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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing Microservices 10 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.90% 1.46% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.63% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
10th Percentile £410 - £361
25th Percentile - - £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.18%
75th Percentile £519 - £509
90th Percentile £535 - £582
South East median daily rate £525 £459 £623
% change year-on-year +14.38% -26.27% +13.18%

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 437 246 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.08% 89.78% 81.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 174 345
10th Percentile £204 £195 £250
25th Percentile £361 £276 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £625
90th Percentile £652 £586 £700
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 25 58
10th Percentile £25.63 £16.10 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -1.29% -36.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £27.05 £47.50
% change year-on-year +94.10% -43.06% -5.00%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -11 3 £450 -
Redhill - 2 £525 -
Camberley - 1 £550 -
Guildford - 1 £425 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) JSON Schema
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Blazor
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) JWT
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (10.00%) React Native
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
4 3 (30.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (20.00%) AI
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (30.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (10.00%) Foglight
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle