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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 64 102
Rank change year-on-year -15 +38 -28
Contract jobs citing Microservices 29 19 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.47% 1.91% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.21% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 0
10th Percentile £419 £400 -
25th Percentile £472 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% - -
75th Percentile £735 £540 -
90th Percentile £775 £667 -
South East median daily rate £515 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +14.44% -19.64% -10.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £53.25 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +57.14% -53.33%
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +57.14% -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 1,560 858 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.31% 86.23% 81.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 969 606 752
10th Percentile £374 £314 £363
25th Percentile £475 £451 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £603 £661
90th Percentile £730 £658 £736
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 65 123
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.33 £21.39 £51.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +40.18% -40.92% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.58 £57.35
% change year-on-year +154.92% -62.38% +14.70%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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
Portsmouth -6 8 £588 - 2
Basingstoke - 5 £533 -
Southampton -7 4 £578 -1.70% 3
Andover - 3 £750 - 1
Romsey - 3 £690 -
Farnborough -15 2 £475 +18.75% 5
Hook - 1 £400 - 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%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) Serverless
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.24%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub
7 2 (6.90%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.90%) Route 53
7 2 (6.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
1 4 (13.79%) MQTT
1 4 (13.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 7 (24.14%) JIRA
3 5 (17.24%) GitLab
4 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.90%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.45%) Mockito
6 1 (3.45%) NUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Technical Architect
4 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) C Developer
6 2 (6.90%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (41.38%) RESTful
2 10 (34.48%) .NET
3 7 (24.14%) REST
4 6 (20.69%) Spring
4 6 (20.69%) Spring Boot
4 6 (20.69%) Web Services
5 5 (17.24%) Kafka
6 4 (13.79%) gRPC
6 4 (13.79%) Hibernate
6 4 (13.79%) Keycloak
6 4 (13.79%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (13.79%) React
7 3 (10.34%) OAuth
7 3 (10.34%) SAML
7 3 (10.34%) SOAP
8 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
8 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.90%) JSON
8 2 (6.90%) OpenID
8 2 (6.90%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.90%) FMCG
5 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 19 (65.52%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
6 8 (27.59%) AI
6 8 (27.59%) Design Patterns
6 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
6 8 (27.59%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (24.14%) DevSecOps
7 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) SDLC
8 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
9 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
9 5 (17.24%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Java
2 7 (24.14%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) Rust
5 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
6 3 (10.34%) C++
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) SC Cleared
1 17 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
1 3 (10.34%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Grafana
2 6 (20.69%) Prometheus
2 6 (20.69%) Terraform
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Podman
3 4 (13.79%) Puppet
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) NVIDIA
1 4 (13.79%) Tenable
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Ariba