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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 58 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 -20 +14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 7 36 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.74% 2.56% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 3.23% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4 21 25
10th Percentile £39,775 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,375 £61,206 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% +2.01% +14.29%
75th Percentile £53,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,650 £65,603 £97,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.97% -2.51%

All Process and 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 754 1,113 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.13% 78.99% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 480 662 474
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £30,825
25th Percentile £28,235 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -9 4 £72,500 +12.40% 19
Durham +3 3 £43,250 -21.36% 2
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) React
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 3 (42.86%) Blazor
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) Entity Framework
2 3 (42.86%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) JPA
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) Redux
2 3 (42.86%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
3 2 (28.57%) Sass
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
4 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) SOLID
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Solace
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft