Microservices Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Microservices skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 23
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 29 16 5
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.59% 7.02% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 7.96% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 3
10th Percentile £390 £436 £361
25th Percentile £419 £456 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £413
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +13.94% -42.71%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £472
90th Percentile £575 £620 £504
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £470 £413
% change year-on-year +1.06% +13.94% -42.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 372 201 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.55% 88.16% 84.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 145 87
10th Percentile £278 £268 £240
25th Percentile £380 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £588 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £485
% change year-on-year - -7.22% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.85 £18.25
25th Percentile £50.63 £15.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £61.16 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +270.67% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.50 £50.00
90th Percentile - £42.65 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.58 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +267.15% -5.71% -

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Microservices job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Microservices.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Microservices

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
3 4 (13.79%) Serverless
4 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Bitrise
6 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.45%) Firebase
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Kong
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) IPsec
2 1 (3.45%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) MongoDB
2 7 (24.14%) NoSQL
3 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.34%) Redis
6 2 (6.90%) MySQL
6 2 (6.90%) Power BI
7 1 (3.45%) Big Data
7 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.45%) Firebird
7 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.45%) Metadata
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) REST Assured
4 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.34%) ERwin
4 3 (10.34%) Mocha
4 3 (10.34%) Selenium
5 2 (6.90%) JIRA
5 2 (6.90%) Postman
5 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
6 1 (3.45%) Gatling
6 1 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Architect
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) Data Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Platform Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Spring
1 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 5 (17.24%) Kafka
2 5 (17.24%) React
2 5 (17.24%) REST
3 4 (13.79%) Node.js
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) Swagger
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) Express.js
4 3 (10.34%) Jest
4 3 (10.34%) JSON
4 3 (10.34%) OpenAPI
4 3 (10.34%) Playwright
5 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.90%) JSF
5 2 (6.90%) OAuth
5 2 (6.90%) SOAP
5 2 (6.90%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Android
1 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 8 (27.59%) Agile
2 8 (27.59%) Containerisation
2 8 (27.59%) TDD
3 6 (20.69%) BDD
3 6 (20.69%) DevOps
3 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
4 5 (17.24%) Analytics
4 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.24%) Coaching
4 5 (17.24%) Data Architecture
4 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
4 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (13.79%) API Design
5 4 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
5 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) Kotlin
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) Scala
7 1 (3.45%) C++
7 1 (3.45%) COBOL
7 1 (3.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Accessibility
2 4 (13.79%) WCAG
3 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
3 1 (3.45%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Talend
22 Microservices jobs in Tyne and Wear