Microservices Job Trends in the North East

Microservices
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 57
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 94 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.59% 1.02% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 1.24% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 73 5 14
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,825 £51,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,500 £58,103
Median % change year-on-year +49.43% -25.13% -3.16%
75th Percentile £90,000 £52,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £65,250 £65,603
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.66%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,596 806 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.59% 82.33% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,937 497 536
10th Percentile £32,750 £25,050 £25,379
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £46,324
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -8.25% -7.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the North East

Microservices
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North East over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 October 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +6 88 £65,000 +6.12% 32
Durham -11 2 £89,250 +106.36% 1
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 10 (10.64%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 38 (40.43%) AWS
2 28 (29.79%) Azure
3 23 (24.47%) GitHub
4 14 (14.89%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (7.45%) PaaS
5 7 (7.45%) SaaS
6 6 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.38%) IaaS
6 6 (6.38%) Serverless
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.13%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) DNS
1 1 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.09%) MongoDB
2 14 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.32%) MySQL
6 4 (4.26%) Flink
7 3 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.13%) GIS
8 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.06%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Git
2 12 (12.77%) GitLab
3 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.38%) JUnit
5 6 (6.38%) Mockito
6 1 (1.06%) Gatling
6 1 (1.06%) JMeter
6 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.06%) Mocha
6 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (20.21%) Public Sector
2 12 (12.77%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Finance
4 7 (7.45%) Aerospace
5 6 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Games
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (53.19%) Developer
2 29 (30.85%) Java Developer
3 19 (20.21%) Senior
4 15 (15.96%) Lead
5 14 (14.89%) .NET Developer
6 11 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Senior Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Architect
8 8 (8.51%) Java Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Lead Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Technical Leader
11 3 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.19%) Lead Java Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.40%) .NET
2 15 (15.96%) ASP.NET
2 15 (15.96%) ASP.NET Core
3 14 (14.89%) Terraform
4 12 (12.77%) Spring
4 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
5 11 (11.70%) Kafka
6 9 (9.57%) .NET Core
6 9 (9.57%) AngularJS
6 9 (9.57%) Middleware
6 9 (9.57%) REST
7 8 (8.51%) Node.js
7 8 (8.51%) React
7 8 (8.51%) RESTful
8 7 (7.45%) SubSonic
8 7 (7.45%) Vue
9 4 (4.26%) JWT
9 4 (4.26%) OAuth
10 3 (3.19%) Swagger
11 2 (2.13%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.40%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) CentOS
2 8 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.19%) Windows
4 2 (2.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) Agile
2 38 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) DevOps
4 28 (29.79%) TDD
5 26 (27.66%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 19 (20.21%) Test Automation
7 18 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (19.15%) Scrum
7 18 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (17.02%) Event-Driven
8 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (13.83%) Analytics
9 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
9 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
10 12 (12.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 11 (11.70%) Coaching
11 11 (11.70%) Containerisation
12 10 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (10.64%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 51 (54.26%) Java
2 20 (21.28%) SQL
3 18 (19.15%) C#
4 17 (18.09%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.57%) Python
7 1 (1.06%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Degree
3 8 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.06%) CCSP
5 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CISM
5 1 (1.06%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (41.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (40.43%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.51%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Argo
4 1 (1.06%) Fluentd
4 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.45%) Oracle
3 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.06%) Confluent