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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 35 42
Rank change year-on-year -33 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 643 1,146 1,845
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 7.59% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 7.99% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 461 586 1,677
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,458 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%

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 15,505 14,349 29,620
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,008 8,690 23,384
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 19 May 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 8 (1.24%) JBoss
2 7 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.78%) CMS
3 5 (0.78%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.47%) Confluence
4 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.31%) Apache
5 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.31%) Camunda
5 2 (0.31%) nginx
5 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.16%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 6 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.31%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Quorum
5 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 407 (63.30%) AWS
2 291 (45.26%) Azure
3 161 (25.04%) GCP
4 118 (18.35%) SaaS
5 108 (16.80%) Serverless
6 63 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (8.71%) GitHub
8 50 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
9 45 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (6.69%) Amazon SQS
11 37 (5.75%) Amazon S3
12 33 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
13 31 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.67%) Azure AKS
15 27 (4.20%) GitHub Copilot
16 23 (3.58%) PaaS
17 21 (3.27%) Power Platform
18 18 (2.80%) Azure Event Grid
19 15 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.33%) Broadband
2 6 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.93%) DNS
2 6 (0.93%) Firewall
3 5 (0.78%) DHCP
4 4 (0.62%) MQTT
4 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.47%) Internet
5 3 (0.47%) Modbus
5 3 (0.47%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) AMQP
7 1 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (18.97%) MongoDB
2 98 (15.24%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (11.82%) NoSQL
4 40 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 39 (6.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
6 36 (5.60%) MySQL
7 17 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.49%) Redis
8 16 (2.49%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.71%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.24%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.93%) Metadata
11 6 (0.93%) Power BI
11 6 (0.93%) Tableau
12 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.47%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.47%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 71 (11.04%) Git
2 39 (6.07%) GitLab
2 39 (6.07%) TeamCity
3 26 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 24 (3.73%) Cypress.io
5 12 (1.87%) JIRA
6 9 (1.40%) Claude Code
7 8 (1.24%) Maven
7 8 (1.24%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.09%) JUnit
8 7 (1.09%) Selenium
9 6 (0.93%) Mockito
9 6 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.62%) NUnit
12 3 (0.47%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.47%) JMeter
12 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 166 (25.82%) Finance
2 109 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 77 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 71 (11.04%) Banking
5 68 (10.58%) Law
6 54 (8.40%) Retail
7 47 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (6.53%) Financial Institution
9 38 (5.91%) Back Office
10 32 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (2.02%) Legal
12 11 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.40%) Marketing
14 8 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.78%) Publishing
17 4 (0.62%) Games
17 4 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 235 (36.55%) Developer
2 181 (28.15%) Software Engineer
3 150 (23.33%) Senior
4 125 (19.44%) Lead
5 93 (14.46%) Architect
6 83 (12.91%) .NET Developer
7 68 (10.58%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (9.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 45 (7.00%) Java Engineer
10 39 (6.07%) C# Developer
11 38 (5.91%) Lead Developer
12 36 (5.60%) .NET Software Engineer
13 33 (5.13%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.98%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (4.82%) C# Software Engineer
16 30 (4.67%) C# .NET Developer
16 30 (4.67%) Scala Engineer
17 29 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 27 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
18 27 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (27.99%) .NET
2 153 (23.79%) React
3 138 (21.46%) Node.js
4 103 (16.02%) RESTful
5 74 (11.51%) .NET Core
6 66 (10.26%) REST
7 63 (9.80%) Vue
8 61 (9.49%) Spring
9 59 (9.18%) ASP.NET
10 58 (9.02%) gRPC
11 52 (8.09%) AngularJS
12 48 (7.47%) ASP.NET Core
13 43 (6.69%) Spring Boot
14 42 (6.53%) .NET Framework
15 40 (6.22%) CSS
15 40 (6.22%) HTML
16 39 (6.07%) Kafka
17 36 (5.60%) ASP.NET Web API
18 27 (4.20%) Middleware
19 26 (4.04%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 194 (30.17%) Cloud Native
2 101 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (10.73%) Product Ownership
4 46 (7.15%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (7.00%) Over-the-Top Content
6 34 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (2.02%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.71%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.56%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.09%) PKI
14 6 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.93%) IoT
15 5 (0.78%) Cyberattack
15 5 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.60%) Linux
2 20 (3.11%) Unix
3 14 (2.18%) Windows
4 9 (1.40%) Android
5 5 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) CentOS
6 1 (0.16%) Debian
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (51.32%) CI/CD
2 286 (44.48%) Software Engineering
3 273 (42.46%) Agile
4 234 (36.39%) DevOps
5 204 (31.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 190 (29.55%) Mentoring
7 156 (24.26%) Containerisation
8 154 (23.95%) Coaching
9 153 (23.79%) Test Automation
10 138 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 133 (20.68%) Event-Driven
13 121 (18.82%) Clean Code
14 97 (15.09%) AI
15 96 (14.93%) Scrum
16 93 (14.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 90 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
18 88 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
19 83 (12.91%) TDD
20 82 (12.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 198 (30.79%) Java
2 173 (26.91%) C#
3 168 (26.13%) JavaScript
4 154 (23.95%) SQL
5 148 (23.02%) Python
6 118 (18.35%) TypeScript
7 62 (9.64%) Go
8 47 (7.31%) Scala
9 24 (3.73%) Ruby
10 15 (2.33%) PHP
11 13 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.40%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.24%) Rust
14 7 (1.09%) C++
15 6 (0.93%) Bash
15 6 (0.93%) Bicep
16 5 (0.78%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.16%) Groovy
17 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (11.66%) Degree
2 59 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 44 (6.84%) SC Cleared
4 39 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 22 (3.42%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.33%) CISSP
10 14 (2.18%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.56%) CISM
13 6 (0.93%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.78%) GIAC
14 5 (0.78%) ISACA
14 5 (0.78%) SANS
15 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.31%) QA
2 19 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.64%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.33%) NIST
5 13 (2.02%) GDPR
6 10 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.09%) NCSC
7 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) WCAG
9 3 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.47%) IFRS
9 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
10 2 (0.31%) SEPA
11 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 188 (29.24%) Docker
2 9 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 182 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 109 (16.95%) Terraform
3 49 (7.62%) Grafana
4 27 (4.20%) Ansible
5 18 (2.80%) Argo
6 8 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.47%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) MIIS
9 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 105 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.00%) Typelevel
3 26 (4.04%) Google
4 19 (2.95%) Oracle
5 7 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.93%) Cisco
6 6 (0.93%) F5
6 6 (0.93%) Juniper
6 6 (0.93%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.78%) Okta
7 5 (0.78%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.62%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.62%) Revolut
8 4 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.47%) Foundry
10 2 (0.31%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.31%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.31%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.31%) Splunk