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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 54 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 530 876 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 5.40% 6.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 5.72% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 406 553 1,494
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -14.23%
75th Percentile £93,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.64% +2.86% -12.10%

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 13,710 15,305 24,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.71% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 9,023 20,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 31 January 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 17 (3.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (2.26%) JBoss
3 11 (2.08%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.94%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.75%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) CMS
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Actimize
3 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Quorum
3 1 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 312 (58.87%) AWS
2 283 (53.40%) Azure
3 125 (23.58%) GCP
4 120 (22.64%) SaaS
5 112 (21.13%) Serverless
6 79 (14.91%) GitHub
7 70 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.23%) Amazon S3
11 32 (6.04%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (6.04%) Power Platform
12 29 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (5.09%) PaaS
14 20 (3.77%) Azure App Service
14 20 (3.77%) OCI
15 17 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.08%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) DHCP
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (15.47%) MongoDB
2 75 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (13.58%) NoSQL
4 64 (12.08%) SQL Server
5 32 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (4.34%) MySQL
8 22 (4.15%) Power BI
9 17 (3.21%) Tableau
10 16 (3.02%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.45%) Redis
12 12 (2.26%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.26%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.94%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.75%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.38%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 81 (15.28%) Git
2 43 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.72%) TeamCity
4 24 (4.53%) JIRA
5 22 (4.15%) GitLab
6 20 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 17 (3.21%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (2.08%) Selenium
9 10 (1.89%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.70%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.51%) git-flow
11 8 (1.51%) JUnit
11 8 (1.51%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.94%) JMeter
13 4 (0.75%) Postman
13 4 (0.75%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.57%) Mockito
14 3 (0.57%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.38%) NUnit
15 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 167 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 142 (26.79%) Finance
3 50 (9.43%) Banking
3 50 (9.43%) Law
4 36 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.79%) Retail
5 34 (6.42%) Financial Institution
6 32 (6.04%) Back Office
7 29 (5.47%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (2.26%) Legal
11 10 (1.89%) Billing
12 8 (1.51%) Advertising
12 8 (1.51%) Marketing
13 6 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Esports
14 5 (0.94%) Front Office
14 5 (0.94%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 190 (35.85%) Developer
2 161 (30.38%) Senior
3 122 (23.02%) Software Engineer
4 86 (16.23%) Architect
5 80 (15.09%) Lead
6 64 (12.08%) .NET Developer
7 56 (10.57%) Senior Software Engineer
8 49 (9.25%) Senior Developer
9 38 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (6.60%) Java Engineer
11 34 (6.42%) Lead Developer
12 24 (4.53%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.53%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.53%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (4.34%) Java Developer
13 23 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.15%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (36.04%) .NET
2 157 (29.62%) React
3 127 (23.96%) RESTful
4 89 (16.79%) Node.js
5 76 (14.34%) Spring
6 72 (13.58%) Kafka
7 71 (13.40%) .NET Core
8 65 (12.26%) AngularJS
9 60 (11.32%) Spring Boot
10 59 (11.13%) REST
11 57 (10.75%) ASP.NET Web API
12 48 (9.06%) .NET Framework
13 47 (8.87%) ASP.NET
14 38 (7.17%) Entity Framework
15 34 (6.42%) gRPC
16 33 (6.23%) HTML
17 29 (5.47%) ASP.NET MVC
17 29 (5.47%) OAuth
17 29 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (5.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 159 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 81 (15.28%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (11.51%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (10.57%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.83%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.45%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.08%) DataPower
8 11 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.89%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.70%) Over-the-Top Content
10 9 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.32%) PKI
12 7 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.94%) Derivative
13 5 (0.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.02%) Android
2 15 (2.83%) Linux
3 7 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.32%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Debian
5 1 (0.19%) Fedora
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (50.38%) CI/CD
2 242 (45.66%) Agile
3 214 (40.38%) DevOps
4 209 (39.43%) Software Engineering
5 169 (31.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 146 (27.55%) Mentoring
7 118 (22.26%) Test Automation
8 115 (21.70%) Event-Driven
9 112 (21.13%) Containerisation
10 107 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
12 97 (18.30%) AI
13 88 (16.60%) Computer Science
14 83 (15.66%) Clean Code
15 80 (15.09%) Architectural Patterns
15 80 (15.09%) Coaching
16 75 (14.15%) TDD
17 73 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 69 (13.02%) Technical Leadership
19 66 (12.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 192 (36.23%) Java
2 187 (35.28%) C#
3 139 (26.23%) SQL
4 127 (23.96%) JavaScript
5 116 (21.89%) Python
6 115 (21.70%) TypeScript
7 43 (8.11%) Go
8 19 (3.58%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.21%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.83%) Ruby
11 10 (1.89%) Scala
12 9 (1.70%) C++
13 8 (1.51%) PHP
14 6 (1.13%) Delphi
14 6 (1.13%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.75%) Bicep
16 4 (0.75%) C
17 3 (0.57%) Erlang
17 3 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 95 (17.92%) Degree
2 74 (13.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 43 (8.11%) AWS Certification
5 41 (7.74%) SC Cleared
6 40 (7.55%) Azure Certification
7 36 (6.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.21%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.70%) CISSP
12 8 (1.51%) CISM
13 5 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 1 (0.19%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.81%) QA
2 16 (3.02%) GDPR
3 15 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.70%) NIST
7 8 (1.51%) NCSC
8 4 (0.75%) WCAG
9 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 124 (23.40%) Docker
2 14 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 147 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 92 (17.36%) Terraform
3 41 (7.74%) Grafana
4 17 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (3.02%) Ansible
6 9 (1.70%) Argo
7 6 (1.13%) Kibana
7 6 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 115 (21.70%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.85%) Oracle
3 14 (2.64%) Google
4 10 (1.89%) Guidewire
5 9 (1.70%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.13%) Databricks
7 5 (0.94%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.94%) Facebook
7 5 (0.94%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.94%) Nokia
7 5 (0.94%) YouTube
8 4 (0.75%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.38%) SAP
10 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.38%) Solarflare
10 2 (0.38%) Sparx
10 2 (0.38%) VMware