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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 39 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 894 1,080 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.08% 6.56% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 7.05% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 644 522 924
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,938 £83,750
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 18,171 15,314 23,849
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.92% 93.05% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,195 9,035 17,591
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%

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 28 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 (0.89%) CMS
2 5 (0.56%) IIS
2 5 (0.56%) nginx
2 5 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (0.45%) Camunda
4 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.34%) Confluence
4 3 (0.34%) DNN
4 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.34%) JBoss
4 3 (0.34%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (0.67%) 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
1 507 (56.71%) AWS
2 428 (47.87%) Azure
3 166 (18.57%) GCP
4 144 (16.11%) SaaS
5 101 (11.30%) Serverless
6 92 (10.29%) GitHub
7 77 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (7.83%) GitHub Copilot
9 59 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (4.92%) Amazon S3
13 42 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (4.36%) Azure AKS
15 36 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (3.13%) PaaS
19 19 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
20 17 (1.90%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.05%) Broadband
2 7 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.78%) Internet
3 6 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
4 5 (0.56%) DNS
4 5 (0.56%) MQTT
5 4 (0.45%) DHCP
5 4 (0.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) HTTP
6 3 (0.34%) Modbus
7 1 (0.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.28%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 130 (14.54%) Elasticsearch
4 113 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.38%) SQL Server
6 65 (7.27%) NoSQL
7 51 (5.70%) MySQL
8 29 (3.24%) Redis
8 29 (3.24%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.89%) Metadata
11 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.78%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 70 (7.83%) Git
2 43 (4.81%) TeamCity
3 39 (4.36%) GitLab
4 24 (2.68%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.24%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.90%) Claude Code
7 14 (1.57%) JUnit
7 14 (1.57%) Maven
8 12 (1.34%) Mockito
9 11 (1.23%) JIRA
10 8 (0.89%) Selenium
11 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.45%) NUnit
13 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.22%) MLflow
General
1 187 (20.92%) Finance
2 141 (15.77%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.63%) Law
4 91 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.17%) Retail
6 70 (7.83%) Legal
7 65 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (7.05%) Banking
9 40 (4.47%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (4.25%) Back Office
11 28 (3.13%) Legal Technology
12 20 (2.24%) Marketing
13 18 (2.01%) Games
14 17 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.78%) Advertising
17 6 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 417 (46.64%) Developer
2 197 (22.04%) Software Engineer
3 191 (21.36%) .NET Developer
4 189 (21.14%) Senior
5 169 (18.90%) Lead
6 98 (10.96%) Architect
6 98 (10.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 92 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 52 (5.82%) Lead Developer
8 52 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 44 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 41 (4.59%) Java Engineer
11 40 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
12 34 (3.80%) C# Developer
13 32 (3.58%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.47%) .NET Software Engineer
14 31 (3.47%) C# .NET Developer
15 30 (3.36%) Scala Engineer
16 28 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
16 28 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (39.93%) .NET
2 255 (28.52%) Node.js
3 235 (26.29%) React
4 178 (19.91%) .NET Core
5 174 (19.46%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (16.55%) Vue
8 117 (13.09%) AngularJS
9 95 (10.63%) ASP.NET Web API
10 93 (10.40%) Blazor
11 90 (10.07%) RESTful
12 87 (9.73%) REST
13 74 (8.28%) .NET Framework
14 69 (7.72%) Spring
15 54 (6.04%) gRPC
16 51 (5.70%) Spring Boot
17 44 (4.92%) Kafka
18 42 (4.70%) CSS
19 39 (4.36%) HTML
20 27 (3.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 233 (26.06%) Cloud Native
2 142 (15.88%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.05%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.26%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (4.92%) Over-the-Top Content
6 35 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.68%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.45%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.01%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.89%) IoT
14 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.67%) Blog
16 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.82%) Linux
2 23 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (2.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (54.36%) Agile
2 465 (52.01%) CI/CD
3 363 (40.60%) Software Engineering
4 345 (38.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 268 (29.98%) DevOps
6 240 (26.85%) Mentoring
7 209 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 208 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (19.24%) Scrum
10 168 (18.79%) Coaching
11 165 (18.46%) Event-Driven
12 158 (17.67%) Containerisation
13 156 (17.45%) AI
14 155 (17.34%) Test Automation
15 145 (16.22%) Clean Code
16 144 (16.11%) TDD
17 129 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
18 125 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
19 114 (12.75%) Enterprise Architecture
19 114 (12.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 366 (40.94%) C#
2 276 (30.87%) SQL
3 259 (28.97%) JavaScript
4 208 (23.27%) Java
5 207 (23.15%) TypeScript
6 162 (18.12%) Python
7 55 (6.15%) Go
8 48 (5.37%) Scala
9 28 (3.13%) Ruby
10 18 (2.01%) Bash
11 17 (1.90%) PHP
12 16 (1.79%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.57%) Bicep
14 13 (1.45%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.89%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) C++
17 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.22%) VB.NET
19 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 82 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 67 (7.49%) Degree
3 61 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.12%) CISSP
6 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
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
1 113 (12.64%) QA
2 22 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.13%) GDPR
4 14 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.12%) NIST
6 8 (0.89%) 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
1 259 (28.97%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 248 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 113 (12.64%) Terraform
3 60 (6.71%) Grafana
4 27 (3.02%) Ansible
5 18 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.79%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) MIIS
8 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 231 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.92%) Typelevel
3 34 (3.80%) Google
4 28 (3.13%) Oracle
5 14 (1.57%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.12%) Databricks
7 8 (0.89%) SAP
8 6 (0.67%) Cisco
8 6 (0.67%) F5
8 6 (0.67%) Juniper
8 6 (0.67%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.56%) Okta
9 5 (0.56%) Splunk
10 4 (0.45%) Facebook
10 4 (0.45%) Infor
10 4 (0.45%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow