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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 4 8 27
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.91% 2.22% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.53% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 20
10th Percentile £514 £495 £496
25th Percentile £516 £581 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £750 £560
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +33.85% +10.41%
75th Percentile £566 £775 £596
90th Percentile £571 - £632
South East median daily rate £525 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

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 361 316 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.23% 87.78% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 197 414
10th Percentile £204 £195 £200
25th Percentile £350 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -3.69%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.89% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 42
10th Percentile £25.15 £15.95 £13.25
25th Percentile £33.10 £22.24 £16.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.95 £77.40
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

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
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 9 February 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
Redhill - 2 - -
Staines -9 1 £525 -
Camberley - 1 £550 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Interface Catalogue
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (25.00%) Foglight
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle