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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 797 1,105 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 7.00% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 7.45% 5.46%
Number of salaries quoted 605 548 1,445
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £82,500
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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,250
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% -9.09%

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 30 June 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 (0.88%) CMS
2 6 (0.75%) JBoss
3 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.38%) Camunda
3 3 (0.38%) Confluence
3 3 (0.38%) DNN
3 3 (0.38%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.38%) IIS
3 3 (0.38%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.38%) Kentico
3 3 (0.38%) nginx
3 3 (0.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.38%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.25%) Apache
4 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 494 (61.98%) AWS
2 400 (50.19%) Azure
3 163 (20.45%) GCP
4 141 (17.69%) SaaS
5 109 (13.68%) Serverless
6 85 (10.66%) GitHub
7 75 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (7.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 58 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
11 44 (5.52%) Amazon S3
12 43 (5.40%) Amazon SQS
13 42 (5.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 39 (4.89%) Azure AKS
15 37 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (3.76%) PaaS
18 28 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 20 (2.51%) Azure Functions
20 19 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.03%) Broadband
2 8 (1.00%) Hyperconnected
2 8 (1.00%) Internet
3 6 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.75%) DNS
3 6 (0.75%) Firewall
4 5 (0.63%) DHCP
4 5 (0.63%) MQTT
5 4 (0.50%) Network Security
5 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.38%) Modbus
7 2 (0.25%) AMQP
8 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (26.22%) MongoDB
2 130 (16.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 118 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (14.18%) Elasticsearch
5 69 (8.66%) NoSQL
6 53 (6.65%) SQL Server
7 51 (6.40%) MySQL
8 30 (3.76%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.01%) Redis
10 21 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.88%) Metadata
11 7 (0.88%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.75%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.63%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.50%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (7.40%) Git
2 45 (5.65%) TeamCity
3 43 (5.40%) GitLab
4 24 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.51%) Jenkins
6 17 (2.13%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.38%) JIRA
7 11 (1.38%) JUnit
7 11 (1.38%) Maven
8 9 (1.13%) Mockito
9 7 (0.88%) Selenium
9 7 (0.88%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.75%) NUnit
11 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.38%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.38%) Postman
12 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (23.71%) Finance
2 128 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 88 (11.04%) Public Sector
4 78 (9.79%) Retail
5 73 (9.16%) Banking
6 71 (8.91%) Law
7 58 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.40%) Back Office
8 43 (5.40%) Financial Institution
9 36 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (1.88%) Games
11 14 (1.76%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.76%) Marketing
12 13 (1.63%) Legal
13 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.63%) Aviation
16 4 (0.50%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 335 (42.03%) Developer
2 203 (25.47%) Software Engineer
3 167 (20.95%) .NET Developer
4 156 (19.57%) Lead
5 145 (18.19%) Senior
6 100 (12.55%) Architect
7 90 (11.29%) Full-Stack Developer
8 62 (7.78%) Senior Software Engineer
9 47 (5.90%) Java Engineer
10 46 (5.77%) Lead Developer
11 38 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (4.64%) Senior Developer
13 34 (4.27%) .NET Software Engineer
13 34 (4.27%) C# Developer
13 34 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 33 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) C# Software Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) Software Developer
16 29 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (35.01%) .NET
2 231 (28.98%) Node.js
3 222 (27.85%) React
4 162 (20.33%) .NET Core
5 151 (18.95%) ASP.NET
6 133 (16.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 132 (16.56%) Vue
8 106 (13.30%) AngularJS
9 90 (11.29%) RESTful
10 88 (11.04%) ASP.NET Web API
11 75 (9.41%) REST
12 74 (9.28%) Blazor
13 71 (8.91%) Spring
14 69 (8.66%) .NET Framework
15 53 (6.65%) gRPC
16 52 (6.52%) Spring Boot
17 41 (5.14%) CSS
18 40 (5.02%) Kafka
19 39 (4.89%) HTML
20 26 (3.26%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 225 (28.23%) Cloud Native
2 129 (16.19%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (8.78%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.77%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.65%) Over-the-Top Content
6 28 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.88%) Blog
13 7 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.88%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.75%) PKI
15 5 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.77%) Linux
2 20 (2.51%) Unix
2 20 (2.51%) Windows
3 3 (0.38%) Android
3 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) CentOS
4 1 (0.13%) Debian
4 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (49.81%) Agile
2 385 (48.31%) CI/CD
3 327 (41.03%) Software Engineering
4 317 (39.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 263 (33.00%) DevOps
6 221 (27.73%) Mentoring
7 164 (20.58%) Coaching
8 159 (19.95%) Containerisation
9 158 (19.82%) Test Automation
10 154 (19.32%) Scrum
11 153 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 151 (18.95%) Event-Driven
14 141 (17.69%) Clean Code
15 139 (17.44%) AI
16 134 (16.81%) TDD
17 119 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
19 108 (13.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 85 (10.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 278 (34.88%) C#
2 256 (32.12%) SQL
3 239 (29.99%) JavaScript
4 212 (26.60%) Java
5 191 (23.96%) TypeScript
6 155 (19.45%) Python
7 51 (6.40%) Go
8 47 (5.90%) Scala
9 28 (3.51%) Ruby
10 15 (1.88%) Bicep
11 14 (1.76%) Bash
11 14 (1.76%) PHP
12 13 (1.63%) PowerShell
13 10 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.00%) Rust
15 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.38%) C++
17 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.13%) Perl
18 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 67 (8.41%) Degree
3 52 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.76%) CISSP
8 13 (1.63%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.13%) CISM
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.63%) GIAC
11 5 (0.63%) ISACA
11 5 (0.63%) SANS
12 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.40%) QA
2 23 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.63%) GDPR
4 15 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.76%) NIST
6 10 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 6 (0.75%) NCSC
7 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) IFRS
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.25%) GRC
9 2 (0.25%) SEPA
9 2 (0.25%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 240 (30.11%) Docker
2 13 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.38%) Firmware
3 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 230 (28.86%) Kubernetes
2 117 (14.68%) Terraform
3 58 (7.28%) Grafana
4 27 (3.39%) Ansible
5 16 (2.01%) Argo
6 13 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.38%) Kibana
8 2 (0.25%) MIIS
8 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 201 (25.22%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.65%) Typelevel
3 30 (3.76%) Google
4 23 (2.89%) Oracle
5 15 (1.88%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.13%) Databricks
7 7 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.75%) Cisco
8 6 (0.75%) F5
8 6 (0.75%) Juniper
8 6 (0.75%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.63%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.63%) Okta
9 5 (0.63%) SAP
10 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.50%) Splunk
11 3 (0.38%) Infor
11 3 (0.38%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.38%) Sitecore