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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 64 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 96 7 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.99% 0.76% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 0.96% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 77 4 28
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,775 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,375 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +49.86% -33.27% +8.33%
75th Percentile £91,269 £53,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £100,000 £65,650 £71,991
England median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -13.97%

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 2,294 729 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.46% 79.59% 78.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,702 460 741
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £44,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -6.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £95,000 £74,332 £77,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 +14 91 £65,000 -10.34% 37
Durham -12 2 £89,250 +106.36%
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 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.29%) Azure
2 29 (30.21%) AWS
3 21 (21.88%) GitHub
4 14 (14.58%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (8.33%) Serverless
6 7 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.25%) PaaS
7 6 (6.25%) SaaS
8 5 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.21%) IaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.13%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) Vertex AI
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.08%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 14 (14.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.29%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.17%) Flink
5 4 (4.17%) MySQL
6 3 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.08%) GIS
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.04%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Git
2 12 (12.50%) GitLab
3 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.04%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.04%) Games
8 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 58 (60.42%) Developer
2 29 (30.21%) Java Developer
3 20 (20.83%) Lead
4 17 (17.71%) Senior
5 14 (14.58%) .NET Developer
6 13 (13.54%) Senior Developer
7 12 (12.50%) Architect
8 10 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.33%) Lead Architect
10 7 (7.29%) Senior .NET Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Software Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Lead Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
13 4 (4.17%) Agile Business Analyst
13 4 (4.17%) Analyst
13 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
13 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
13 4 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (35.42%) .NET
2 15 (15.63%) ASP.NET
2 15 (15.63%) ASP.NET Core
3 14 (14.58%) .NET Core
4 12 (12.50%) Terraform
4 12 (12.50%) Vue
5 10 (10.42%) RESTful
6 9 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.33%) Node.js
7 8 (8.33%) React
8 7 (7.29%) Kafka
8 7 (7.29%) Middleware
8 7 (7.29%) SubSonic
9 6 (6.25%) Spring
9 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.13%) REST
10 3 (3.13%) Swagger
11 2 (2.08%) Ajax
11 2 (2.08%) HTML5
11 2 (2.08%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.21%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.38%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) CentOS
2 6 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Windows
4 3 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.58%) Agile
2 28 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 25 (26.04%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (23.96%) DevOps
5 21 (21.88%) Event-Driven
6 19 (19.79%) TDD
7 18 (18.75%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 14 (14.58%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (13.54%) Coaching
9 13 (13.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
10 12 (12.50%) Analytics
10 12 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.46%) Scrum
11 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
12 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.42%) Software Testing
13 9 (9.38%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.75%) Java
2 25 (26.04%) C#
3 20 (20.83%) SQL
4 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.33%) Python
7 1 (1.04%) Bash
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Degree
2 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.13%) CCSP
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.13%) CISM
4 3 (3.13%) CISSP
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.13%) NIST
4 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Ansible
3 3 (3.13%) Argo
4 1 (1.04%) Fluentd
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.04%) Confluent