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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 71 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -22
Contract jobs citing Microservices 26 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.00% 0.76% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.90% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 13
10th Percentile £326 £446 £513
25th Percentile £442 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% +10.58%
75th Percentile £689 £650 £638
90th Percentile £715 - £705
South East median daily rate £520 £615 £595
% change year-on-year -15.45% +3.36% +8.18%

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 1,082 777 1,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.17% 84.00% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 539 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £649
90th Percentile £725 £690 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 52 76
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.21 £15.88
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £21.04
Median hourly rate £20.71 £45.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.98% -9.09% +13.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.11 £62.81
90th Percentile £49.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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
Farnborough +9 15 £462 - 1
Basingstoke - 2 £663 - 15
Southampton +3 1 £500 +24.22% 17
Aldershot -4 1 £663 +20.45%
Fareham - 1 £650 - 2
Romsey - 1 £770 - 1
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 (11.54%) Apache
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) GitHub
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) Datadog
3 6 (23.08%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.69%) Apple Pay
6 2 (7.69%) Google Pay
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.85%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 6 (23.08%) HBase
1 6 (23.08%) MongoDB
1 6 (23.08%) NoSQL
1 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Tableau
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Gradle
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 7 (26.92%) JIRA
3 6 (23.08%) Artifactory
3 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 6 (23.08%) Git
3 6 (23.08%) JUnit
3 6 (23.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
4 3 (11.54%) GitLab
4 3 (11.54%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Developer
2 11 (42.31%) Java Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Senior
4 8 (30.77%) Senior Developer
5 6 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Architect
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (11.54%) .NET Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Migration Manager
8 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
9 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
9 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) Spring
1 11 (42.31%) Spring Boot
2 8 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 8 (30.77%) RESTful
3 7 (26.92%) Kafka
4 6 (23.08%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (11.54%) .NET
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
6 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.69%) JPA
6 2 (7.69%) React
6 2 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.85%) gRPC
7 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Event-Driven
4 8 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 7 (26.92%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (23.08%) Observability
6 6 (23.08%) SOA
7 5 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (19.23%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Project Management
8 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (15.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (15.38%) Scrum
9 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (11.54%) Release Train
9 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) OCP
1 9 (34.62%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) PgMP
4 3 (11.54%) PMI Certification
4 3 (11.54%) PMP
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (30.77%) Grafana
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
3 6 (23.08%) Terraform
4 3 (11.54%) Puppet
5 2 (7.69%) Podman
5 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Google
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
1 3 (11.54%) Samsung
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Splunk
3 1 (3.85%) Tenable
3 1 (3.85%) Workday