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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Microservices 2 5 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.57% 0.94% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 1.10% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 17
10th Percentile - £615 £500
25th Percentile - £621 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £695 £700
90th Percentile - £732 £805
South East median daily rate £410 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -21.15% -13.33% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.31
25th Percentile - - £64.52
Median hourly rate - - £76.53
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +10.70%

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 330 455 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.29% 85.53% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 328 552
10th Percentile £204 £203 £200
25th Percentile £250 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 29
10th Percentile £16.49 £12.33 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £30.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +8.21% +75.90%

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
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 21 September 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
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) NgRx
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Redux
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Progressive Web App
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Server-Driven UI
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes