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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 17 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 25 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.74% 6.17% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.74% 6.62% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 2
10th Percentile £446 £609 £488
25th Percentile £459 £609 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% -0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £640 £700
90th Percentile £750 £646 £723
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £503 £620 £625
% change year-on-year -18.95% -0.80% +4.17%

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 182 151 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.45% 93.21% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 74 89
10th Percentile £200 £318 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £460 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -16.36% +3.77%
75th Percentile £570 £579 £644
90th Percentile £626 £650 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

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
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 17 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 3 (12.00%) Kong
3 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 12 (48.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (12.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) DocumentDB
5 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (20.00%) Git
3 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (12.00%) GitLab
4 3 (12.00%) gulp
4 3 (12.00%) Maven
4 3 (12.00%) Mockito
4 3 (12.00%) Postman
4 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (8.00%) JIRA
6 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Military
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Architect
1 9 (36.00%) Senior
2 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Security Architect
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Architect
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Designer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.00%) CISSP Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Kafka
2 6 (24.00%) JAX-RS
3 4 (16.00%) React
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.00%) Apache CXF
4 3 (12.00%) Dropwizard
4 3 (12.00%) Express.js
4 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (12.00%) Keycloak
4 3 (12.00%) MEAN Stack
4 3 (12.00%) Mongoose
4 3 (12.00%) Node.js
4 3 (12.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (12.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) Sequelize
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Mac OS X
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (24.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.00%) Application Security
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
4 4 (16.00%) Database Security
4 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Pair Programming
5 3 (12.00%) Validation
5 3 (12.00%) Web Design
5 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) COBOL
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Istio
3 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Argo
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft