Microservices Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Microservices
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.07% 1.11% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.22% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £413 - £361
25th Percentile £431 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £620
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.10%
75th Percentile £522 - £675
90th Percentile £538 - -
South East median daily rate £525 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +13.39% -11.81% -11.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 246 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 85.32% 90.77% 81.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 178 371
10th Percentile £204 £200 £245
25th Percentile £363 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% +1.06% -10.48%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £595
90th Percentile £639 £588 £688
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 20 64
10th Percentile £19.80 £13.50 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.31 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.98 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £53.90 £24.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +121.54% -51.34% -4.76%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Surrey

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Surrey over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Surrey

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. 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
Staines -13 6 £450 - 2
Redhill - 2 £525 -
Guildford - 1 £425 - 1
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) Dialogflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Technical Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Automation Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) JSON Schema
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (16.67%) OpenID
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) Blazor
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) JWT
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) React Native
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Android
2 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 6 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
5 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (25.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (25.00%) Community of Practice
7 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 2 (16.67%) AI
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft