Microservices Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microservices
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 55 95
Rank change year-on-year -6 +40 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 31 15 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.08% 2.06% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.32% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 7
10th Percentile £332 £402 -
25th Percentile £456 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £537 £490
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +9.59% -10.91%
75th Percentile £694 £569 £656
90th Percentile £738 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £52.75 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £56.88 - -
90th Percentile £57.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,216 647 1,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.50% 88.75% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 465 730
10th Percentile £328 £325 £371
25th Percentile £463 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £739 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 37 118
10th Percentile £12.60 £20.06 £12.19
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £57.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.14% +21.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £40.00 £71.25 £63.44
90th Percentile £54.00 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -15.40% -6.67% -16.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Hampshire over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Hampshire

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 10 March 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
Farnborough -2 14 £473 +14.67%
Portsmouth - 4 £575 - 6
Fleet -4 2 £354 -24.60%
Basingstoke - 2 £663 - 1
Aldershot -3 1 £663 +20.45%
Romsey - 1 £770 -
Fareham - 1 £650 - 2
Andover - 1 £725 - 1
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 3 (9.68%) Apache
1 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (3.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) GitHub
3 6 (19.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (19.35%) Datadog
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 5 (16.13%) GCP
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.45%) Apple Pay
7 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
7 2 (6.45%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.45%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Kerberos
2 3 (9.68%) HTTPS
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) DynamoDB
1 6 (19.35%) HBase
1 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
1 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
1 6 (19.35%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.68%) Tableau
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.23%) Big Data
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
1 9 (29.03%) Gradle
2 8 (25.81%) JIRA
3 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
4 6 (19.35%) Artifactory
4 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
4 6 (19.35%) JUnit
4 6 (19.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 3 (9.68%) Maven
6 1 (3.23%) Gatling
6 1 (3.23%) JMeter
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Developer
1 13 (41.94%) Java Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Migration Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) Spring
1 14 (45.16%) Spring Boot
2 9 (29.03%) Kafka
3 8 (25.81%) RESTful
4 6 (19.35%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.13%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.68%) REST
7 2 (6.45%) JPA
7 2 (6.45%) OAuth
7 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
7 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (6.45%) React
7 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
7 2 (6.45%) Web Services
8 1 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.23%) gRPC
8 1 (3.23%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
1 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (3.23%) EMV
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 11 (35.48%) Containerisation
4 8 (25.81%) Migration
4 8 (25.81%) Observability
5 7 (22.58%) Event-Driven
5 7 (22.58%) Scrum
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) SOA
7 5 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) Roadmaps
7 5 (16.13%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Java
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) Bicep
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) OCP
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle Certification
3 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (12.90%) Degree
5 4 (12.90%) PMI Certification
5 4 (12.90%) PMP
6 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (9.68%) PgMP
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
7 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) NCSC
1 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 10 (32.26%) Grafana
3 8 (25.81%) Terraform
4 6 (19.35%) Ansible
5 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.68%) Puppet
7 2 (6.45%) Istio
7 2 (6.45%) linkerd
7 2 (6.45%) Podman
8 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Google
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) Samsung
1 3 (9.68%) Splunk
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Sparx
3 1 (3.23%) Tenable
3 1 (3.23%) Workday