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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 36 46
Rank change year-on-year -30 +10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 676 1,115 1,815
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.52% 7.46% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 7.87% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 485 556 1,636
10th Percentile £46,587 £49,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -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 15,882 14,159 29,959
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.77% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 8,323 23,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 31 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 7 (1.04%) JBoss
2 5 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.59%) CMS
3 4 (0.59%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.44%) Camunda
4 3 (0.44%) Confluence
4 3 (0.44%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.30%) Shopify
5 1 (0.15%) Actimize
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 429 (63.46%) AWS
2 310 (45.86%) Azure
3 162 (23.96%) GCP
4 124 (18.34%) SaaS
5 110 (16.27%) Serverless
6 66 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (8.73%) GitHub
8 56 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (6.66%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 36 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (5.03%) Azure AKS
14 32 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
15 29 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
16 25 (3.70%) PaaS
17 19 (2.81%) Power Platform
18 18 (2.66%) Azure Event Grid
19 15 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.88%) Broadband
2 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.89%) DNS
2 6 (0.89%) Firewall
3 5 (0.74%) DHCP
3 5 (0.74%) MQTT
4 4 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.44%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.44%) Internet
5 3 (0.44%) Modbus
5 3 (0.44%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) AMQP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (19.97%) MongoDB
2 105 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (11.98%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 43 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
6 41 (6.07%) MySQL
7 40 (5.92%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.81%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.51%) Redis
11 9 (1.33%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.18%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.89%) Metadata
14 4 (0.59%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.44%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.44%) Power BI
15 3 (0.44%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (10.06%) Git
2 41 (6.07%) TeamCity
3 40 (5.92%) GitLab
4 24 (3.55%) Cypress.io
5 23 (3.40%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.92%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.63%) JUnit
7 11 (1.63%) Maven
8 10 (1.48%) JIRA
9 9 (1.33%) Mockito
10 8 (1.18%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.04%) Selenium
12 5 (0.74%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.74%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.59%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.59%) NUnit
14 3 (0.44%) JMeter
14 3 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 172 (25.44%) Finance
2 117 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 81 (11.98%) Public Sector
4 73 (10.80%) Banking
5 71 (10.50%) Law
6 58 (8.58%) Retail
7 50 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (6.51%) Financial Institution
9 40 (5.92%) Back Office
10 34 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.92%) Marketing
12 10 (1.48%) Legal
12 10 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.89%) Games
16 5 (0.74%) Aviation
16 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (36.98%) Developer
2 191 (28.25%) Software Engineer
3 144 (21.30%) Senior
4 134 (19.82%) Lead
5 91 (13.46%) Architect
6 89 (13.17%) .NET Developer
7 78 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (8.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 47 (6.95%) Java Engineer
10 40 (5.92%) Lead Developer
11 36 (5.33%) .NET Software Engineer
12 35 (5.18%) C# Developer
13 33 (4.88%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.73%) Java Software Engineer
14 32 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
15 31 (4.59%) C# Software Engineer
16 30 (4.44%) Scala Engineer
17 29 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (4.29%) Java Developer
18 28 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (28.25%) .NET
2 167 (24.70%) React
3 153 (22.63%) Node.js
4 101 (14.94%) RESTful
5 81 (11.98%) .NET Core
6 73 (10.80%) Vue
7 70 (10.36%) REST
7 70 (10.36%) Spring
8 68 (10.06%) ASP.NET
9 62 (9.17%) AngularJS
10 56 (8.28%) ASP.NET Core
11 55 (8.14%) gRPC
12 48 (7.10%) Spring Boot
13 45 (6.66%) Kafka
14 41 (6.07%) .NET Framework
14 41 (6.07%) ASP.NET Web API
15 40 (5.92%) HTML
16 39 (5.77%) CSS
17 29 (4.29%) Blazor
18 27 (3.99%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 205 (30.33%) Cloud Native
2 111 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (10.50%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.66%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.63%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.33%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.04%) PKI
15 6 (0.89%) IoT
16 5 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.74%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.92%) Linux
2 20 (2.96%) Unix
3 14 (2.07%) Windows
4 8 (1.18%) Android
5 5 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (52.37%) CI/CD
2 300 (44.38%) Software Engineering
3 294 (43.49%) Agile
4 245 (36.24%) DevOps
5 222 (32.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 200 (29.59%) Mentoring
7 165 (24.41%) Containerisation
8 155 (22.93%) Test Automation
9 153 (22.63%) Coaching
10 141 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (20.56%) Event-Driven
12 136 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (18.93%) Clean Code
14 109 (16.12%) AI
14 109 (16.12%) Scrum
15 103 (15.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 99 (14.64%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (14.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 93 (13.76%) TDD
19 84 (12.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 207 (30.62%) Java
2 187 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 185 (27.37%) C#
4 176 (26.04%) SQL
5 149 (22.04%) Python
6 134 (19.82%) TypeScript
7 59 (8.73%) Go
8 47 (6.95%) Scala
9 25 (3.70%) Ruby
10 15 (2.22%) PHP
11 14 (2.07%) Bash
12 13 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.63%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.33%) Bicep
15 8 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.18%) Rust
16 6 (0.89%) C++
16 6 (0.89%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.15%) Perl
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (10.36%) Degree
2 69 (10.21%) Security Cleared
3 53 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.55%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
8 15 (2.22%) CISSP
9 14 (2.07%) DBS Check
9 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.48%) CISM
11 5 (0.74%) GIAC
11 5 (0.74%) ISACA
11 5 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.74%) SANS
12 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (6.80%) QA
2 20 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.37%) GDPR
5 15 (2.22%) NIST
6 10 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.04%) NCSC
7 7 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.59%) WCAG
9 3 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.44%) IFRS
9 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 201 (29.73%) Docker
2 11 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 198 (29.29%) Kubernetes
2 118 (17.46%) Terraform
3 52 (7.69%) Grafana
4 29 (4.29%) Ansible
5 18 (2.66%) Argo
6 10 (1.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.44%) Kibana
9 2 (0.30%) MIIS
9 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 118 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.66%) Typelevel
3 25 (3.70%) Google
4 19 (2.81%) Oracle
5 9 (1.33%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.89%) Cisco
7 6 (0.89%) F5
7 6 (0.89%) Juniper
7 6 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.74%) Okta
9 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.59%) Splunk
10 3 (0.44%) Databricks
10 3 (0.44%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.44%) Foundry
10 3 (0.44%) Revolut
10 3 (0.44%) ServiceNow