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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 38 76
Rank change year-on-year -24 +38 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 886 1,063 917
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.97% 6.40% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.79% 6.88% 4.15%
Number of salaries quoted 638 507 763
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £89,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 3 August 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 (0.79%) CMS
2 6 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.56%) IIS
3 5 (0.56%) nginx
4 4 (0.45%) Camunda
5 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.34%) Confluence
5 3 (0.34%) DNN
5 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.34%) JBoss
5 3 (0.34%) Kentico
5 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.34%) WordPress
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Apache
7 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 502 (56.66%) AWS
2 430 (48.53%) Azure
3 163 (18.40%) GCP
4 146 (16.48%) SaaS
5 97 (10.95%) Serverless
6 89 (10.05%) GitHub
7 78 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (7.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 58 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (5.42%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (4.97%) Amazon S3
13 42 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.29%) Azure AKS
15 36 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (2.93%) PaaS
19 20 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
20 16 (1.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.21%) Broadband
2 7 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.79%) Internet
3 6 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.56%) DNS
5 4 (0.45%) DHCP
5 4 (0.45%) HTTP
5 4 (0.45%) MQTT
5 4 (0.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.51%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (14.79%) Elasticsearch
4 111 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
5 65 (7.34%) SQL Server
6 60 (6.77%) NoSQL
7 51 (5.76%) MySQL
8 29 (3.27%) Redis
8 29 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.90%) Metadata
11 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
12 4 (0.45%) MariaDB
12 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 75 (8.47%) Git
2 45 (5.08%) TeamCity
3 39 (4.40%) GitLab
4 24 (2.71%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.26%) Jenkins
6 16 (1.81%) Claude Code
6 16 (1.81%) JUnit
6 16 (1.81%) Maven
7 14 (1.58%) Mockito
8 11 (1.24%) JIRA
9 9 (1.02%) Selenium
10 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.45%) NUnit
12 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 185 (20.88%) Finance
2 144 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 99 (11.17%) Law
4 94 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.59%) Retail
6 71 (8.01%) Legal
7 69 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 64 (7.22%) Banking
9 41 (4.63%) Back Office
9 41 (4.63%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.16%) Legal Technology
12 19 (2.14%) Games
12 19 (2.14%) Marketing
13 17 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.90%) Advertising
16 5 (0.56%) Aviation
16 5 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 410 (46.28%) Developer
2 193 (21.78%) Software Engineer
3 189 (21.33%) .NET Developer
4 185 (20.88%) Senior
5 169 (19.07%) Lead
6 102 (11.51%) Architect
7 97 (10.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 89 (10.05%) Senior Developer
9 51 (5.76%) Lead Developer
10 48 (5.42%) Senior Software Engineer
11 45 (5.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 42 (4.74%) Lead Software Engineer
13 37 (4.18%) Java Engineer
14 31 (3.50%) C# Developer
15 30 (3.39%) .NET Software Engineer
15 30 (3.39%) Software Developer
16 29 (3.27%) C# .NET Developer
16 29 (3.27%) Team Leader
17 28 (3.16%) Technical Leader
18 27 (3.05%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (40.07%) .NET
2 254 (28.67%) Node.js
3 237 (26.75%) React
4 177 (19.98%) .NET Core
5 174 (19.64%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (16.70%) Vue
8 117 (13.21%) AngularJS
9 95 (10.72%) Blazor
10 94 (10.61%) ASP.NET Web API
11 87 (9.82%) RESTful
12 86 (9.71%) REST
13 72 (8.13%) .NET Framework
14 66 (7.45%) Spring
15 47 (5.30%) gRPC
16 46 (5.19%) Spring Boot
17 41 (4.63%) Kafka
18 39 (4.40%) CSS
19 36 (4.06%) HTML
20 29 (3.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 234 (26.41%) Cloud Native
2 135 (15.24%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.51%) Video\Live Streaming
5 37 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (4.06%) Over-the-Top Content
7 29 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
13 10 (1.13%) IoT
13 10 (1.13%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
15 7 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.68%) Blog
16 6 (0.68%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.98%) Linux
2 23 (2.60%) Windows
3 20 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (55.19%) Agile
2 455 (51.35%) CI/CD
3 352 (39.73%) Software Engineering
4 341 (38.49%) Full-Stack Development
5 268 (30.25%) DevOps
6 247 (27.88%) Mentoring
7 208 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (19.19%) Scrum
10 168 (18.96%) Event-Driven
11 166 (18.74%) Coaching
12 160 (18.06%) AI
13 151 (17.04%) Test Automation
14 148 (16.70%) Containerisation
15 145 (16.37%) TDD
16 140 (15.80%) Clean Code
17 131 (14.79%) Technical Leadership
18 123 (13.88%) Infrastructure as Code
19 118 (13.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 114 (12.87%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 368 (41.53%) C#
2 274 (30.93%) SQL
3 258 (29.12%) JavaScript
4 208 (23.48%) Java
5 204 (23.02%) TypeScript
6 153 (17.27%) Python
7 48 (5.42%) Go
8 40 (4.51%) Scala
9 28 (3.16%) Ruby
10 19 (2.14%) Bash
11 16 (1.81%) PHP
12 15 (1.69%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.58%) Bicep
13 14 (1.58%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.79%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (9.37%) Security Cleared
2 67 (7.56%) Degree
3 62 (7.00%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.24%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.13%) CISSP
6 10 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 10 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.68%) CISM
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.45%) GIAC
9 4 (0.45%) ISACA
9 4 (0.45%) SANS
10 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (12.42%) QA
2 22 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.03%) GDPR
4 15 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.13%) NIST
6 9 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.34%) IFRS
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) NCSC
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 249 (28.10%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 247 (27.88%) Kubernetes
2 116 (13.09%) Terraform
3 61 (6.88%) Grafana
4 26 (2.93%) Ansible
5 17 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.81%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 233 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.06%) Google
2 36 (4.06%) Typelevel
3 28 (3.16%) Oracle
4 12 (1.35%) OpenAI
5 10 (1.13%) Databricks
6 9 (1.02%) SAP
7 6 (0.68%) Cisco
7 6 (0.68%) F5
7 6 (0.68%) ForgeRock
7 6 (0.68%) Juniper
7 6 (0.68%) Okta
7 6 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.56%) Splunk
9 4 (0.45%) Epicor
9 4 (0.45%) Facebook
9 4 (0.45%) Infor
9 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow