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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 38 75
Rank change year-on-year -26 +37 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 892 1,034 931
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.96% 6.27% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 6.75% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 642 481 762
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 6 August 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 (0.78%) CMS
1 7 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (0.56%) Camunda
2 5 (0.56%) IIS
2 5 (0.56%) nginx
3 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.34%) Confluence
3 3 (0.34%) DNN
3 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.34%) Kentico
3 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.34%) WordPress
4 2 (0.22%) JBoss
4 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 506 (56.73%) AWS
2 431 (48.32%) Azure
3 162 (18.16%) GCP
4 144 (16.14%) SaaS
5 99 (11.10%) Serverless
6 90 (10.09%) GitHub
7 79 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (7.85%) GitHub Copilot
9 61 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 46 (5.16%) Amazon S3
13 43 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
14 38 (4.26%) Azure AKS
15 33 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (2.91%) PaaS
18 21 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
19 18 (2.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.17%) Broadband
2 7 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.78%) Internet
3 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (0.56%) DNS
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) DHCP
4 4 (0.45%) HTTP
4 4 (0.45%) MQTT
4 4 (0.45%) Network Security
4 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.34%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 132 (14.80%) Elasticsearch
4 113 (12.67%) PostgreSQL
5 68 (7.62%) SQL Server
6 60 (6.73%) NoSQL
7 52 (5.83%) MySQL
8 31 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 29 (3.25%) Redis
10 21 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.90%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.90%) Metadata
12 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.45%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.22%) DuckDB
14 2 (0.22%) Looker
Development Applications
1 77 (8.63%) Git
2 45 (5.04%) TeamCity
3 37 (4.15%) GitLab
4 25 (2.80%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.24%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.91%) Claude Code
6 17 (1.91%) JUnit
6 17 (1.91%) Maven
7 15 (1.68%) Mockito
8 11 (1.23%) JIRA
9 9 (1.01%) Selenium
10 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.45%) NUnit
12 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.22%) MLflow
13 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 187 (20.96%) Finance
2 144 (16.14%) Social Skills
3 99 (11.10%) Law
4 95 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.53%) Retail
6 72 (8.07%) Legal
7 69 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (7.29%) Banking
9 41 (4.60%) Back Office
9 41 (4.60%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.14%) Legal Technology
12 20 (2.24%) Games
13 19 (2.13%) Marketing
14 17 (1.91%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.90%) Advertising
17 6 (0.67%) Local Government
18 5 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 412 (46.19%) Developer
2 195 (21.86%) Software Engineer
3 189 (21.19%) .NET Developer
3 189 (21.19%) Senior
4 170 (19.06%) Lead
5 102 (11.43%) Architect
6 99 (11.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 91 (10.20%) Senior Developer
8 52 (5.83%) Lead Developer
9 50 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 42 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
12 38 (4.26%) Java Engineer
13 32 (3.59%) Software Developer
14 29 (3.25%) .NET Software Engineer
14 29 (3.25%) C# Developer
14 29 (3.25%) Team Leader
15 28 (3.14%) C# .NET Developer
15 28 (3.14%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (39.91%) .NET
2 256 (28.70%) Node.js
3 240 (26.91%) React
4 178 (19.96%) .NET Core
5 174 (19.51%) ASP.NET
6 152 (17.04%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (16.70%) Vue
8 118 (13.23%) AngularJS
9 96 (10.76%) Blazor
10 94 (10.54%) ASP.NET Web API
11 87 (9.75%) REST
11 87 (9.75%) RESTful
12 72 (8.07%) .NET Framework
13 68 (7.62%) Spring
14 48 (5.38%) gRPC
15 47 (5.27%) Spring Boot
16 43 (4.82%) Kafka
17 39 (4.37%) CSS
18 35 (3.92%) HTML
19 31 (3.48%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 237 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 135 (15.13%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.41%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 37 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (4.04%) Over-the-Top Content
7 29 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.12%) IoT
12 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.78%) Blog
14 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.94%) Linux
2 24 (2.69%) Windows
3 19 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (55.38%) Agile
2 460 (51.57%) CI/CD
3 353 (39.57%) Software Engineering
4 342 (38.34%) Full-Stack Development
5 269 (30.16%) DevOps
6 252 (28.25%) Mentoring
7 207 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 199 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
9 173 (19.39%) Scrum
10 171 (19.17%) Event-Driven
11 165 (18.50%) Coaching
12 164 (18.39%) AI
13 152 (17.04%) Test Automation
14 149 (16.70%) Containerisation
15 147 (16.48%) TDD
16 143 (16.03%) Clean Code
17 134 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
18 124 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
19 118 (13.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 114 (12.78%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 370 (41.48%) C#
2 276 (30.94%) SQL
3 261 (29.26%) JavaScript
4 212 (23.77%) Java
5 208 (23.32%) TypeScript
6 152 (17.04%) Python
7 49 (5.49%) Go
8 41 (4.60%) Scala
9 30 (3.36%) Ruby
10 20 (2.24%) Bash
11 16 (1.79%) PHP
12 15 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.57%) Bicep
14 6 (0.67%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) C++
15 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 84 (9.42%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.62%) Degree
3 63 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 30 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.12%) CISSP
6 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.67%) CISM
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.45%) GIAC
9 4 (0.45%) ISACA
9 4 (0.45%) SANS
10 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.44%) QA
2 22 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.02%) GDPR
4 16 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.12%) NIST
6 9 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.34%) IFRS
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) NCSC
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) SEPA
9 2 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 252 (28.25%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 248 (27.80%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.12%) Terraform
3 60 (6.73%) Grafana
4 25 (2.80%) Ansible
5 16 (1.79%) Argo
5 16 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
7 2 (0.22%) MIIS
7 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 233 (26.12%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.04%) Typelevel
3 35 (3.92%) Google
4 28 (3.14%) Oracle
5 13 (1.46%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.12%) Databricks
6 10 (1.12%) SAP
7 6 (0.67%) ForgeRock
7 6 (0.67%) Okta
8 5 (0.56%) Cisco
8 5 (0.56%) F5
8 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.56%) Juniper
8 5 (0.56%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.56%) Splunk
9 4 (0.45%) Epicor
9 4 (0.45%) Facebook
9 4 (0.45%) Infor
9 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow