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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 77 85
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 -31
Contract jobs citing Microservices 26 3 15
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.20% 0.28% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 0.34% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 14
10th Percentile £323 £560 £483
25th Percentile £414 £575 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £669 £625 £622
90th Percentile £694 £640 £690
South East median daily rate £516 £520 £591
% change year-on-year -0.72% -12.05% +8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Process and 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 1,013 870 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.85% 81.16% 87.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 581 654
10th Percentile £311 £360 £300
25th Percentile £432 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 59 88
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £16.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.20
Median hourly rate £20.71 £65.85 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -68.55% +26.73% +15.47%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.05 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.18% +10.56% +19.37%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +7 14 £462 - 2
Southampton - 3 £500 - 3
Portsmouth - 2 - -
Aldershot +1 1 £663 +20.45%
Havant -5 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 £675 - 2
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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) Serverless
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Apple Pay
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Google Pay
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.69%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 6 (23.08%) HBase
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Tableau
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Gradle
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) Artifactory
3 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 6 (23.08%) JUnit
3 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (19.23%) Git
5 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket
6 3 (11.54%) Maven
7 1 (3.85%) Gatling
7 1 (3.85%) JMeter
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
3 10 (38.46%) Senior
4 9 (34.62%) Senior Developer
5 6 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (19.23%) Architect
7 4 (15.38%) AWS Developer
7 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
8 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (11.54%) Migration Manager
9 2 (7.69%) Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 2 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
10 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) Spring
1 12 (46.15%) Spring Boot
2 9 (34.62%) RESTful
3 7 (26.92%) AngularJS
4 6 (23.08%) Kafka
4 6 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 4 (15.38%) REST
6 3 (11.54%) .NET
6 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 3 (11.54%) Web Services
7 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.69%) JPA
7 2 (7.69%) React
7 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (3.85%) JSF
8 1 (3.85%) Middleware
8 1 (3.85%) MUnit
8 1 (3.85%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Event-Driven
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) SOA
5 5 (19.23%) DevOps
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Observability
5 5 (19.23%) Scrum
6 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (15.38%) Project Management
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Functional Testing
7 3 (11.54%) People Management
7 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
7 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) OCP
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) PgMP
3 3 (11.54%) PMI Certification
3 3 (11.54%) PMP
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) CloudHub
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) Samsung
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Criteo
3 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Workday