Microservices Contract Job Trends in Kent

Microservices
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 1.60% - 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% - 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £379 - £523
25th Percentile £403 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.86%
75th Percentile £491 - £588
90th Percentile £511 - -
South East median daily rate £462 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -12.10% -10.64% +9.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 143 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 83.20% 73.33% 77.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 62 132
10th Percentile £178 £155 £167
25th Percentile £256 £205 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -1.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £543
90th Percentile £629 £636 £629
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £15.06 - £20.08
25th Percentile £17.37 £15.00 £45.13
Median hourly rate £20.40 £31.39 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.01% -42.93% +48.13%
75th Percentile - £54.09 £65.69
90th Percentile - £57.22 £79.17
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £53.50
% change year-on-year -61.99% +9.11% +83.79%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Kent

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Kent over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Kent

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Blazor
1 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
2 1 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA