Microservices Contracts in Hampshire

Microservices
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 89 66
Rank change year-on-year +33 -23 -16
Contract jobs citing Microservices 13 6 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 0.37% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.45% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 22
10th Percentile £402 - £484
25th Percentile £406 £460 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £470 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -17.54% +3.64%
75th Percentile £540 £490 £659
90th Percentile £600 £601 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £67.75
25th Percentile - - £70.94
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -53.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -53.33% +25.00%

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 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Hampshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Hampshire

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Hampshire

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 1 May 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
Southampton - 4 £403 - 18
Fleet - 2 £470 -
Portsmouth +18 1 - - 15
Farnborough +1 1 £413 -15.82% 3
Havant - 1 £650 -
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 2 (15.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) NGFW
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Relational Database
2 5 (38.46%) MySQL
3 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
3 4 (30.77%) Redis
4 3 (23.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (15.38%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
1 4 (30.77%) Laravel
1 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (30.77%) React
1 4 (30.77%) RESTful
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
1 4 (30.77%) Vue
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (23.08%) Phalcon
2 3 (23.08%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Symfony
3 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (15.38%) Spring
4 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (61.54%) OO
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Concurrent Programming
4 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Multithreading
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
4 4 (30.77%) OO PHP
4 4 (30.77%) OWASP
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) SOA
4 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) API Development
5 3 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) PHP
4 3 (23.08%) C#
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Perl
6 1 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (7.69%) Ruby
6 1 (7.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Kibana
2 2 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Zend
2 3 (23.08%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft