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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 12 15
Rank change year-on-year -28 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Microservices 38 25 11
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.97% 11.90% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 13.89% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 4
10th Percentile £400 £446 £550
25th Percentile £406 £459 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £619
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -15.15% -1.00%
75th Percentile £536 £666 £635
90th Percentile £550 £750 £644
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £503 £619
% change year-on-year -10.45% -18.79% -1.00%

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 534 180 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.83% 85.71% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 99 74
10th Percentile £313 £200 £331
25th Percentile £400 £403 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.53% -14.09%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £579
90th Percentile £625 £628 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 11 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.75 £13.75
25th Percentile £43.96 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £19.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +250.65% +4.05% -6.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £50.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £19.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year +211.69% +4.05% -6.33%

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 14 September 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 9 (23.68%) 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 17 (44.74%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
2 3 (7.89%) Flink
2 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) DocumentDB
3 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) GitLab
3 7 (18.42%) Selenium
4 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (15.79%) REST Assured
5 5 (13.16%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.89%) ERwin
6 3 (7.89%) ScalaTest
6 3 (7.89%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (5.26%) JIRA
7 2 (5.26%) Mocha
8 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.63%) Gatling
8 1 (2.63%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.63%) Mockito
8 1 (2.63%) Postman
8 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
8 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (50.00%) 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
3 7 (18.42%) Test Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Scala Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.53%) Lead
6 4 (10.53%) Node.js Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Scala Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (44.74%) Kafka
2 13 (34.21%) Terraform
3 8 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 7 (18.42%) Node.js
4 7 (18.42%) REST
4 7 (18.42%) Spring
5 5 (13.16%) Play Framework
5 5 (13.16%) React
5 5 (13.16%) RESTful
6 4 (10.53%) Express.js
6 4 (10.53%) Jest
6 4 (10.53%) Middleware
6 4 (10.53%) Playwright
7 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 3 (7.89%) JSON
7 3 (7.89%) JWT
7 3 (7.89%) OAuth
8 2 (5.26%) Chai
8 2 (5.26%) Nunjucks
8 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.89%) Blog
4 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.63%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 23 (60.53%) Agile
3 19 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (42.11%) TDD
5 14 (36.84%) DevOps
6 12 (31.58%) Containerisation
7 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (26.32%) Observability
8 9 (23.68%) BDD
8 9 (23.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 9 (23.68%) Event-Driven
8 9 (23.68%) Scrum
9 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (21.05%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (18.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
11 6 (15.79%) API Development
11 6 (15.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.79%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.16%) Scala
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 12 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) Accessibility
2 9 (23.68%) WCAG
3 7 (18.42%) QA
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.05%) Grafana
3 5 (13.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) Ansible
5 1 (2.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Databricks
2 4 (10.53%) Splunk
3 2 (5.26%) Confluent
3 2 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Sage