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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 46 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 0
Contract jobs citing Microservices 19 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.89% 1.17% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.24% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 5
10th Percentile £325 - £507
25th Percentile £413 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.04%
75th Percentile £534 - £675
90th Percentile £597 - £724
South East median daily rate £475 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +0.42% -9.90% -10.64%

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 551 322 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.74% 93.88% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 208 292
10th Percentile £200 £200 £203
25th Percentile £363 £219 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £646 £628 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 35 22
10th Percentile £14.13 £20.16 £14.93
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.15 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -6.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £46.90 £21.02 £58.49
% change year-on-year +123.12% -64.06% +7.55%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 - 14 £450 -
Redhill -1 2 £525 -
Guildford - 1 £350 - 3
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 (5.26%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) Dialogflow
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (42.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 14 (73.68%) Public Sector
2 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Lead
2 7 (36.84%) Technical Leader
3 6 (31.58%) Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Technical Architect
5 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
6 2 (10.53%) Lead Tester
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Tester
6 2 (10.53%) Tester
7 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Mobile Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) CSS
1 8 (42.11%) HTML
1 8 (42.11%) OAuth
1 8 (42.11%) OAuth2
1 8 (42.11%) OpenID
1 8 (42.11%) React
1 8 (42.11%) RESTful
2 7 (36.84%) Django
3 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) React Native
4 2 (10.53%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) CSS3
5 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.26%) HTML5
5 1 (5.26%) JWT
5 1 (5.26%) Node.js
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 15 (78.95%) Agile
3 14 (73.68%) DevOps
3 14 (73.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 12 (63.16%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 12 (63.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (57.89%) Technical Leadership
6 9 (47.37%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (42.11%) Application Security
7 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
7 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
8 7 (36.84%) Analytics
8 7 (36.84%) API Development
8 7 (36.84%) Code Quality
8 7 (36.84%) Computer Science
8 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
9 5 (26.32%) Scrum
10 4 (21.05%) AI
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
1 7 (36.84%) Master's Degree
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) Accessibility
2 8 (42.11%) QA
3 3 (15.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft