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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Contract jobs citing Microservices 13 0 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.34% - 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% - 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 18
10th Percentile £394 - £493
25th Percentile £444 - £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £636 - £646
90th Percentile £700 - £704
South East median daily rate £425 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -18.27% -13.33% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £51.50 - £70.50
25th Percentile £53.75 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 837 1,078 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.47% 78.86% 87.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 672 626
10th Percentile £313 £363 £266
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £718 £680
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 100 114
10th Percentile - £25.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.14 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%
75th Percentile £50.00 £75.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £61.58 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 September 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 September 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
Portsmouth - 4 - - 1
Southampton - 4 £588 - 9
Farnborough - 3 £395 -
Havant - 1 - -
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Angular Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) REST
1 7 (53.85%) RESTful
2 5 (38.46%) Web Services
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 3 (23.08%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 1 (7.69%) JSF
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware
6 1 (7.69%) MUnit
6 1 (7.69%) RAML
6 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Event-Driven
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Issue Tracking
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) SysML
4 4 (30.77%) UML
5 3 (23.08%) API Development
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Project Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) CloudHub
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Criteo
1 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce