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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 52 42
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 493 878 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 5.19% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 5.58% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 392 545 1,016
10th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,905
25th Percentile £57,688 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,964 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,875 £102,500 £103,125
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £71,538
% change year-on-year +10.71% -2.15% -7.69%

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 13,340 15,743 19,361
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.29% 93.10% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,449 9,383 15,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 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 17 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (1.83%) JBoss
3 8 (1.62%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.22%) Confluence
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.81%) nginx
7 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.41%) Apache
8 2 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.20%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
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
1 285 (57.81%) AWS
2 275 (55.78%) Azure
3 103 (20.89%) GCP
4 101 (20.49%) SaaS
4 101 (20.49%) Serverless
5 76 (15.42%) GitHub
6 65 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (6.29%) Amazon S3
9 29 (5.88%) Power Platform
10 28 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
12 26 (5.27%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (5.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 25 (5.07%) PaaS
14 20 (4.06%) OCI
15 18 (3.65%) Azure App Service
16 17 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.61%) Broadband
2 2 (0.41%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 80 (16.23%) NoSQL
3 73 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 66 (13.39%) SQL Server
5 38 (7.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 27 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.87%) MySQL
8 22 (4.46%) Power BI
9 18 (3.65%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.45%) Tableau
11 12 (2.43%) Redis
12 10 (2.03%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.83%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
14 8 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.41%) PostHog
17 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 87 (17.65%) Git
2 47 (9.53%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.48%) JIRA
4 20 (4.06%) GitLab
5 17 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 17 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (3.04%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.23%) Selenium
8 8 (1.62%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.62%) git-flow
8 8 (1.62%) JUnit
9 7 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.81%) JMeter
12 3 (0.61%) Mockito
12 3 (0.61%) Postman
12 3 (0.61%) Storybook
12 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.41%) Locust
13 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 159 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 119 (24.14%) Finance
3 38 (7.71%) Law
4 32 (6.49%) Banking
5 26 (5.27%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.07%) Retail
7 23 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 23 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.06%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.85%) Back Office
10 18 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (2.84%) Billing
12 13 (2.64%) Legal
13 9 (1.83%) Advertising
14 8 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.42%) Marketing
16 5 (1.01%) Esports
16 5 (1.01%) Front Office
16 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 185 (37.53%) Developer
2 139 (28.19%) Senior
3 98 (19.88%) Software Engineer
4 81 (16.43%) Architect
5 72 (14.60%) Lead
6 69 (14.00%) .NET Developer
7 42 (8.52%) Senior Developer
7 42 (8.52%) Senior Software Engineer
8 34 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 32 (6.49%) Lead Developer
10 25 (5.07%) Software Developer
11 24 (4.87%) Applications Engineer
11 24 (4.87%) Java Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
13 20 (4.06%) C# Developer
13 20 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (3.85%) Azure Developer
14 19 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (3.85%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (37.93%) .NET
2 147 (29.82%) React
3 133 (26.98%) RESTful
4 77 (15.62%) Node.js
5 73 (14.81%) Kafka
6 72 (14.60%) .NET Core
6 72 (14.60%) AngularJS
7 64 (12.98%) Spring
8 59 (11.97%) ASP.NET Web API
9 55 (11.16%) Spring Boot
10 52 (10.55%) .NET Framework
11 50 (10.14%) REST
12 49 (9.94%) ASP.NET
13 44 (8.92%) Entity Framework
14 40 (8.11%) HTML
15 34 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
16 32 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (6.09%) CSS
17 30 (6.09%) Vue
18 28 (5.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 144 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 71 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (9.94%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.84%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.43%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.03%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.62%) DataPower
12 7 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.42%) IoT
13 5 (1.01%) Derivative
13 5 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.81%) PKI
15 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.04%) Linux
2 14 (2.84%) Android
3 10 (2.03%) Windows
4 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (51.32%) Agile
2 243 (49.29%) CI/CD
3 206 (41.78%) DevOps
4 177 (35.90%) Software Engineering
5 155 (31.44%) Full-Stack Development
6 133 (26.98%) Mentoring
7 108 (21.91%) Event-Driven
8 98 (19.88%) AI
9 97 (19.68%) Containerisation
10 96 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (18.26%) Test Automation
12 85 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (16.23%) Computer Science
14 75 (15.21%) Clean Code
15 74 (15.01%) TDD
16 72 (14.60%) Architectural Patterns
17 67 (13.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 66 (13.39%) Scrum
19 64 (12.98%) Coaching
20 59 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 193 (39.15%) C#
2 171 (34.69%) Java
3 150 (30.43%) SQL
4 126 (25.56%) JavaScript
5 118 (23.94%) TypeScript
6 113 (22.92%) Python
7 39 (7.91%) Go
8 19 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.84%) Ruby
11 10 (2.03%) PHP
12 9 (1.83%) C++
13 6 (1.22%) Delphi
14 5 (1.01%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.61%) Bicep
16 3 (0.61%) Elixir
16 3 (0.61%) Erlang
17 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (16.84%) Degree
2 71 (14.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 38 (7.71%) Security Cleared
5 37 (7.51%) Azure Certification
6 35 (7.10%) SC Cleared
7 33 (6.69%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.45%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.01%) CISM
10 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.20%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (11.36%) QA
2 15 (3.04%) GDPR
3 14 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.62%) NIST
6 7 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.01%) NCSC
7 5 (1.01%) WCAG
8 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 115 (23.33%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.41%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 74 (15.01%) Terraform
3 33 (6.69%) Grafana
4 17 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.64%) Ansible
6 8 (1.62%) Argo
6 8 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.22%) Kibana
8 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.09%) Oracle
3 14 (2.84%) Guidewire
4 13 (2.64%) Google
5 6 (1.22%) Databricks
5 6 (1.22%) Facebook
5 6 (1.22%) YouTube
6 5 (1.01%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.01%) Nokia
7 4 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) SAP
9 2 (0.41%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.41%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.41%) Sparx
9 2 (0.41%) VMware