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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 61 86
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 29 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.08% 1.22% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 1.41% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 12
10th Percentile £329 £461 £460
25th Percentile £389 £550 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £692 £650 £634
90th Percentile £735 - £671
South East median daily rate £525 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +3.77%

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 1,154 640 1,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.90% 86.72% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 445 675
10th Percentile £313 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% +6.57%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £675
90th Percentile £725 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £511
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.96% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 37 121
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.38 £13.05
25th Percentile £16.38 £27.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -36.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £33.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.81 £72.75 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +4 16 £462 - 2
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Basingstoke - 2 £663 - 1
Aldershot -5 1 £663 +20.45%
Fareham - 1 £650 - 2
Portsmouth - 1 - - 7
Romsey - 1 £770 - 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 (10.34%) Apache
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
1 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Pulsar
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (3.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 9 (31.03%) GitHub
3 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 6 (20.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (20.69%) Datadog
4 6 (20.69%) Serverless
5 5 (17.24%) GCP
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.90%) Apigee
8 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
8 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
8 2 (6.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Kerberos
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) DynamoDB
1 6 (20.69%) HBase
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
1 6 (20.69%) NoSQL
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Tableau
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Gradle
2 8 (27.59%) JIRA
3 7 (24.14%) Git
3 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.69%) Artifactory
4 6 (20.69%) Cucumber
4 6 (20.69%) JUnit
4 6 (20.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (10.34%) Bitbucket
5 3 (10.34%) GitLab
5 3 (10.34%) Maven
6 1 (3.45%) Gatling
6 1 (3.45%) JMeter
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 12 (41.38%) Java Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
3 8 (27.59%) Senior Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Architect
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Developer
6 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (10.34%) .NET Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Migration Manager
8 2 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
8 2 (6.90%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
9 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) Spring
1 12 (41.38%) Spring Boot
2 9 (31.03%) Kafka
2 9 (31.03%) RESTful
3 8 (27.59%) AngularJS
4 6 (20.69%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (10.34%) .NET
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.34%) Hibernate
5 3 (10.34%) REST
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.90%) JPA
6 2 (6.90%) OAuth
6 2 (6.90%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (6.90%) React
6 2 (6.90%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Chip and PIN
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (3.45%) EMV
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Agile
2 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Containerisation
4 9 (31.03%) Event-Driven
5 8 (27.59%) Observability
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) SOA
8 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (17.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (17.24%) Scrum
8 5 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (13.79%) Project Management
9 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (10.34%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) Bicep
4 2 (6.90%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) OCP
1 9 (31.03%) Oracle Certification
2 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) PMI Certification
4 4 (13.79%) PMP
5 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 3 (10.34%) PgMP
5 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
6 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
2 10 (34.48%) Grafana
3 8 (27.59%) Terraform
4 6 (20.69%) Ansible
5 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (10.34%) Puppet
7 2 (6.90%) Istio
7 2 (6.90%) linkerd
7 2 (6.90%) Podman
8 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
1 3 (10.34%) Samsung
1 3 (10.34%) Splunk
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Sparx
3 1 (3.45%) Tenable
3 1 (3.45%) Workday