Microservices Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Microservices
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 89 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -48 +30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 12 18 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.74% 1.43% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.55% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 28
10th Percentile £76,000 £56,500 £44,625
25th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +39.13% -28.13% +23.08%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,143 1,158 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 70.47% 91.98% 89.11%
Number of salaries quoted 641 453 485
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,350 £79,800
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in Hertfordshire

Microservices
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
St Albans +3 7 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Hemel Hempstead +13 2 £100,000 - 3
Stevenage 0 2 £82,500 +43.48% 1
Watford -8 1 £90,000 +38.46% 4
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 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Principal Software Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Principal Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (16.67%) Hugging Face
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Node.js
1 2 (16.67%) Nuxt
1 2 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (16.67%) React
1 2 (16.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (58.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Event-Driven
2 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) High Availability
6 3 (25.00%) API Design
6 3 (25.00%) API Development
6 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) OpenAI