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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 20 29 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.71% 3.30% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.67% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 38
10th Percentile £43,075 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £70,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £72,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.57% -12.50%

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 884 790 1,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 75.68% 89.98% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 592 307 869
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,938 £37,789 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,699 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,150 £86,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -8.00%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -11 16 £70,000 +36.59% 12
Durham +7 4 £49,225 -31.63%
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 1 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Advertising
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Principal Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
7 1 (5.00%) Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Product Delivery Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Blazor
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) Django
4 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Flask
4 1 (5.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Fedora
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Fintech
5 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (15.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) Delphi
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat