Microservices Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microservices
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 24 30
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing Microservices 13 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.33% 3.29% 6.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 3.85% 7.08%
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
North East median daily rate £475 £413 £550
% change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in Tyne and Wear

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in Tyne and Wear

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in Tyne and Wear

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 13 £475 +15.15% 31
Microservices
North East

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Kong
3 4 (30.77%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) MongoDB
2 4 (30.77%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Redis
4 1 (7.69%) DocumentDB
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) GitLab
2 5 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 4 (30.77%) Artifactory
3 4 (30.77%) gulp
3 4 (30.77%) Maven
3 4 (30.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
4 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) French Language
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 5 (38.46%) Kafka
2 5 (38.46%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
3 4 (30.77%) Apache CXF
3 4 (30.77%) Dropwizard
3 4 (30.77%) Express.js
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) JAX-RS
3 4 (30.77%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (30.77%) MERN Stack
3 4 (30.77%) Mongoose
3 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (30.77%) Sequelize
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) Akka
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) API Integration
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Open Source
3 4 (30.77%) Operational Stability
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (15.38%) API Development
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Functional Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) logstash
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) New Relic