Microservices Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 53 36
Rank change year-on-year +5 -17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,112 1,628 2,461
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.54% 4.72% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 5.28% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 555 1,445 1,659
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% +6.03%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,150
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.97% +0.74%

All Process and 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 18,739 30,836 34,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.31% 89.40% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,912 22,908 24,948
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,353 £81,928
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microservices
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microservices.

Microservices salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microservices over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 180 (16.19%) Confluence
2 23 (2.07%) Jupyter
3 8 (0.72%) Apache
4 6 (0.54%) CMS
5 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.36%) JBoss
5 4 (0.36%) SAS
6 3 (0.27%) GemFire
6 3 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.27%) nginx
6 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.27%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.18%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.090%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.090%) Moqups
2 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 738 (66.37%) Azure
2 685 (61.60%) AWS
3 462 (41.55%) GCP
4 72 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (5.76%) Serverless
6 48 (4.32%) SaaS
7 45 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (3.24%) GitHub
9 35 (3.15%) Azure Service Bus
10 33 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 22 (1.98%) SonarCloud
12 20 (1.80%) Apigee
12 20 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 13 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.17%) OpenShift
17 12 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.62%) Internet
2 13 (1.17%) Network Security
3 4 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.18%) Broadband
4 2 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.090%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.090%) 4G
5 1 (0.090%) 5G
5 1 (0.090%) DAB
5 1 (0.090%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.090%) HTTP
5 1 (0.090%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.090%) SCTP
5 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 315 (28.33%) SQL Server
2 91 (8.18%) MongoDB
3 88 (7.91%) NoSQL
4 53 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
5 50 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 41 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 34 (3.06%) MySQL
9 31 (2.79%) Big Data
10 22 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 22 (1.98%) Redis
11 15 (1.35%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.54%) Tableau
16 4 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 280 (25.18%) SonarQube
2 277 (24.91%) JIRA
3 275 (24.73%) Maven
4 273 (24.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 268 (24.10%) GitLab
6 262 (23.56%) Cucumber
7 253 (22.75%) Selenium
8 250 (22.48%) Bitbucket
9 131 (11.78%) Git
10 65 (5.85%) Jenkins
11 31 (2.79%) Visual Studio
12 26 (2.34%) JUnit
12 26 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 24 (2.16%) Team Foundation Server
14 23 (2.07%) MSBuild
15 15 (1.35%) Jasmine
15 15 (1.35%) Karma Test Runner
15 15 (1.35%) Mockito
16 14 (1.26%) Cypress.io
17 12 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 478 (42.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 456 (41.01%) Finance
3 371 (33.36%) Banking
4 150 (13.49%) Social Skills
5 141 (12.68%) Retail
6 91 (8.18%) Investment Banking
7 90 (8.09%) Corporate Banking
8 26 (2.34%) Law
9 23 (2.07%) Public Sector
10 20 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
11 17 (1.53%) Front Office
12 12 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.90%) Advertising
13 10 (0.90%) Back Office
14 8 (0.72%) Games
15 7 (0.63%) Automotive
15 7 (0.63%) Billing
15 7 (0.63%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.36%) Electronics
16 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 553 (49.73%) Software Engineer
2 359 (32.28%) Senior
3 244 (21.94%) Developer
4 232 (20.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 120 (10.79%) Architect
6 97 (8.72%) Lead
7 78 (7.01%) .NET Developer
8 74 (6.65%) Solutions Architect
9 60 (5.40%) Senior Developer
10 50 (4.50%) C# Developer
11 44 (3.96%) Java Engineer
12 42 (3.78%) Java Developer
13 31 (2.79%) Java Software Engineer
14 28 (2.52%) Senior Architect
15 27 (2.43%) Full-Stack Developer
15 27 (2.43%) Technical Architect
16 25 (2.25%) AWS Architect
17 23 (2.07%) Data Scientist
17 23 (2.07%) Senior Data Scientist
18 21 (1.89%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (36.96%) React
2 404 (36.33%) .NET
3 347 (31.21%) Spring
4 329 (29.59%) HTML
5 327 (29.41%) Spring Boot
6 315 (28.33%) Kafka
7 310 (27.88%) CSS
8 260 (23.38%) JPA
9 258 (23.20%) Node.js
10 251 (22.57%) Redux
11 219 (19.69%) RESTful
12 205 (18.44%) REST
13 188 (16.91%) Hibernate
14 118 (10.61%) HTML5
15 104 (9.35%) Jest
16 101 (9.08%) AngularJS
17 99 (8.90%) CSS3
18 97 (8.72%) .NET Core
18 97 (8.72%) Sass
19 80 (7.19%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 321 (28.87%) Product Ownership
2 260 (23.38%) Enterprise Software
3 201 (18.08%) Cyberattack
4 186 (16.73%) Self-Motivation
5 178 (16.01%) Linux Command Line
6 70 (6.29%) Cloud Native
7 45 (4.05%) Algorithms
8 37 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 34 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.35%) Private Cloud
13 12 (1.08%) IoT
13 12 (1.08%) Mobile App
14 11 (0.99%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.81%) Onboarding
16 9 (0.81%) Online Banking
17 6 (0.54%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 229 (20.59%) Linux
2 23 (2.07%) Windows
3 18 (1.62%) Unix
4 16 (1.44%) Android
5 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (67.99%) Agile
2 692 (62.23%) Software Engineering
3 568 (51.08%) DevOps
4 481 (43.26%) CI/CD
5 425 (38.22%) Mentoring
6 419 (37.68%) Containerisation
7 368 (33.09%) Test Automation
8 362 (32.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 304 (27.34%) SDLC
10 302 (27.16%) User Experience
11 301 (27.07%) TDD
12 283 (25.45%) Performance Optimisation
13 281 (25.27%) Front End Development
14 260 (23.38%) Scrum
15 224 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 216 (19.42%) Machine Learning
17 213 (19.15%) Clean Code
18 203 (18.26%) Cloud Security
19 192 (17.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 184 (16.55%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 703 (63.22%) Java
2 643 (57.82%) JavaScript
3 442 (39.75%) SQL
4 312 (28.06%) Python
5 249 (22.39%) C#
6 216 (19.42%) Go
7 191 (17.18%) C++
8 188 (16.91%) TypeScript
9 179 (16.10%) Rust
10 21 (1.89%) PHP
11 13 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 13 (1.17%) PowerShell
12 9 (0.81%) Groovy
13 8 (0.72%) C
13 8 (0.72%) Ruby
14 7 (0.63%) Bash
15 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.36%) Bicep
17 4 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 248 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 214 (19.24%) AWS Certification
3 207 (18.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 204 (18.35%) DV Cleared
5 178 (16.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 98 (8.81%) Degree
7 63 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.97%) SC Cleared
9 18 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.45%) CISM
12 5 (0.45%) CISSP
12 5 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.36%) PhD
13 4 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.27%) OCP
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 296 (26.62%) QA
2 99 (8.90%) Accessibility
3 54 (4.86%) GDPR
4 25 (2.25%) HIPAA
5 12 (1.08%) NIST
6 6 (0.54%) CDISC
6 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.36%) Basel II
7 4 (0.36%) Basel III
7 4 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.36%) IFRS
7 4 (0.36%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.090%) GRC
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.090%) WCAG
System Software
1 522 (46.94%) Docker
2 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.090%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) KVM
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 485 (43.62%) Kubernetes
2 73 (6.56%) Terraform
3 32 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 27 (2.43%) Grafana
5 14 (1.26%) Istio
6 13 (1.17%) Ansible
7 6 (0.54%) Argo
8 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 1 (0.090%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.090%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.090%) Kibana
11 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.090%) logstash
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.090%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 250 (22.48%) Solace
2 104 (9.35%) Microsoft
3 47 (4.23%) Google
4 24 (2.16%) IBM
5 17 (1.53%) Oracle
6 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.72%) Guidewire
7 8 (0.72%) Trayport
8 7 (0.63%) Cisco
8 7 (0.63%) YouTube
9 6 (0.54%) Apple
9 6 (0.54%) Facebook
9 6 (0.54%) Sage
10 5 (0.45%) Splunk
11 4 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.36%) New Relic
11 4 (0.36%) Progress
12 3 (0.27%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.27%) Salesforce