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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 60 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 15 31 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.45% 3.16% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 3.59% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 18
10th Percentile £40,863 £42,875 £42,163
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,313 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,350 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,603 £64,375
90th Percentile - £71,400 £79,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -9.38%

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 834 864 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.35% 88.16% 90.80%
Number of salaries quoted 547 387 467
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,900 £28,900
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -5 11 £68,750 +30.95% 42
Durham +3 4 £49,225 -22.48%
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 (6.67%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Advertising
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Principal Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (13.33%) Blazor
2 2 (13.33%) Entity Framework
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) Django
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) pytest
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Fedora
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Fintech
6 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
7 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Delphi
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat