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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 102 69
Rank change year-on-year +45 -33 -27
Contract jobs citing Microservices 18 5 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.12% 0.28% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 0.35% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 20
10th Percentile £414 - £481
25th Percentile £488 £460 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -14.55% +8.37%
75th Percentile £586 £483 £669
90th Percentile £678 £487 £701
South East median daily rate £459 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -12.57% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £51.50 - £67.00
25th Percentile £53.75 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -53.33% +18.58%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year +57.14% -52.54% +16.60%

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 736 1,442 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.69% 81.79% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 814 707
10th Percentile £325 £377 £241
25th Percentile £463 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £613
90th Percentile £661 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 168 104
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.78 £15.50
25th Percentile £32.10 £26.19 £21.18
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +89.62%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.47% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 - 5 £588 - 34
Portsmouth - 4 - - 31
Fleet - 2 £470 - 2
Farnborough +11 1 £413 -15.82% 3
Havant - 1 - - 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 2 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Git
2 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) REST
1 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
2 6 (33.33%) Web Services
3 5 (27.78%) RESTful
3 5 (27.78%) Spring
4 4 (22.22%) .NET
4 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
5 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
6 1 (5.56%) JSF
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
6 1 (5.56%) Laravel
6 1 (5.56%) Middleware
6 1 (5.56%) MUnit
6 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.56%) RAML
6 1 (5.56%) SOAP
6 1 (5.56%) Symfony
6 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
4 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (27.78%) OO
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 4 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 4 (22.22%) Concurrent Programming
5 4 (22.22%) Design Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (22.22%) Multithreading
5 4 (22.22%) SOA
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) SysML
5 4 (22.22%) UML
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (5.56%) PHP
6 1 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Kibana
2 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.56%) CloudHub
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Criteo
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Zend