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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 59 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 70 8 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.87% 1.18% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 1.33% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 64 4 76
10th Percentile - £43,925 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -9.32%
75th Percentile £76,865 £72,438 £68,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £73,225 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.67%

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 1,741 603 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.29% 88.68% 82.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,298 355 1,440
10th Percentile £30,000 £24,850 £26,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +7 69 £65,000 +1.96% 14
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 (1.43%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.71%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) AWS
3 8 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
3 8 (11.43%) GitHub
4 7 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (8.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.14%) Serverless
7 4 (5.71%) GCP
8 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.29%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.86%) iPaaS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.43%) IaaS
10 1 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) MySQL
4 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.43%) DocumentDB
5 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) GitLab
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (5.71%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (64.29%) Developer
2 24 (34.29%) Java Developer
3 18 (25.71%) Lead
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (10.00%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Architect
6 6 (8.57%) Lead Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Principal Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Agile Business Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Analyst
8 4 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.29%) Lead Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Security Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (35.71%) .NET
2 13 (18.57%) RESTful
3 9 (12.86%) .NET Core
3 9 (12.86%) Vue
4 8 (11.43%) ASP.NET
4 8 (11.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.57%) Node.js
5 6 (8.57%) Spring
5 6 (8.57%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.71%) Kafka
6 4 (5.71%) React
6 4 (5.71%) REST
6 4 (5.71%) SubSonic
7 2 (2.86%) Middleware
7 2 (2.86%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.43%) Express.js
8 1 (1.43%) Razor View Engine
8 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
1 3 (4.29%) Unix
1 3 (4.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (35.71%) Agile
2 22 (31.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 17 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (22.86%) CI/CD
5 12 (17.14%) Coaching
5 12 (17.14%) DevOps
5 12 (17.14%) Event-Driven
5 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
6 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 8 (11.43%) TDD
8 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (10.00%) Scrum
9 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.57%) Roadmaps
10 5 (7.14%) Analytics
10 5 (7.14%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (7.14%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Java
2 19 (27.14%) C#
3 15 (21.43%) SQL
4 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
5 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.29%) PHP
6 3 (4.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (4.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (4.29%) CCSP
1 3 (4.29%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (4.29%) CISM
1 3 (4.29%) CISSP
1 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.43%) Degree
2 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.29%) NIST
3 2 (2.86%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (18.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.43%) Confluent
2 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace