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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 9 15
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Microservices 39 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.29% 10.88% 6.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 13.04% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 4
10th Percentile - £448 £367
25th Percentile £400 £459 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £469
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% +14.67% -8.54%
75th Percentile £549 £741 £551
90th Percentile £560 £750 £599
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £538 £469
% change year-on-year -16.28% +14.67% -8.54%

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 519 161 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.71% 83.42% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 101 78
10th Percentile £313 £200 £339
25th Percentile £389 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £638 £641
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 9 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.67 £17.83
25th Percentile £43.96 £17.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £69.50 £19.25 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +261.04% -10.47% +8.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £39.20 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year +275.72% -19.53% +8.86%

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 9 August 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 (10.26%) WebLogic
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
3 7 (17.95%) Serverless
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (12.82%) Kong
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) AWS KMS
7 2 (5.13%) npm
7 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.82%) NoSQL
2 5 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.69%) Flink
3 3 (7.69%) MySQL
3 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.13%) DocumentDB
4 2 (5.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Firebird
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) GitLab
2 9 (23.08%) Git
2 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.95%) Selenium
4 6 (15.38%) REST Assured
5 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.69%) ERwin
6 3 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (5.13%) Mocha
8 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.56%) Gatling
8 1 (2.56%) JIRA
8 1 (2.56%) Mockito
8 1 (2.56%) Postman
8 1 (2.56%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Java Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Test Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Lead
5 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Node.js Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Platform Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) Kafka
2 10 (25.64%) REST
2 10 (25.64%) Spring Boot
3 9 (23.08%) Spring
4 8 (20.51%) Node.js
5 6 (15.38%) React
6 5 (12.82%) RESTful
7 4 (10.26%) Express.js
7 4 (10.26%) Jest
7 4 (10.26%) JWT
7 4 (10.26%) Middleware
7 4 (10.26%) OAuth
7 4 (10.26%) Playwright
8 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.69%) JSON
9 2 (5.13%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (5.13%) Akka
9 2 (5.13%) Nunjucks
9 2 (5.13%) Play Framework
9 2 (5.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Android
2 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.56%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
3 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
4 16 (41.03%) DevOps
5 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 13 (33.33%) TDD
7 10 (25.64%) Event-Driven
8 9 (23.08%) BDD
8 9 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (20.51%) ETL
9 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (20.51%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (20.51%) Observability
10 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (17.95%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.82%) SQL
6 3 (7.69%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.13%) Scala
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) COBOL
8 1 (2.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) Accessibility
2 7 (17.95%) QA
2 7 (17.95%) WCAG
3 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (30.77%) Terraform
3 5 (12.82%) Grafana
3 5 (12.82%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 1 (2.56%) Ansible
5 1 (2.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (5.13%) Confluent
2 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk