.91%
75th Percentile £97.50 £87.50 £42.12
90th Percentile - £92.50 £42.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £41.33
% change year-on-year -2.99% +62.12% -43.00%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £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 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 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 3 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 -4 101 £555 -5.13% 69
South London -12 21 £535 -13.99% 7
East London +5 10 £432 -20.00% 3
West London -27 2 £500 +5.26% 43
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 32 (3.80%) Confluence
2 26 (3.08%) CMS
3 19 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.02%) Camunda
5 12 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.19%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.71%) nginx
8 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
9 4 (0.47%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.24%) Mule
11 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.24%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.59%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.07%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
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 2 (0.24%) Endur
5 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
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
1 412 (48.87%) AWS
2 316 (37.49%) Azure
3 153 (18.15%) GitHub
4 149 (17.67%) GCP
5 102 (12.10%) Serverless
6 99 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (11.27%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (7.71%) Amazon EKS
9 58 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
10 48 (5.69%) Amazon S3
11 47 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
13 33 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.20%) Azure AKS
16 26 (3.08%) OpenShift
17 25 (2.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (2.85%) SaaS
19 23 (2.73%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.71%) Network Security
1 6 (0.71%) VPN
2 5 (0.59%) HTTP
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.12%) 4G
5 1 (0.12%) 5G
5 1 (0.12%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) Internet
5 1 (0.12%) LTE
5 1 (0.12%) MPLS
5 1 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
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
1 100 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (9.96%) NoSQL
3 53 (6.29%) SQL Server
4 49 (5.81%) MongoDB
5 47 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 28 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (3.20%) MySQL
8 26 (3.08%) Redis
9 24 (2.85%) DynamoDB
10 21 (2.49%) Power BI
11 17 (2.02%) Big Data
11 17 (2.02%) BigQuery
12 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.19%) Flink
16 8 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
17 7 (0.83%) Pinecone
17 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 6 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 152 (18.03%) Jenkins
2 146 (17.32%) Git
3 97 (11.51%) GitLab
4 56 (6.64%) JUnit
5 42 (4.98%) JIRA
6 41 (4.86%) Gradle
7 40 (4.74%) Maven
8 38 (4.51%) Mockito
9 27 (3.20%) SonarQube
10 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 23 (2.73%) Postman
11 18 (2.14%) Liquibase
12 16 (1.90%) REST Assured
13 15 (1.78%) Selenium
14 14 (1.66%) JMeter
15 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
16 8 (0.95%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.95%) Gatling
16 8 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
16 8 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 233 (27.64%) Finance
2 218 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 129 (15.30%) Banking
4 101 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.97%) Investment Banking
7 23 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
7 23 (2.73%) Retail
8 22 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (2.49%) Front Office
9 21 (2.49%) Marketing
10 17 (2.02%) Law
11 12 (1.42%) Billing
11 12 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.42%) Retail Banking
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Police
14 8 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.71%) Local Government
15 6 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 285 (33.81%) Developer
2 167 (19.81%) Senior
3 151 (17.91%) Architect
4 120 (14.23%) Java Developer
5 84 (9.96%) Lead
6 73 (8.66%) Software Engineer
7 68 (8.07%) Senior Developer
8 54 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
9 53 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (6.17%) Java Engineer
11 39 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 38 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 38 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (4.15%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.68%) Technical Architect
15 28 (3.32%) Analyst
16 26 (3.08%) .NET Developer
17 25 (2.97%) Python Developer
17 25 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
18 24 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (27.28%) Spring
2 214 (25.39%) REST
3 209 (24.79%) Spring Boot
4 195 (23.13%) Kafka
5 161 (19.10%) RESTful
6 154 (18.27%) React
7 128 (15.18%) Terraform
8 102 (12.10%) .NET
9 85 (10.08%) Node.js
10 56 (6.64%) AngularJS
10 56 (6.64%) CSS
11 55 (6.52%) HTML
12 48 (5.69%) OAuth
13 45 (5.34%) RabbitMQ
14 43 (5.10%) OAuth2
15 34 (4.03%) .NET Core
16 33 (3.91%) JSON
17 32 (3.80%) HTML5
18 31 (3.68%) LangChain
19 30 (3.56%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 256 (30.37%) Cloud Native
2 210 (24.91%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (10.20%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 37 (4.39%) AI Agents
7 32 (3.80%) Onboarding
8 28 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (2.61%) Derivative
10 20 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 19 (2.25%) Algorithms
11 19 (2.25%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.54%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.19%) Public Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.69%) Linux
2 26 (3.08%) Unix
3 9 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) VMS
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
1 532 (63.11%) CI/CD
2 394 (46.74%) DevOps
3 342 (40.57%) Agile
4 282 (33.45%) Event-Driven
5 255 (30.25%) Containerisation
6 227 (26.93%) Software Engineering
7 194 (23.01%) AI
8 192 (22.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 178 (21.12%) Observability
10 167 (19.81%) Test Automation
11 149 (17.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 138 (16.37%) Full-Stack Development
13 133 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (14.83%) Scrum
15 104 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 103 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 103 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (11.63%) TDD
18 97 (11.51%) Integration Patterns
19 90 (10.68%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 395 (46.86%) Java
2 241 (28.59%) Python
3 202 (23.96%) SQL
4 161 (19.10%) TypeScript
5 146 (17.32%) JavaScript
6 108 (12.81%) C#
7 30 (3.56%) Go
8 22 (2.61%) Ruby
9 21 (2.49%) Bash
10 18 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.90%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.30%) Bicep
15 7 (0.83%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) Scala
16 5 (0.59%) Solidity
17 4 (0.47%) C++
17 4 (0.47%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.24%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 199 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 176 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.58%) Degree
4 39 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
12 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.47%) PhD
14 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.36%) GIAC
14 3 (0.36%) MBA
14 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.24%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (10.44%) QA
2 23 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.90%) ISO 20022
5 14 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 13 (1.54%) SEPA
7 10 (1.19%) GDPR
8 7 (0.83%) SLA
9 6 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.59%) PSD2
11 4 (0.47%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.47%) WCAG
12 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.36%) GRC
12 3 (0.36%) NCSC
12 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.24%) HL7
13 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 315 (37.37%) 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%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 307 (36.42%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.76%) Grafana
3 42 (4.98%) Prometheus
4 37 (4.39%) Ansible
5 10 (1.19%) Argo
5 10 (1.19%) Istio
5 10 (1.19%) Kibana
6 7 (0.83%) Puppet
7 5 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.36%) Bosun
9 3 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.24%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) Control-M
11 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.12%) Packer
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 97 (11.51%) Microsoft
2 64 (7.59%) Oracle
3 44 (5.22%) Google
4 25 (2.97%) OpenAI
5 18 (2.14%) Dynatrace
5 18 (2.14%) IBM
6 17 (2.02%) Splunk
7 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.42%) SAP
9 11 (1.30%) Databricks
10 10 (1.19%) New Relic
11 8 (0.95%) Confluent
11 8 (0.95%) Veracode
12 7 (0.83%) Solace
13 6 (0.71%) AppDynamics
13 6 (0.71%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.71%) Sybase
13 6 (0.71%) Workday
14 5 (0.59%) Foundry
14 5 (0.59%) ServiceNow