Microservices Contracts in Hertfordshire

Microservices
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 62 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 13 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.04% 0.57% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 0.65% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £388 - £473
25th Percentile £444 £525 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £775
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -29.03% +24.62%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £844
90th Percentile - - £878
East of England median daily rate £450 £400 £519
% change year-on-year +12.50% -22.85% -9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.36%

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 387 617 647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.63% 87.39% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 195 357
10th Percentile £278 £213 £260
25th Percentile £450 £306 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £410 £540
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% -24.07% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £743
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 275 136
10th Percentile £16.95 £27.60 £17.74
25th Percentile £30.77 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £54.25 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.63 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -11.76% +114.54% -4.53%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microservices in Hertfordshire

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 10 August 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 - 10 £350 - 2
Hemel Hempstead +6 1 £500 -9.09% 3
Microservices
East of England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (69.23%) npm
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) 3GPP
1 2 (15.38%) 4G
1 2 (15.38%) 5G
1 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Artifactory
1 9 (69.23%) GitLab
1 9 (69.23%) JIRA
1 9 (69.23%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.69%) MSI
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Development Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Packager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) .NET
1 10 (76.92%) .NET Framework
1 10 (76.92%) AngularJS
1 10 (76.92%) CSS
1 10 (76.92%) HTML
1 10 (76.92%) Vue
2 9 (69.23%) Node.js
2 9 (69.23%) React
2 9 (69.23%) Svelte
3 2 (15.38%) OpenAPI
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) RESTful
3 2 (15.38%) Swagger
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) Blazor
4 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.69%) jQuery
4 1 (7.69%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Algorithms
1 9 (69.23%) Data Structures
1 9 (69.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Containerisation
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (76.92%) TDD
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Computer Science
3 9 (69.23%) Design Patterns
3 9 (69.23%) OOP
3 9 (69.23%) SDLC
3 9 (69.23%) Software Testing
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
7 1 (7.69%) B2C
7 1 (7.69%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (7.69%) Event-Driven
7 1 (7.69%) Migration
7 1 (7.69%) Programme Management
7 1 (7.69%) Project Management
7 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
1 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 9 (69.23%) C++
2 9 (69.23%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft