Microservices Contracts in the South East

Microservices
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 82 111 89
Rank change year-on-year +29 -22 -23
Contract jobs citing Microservices 80 95 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.66% 1.71% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.01% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 75 105
10th Percentile £350 £407 £453
25th Percentile £408 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £684 £663
90th Percentile £743 £750 £708
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £60.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -53.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £49.75 £48.43 £72.50
% change year-on-year +2.73% -33.20% +23.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in the South East

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the South East 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
Thames Valley +32 54 £575 -8.00% 34
Berkshire +9 30 £478 -18.72% 13
Buckinghamshire +26 24 £575 -23.33% 12
Hampshire +33 13 £513 +9.04% 20
Surrey +20 6 £750 +100.00% 25
West Sussex +3 4 £550 -23.08% 12
Kent - 3 £525 - 7
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.75%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Camunda
2 2 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Avolution ABACUS
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 30 (37.50%) AWS
3 17 (21.25%) Serverless
4 12 (15.00%) Azure Functions
4 12 (15.00%) SaaS
5 11 (13.75%) GCP
6 10 (12.50%) PaaS
7 9 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (10.00%) IaaS
9 7 (8.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
9 7 (8.75%) GitHub
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.00%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) VSAN
2 5 (6.25%) NGFW
3 4 (5.00%) Network Security
4 3 (3.75%) SSL
5 2 (2.50%) BGP
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.50%) DNS
5 2 (2.50%) Firewall
5 2 (2.50%) MPLS
5 2 (2.50%) OSPF
5 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.50%) VLAN
5 2 (2.50%) VPN
5 2 (2.50%) WAN
6 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.25%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.25%) MySQL
5 8 (10.00%) Redis
6 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (5.00%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.75%) Big Data
10 2 (2.50%) Couchbase
10 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
10 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.50%) MS Access
11 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.25%) HBase
11 1 (1.25%) Impala
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) Git
2 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.25%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) GitLab
5 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.75%) JUnit
5 3 (3.75%) Mockito
5 3 (3.75%) Selenium
5 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.75%) Subversion
6 2 (2.50%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (2.50%) JMeter
6 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.50%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.25%) DbUnit
7 1 (1.25%) jMock
7 1 (1.25%) Postman
7 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.75%) Telecoms
5 5 (6.25%) Billing
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.25%) French Language
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Architect
2 28 (35.00%) Developer
3 15 (18.75%) Senior
4 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 12 (15.00%) Technical Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Python Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Technical Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Azure Developer
8 6 (7.50%) React Developer
8 6 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Designer
9 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 5 (6.25%) Security Architect
9 5 (6.25%) Solutions Designer
10 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Principal Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) RESTful
2 15 (18.75%) Web Services
3 14 (17.50%) React
4 13 (16.25%) REST
5 11 (13.75%) Spring Boot
6 9 (11.25%) Kafka
7 8 (10.00%) JSON
8 6 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (7.50%) Spring
9 5 (6.25%) .NET
9 5 (6.25%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.25%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
10 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.00%) Laravel
10 4 (5.00%) Prisma
10 4 (5.00%) Vue
11 3 (3.75%) Node.js
11 3 (3.75%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (12.50%) PKI
3 7 (8.75%) Public Cloud
4 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 5 (6.25%) Frameworx
5 5 (6.25%) TM Forum
6 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.25%) IoT
9 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Windows
2 7 (8.75%) Linux
3 5 (6.25%) Unix
4 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 30 (37.50%) Agile
3 28 (35.00%) Containerisation
4 27 (33.75%) DevOps
5 21 (26.25%) TOGAF
6 20 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (23.75%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (21.25%) ITIL
9 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (18.75%) DevSecOps
11 14 (17.50%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (17.50%) SDLC
11 14 (17.50%) Zachman Framework
12 12 (15.00%) IT Strategy
12 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (15.00%) Test Automation
13 11 (13.75%) Technology Strategy
14 10 (12.50%) Code Quality
14 10 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
14 10 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 16 (20.00%) Java
2 16 (20.00%) SQL
3 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.75%) C#
5 5 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.00%) Go
6 4 (5.00%) PHP
7 3 (3.75%) Perl
7 3 (3.75%) Ruby
8 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.50%) MCSE
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (7.50%) CISSP
5 6 (7.50%) Degree
6 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 4 (5.00%) CCNP
8 3 (3.75%) CISM
8 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.25%) OCP
10 1 (1.25%) SANS
10 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.75%) NCSC
2 13 (16.25%) NIST
3 9 (11.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 19 (23.75%) Docker
2 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 12 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Flume
5 1 (1.25%) Postfix
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Terraform
3 4 (5.00%) Kibana
4 3 (3.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (2.50%) Ansible
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) VMware
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.50%) Cisco
3 10 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 7 (8.75%) Salesforce
5 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.00%) Google
6 4 (5.00%) Splunk
6 4 (5.00%) Zend
7 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.50%) Citrix
7 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.25%) Databricks
8 1 (1.25%) New Relic
8 1 (1.25%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.25%) Zscaler