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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 35 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.13% 9.25% 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.46% 10.94% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 4
10th Percentile £373 £443 £367
25th Percentile £400 £458 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +7.20% -10.71%
75th Percentile £550 £741 £551
90th Percentile £569 £750 £599
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £503 £469
% change year-on-year -10.45% +7.20% -10.71%
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 469 192 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 82.14% 84.58% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 133 83
10th Percentile £313 £225 £330
25th Percentile £400 £380 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -15.93%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £549
90th Percentile £640 £648 £629
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £18.05
25th Percentile £59.19 £15.88 £19.13
Median hourly rate £69.75 £17.30 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +303.18% -63.58% +140.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £50.00
90th Percentile - £33.18 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +308.47% -12.82% -1.27%

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 July 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 (11.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
3 1 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Serverless
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.86%) Firebase
7 1 (2.86%) PaaS
7 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) IPsec
2 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
4 3 (8.57%) Flink
5 2 (5.71%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) DocumentDB
6 1 (2.86%) Firebird
6 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) Redis
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 10 (28.57%) Selenium
2 9 (25.71%) REST Assured
3 8 (22.86%) GitLab
4 7 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (20.00%) Git
5 4 (11.43%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (8.57%) ERwin
6 3 (8.57%) JIRA
6 3 (8.57%) Postman
6 3 (8.57%) SoapUI
7 2 (5.71%) Gatling
8 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.86%) Mockito
8 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (37.14%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Architect
1 10 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Lead
4 5 (14.29%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Senior
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Junior
7 2 (5.71%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) Kafka
2 8 (22.86%) REST
2 8 (22.86%) Spring
2 8 (22.86%) Spring Boot
3 7 (20.00%) Playwright
4 4 (11.43%) Swagger
5 3 (8.57%) HTML
5 3 (8.57%) JSON
5 3 (8.57%) Node.js
5 3 (8.57%) OpenAPI
5 3 (8.57%) RESTful
5 3 (8.57%) SOAP
6 2 (5.71%) Akka
6 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.71%) JSF
6 2 (5.71%) OAuth
6 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
6 2 (5.71%) OpenID
6 2 (5.71%) Play Framework
6 2 (5.71%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
4 10 (28.57%) BDD
5 9 (25.71%) DevOps
6 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.86%) TDD
7 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (17.14%) ETL
9 5 (14.29%) Analytics
9 5 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
9 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 5 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 5 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
10 4 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
10 4 (11.43%) Logical Data Model
10 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (77.14%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.71%) Scala
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) COBOL
7 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (65.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.86%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) WCAG
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Kibana
5 1 (2.86%) Istio
5 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Databricks
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Splunk
3 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.86%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) Talend