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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 62 100
Rank change year-on-year -18 +38 -21
Contract jobs citing Microservices 34 16 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.77% 1.68% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.95% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 0
10th Percentile £400 £406 -
25th Percentile £463 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% - -
75th Percentile £735 £563 -
90th Percentile £775 £688 -
South East median daily rate £520 £457 £523
% change year-on-year +13.91% -12.63% -12.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £53.50 £51.50 -
25th Percentile - £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +57.14% -53.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £56.50 - -
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 1,529 820 1,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.43% 85.86% 81.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 574 761
10th Percentile £382 £325 £363
25th Percentile £481 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £656
90th Percentile £730 £664 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 62 129
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £16.71 £25.15 £40.00
Median hourly rate £47.75 £37.44 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.53% -34.71% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.14% -61.81% +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 2 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 2 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 -4 10 £588 - 8
Basingstoke - 5 £533 - 1
Southampton -2 4 £578 -1.70% 6
Andover - 4 £750 - 1
Farnborough -16 3 £475 +15.15% 8
Romsey - 3 £690 -
Fleet +5 1 £350 -25.45%
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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Serverless
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (14.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
7 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon Macie
8 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (5.88%) GitHub
8 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.88%) Route 53
8 2 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) HTTPS
2 4 (11.76%) MQTT
2 4 (11.76%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Git
2 9 (26.47%) JIRA
3 5 (14.71%) GitLab
4 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.94%) Mockito
6 1 (2.94%) NUnit
6 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Technical Leader
6 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) RESTful
2 10 (29.41%) .NET
3 8 (23.53%) REST
3 8 (23.53%) Spring
3 8 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 7 (20.59%) Web Services
5 6 (17.65%) Hibernate
5 6 (17.65%) Kafka
6 4 (11.76%) gRPC
6 4 (11.76%) Keycloak
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth
6 4 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (11.76%) React
7 3 (8.82%) SAML
7 3 (8.82%) SOAP
8 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
8 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.88%) JSON
8 2 (5.88%) LDAP
8 2 (5.88%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.88%) FMCG
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.94%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 22 (64.71%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Scrum
4 11 (32.35%) Software Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (29.41%) Design Patterns
5 10 (29.41%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 9 (26.47%) AI
6 9 (26.47%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (20.59%) DevSecOps
8 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.59%) SDLC
8 7 (20.59%) SysML
8 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
8 7 (20.59%) UML
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) C#
3 6 (17.65%) Python
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) Rust
5 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.82%) C++
7 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
1 20 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
1 4 (11.76%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Grafana
2 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 4 (11.76%) Podman
3 4 (11.76%) Puppet
4 2 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) NVIDIA
1 4 (11.76%) Tenable
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Ariba
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk