Microservices Contracts in the North East

Microservices
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 30 36
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Microservices 14 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.38% 2.37% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.36% 2.96% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 21
10th Percentile £435 £361 £481
25th Percentile £458 £378 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £472 £725
90th Percentile £630 £504 £758
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear 0 13 £475 +15.15% 25
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Kong
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (21.43%) Redis
4 1 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
3 4 (28.57%) gulp
3 4 (28.57%) Maven
3 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 8 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) French Language
3 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (7.14%) Designer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) React
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) Node.js
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 4 (28.57%) Apache CXF
3 4 (28.57%) Dropwizard
3 4 (28.57%) Express.js
3 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 4 (28.57%) JAX-RS
3 4 (28.57%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (28.57%) MERN Stack
3 4 (28.57%) Mongoose
3 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (28.57%) Sequelize
4 2 (14.29%) Akka
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) API Integration
2 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Open Source
3 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (14.29%) API Development
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Functional Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) logstash
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) New Relic