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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Microservices 35 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.87% 9.95% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 11.80% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 4
10th Percentile - £443 £367
25th Percentile £400 £458 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £503 £469
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +7.20% -8.54%
75th Percentile £550 £741 £551
90th Percentile £594 £750 £599
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £503 £469
% change year-on-year -10.45% +7.20% -8.54%
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 491 178 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 82.38% 84.36% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 118 84
10th Percentile £313 £225 £333
25th Percentile £400 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £582 £573 £538
90th Percentile £647 £650 £621
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 8 17
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.64 £18.15
25th Percentile £56.37 £16.19 £18.25
Median hourly rate £69.75 £18.28 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +281.67% -63.45% +153.16%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 -
90th Percentile - £30.04 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £17.15 £19.50
% change year-on-year +279.01% -12.05% -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 19 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
1 4 (11.43%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
4 5 (14.29%) Serverless
5 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
6 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.71%) Kong
7 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.86%) PaaS
8 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 8 (22.86%) GitLab
1 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
1 8 (22.86%) Selenium
2 7 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 6 (17.14%) Git
4 5 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 4 (11.43%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (8.57%) ERwin
7 2 (5.71%) Gatling
8 1 (2.86%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.86%) JIRA
8 1 (2.86%) Mockito
8 1 (2.86%) Postman
8 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (34.29%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.71%) 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 11 (31.43%) Developer
2 10 (28.57%) Architect
3 8 (22.86%) Test Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Java Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Lead
6 5 (14.29%) Data Architect
6 5 (14.29%) Senior
7 4 (11.43%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Senior Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Platform Architect
9 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Architect
10 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.86%) Scala Developer
10 1 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Kafka
2 10 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 9 (25.71%) Spring
4 8 (22.86%) REST
5 5 (14.29%) OAuth
5 5 (14.29%) Playwright
6 4 (11.43%) JWT
6 4 (11.43%) Middleware
7 3 (8.57%) JSON
7 3 (8.57%) Node.js
7 3 (8.57%) RESTful
8 2 (5.71%) Akka
8 2 (5.71%) OAuth2
8 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
8 2 (5.71%) OpenID
8 2 (5.71%) Play Framework
8 2 (5.71%) React
8 2 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (5.71%) Swagger
8 2 (5.71%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Linux
1 3 (8.57%) 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 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 16 (45.71%) Test Automation
3 14 (40.00%) Agile
4 13 (37.14%) DevOps
5 11 (31.43%) Containerisation
5 11 (31.43%) TDD
6 10 (28.57%) BDD
7 8 (22.86%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (20.00%) ETL
8 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (14.29%) Analytics
10 5 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
10 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
10 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 5 (14.29%) Functional Testing
10 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 5 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Kotlin
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) COBOL
6 1 (2.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) 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 8 (22.86%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) WCAG
3 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (48.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 4 (11.43%) Grafana
3 4 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Kibana
5 1 (2.86%) Ansible
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