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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 63 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 -17 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 498 869 1,277
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 4.55% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 5.01% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 401 527 978
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,849 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £106,275
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%

All Process and 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 13,659 17,335 19,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.20% 90.79% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,596 10,457 15,949
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 2 December 2025.

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 14 (2.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.61%) JBoss
3 7 (1.41%) Confluence
3 7 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.20%) nginx
5 5 (1.00%) CMS
6 4 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.80%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) Apache
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Quorum
2 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 282 (56.63%) Azure
2 266 (53.41%) AWS
3 97 (19.48%) GCP
3 97 (19.48%) SaaS
4 78 (15.66%) Serverless
5 72 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (13.25%) GitHub
7 34 (6.83%) Azure Service Bus
8 29 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.42%) PaaS
10 26 (5.22%) Amazon S3
10 26 (5.22%) Power Platform
11 25 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (4.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (3.41%) OCI
16 15 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (3.01%) Azure App Service
17 14 (2.81%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.40%) AMQP
2 2 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (17.67%) MongoDB
2 75 (15.06%) NoSQL
2 75 (15.06%) SQL Server
3 64 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (9.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 33 (6.63%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (5.22%) MySQL
7 19 (3.82%) Power BI
8 18 (3.61%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.81%) Tableau
10 13 (2.61%) Redis
11 12 (2.41%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (1.41%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
18 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
18 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 87 (17.47%) Git
2 43 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 25 (5.02%) JIRA
4 17 (3.41%) GitLab
5 14 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (2.81%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.41%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.21%) Selenium
8 8 (1.61%) git-flow
8 8 (1.61%) JUnit
8 8 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.41%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.41%) Visual Studio
10 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.00%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.80%) JMeter
12 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.60%) Mockito
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 145 (29.12%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.69%) Finance
3 37 (7.43%) Law
4 31 (6.22%) Banking
5 29 (5.82%) Retail
6 22 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.82%) Back Office
9 18 (3.61%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.41%) Billing
10 17 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 16 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.61%) Legal
13 12 (2.41%) Front Office
14 10 (2.01%) Advertising
15 8 (1.61%) Marketing
16 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (39.76%) Developer
2 138 (27.71%) Senior
3 96 (19.28%) Software Engineer
4 80 (16.06%) .NET Developer
5 78 (15.66%) Architect
6 63 (12.65%) Lead
7 45 (9.04%) Senior Developer
8 40 (8.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (6.22%) Lead Developer
10 28 (5.62%) C# Developer
11 27 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.22%) Software Developer
13 25 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (4.62%) Java Engineer
15 22 (4.42%) Java Developer
16 21 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
17 20 (4.02%) Applications Engineer
17 20 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
18 19 (3.82%) Technical Architect
19 18 (3.61%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (41.37%) .NET
2 142 (28.51%) React
3 126 (25.30%) RESTful
4 80 (16.06%) AngularJS
5 76 (15.26%) .NET Core
6 69 (13.86%) Kafka
7 66 (13.25%) Node.js
8 64 (12.85%) ASP.NET Web API
9 61 (12.25%) Spring
10 59 (11.85%) REST
11 57 (11.45%) .NET Framework
12 55 (11.04%) Spring Boot
13 53 (10.64%) ASP.NET
14 50 (10.04%) Entity Framework
15 49 (9.84%) HTML
16 38 (7.63%) ASP.NET MVC
17 37 (7.43%) CSS
18 35 (7.03%) Vue
19 34 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
20 32 (6.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 142 (28.51%) Cloud Native
2 66 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.24%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (8.63%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.22%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.81%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.41%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.61%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.41%) DataPower
11 7 (1.41%) IoT
12 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.02%) Linux
2 16 (3.21%) Windows
3 10 (2.01%) Android
4 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (53.82%) Agile
2 225 (45.18%) CI/CD
3 207 (41.57%) DevOps
4 168 (33.73%) Software Engineering
5 145 (29.12%) Full-Stack Development
6 125 (25.10%) Mentoring
7 96 (19.28%) Event-Driven
8 93 (18.67%) Containerisation
9 90 (18.07%) AI
10 88 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 87 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (16.87%) Test Automation
13 79 (15.86%) TDD
14 75 (15.06%) Clean Code
15 71 (14.26%) Scrum
16 65 (13.05%) Computer Science
17 62 (12.45%) Coaching
18 61 (12.25%) MVC
19 60 (12.05%) Design Patterns
19 60 (12.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 215 (43.17%) C#
2 166 (33.33%) Java
3 162 (32.53%) SQL
4 124 (24.90%) JavaScript
5 108 (21.69%) TypeScript
6 106 (21.29%) Python
7 33 (6.63%) Go
8 14 (2.81%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.81%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.01%) Ruby
10 9 (1.81%) PHP
11 8 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.41%) C++
13 6 (1.20%) Delphi
14 4 (0.80%) Bicep
14 4 (0.80%) C
15 3 (0.60%) Bash
15 3 (0.60%) Elixir
15 3 (0.60%) Erlang
15 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 73 (14.66%) Degree
2 56 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (7.63%) AWS Certification
4 34 (6.83%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.22%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.42%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (4.22%) Master's Degree
10 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.20%) CISM
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.65%) QA
2 21 (4.22%) GDPR
3 12 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.81%) NIST
5 7 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) WCAG
8 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 118 (23.69%) Docker
2 12 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 129 (25.90%) Kubernetes
2 57 (11.45%) Terraform
3 34 (6.83%) Grafana
4 14 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.81%) Ansible
7 6 (1.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.62%) Oracle
3 15 (3.01%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.41%) Google
5 7 (1.41%) Facebook
5 7 (1.41%) YouTube
6 6 (1.20%) Databricks
7 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.80%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.80%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.80%) Nokia
9 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.60%) Sage
9 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.60%) Trayport
10 2 (0.40%) SAP
10 2 (0.40%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.40%) VMware