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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -32 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 38 33 12
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.98% 14.73% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 16.84% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 3
10th Percentile £400 £426 £609
25th Percentile £409 £477 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £556 £620
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% -10.28% -0.80%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £640
90th Percentile £576 £749 £646
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £550 £620
% change year-on-year -18.18% -11.29% -0.80%

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 544 196 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.67% 87.50% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 116 67
10th Percentile £313 £279 £321
25th Percentile £375 £410 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £470
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.72% -6.00%
75th Percentile £577 £575 £573
90th Percentile £640 £646 £693
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 11 19
10th Percentile £18.40 £13.75 £13.75
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £69.75 £19.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +262.34% +4.05% -5.13%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £50.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £58.75 £19.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +205.19% +4.05% -5.13%

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 October 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 (10.53%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (73.68%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub
4 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (15.79%) GCP
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (13.16%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.16%) Kong
5 5 (13.16%) Serverless
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (5.26%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.26%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (39.47%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.89%) Flink
4 2 (5.26%) DocumentDB
4 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Redis
5 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Git
1 9 (23.68%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Selenium
3 7 (18.42%) REST Assured
4 6 (15.79%) Cucumber
4 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.89%) ScalaTest
5 3 (7.89%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 2 (5.26%) Mocha
7 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.63%) Gatling
7 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.63%) Mockito
7 1 (2.63%) Postman
7 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (57.89%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
2 8 (21.05%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.16%) Scala Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Scala Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (47.37%) Kafka
2 14 (36.84%) Terraform
3 11 (28.95%) REST
3 11 (28.95%) Spring Boot
4 9 (23.68%) Node.js
4 9 (23.68%) Spring
5 7 (18.42%) RESTful
6 5 (13.16%) Play Framework
6 5 (13.16%) React
7 4 (10.53%) Express.js
7 4 (10.53%) Jest
7 4 (10.53%) Middleware
7 4 (10.53%) Playwright
8 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.89%) JWT
8 3 (7.89%) OAuth
8 3 (7.89%) WireMock
9 2 (5.26%) Chai
9 2 (5.26%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Blog
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (89.47%) CI/CD
2 25 (65.79%) Agile
3 20 (52.63%) Test Automation
4 17 (44.74%) DevOps
4 17 (44.74%) TDD
5 16 (42.11%) Containerisation
6 12 (31.58%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (28.95%) Observability
8 10 (26.32%) BDD
8 10 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (26.32%) Event-Driven
9 9 (23.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (23.68%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (23.68%) Scrum
10 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (18.42%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
12 6 (15.79%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Java
2 8 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) Scala
5 4 (10.53%) Python
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 10 (26.32%) WCAG
3 7 (18.42%) QA
System Software
1 21 (55.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (44.74%) Kubernetes
2 9 (23.68%) Grafana
3 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.89%) Kibana
5 2 (5.26%) Istio
6 1 (2.63%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Splunk
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) Confluent
3 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Sage