Microservices Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Microservices
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 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 28 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.05% 0.93% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.14% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £606
25th Percentile - £255 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £260 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -59.22% +17.24%
75th Percentile - £265 £666
90th Percentile - - £679
South East median daily rate £520 £615 £595
% change year-on-year -15.45% +3.36% +8.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 88 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.32% 81.48% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 57 122
10th Percentile £207 £228 £182
25th Percentile £309 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 16
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.99 £20.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.50 £25.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.99 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% -0.04% +11.02%
75th Percentile £25.15 £47.50 £38.44
90th Percentile £86.32 £59.50 £50.00
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 Oxfordshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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%) Azure
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Rust Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Rust
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes