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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 53 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +17
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 39 13 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.32% 2.29% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.46% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 33 10 66
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £44,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,603
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -13.37% -13.42%
75th Percentile £93,634 £71,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,078 £78,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -18.17%

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 1,242 528 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 74.02% 93.12% 86.62%
Number of salaries quoted 859 327 1,252
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,972 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,050 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -4 37 £65,000 +33.33% 22
Durham -8 2 £78,850 +9.51% 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 1 (2.56%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) AWS
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JUnit
1 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Advertising
2 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Lead
3 8 (20.51%) Software Developer
4 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Analyst
5 6 (15.38%) Lead Developer
5 6 (15.38%) Principal Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 5 (12.82%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Senior
8 3 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Technical Developer
9 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (51.28%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) RESTful
3 6 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 5 (12.82%) Vue
5 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.13%) Kafka
6 2 (5.13%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) Django
7 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.56%) Flask
7 1 (2.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Agile
1 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) DevOps
2 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven
3 7 (17.95%) Fintech
3 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
4 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
4 5 (12.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.26%) Coaching
5 4 (10.26%) Design Patterns
5 4 (10.26%) Migration
5 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
6 3 (7.69%) BDD
6 3 (7.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (25.64%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) SQL
4 3 (7.69%) PHP
4 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) Delphi
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle