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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 45 42
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 615 774 1,899
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.46% 5.83% 5.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 6.15% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 436 623 1,715
10th Percentile £48,289 £48,824 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +15.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £94,063 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £113,125 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.13%

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 14,776 12,587 29,780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.78% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 8,918 23,667
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 19 April 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 13 (2.11%) JBoss
2 10 (1.63%) WebSphere
3 8 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.81%) CMS
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.49%) Confluence
6 3 (0.49%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.33%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.16%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.33%) Shopify
5 1 (0.16%) Actimize
5 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) Quorum
5 1 (0.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 385 (62.60%) AWS
2 279 (45.37%) Azure
3 185 (30.08%) GCP
4 126 (20.49%) SaaS
5 110 (17.89%) Serverless
6 62 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (10.08%) GitHub
7 49 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
7 49 (7.97%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (6.34%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
11 31 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (4.39%) Power Platform
14 22 (3.58%) Azure AKS
15 21 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.09%) Azure Event Grid
17 18 (2.93%) PaaS
18 16 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.29%) Broadband
2 6 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.98%) Firewall
3 5 (0.81%) DHCP
3 5 (0.81%) DNS
4 4 (0.65%) MQTT
5 3 (0.49%) Modbus
5 3 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.33%) AMQP
6 2 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.33%) Internet
6 2 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (13.01%) NoSQL
3 76 (12.36%) MongoDB
4 54 (8.78%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.07%) MySQL
6 18 (2.93%) Redis
7 15 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.95%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.79%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.79%) Power BI
11 8 (1.30%) Tableau
12 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.49%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.33%) CouchDB
15 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 78 (12.68%) Git
2 43 (6.99%) TeamCity
3 37 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 31 (5.04%) GitLab
5 24 (3.90%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.44%) JIRA
7 13 (2.11%) Selenium
8 10 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.30%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.14%) JUnit
11 6 (0.98%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.65%) git-flow
12 4 (0.65%) NUnit
12 4 (0.65%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.49%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.49%) JMeter
13 3 (0.49%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 165 (26.83%) Finance
2 149 (24.23%) Social Skills
3 76 (12.36%) Banking
4 73 (11.87%) Law
5 65 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 57 (9.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (9.11%) Retail
8 50 (8.13%) Financial Institution
9 45 (7.32%) Back Office
10 29 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (4.23%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.28%) Legal
13 11 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.79%) Marketing
14 10 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.81%) Advertising
15 5 (0.81%) Esports
15 5 (0.81%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.81%) Publishing
16 4 (0.65%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (32.85%) Developer
2 175 (28.46%) Software Engineer
3 171 (27.80%) Senior
4 101 (16.42%) Lead
5 98 (15.93%) Architect
6 68 (11.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 55 (8.94%) Java Engineer
8 51 (8.29%) Full-Stack Developer
9 50 (8.13%) .NET Developer
10 42 (6.83%) Senior Developer
11 38 (6.18%) Java Software Engineer
12 34 (5.53%) Lead Developer
13 33 (5.37%) C# Developer
14 30 (4.88%) Scala Engineer
15 28 (4.55%) .NET Software Engineer
15 28 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 26 (4.23%) Software Developer
17 24 (3.90%) Senior Java Engineer
17 24 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (3.41%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (27.80%) .NET
2 142 (23.09%) React
3 114 (18.54%) RESTful
4 100 (16.26%) Node.js
5 70 (11.38%) Spring
6 69 (11.22%) gRPC
6 69 (11.22%) REST
7 57 (9.27%) Kafka
8 48 (7.80%) Spring Boot
9 46 (7.48%) .NET Core
10 44 (7.15%) AngularJS
11 39 (6.34%) .NET Framework
12 37 (6.02%) HTML
13 35 (5.69%) ASP.NET
13 35 (5.69%) CSS
14 33 (5.37%) Vue
15 30 (4.88%) Middleware
16 26 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (4.07%) Jest
17 25 (4.07%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 196 (31.87%) Cloud Native
2 113 (18.37%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (11.22%) Product Ownership
4 46 (7.48%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (7.32%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.32%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.11%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.79%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.63%) DataPower
11 10 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.14%) IoT
14 7 (1.14%) PKI
15 5 (0.81%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.58%) Linux
2 16 (2.60%) Android
3 11 (1.79%) Unix
4 8 (1.30%) Windows
5 7 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) CentOS
6 1 (0.16%) Debian
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (52.68%) CI/CD
2 283 (46.02%) Software Engineering
3 237 (38.54%) DevOps
4 235 (38.21%) Agile
5 173 (28.13%) Containerisation
5 173 (28.13%) Mentoring
6 165 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 161 (26.18%) Test Automation
8 146 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
9 143 (23.25%) Event-Driven
10 136 (22.11%) Coaching
11 127 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (19.84%) Clean Code
13 109 (17.72%) AI
14 90 (14.63%) Machine Learning
15 89 (14.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (12.52%) Roadmaps
17 76 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
19 73 (11.87%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 204 (33.17%) Java
2 159 (25.85%) Python
3 157 (25.53%) C#
4 136 (22.11%) JavaScript
5 126 (20.49%) SQL
6 109 (17.72%) TypeScript
7 78 (12.68%) Go
8 47 (7.64%) Scala
9 24 (3.90%) Ruby
10 15 (2.44%) PHP
11 11 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.46%) C++
12 9 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.30%) Rust
14 6 (0.98%) Bicep
14 6 (0.98%) Delphi
15 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.33%) Bash
16 2 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 93 (15.12%) Degree
2 56 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (7.97%) Security Cleared
4 42 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 32 (5.20%) Azure Certification
6 30 (4.88%) AWS Certification
7 26 (4.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 24 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.28%) CISSP
11 10 (1.63%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.46%) CISM
12 9 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.81%) GIAC
14 5 (0.81%) ISACA
14 5 (0.81%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.81%) SANS
15 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (7.48%) QA
2 18 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.44%) GDPR
5 14 (2.28%) NIST
6 10 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.14%) NCSC
7 7 (1.14%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.65%) WCAG
9 3 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.49%) IFRS
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.33%) GRC
10 2 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 183 (29.76%) Docker
2 12 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 183 (29.76%) Kubernetes
2 106 (17.24%) Terraform
3 64 (10.41%) Grafana
4 27 (4.39%) Ansible
5 13 (2.11%) Argo
6 10 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.81%) Kibana
9 2 (0.33%) MIIS
9 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 86 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.32%) Typelevel
3 26 (4.23%) Oracle
4 25 (4.07%) Google
5 9 (1.46%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.98%) Cisco
6 6 (0.98%) F5
6 6 (0.98%) Juniper
6 6 (0.98%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.81%) Databricks
7 5 (0.81%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.81%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.81%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.81%) Nokia
7 5 (0.81%) Okta
8 4 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.65%) Revolut
8 4 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.65%) SAP
9 3 (0.49%) HubSpot