Microservices Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microservices
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 47 66
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Microservices 10 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.54% 0.50% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 0.58% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £525 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £400 £575
% change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 571 345 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.85% 86.25% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 139 323
10th Percentile £189 £263 £275
25th Percentile £406 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £750
East of England median daily rate £491 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.39% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 89 155
10th Percentile £16.54 £15.69 £25.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.50 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.39
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.29% -9.00%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Microservices job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Stevenage - 9 - - 6
Hemel Hempstead 0 1 £500 -4.76% 5
Microservices
East of England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (90.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Artifactory
1 9 (90.00%) GitLab
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
1 9 (90.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Development Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 10 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) Vue
2 9 (90.00%) Node.js
2 9 (90.00%) React
2 9 (90.00%) Svelte
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) Blazor
3 1 (10.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (10.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (90.00%) Data Structures
1 9 (90.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 10 (100.00%) TDD
2 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (90.00%) Design Patterns
2 9 (90.00%) OOP
2 9 (90.00%) SDLC
2 9 (90.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (80.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) B2C
5 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (10.00%) MVVM
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (70.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes