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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 59 91
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 32 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.94% 1.61% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.79% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 5
10th Percentile £334 £402 -
25th Percentile £400 £406 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +9.04% -14.55%
75th Percentile £680 £540 £490
90th Percentile £738 £600 £601
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -53.33%

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 1,310 672 1,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.59% 90.32% 84.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 487 718
10th Percentile £340 £325 £388
25th Percentile £469 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £675 £615 £675
90th Percentile £752 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 39 157
10th Percentile £12.87 £20.09 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.96 £30.63 £25.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £57.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +0.70% +14.70%
75th Percentile £50.13 £75.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £63.36 - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%

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 17 April 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 17 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
Farnborough -5 10 £473 +14.67% 1
Portsmouth - 7 £588 - 3
Fleet -2 2 £354 -24.60%
Basingstoke - 2 £525 -
Southampton -9 1 £435 +8.07% 5
Fareham - 1 £650 - 2
Aldershot - 1 £663 -
Andover - 1 £725 - 1
Romsey - 1 £770 -
Hook - 1 £400 -
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (3.13%) CMS
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 7 (21.88%) Serverless
4 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 6 (18.75%) GitHub
5 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (9.38%) Datadog
8 2 (6.25%) Apigee
8 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
8 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (6.25%) Kong
8 2 (6.25%) SaaS
8 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) HTTPS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.13%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) HBase
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) Gradle
3 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 5 (15.63%) JIRA
4 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 4 (12.50%) JUnit
5 3 (9.38%) Artifactory
5 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
5 3 (9.38%) Maven
5 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.13%) Gatling
6 1 (3.13%) JMeter
6 1 (3.13%) NUnit
6 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 11 (34.38%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Architect
4 6 (18.75%) Software Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) Spring
1 12 (37.50%) Spring Boot
2 8 (25.00%) RESTful
3 7 (21.88%) Kafka
4 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
4 5 (15.63%) Hibernate
4 5 (15.63%) React
5 3 (9.38%) .NET
5 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (9.38%) REST
6 2 (6.25%) JPA
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 2 (6.25%) Web Services
7 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.13%) gRPC
7 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 3 (9.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.25%) PKI
5 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.13%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.13%) EMV
6 1 (3.13%) IoT
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) Agile
3 13 (40.63%) Containerisation
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 9 (28.13%) Scrum
4 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
5 7 (21.88%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 6 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (15.63%) AI
7 5 (15.63%) DevSecOps
7 5 (15.63%) High Availability
7 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (15.63%) Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Observability
7 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) UML
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) C++
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) OCP
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 8583
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.00%) Terraform
3 7 (21.88%) Grafana
4 6 (18.75%) Ansible
5 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.38%) Puppet
7 2 (6.25%) Istio
7 2 (6.25%) linkerd
7 2 (6.25%) Podman
8 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.38%) Splunk
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
2 2 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Ariba
3 1 (3.13%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.13%) Sparx
3 1 (3.13%) Tenable