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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 66
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 865 923 882
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.49% 5.59% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 5.98% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 612 407 545
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £97,000
UK median annual salary £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -13.33%

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 20,104 15,435 20,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.13% 93.44% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 14,351 8,541 12,114
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 September 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 9 (1.04%) CMS
2 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.69%) nginx
4 5 (0.58%) Camunda
4 5 (0.58%) IIS
5 3 (0.35%) DNN
5 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Kentico
5 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.23%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 482 (55.72%) AWS
2 400 (46.24%) Azure
3 156 (18.03%) SaaS
4 146 (16.88%) GCP
5 104 (12.02%) Serverless
6 98 (11.33%) GitHub
7 76 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (8.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 69 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (6.13%) Amazon S3
12 48 (5.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 42 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
13 42 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (3.70%) Azure AKS
15 31 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (3.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (3.12%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (3.12%) PaaS
17 22 (2.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.77%) Broadband
2 6 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.69%) Internet
2 6 (0.69%) Network Security
3 5 (0.58%) HTTP
4 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) BGP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (25.32%) MongoDB
2 148 (17.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.14%) Elasticsearch
4 107 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.40%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.09%) MySQL
7 36 (4.16%) NoSQL
7 36 (4.16%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.70%) Redis
9 20 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.73%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.92%) Metadata
13 7 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.69%) Parquet
15 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 79 (9.13%) Git
2 63 (7.28%) TeamCity
3 31 (3.58%) GitLab
4 25 (2.89%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.31%) JUnit
6 18 (2.08%) Maven
6 18 (2.08%) Mockito
7 17 (1.97%) Claude Code
8 15 (1.73%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.04%) JIRA
10 8 (0.92%) Selenium
11 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.23%) Mocha
14 2 (0.23%) MSTest
14 2 (0.23%) NUnit
14 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (23.93%) Finance
2 160 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 112 (12.95%) Law
4 99 (11.45%) Retail
5 95 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 90 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 82 (9.48%) Banking
8 70 (8.09%) Legal
9 63 (7.28%) Back Office
10 61 (7.05%) Financial Institution
11 40 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.24%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.01%) Games
14 18 (2.08%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.62%) Marketing
16 9 (1.04%) French Language
17 8 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.81%) Advertising
19 6 (0.69%) Local Government
20 5 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 396 (45.78%) Developer
2 189 (21.85%) Senior
3 182 (21.04%) Lead
4 180 (20.81%) .NET Developer
5 172 (19.88%) Software Engineer
6 112 (12.95%) Architect
7 98 (11.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 94 (10.87%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.78%) Lead Developer
10 45 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
11 42 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 41 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 38 (4.39%) Technical Leader
14 32 (3.70%) Software Developer
14 32 (3.70%) Team Leader
15 31 (3.58%) Java Developer
15 31 (3.58%) Technical Architect
16 28 (3.24%) Lead Architect
17 26 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (2.77%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 337 (38.96%) .NET
2 260 (30.06%) Node.js
3 240 (27.75%) React
4 180 (20.81%) .NET Core
5 172 (19.88%) ASP.NET
6 150 (17.34%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (16.76%) Vue
8 143 (16.53%) Terraform
9 118 (13.64%) AngularJS
10 99 (11.45%) Blazor
11 92 (10.64%) ASP.NET Web API
12 86 (9.94%) REST
13 81 (9.36%) Spring
14 75 (8.67%) RESTful
15 63 (7.28%) .NET Framework
16 54 (6.24%) Spring Boot
17 47 (5.43%) Kafka
18 31 (3.58%) WPF
19 30 (3.47%) CSS
20 28 (3.24%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 229 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 116 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
3 81 (9.36%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.16%) Blog
12 9 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.04%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
13 8 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.81%) IoT
15 6 (0.69%) Onboarding
16 5 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.32%) Linux
2 26 (3.01%) Windows
3 14 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (55.03%) Agile
2 448 (51.79%) CI/CD
3 330 (38.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 316 (36.53%) Software Engineering
5 277 (32.02%) Mentoring
6 259 (29.94%) DevOps
7 201 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (19.88%) Event-Driven
10 163 (18.84%) AI
11 159 (18.38%) Scrum
12 152 (17.57%) Coaching
13 146 (16.88%) Technical Leadership
13 146 (16.88%) Test Automation
14 137 (15.84%) TDD
15 125 (14.45%) Clean Code
16 116 (13.41%) Architectural Patterns
17 115 (13.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 114 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 109 (12.60%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 358 (41.39%) C#
2 261 (30.17%) SQL
3 248 (28.67%) JavaScript
4 234 (27.05%) Java
5 206 (23.82%) TypeScript
6 120 (13.87%) Python
7 32 (3.70%) Ruby
8 23 (2.66%) Go
9 19 (2.20%) Bash
10 15 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.62%) Bicep
11 14 (1.62%) Scala
12 8 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.92%) PHP
13 7 (0.81%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.23%) C
15 2 (0.23%) Groovy
15 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 78 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.86%) Degree
4 31 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.73%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.92%) CISM
8 8 (0.92%) CISSP
8 8 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.46%) CCSP
11 2 (0.23%) CSSLP
11 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.14%) QA
2 23 (2.66%) Accessibility
2 23 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.08%) GDPR
4 10 (1.16%) NIST
5 9 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.46%) NCSC
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.35%) IFRS
8 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 230 (26.59%) Docker
2 9 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 265 (30.64%) Kubernetes
2 76 (8.79%) Grafana
3 17 (1.97%) Argo
4 15 (1.73%) Ansible
5 13 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 228 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.82%) Google
3 27 (3.12%) Oracle
4 15 (1.73%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.50%) SAP
6 9 (1.04%) Databricks
6 9 (1.04%) Typelevel
7 7 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 7 (0.81%) Splunk
8 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.46%) Epicor
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.46%) TikTok
10 3 (0.35%) OpenText
10 3 (0.35%) Sitecore