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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 34 17 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.35% 7.42% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.50% 8.25% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 0
10th Percentile £400 £432 -
25th Percentile £425 £454 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% - -
75th Percentile £575 £632 -
90th Percentile £600 £650 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £476 £550 -
% change year-on-year -13.41% - -
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 358 206 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 87.96% 89.96% 84.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 124 89
10th Percentile £221 £300 £225
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -13.13% -11.61%
75th Percentile £525 £586 £600
90th Percentile £596 £646 £716
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £440 £485
% change year-on-year +2.27% -9.28% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £31.19 £13.84 £16.60
25th Percentile £49.56 £14.74 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £16.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +243.75% -66.32% -
75th Percentile £61.88 £18.63 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.72 £19.75 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £55.00 £16.00 £13.99
% change year-on-year +243.75% +14.37% -

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 20 February 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 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.94%) GCP
7 1 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Kong
7 1 (2.94%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) IPsec
1 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) Redis
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) GitLab
2 8 (23.53%) REST Assured
3 7 (20.59%) Cucumber
4 6 (17.65%) Git
4 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
5 5 (14.71%) Mocha
6 4 (11.76%) JIRA
6 4 (11.76%) Selenium
7 3 (8.82%) Mockito
7 3 (8.82%) Postman
7 3 (8.82%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.94%) Gatling
8 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (32.35%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Test Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Java Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Senior Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Consultant
8 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Junior
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) Spring Boot
2 9 (26.47%) Kafka
2 9 (26.47%) Spring
3 7 (20.59%) REST
4 5 (14.71%) HTML
4 5 (14.71%) Jest
4 5 (14.71%) Node.js
5 4 (11.76%) React
5 4 (11.76%) WireMock
6 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (8.82%) CSS
6 3 (8.82%) Express.js
6 3 (8.82%) JAX-RS
6 3 (8.82%) Playwright
6 3 (8.82%) SOAP
6 3 (8.82%) Swagger
7 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.88%) JSF
7 2 (5.88%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.88%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Mac OS X
1 3 (8.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 19 (55.88%) Agile
3 18 (52.94%) TDD
3 18 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 17 (50.00%) BDD
5 15 (44.12%) Containerisation
6 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
6 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
7 8 (23.53%) API Development
7 8 (23.53%) Functional Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (20.59%) Coaching
8 7 (20.59%) DevOps
9 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (14.71%) Performance Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (14.71%) User Stories
10 5 (14.71%) Web Development
11 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Java
2 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.94%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.76%) WCAG
3 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Kibana
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Informatica
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle
1 1 (2.94%) Splunk
1 1 (2.94%) Talend