Microservices Contracts in Surrey

Microservices
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Microservices 3 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.06% 0.94% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.14% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - £361 £488
25th Percentile - £424 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £635 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +15.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £675 £688
90th Percentile - £716 £850
South East median daily rate £463 £505 £600
% change year-on-year -8.32% -15.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year +57.14% -52.54% +16.60%

All Process and 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 260 528 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 91.87% 82.89% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 386 518
10th Percentile £200 £203 £211
25th Percentile £313 £320 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £545 £576 £638
90th Percentile £596 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 64 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £18.23
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £61.90
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Surrey

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Surrey.

Daily rate trend 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 6 July 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
Staines - 2 - - 5
Microservices
South East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Java SE
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Struts
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) OCP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle