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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 68 51
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 88 7 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.23% 0.81% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 0.98% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 75 3 50
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,700 £44,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £62,603
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.14% -7.25%
75th Percentile £89,074 £65,625 £67,125
90th Percentile £99,000 £70,500 £71,991
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%

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 1,981 713 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.80% 82.91% 81.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,491 460 1,079
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +19 86 £65,000 +1.96% 24
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 2 (2.27%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) AWS
3 19 (21.59%) GitHub
4 14 (15.91%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (9.09%) Serverless
6 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.41%) GCP
7 3 (3.41%) Vertex AI
8 2 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.27%) IaaS
8 2 (2.27%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.27%) PaaS
8 2 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Network Security
2 1 (1.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.45%) MongoDB
2 14 (15.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.82%) MySQL
5 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.14%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) GitLab
2 6 (6.82%) Git
2 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (19.32%) Public Sector
2 9 (10.23%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.95%) Aerospace
4 6 (6.82%) Finance
5 3 (3.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Games
7 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (64.77%) Developer
2 31 (35.23%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.45%) Lead
4 16 (18.18%) Senior
5 14 (15.91%) .NET Developer
6 12 (13.64%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) Architect
8 7 (7.95%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (7.95%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.82%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Agile Business Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
11 4 (4.55%) Lead Architect
11 4 (4.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (34.09%) .NET
2 15 (17.05%) ASP.NET
2 15 (17.05%) ASP.NET Core
3 12 (13.64%) .NET Core
3 12 (13.64%) RESTful
3 12 (13.64%) Vue
4 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.09%) Node.js
5 8 (9.09%) React
6 7 (7.95%) Spring
6 7 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 7 (7.95%) SubSonic
7 4 (4.55%) Kafka
7 4 (4.55%) Middleware
7 4 (4.55%) REST
8 3 (3.41%) Swagger
9 2 (2.27%) Spring MVC
10 1 (1.14%) Entity Framework
10 1 (1.14%) OAuth
10 1 (1.14%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.27%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) CentOS
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Agile
2 23 (26.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 22 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 20 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.59%) TDD
6 16 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 15 (17.05%) DevOps
8 14 (15.91%) Coaching
8 14 (15.91%) Event-Driven
9 12 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.50%) Scrum
11 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.23%) Analytics
12 9 (10.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (10.23%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (7.95%) Data Analytics
13 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (7.95%) Roadmaps
14 6 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (48.86%) Java
2 24 (27.27%) C#
3 23 (26.14%) SQL
4 17 (19.32%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.41%) Python
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.41%) CCSP
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.41%) CISM
4 3 (3.41%) CISSP
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (26.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (30.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.36%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Ansible
4 3 (3.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.14%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.14%) Confluent