Microservices Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 21 10 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.21% 5.26% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 6.13% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 13
10th Percentile £443 £367 £470
25th Percentile £458 £392 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% -10.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £741 £551 £738
90th Percentile £750 £599 £757
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £503 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +7.20% -10.71% -12.50%

All Process and 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 192 163 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.21% 85.79% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 83 165
10th Percentile £225 £330 £350
25th Percentile £380 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -15.93% +7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £650
90th Percentile £648 £629 £750
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £18.05 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £19.13 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £47.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -63.58% +140.51% +24.53%
75th Percentile £20.30 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £33.18 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.82% -1.27% +24.53%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 20 (95.24%) AWS
2 4 (19.05%) Kong
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) MongoDB
1 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 4 (19.05%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
2 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) gulp
2 4 (19.05%) Maven
2 4 (19.05%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Security Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Architect
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (4.76%) CISSP Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) React
2 5 (23.81%) Kafka
2 5 (23.81%) Node.js
2 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) Apache CXF
3 4 (19.05%) Dropwizard
3 4 (19.05%) Express.js
3 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
3 4 (19.05%) JAX-RS
3 4 (19.05%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (19.05%) MERN Stack
3 4 (19.05%) Mongoose
3 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (19.05%) Sequelize
3 4 (19.05%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 3 (14.29%) REST
4 3 (14.29%) Swagger
5 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Security Architecture
2 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven
3 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) Application Security
4 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (19.05%) Database Security
4 4 (19.05%) Open Source
4 4 (19.05%) Operational Stability
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Fintech
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (9.52%) UML
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Argo
3 1 (4.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat