Microservices Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Microservices
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton 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 18 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 2.82% - 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £474
25th Percentile £488 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £695 - £633
90th Percentile £709 - £696
Hampshire median daily rate £500 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 120 104 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.51% 66.24% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 72 116
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £337 £355 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +0.96%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £602
90th Percentile £668 £649 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £22.50 - £18.75
25th Percentile £31.06 - £22.69
Median hourly rate £64.75 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.06% +196.30% +69.70%
75th Percentile £72.63 - £32.63
90th Percentile £74.00 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.08 £68.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.53% +25.00% +46.67%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Southampton

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Southampton

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Criteo