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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 50 71
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 -22
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 844 915 841
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 5.45% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 5.81% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 593 401 511
10th Percentile £44,144 £48,165 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -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 19,953 15,755 19,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.51% 93.83% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,223 8,440 11,340
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 9 October 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 11 (1.30%) CMS
2 7 (0.83%) nginx
2 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.71%) Camunda
4 5 (0.59%) IIS
4 5 (0.59%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.36%) DNN
5 3 (0.36%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.36%) Kentico
5 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.36%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Confluence
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 472 (55.92%) AWS
2 392 (46.45%) Azure
3 159 (18.84%) SaaS
4 136 (16.11%) GCP
5 101 (11.97%) Serverless
6 98 (11.61%) GitHub
7 81 (9.60%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (8.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
9 66 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
10 50 (5.92%) Amazon S3
11 46 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 39 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
13 38 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (3.67%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 28 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (3.08%) PaaS
17 25 (2.96%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.78%) Broadband
2 11 (1.30%) Network Security
2 11 (1.30%) VPN
3 9 (1.07%) Firewall
4 7 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.71%) BGP
5 6 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
5 6 (0.71%) Internet
6 5 (0.59%) HTTP
7 3 (0.36%) DNS
8 2 (0.24%) OpenVPN
9 1 (0.12%) MQTT
9 1 (0.12%) SSL
9 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (25.71%) MongoDB
2 149 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.52%) Elasticsearch
4 110 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (7.35%) SQL Server
6 47 (5.57%) MySQL
7 34 (4.03%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.79%) Redis
10 25 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.95%) Metadata
15 7 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.71%) Parquet
16 6 (0.71%) RDBMS
17 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
17 4 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 71 (8.41%) Git
2 70 (8.29%) TeamCity
3 30 (3.55%) GitLab
4 25 (2.96%) JUnit
5 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
5 23 (2.73%) Mockito
6 18 (2.13%) Maven
7 17 (2.01%) Claude Code
8 14 (1.66%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.07%) JIRA
10 6 (0.71%) Selenium
11 5 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.24%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Mocha
13 2 (0.24%) NUnit
14 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
14 1 (0.12%) JMeter
General
1 208 (24.64%) Finance
2 163 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 114 (13.51%) Law
4 105 (12.44%) Retail
5 92 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 91 (10.78%) Public Sector
7 79 (9.36%) Banking
8 70 (8.29%) Back Office
9 68 (8.06%) Financial Institution
9 68 (8.06%) Legal
10 41 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.32%) Legal Technology
12 26 (3.08%) Games
13 16 (1.90%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.66%) Marketing
15 9 (1.07%) French Language
16 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.71%) Advertising
18 5 (0.59%) Front Office
18 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 379 (44.91%) Developer
2 195 (23.10%) Senior
3 175 (20.73%) .NET Developer
4 172 (20.38%) Lead
5 171 (20.26%) Software Engineer
6 100 (11.85%) Architect
7 95 (11.26%) Senior Developer
8 93 (11.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 48 (5.69%) Lead Developer
10 45 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
11 41 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (4.27%) Technical Leader
14 32 (3.79%) Java Engineer
14 32 (3.79%) Software Developer
14 32 (3.79%) Team Leader
15 28 (3.32%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (2.96%) Technical Architect
18 23 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (39.22%) .NET
2 253 (29.98%) Node.js
3 225 (26.66%) React
4 183 (21.68%) .NET Core
5 172 (20.38%) ASP.NET
6 150 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (17.65%) Terraform
8 139 (16.47%) Vue
9 113 (13.39%) AngularJS
10 101 (11.97%) Blazor
11 92 (10.90%) REST
12 91 (10.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 84 (9.95%) Spring
14 73 (8.65%) RESTful
15 61 (7.23%) .NET Framework
16 58 (6.87%) Spring Boot
17 50 (5.92%) Kafka
18 31 (3.67%) WPF
19 27 (3.20%) CSS
20 26 (3.08%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 237 (28.08%) Cloud Native
2 112 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (9.48%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 15 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 15 (1.78%) Blog
10 14 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.07%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) IoT
14 6 (0.71%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.71%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.69%) Linux
2 27 (3.20%) Windows
3 13 (1.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (55.81%) Agile
2 445 (52.73%) CI/CD
3 314 (37.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 305 (36.14%) Software Engineering
5 273 (32.35%) Mentoring
6 246 (29.15%) DevOps
7 199 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 186 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
9 162 (19.19%) Event-Driven
10 161 (19.08%) AI
11 158 (18.72%) Scrum
12 148 (17.54%) Test Automation
13 146 (17.30%) Technical Leadership
14 143 (16.94%) Coaching
15 138 (16.35%) TDD
16 122 (14.45%) Clean Code
17 120 (14.22%) Architectural Patterns
18 116 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 112 (13.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 103 (12.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 353 (41.82%) C#
2 265 (31.40%) SQL
3 243 (28.79%) Java
4 236 (27.96%) JavaScript
5 192 (22.75%) TypeScript
6 116 (13.74%) Python
7 29 (3.44%) Ruby
8 22 (2.61%) Go
9 18 (2.13%) Bash
10 15 (1.78%) Bicep
10 15 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.83%) PHP
13 6 (0.71%) C++
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.24%) C
16 2 (0.24%) Groovy
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 82 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.58%) Degree
4 29 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.42%) CISM
6 12 (1.42%) CISSP
7 11 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 8 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (0.95%) CCSP
10 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.24%) GWAPT
13 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (12.09%) QA
2 26 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.78%) GDPR
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 10 (1.18%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) SLA
12 2 (0.24%) WCAG
13 1 (0.12%) PSD2
13 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 229 (27.13%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 280 (33.18%) Kubernetes
2 83 (9.83%) Grafana
3 16 (1.90%) Argo
4 12 (1.42%) Ansible
4 12 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.71%) Cilium
6 2 (0.24%) Kibana
6 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 227 (26.90%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.50%) Google
3 29 (3.44%) Oracle
4 16 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.54%) SAP
6 10 (1.18%) Databricks
7 9 (1.07%) Splunk
8 8 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.47%) Epicor
9 4 (0.47%) Facebook
9 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.47%) IFS
9 4 (0.47%) Infor
9 4 (0.47%) Instagram
9 4 (0.47%) TikTok
10 3 (0.36%) Alterian
10 3 (0.36%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.36%) OpenText
10 3 (0.36%) Sitecore