Hybrid/Remote Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 49 71
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 855 937 893
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.49% 5.76% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 6.18% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 610 422 574
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,875
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,914 15,166 20,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.38% 93.21% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,271 8,607 12,553
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microservices
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 9 (1.05%) CMS
2 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.70%) nginx
4 5 (0.58%) Camunda
4 5 (0.58%) IIS
5 3 (0.35%) DNN
5 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Kentico
5 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.23%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 478 (55.91%) AWS
2 393 (45.96%) Azure
3 153 (17.89%) SaaS
4 139 (16.26%) GCP
5 101 (11.81%) Serverless
6 91 (10.64%) GitHub
7 72 (8.42%) Amazon EKS
7 72 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (8.07%) GitHub Copilot
9 68 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (6.08%) Amazon S3
11 47 (5.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 41 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
12 41 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
13 32 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.63%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (3.04%) PaaS
16 24 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (2.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.81%) Broadband
2 6 (0.70%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.70%) Internet
3 5 (0.58%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (25.61%) MongoDB
2 147 (17.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.32%) Elasticsearch
4 103 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.49%) SQL Server
6 43 (5.03%) MySQL
7 36 (4.21%) NoSQL
8 34 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.51%) Redis
10 19 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.52%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.40%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.94%) Metadata
14 7 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.70%) Parquet
16 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 79 (9.24%) Git
2 60 (7.02%) TeamCity
3 30 (3.51%) GitLab
4 26 (3.04%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.34%) JUnit
6 18 (2.11%) Maven
6 18 (2.11%) Mockito
7 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
8 15 (1.75%) Claude Code
9 9 (1.05%) JIRA
9 9 (1.05%) Selenium
10 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.35%) NUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Mocha
13 2 (0.23%) MSTest
13 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 196 (22.92%) Finance
2 153 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 110 (12.87%) Law
4 94 (10.99%) Retail
5 92 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 86 (10.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 79 (9.24%) Banking
8 71 (8.30%) Legal
9 59 (6.90%) Back Office
10 57 (6.67%) Financial Institution
11 40 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.27%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.04%) Games
14 18 (2.11%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.64%) Marketing
16 9 (1.05%) French Language
17 8 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.82%) Advertising
18 7 (0.82%) Local Government
19 5 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 400 (46.78%) Developer
2 184 (21.52%) .NET Developer
3 183 (21.40%) Senior
4 178 (20.82%) Lead
5 172 (20.12%) Software Engineer
6 108 (12.63%) Architect
7 101 (11.81%) Full-Stack Developer
8 92 (10.76%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.85%) Lead Developer
10 43 (5.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 43 (5.03%) Lead Software Engineer
11 41 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (4.44%) Technical Leader
13 33 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.63%) Java Developer
15 30 (3.51%) Team Leader
15 30 (3.51%) Technical Architect
16 27 (3.16%) C# Developer
16 27 (3.16%) Lead Architect
17 25 (2.92%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (39.42%) .NET
2 262 (30.64%) Node.js
3 236 (27.60%) React
4 178 (20.82%) .NET Core
5 172 (20.12%) ASP.NET
6 150 (17.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (17.31%) Vue
8 138 (16.14%) Terraform
9 116 (13.57%) AngularJS
10 99 (11.58%) Blazor
11 92 (10.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 85 (9.94%) REST
13 79 (9.24%) Spring
14 74 (8.65%) RESTful
15 62 (7.25%) .NET Framework
16 52 (6.08%) Spring Boot
17 46 (5.38%) Kafka
18 34 (3.98%) CSS
19 32 (3.74%) WPF
20 29 (3.39%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 223 (26.08%) Cloud Native
2 112 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (9.36%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
9 9 (1.05%) Blog
9 9 (1.05%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
10 8 (0.94%) Data Structures
10 8 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (0.94%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.82%) IoT
12 6 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.50%) Linux
2 26 (3.04%) Windows
3 14 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (55.20%) Agile
2 439 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 334 (39.06%) Full-Stack Development
4 312 (36.49%) Software Engineering
5 269 (31.46%) Mentoring
6 253 (29.59%) DevOps
7 201 (23.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 183 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
9 168 (19.65%) Event-Driven
10 159 (18.60%) Scrum
11 158 (18.48%) AI
12 148 (17.31%) Coaching
13 143 (16.73%) Technical Leadership
13 143 (16.73%) Test Automation
14 134 (15.67%) TDD
15 122 (14.27%) Clean Code
16 113 (13.22%) Architectural Patterns
17 112 (13.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 111 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 108 (12.63%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 360 (42.11%) C#
2 257 (30.06%) SQL
3 249 (29.12%) JavaScript
4 225 (26.32%) Java
5 204 (23.86%) TypeScript
6 116 (13.57%) Python
7 33 (3.86%) Ruby
8 20 (2.34%) Go
9 19 (2.22%) Bash
10 15 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.64%) Scala
12 13 (1.52%) Bicep
13 8 (0.94%) PHP
14 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.70%) C++
16 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.23%) Groovy
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 95 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 75 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.95%) Degree
4 31 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.40%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.40%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.17%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.94%) CISSP
7 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.82%) CISM
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.16%) QA
2 22 (2.57%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.11%) GDPR
5 9 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 9 (1.05%) NIST
6 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.47%) NCSC
6 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.47%) WCAG
7 3 (0.35%) IFRS
7 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.12%) PSD2
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 227 (26.55%) Docker
2 9 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 256 (29.94%) Kubernetes
2 69 (8.07%) Grafana
3 17 (1.99%) Argo
4 16 (1.87%) Ansible
5 13 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Control-M
7 1 (0.12%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 224 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.63%) Google
3 27 (3.16%) Oracle
4 15 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.52%) SAP
6 9 (1.05%) Databricks
6 9 (1.05%) Typelevel
7 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.58%) Splunk
8 4 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.47%) Epicor
8 4 (0.47%) Facebook
8 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.47%) IFS
8 4 (0.47%) Infor
8 4 (0.47%) Instagram
8 4 (0.47%) Okta
8 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.47%) TikTok
9 3 (0.35%) Optimizely