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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 15 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 2.55% 0.63% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 0.68% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 5
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile £413 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.00%
75th Percentile £511 - £675
90th Percentile £534 - £724
South East median daily rate £520 £457 £525
% change year-on-year +13.91% -13.05% -12.50%

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 512 294 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 86.93% 93.04% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 214 362
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £355 £303 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £592 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 23 51
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.88 £11.71
25th Percentile £54.84 £24.33 £18.35
Median hourly rate £66.99 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.25% -37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.63 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.67 £57.35
% change year-on-year +153.87% -62.22% +14.70%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 - 9 £450 -
Redhill - 2 £525 -
Guildford - 1 £425 - 5
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 (6.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) Azure
3 9 (60.00%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) Dialogflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) MySQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Leader
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) CSS
1 5 (33.33%) HTML
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth
1 5 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (33.33%) OpenID
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 4 (26.67%) Django
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 2 (13.33%) JSON Schema
4 2 (13.33%) REST
5 1 (6.67%) Blazor
5 1 (6.67%) CSS3
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) JWT
5 1 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (6.67%) React Native
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
3 10 (66.67%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 9 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 8 (53.33%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
7 6 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (33.33%) API Development
8 5 (33.33%) Application Security
8 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (33.33%) Scrum
9 4 (26.67%) Analytics
9 4 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
9 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
9 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
9 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (33.33%) QA
3 3 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft