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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 58 89
Rank change year-on-year -31 +31 -9
Contract jobs citing Microservices 23 19 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.22% 1.89% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 2.19% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 0
10th Percentile £463 £400 -
25th Percentile £516 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £690 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.00% - -
75th Percentile £775 £688 -
90th Percentile £855 £713 -
South East median daily rate £475 £462 £525
% change year-on-year +2.93% -12.10% -11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 -

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 1,493 867 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.95% 86.35% 79.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 578 633
10th Percentile £348 £312 £360
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +6.54%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £731 £650 £713
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 96 72
10th Percentile £13.44 - £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.87 £47.05
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.04 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.77% -63.58% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.92 £59.38 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £58.38
% change year-on-year +114.06% -61.99% +7.35%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -12 5 - - 10
Basingstoke -16 4 £533 -21.11% 1
Southampton -4 3 £720 +22.55% 13
Andover - 3 £750 - 1
Romsey - 3 £690 -
Farnborough -14 2 £475 +2.93% 5
Hook - 1 £400 - 1
Fareham - 1 £850 -
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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) Serverless
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 4 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (8.70%) Route 53
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) HTTPS
1 4 (17.39%) MQTT
1 4 (17.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
4 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Technical Architect
3 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Blazor Developer
5 2 (8.70%) C Developer
5 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Contracts Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) RESTful
2 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) REST
3 6 (26.09%) Terraform
3 6 (26.09%) Web Services
4 5 (21.74%) Spring
4 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
5 4 (17.39%) gRPC
5 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
5 4 (17.39%) Kafka
5 4 (17.39%) Keycloak
5 4 (17.39%) Protocol Buffers
6 3 (13.04%) OAuth
6 3 (13.04%) SAML
6 3 (13.04%) SOAP
7 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
7 2 (8.70%) JSON
7 2 (8.70%) LDAP
7 2 (8.70%) OpenID
7 2 (8.70%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.70%) FMCG
5 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) Agile
3 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (39.13%) Scrum
4 7 (30.43%) SDLC
5 6 (26.09%) AI
5 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
5 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (26.09%) Design Patterns
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Rust
2 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) GDPR
1 3 (13.04%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Grafana
2 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Podman
3 4 (17.39%) Puppet
4 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
1 4 (17.39%) NVIDIA
1 4 (17.39%) Tenable
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Adyen
3 1 (4.35%) Ariba
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk