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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 39 57
Rank change year-on-year -19 +18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 866 1,103 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.06% 6.69% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 7.17% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 627 541 1,203
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £83,759
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%

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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 July 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 (0.92%) CMS
2 5 (0.58%) IIS
2 5 (0.58%) JBoss
2 5 (0.58%) nginx
3 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.35%) Camunda
3 3 (0.35%) Confluence
3 3 (0.35%) DNN
3 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.35%) Kentico
3 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.35%) WordPress
4 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 494 (57.04%) AWS
2 415 (47.92%) Azure
3 166 (19.17%) GCP
4 146 (16.86%) SaaS
5 103 (11.89%) Serverless
6 92 (10.62%) GitHub
7 75 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (7.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 59 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (5.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 43 (4.97%) Amazon S3
13 40 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
13 40 (4.62%) Azure AKS
14 36 (4.16%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (3.46%) PaaS
18 19 (2.19%) Azure Functions
18 19 (2.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.39%) Broadband
2 7 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.81%) Internet
3 6 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.69%) DNS
3 6 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) MQTT
5 4 (0.46%) Network Security
5 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Modbus
7 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (26.10%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 128 (14.78%) Elasticsearch
4 115 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.62%) NoSQL
6 61 (7.04%) SQL Server
7 51 (5.89%) MySQL
8 31 (3.58%) Relational Database
9 27 (3.12%) Redis
10 20 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.04%) Metadata
12 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.23%) Looker
Development Applications
1 60 (6.93%) Git
2 47 (5.43%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.73%) GitLab
4 23 (2.66%) Cypress.io
5 21 (2.42%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.08%) Claude Code
7 12 (1.39%) Maven
8 11 (1.27%) JIRA
8 11 (1.27%) JUnit
9 9 (1.04%) Mockito
10 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.58%) Selenium
11 4 (0.46%) NUnit
12 3 (0.35%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 192 (22.17%) Finance
2 130 (15.01%) Social Skills
3 98 (11.32%) Law
4 86 (9.93%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.82%) Retail
6 72 (8.31%) Banking
7 65 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (6.81%) Legal
9 45 (5.20%) Back Office
9 45 (5.20%) Financial Institution
10 35 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.23%) Legal Technology
12 17 (1.96%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.85%) Games
13 16 (1.85%) Marketing
14 10 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.58%) Aviation
18 4 (0.46%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 400 (46.19%) Developer
2 199 (22.98%) Software Engineer
3 188 (21.71%) .NET Developer
4 176 (20.32%) Senior
5 164 (18.94%) Lead
6 101 (11.66%) Architect
7 91 (10.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 80 (9.24%) Senior Developer
9 53 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 49 (5.66%) Lead Developer
11 44 (5.08%) Java Engineer
12 41 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
13 39 (4.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (3.93%) C# Developer
15 32 (3.70%) .NET Software Engineer
15 32 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
16 30 (3.46%) C# .NET Developer
16 30 (3.46%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (3.46%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (39.15%) .NET
2 247 (28.52%) Node.js
3 227 (26.21%) React
4 175 (20.21%) .NET Core
5 170 (19.63%) ASP.NET
6 151 (17.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 146 (16.86%) Vue
8 116 (13.39%) AngularJS
9 96 (11.09%) ASP.NET Web API
10 86 (9.93%) Blazor
10 86 (9.93%) RESTful
11 75 (8.66%) .NET Framework
11 75 (8.66%) REST
12 68 (7.85%) Spring
13 55 (6.35%) gRPC
14 51 (5.89%) Spring Boot
15 41 (4.73%) CSS
15 41 (4.73%) Kafka
16 39 (4.50%) HTML
17 25 (2.89%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 232 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 131 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (8.78%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.31%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.20%) Over-the-Top Content
6 31 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.50%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.81%) Blog
13 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.69%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.69%) IoT
15 5 (0.58%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.66%) Linux
2 22 (2.54%) Windows
3 20 (2.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.12%) Android
4 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) CentOS
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (53.23%) Agile
2 437 (50.46%) CI/CD
3 357 (41.22%) Software Engineering
4 336 (38.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 260 (30.02%) DevOps
6 225 (25.98%) Mentoring
7 197 (22.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 197 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 168 (19.40%) Coaching
8 168 (19.40%) Scrum
9 159 (18.36%) Test Automation
10 153 (17.67%) Containerisation
11 150 (17.32%) Event-Driven
12 144 (16.63%) AI
12 144 (16.63%) Clean Code
13 138 (15.94%) TDD
14 122 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
15 120 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
16 105 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
17 104 (12.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 341 (39.38%) C#
2 280 (32.33%) SQL
3 255 (29.45%) JavaScript
4 210 (24.25%) Java
5 202 (23.33%) TypeScript
6 158 (18.24%) Python
7 52 (6.00%) Go
8 48 (5.54%) Scala
9 27 (3.12%) Ruby
10 17 (1.96%) PHP
11 16 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.73%) Bash
13 14 (1.62%) Bicep
14 10 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.92%) Rust
16 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.35%) C++
18 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 1 (0.12%) Perl
19 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.62%) Degree
3 55 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.50%) CISSP
6 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.92%) CISM
8 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.58%) GIAC
9 5 (0.58%) ISACA
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.58%) SANS
9 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.78%) QA
2 23 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.42%) GDPR
4 13 (1.50%) NIST
5 12 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.58%) NCSC
8 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 244 (28.18%) Docker
2 13 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 236 (27.25%) Kubernetes
2 113 (13.05%) Terraform
3 64 (7.39%) Grafana
4 29 (3.35%) Ansible
5 17 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.85%) Argo
7 3 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 226 (26.10%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.20%) Typelevel
3 33 (3.81%) Google
4 25 (2.89%) Oracle
5 15 (1.73%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.04%) Databricks
7 7 (0.81%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.69%) Cisco
8 6 (0.69%) F5
8 6 (0.69%) Juniper
8 6 (0.69%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.69%) SAP
9 5 (0.58%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.58%) Okta
9 5 (0.58%) Splunk
10 4 (0.46%) Epicor
10 4 (0.46%) IFS
10 4 (0.46%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow