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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing Microservices 21 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.77% 6.13% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.86% 6.80% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 4
10th Percentile £448 £367 £428
25th Percentile £459 £392 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £469 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -8.54% -14.58%
75th Percentile £741 £551 £625
90th Percentile £750 £599 £693
North East median daily rate £538 £469 £513
% change year-on-year +14.67% -8.54% -11.64%

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 177 147 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.33% 90.18% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 81 118
10th Percentile £200 £345 £350
25th Percentile £411 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £639
90th Percentile £638 £650 £720
North East median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £11.60 £17.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.25 £18.19
Median hourly rate £17.30 £21.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +8.86% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £65.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
North East median hourly rate £17.30 £38.27 £26.00
% change year-on-year -54.79% +47.19% +57.58%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +8 21 £538 +14.67% 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) GitHub
2 3 (14.29%) Kong
2 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) MongoDB
1 12 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
4 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) SonarQube
3 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 3 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (14.29%) gulp
3 3 (14.29%) Maven
3 3 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (9.52%) Postman
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Security Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Architect
4 5 (23.81%) Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Designer
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Lead Security Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Designer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Security Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (4.76%) CISSP Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) React
2 4 (19.05%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Node.js
2 4 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 3 (14.29%) Apache CXF
3 3 (14.29%) Dropwizard
3 3 (14.29%) Express.js
3 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 3 (14.29%) JAX-RS
3 3 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 3 (14.29%) MEAN Stack
3 3 (14.29%) MERN Stack
3 3 (14.29%) Mongoose
3 3 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) Sequelize
3 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 5 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (19.05%) Application Security
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
3 4 (19.05%) Database Security
3 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven
3 4 (19.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Open Source
4 3 (14.29%) Operational Stability
4 3 (14.29%) Secrets Management
4 3 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (9.52%) GitOps
5 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (61.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (23.81%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft