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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 59 40
Rank change year-on-year -13 -19 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 13 31 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.20% 2.39% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 3.03% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 17
10th Percentile £40,025 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £52,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £58,103 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.05% +4.55%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 - £82,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -3.23%

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 888 1,023 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.69% 79.00% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 581 497 405
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,984 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £49,274 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.70% -1.45% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +1 8 £86,250 +40.92% 28
Durham 0 5 £43,500 -20.91% 2
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 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Maven
3 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Product Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
2 3 (23.08%) Blazor
2 3 (23.08%) Entity Framework
2 3 (23.08%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) CSS3
4 1 (7.69%) Django
4 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.69%) Flask
4 1 (7.69%) Jest
4 1 (7.69%) JPA
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) Redux
4 1 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (7.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Fedora
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (23.08%) Customer-Centricity
6 3 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 3 (23.08%) SOLID
7 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
7 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 2 (15.38%) Fintech
7 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (15.38%) SDLC
7 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Delphi
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Solace