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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing Microservices 41 22 9
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.52% 11.06% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 13.17% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 3
10th Percentile - £446 £385
25th Percentile £400 £459 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £550 £666 £578
90th Percentile £578 £750 £609
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 528 167 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.94% 83.92% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 101 74
10th Percentile £313 £225 £331
25th Percentile £389 £419 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £547
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 10 13
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.71 £15.95
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £69.50 £18.28 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +280.30% -20.54% +16.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £70.00
90th Percentile - £37.60 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £23.00
% change year-on-year +275.72% -24.78% +16.46%

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 23 August 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 4 (9.76%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (78.05%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 8 (19.51%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (17.07%) Serverless
5 5 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.20%) GCP
5 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (12.20%) Kong
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
7 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.88%) AWS KMS
8 2 (4.88%) npm
8 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.20%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.32%) Flink
3 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.88%) DocumentDB
4 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) Firebird
5 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) GitLab
2 9 (21.95%) Git
2 9 (21.95%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.07%) Selenium
4 6 (14.63%) REST Assured
5 5 (12.20%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.32%) ERwin
6 3 (7.32%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (4.88%) Mocha
8 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.44%) Gatling
8 1 (2.44%) JIRA
8 1 (2.44%) Mockito
8 1 (2.44%) Postman
8 1 (2.44%) ScalaTest
8 1 (2.44%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.44%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (46.34%) Public Sector
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Military
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Java Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Lead
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Platform Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (46.34%) Kafka
2 13 (31.71%) Terraform
3 10 (24.39%) REST
3 10 (24.39%) Spring Boot
4 9 (21.95%) Spring
5 8 (19.51%) Node.js
6 6 (14.63%) React
6 6 (14.63%) RESTful
7 4 (9.76%) Express.js
7 4 (9.76%) Jest
7 4 (9.76%) JWT
7 4 (9.76%) Middleware
7 4 (9.76%) OAuth
7 4 (9.76%) Playwright
8 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.32%) JSON
8 3 (7.32%) Play Framework
9 2 (4.88%) Akka
9 2 (4.88%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (4.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Blog
6 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.44%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 20 (48.78%) Agile
3 18 (43.90%) Test Automation
4 16 (39.02%) DevOps
5 15 (36.59%) Containerisation
6 14 (34.15%) TDD
7 11 (26.83%) Event-Driven
8 9 (21.95%) BDD
8 9 (21.95%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (21.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (21.95%) Observability
9 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (19.51%) ETL
9 8 (19.51%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (17.07%) Scrum
10 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (63.41%) Java
2 9 (21.95%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
4 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 3 (7.32%) Kotlin
6 3 (7.32%) Scala
7 1 (2.44%) C++
7 1 (2.44%) COBOL
7 1 (2.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (29.27%) Accessibility
2 8 (19.51%) WCAG
3 7 (17.07%) QA
4 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Grafana
3 5 (12.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.88%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Databricks
2 2 (4.88%) Confluent
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.44%) Google