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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 49 76
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 862 936 858
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 5.76% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 6.19% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 625 422 585
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £95,000
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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 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 8 (0.93%) CMS
2 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.58%) Camunda
3 5 (0.58%) IIS
3 5 (0.58%) nginx
4 3 (0.35%) DNN
4 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Kentico
4 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 482 (55.92%) AWS
2 400 (46.40%) Azure
3 144 (16.71%) SaaS
4 142 (16.47%) GCP
5 99 (11.48%) Serverless
6 92 (10.67%) GitHub
7 74 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (5.80%) Amazon S3
12 47 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 42 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
13 42 (4.87%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (3.60%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (3.02%) PaaS
16 24 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
17 20 (2.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.06%) Broadband
2 7 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.81%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) Network Security
4 2 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.23%) DNS
4 2 (0.23%) Firewall
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.12%) DHCP
5 1 (0.12%) Modbus
5 1 (0.12%) MQTT
5 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (25.52%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 134 (15.55%) Elasticsearch
4 102 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.66%) SQL Server
6 43 (4.99%) MySQL
7 40 (4.64%) NoSQL
8 34 (3.94%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.25%) Redis
10 18 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.51%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.93%) Metadata
14 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
17 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
17 4 (0.46%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 77 (8.93%) Git
2 50 (5.80%) TeamCity
3 30 (3.48%) GitLab
4 26 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.20%) JUnit
6 18 (2.09%) Maven
7 17 (1.97%) Mockito
8 15 (1.74%) Claude Code
8 15 (1.74%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.04%) Selenium
10 8 (0.93%) JIRA
11 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.46%) NUnit
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.23%) Jasmine
14 2 (0.23%) MLflow
14 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 186 (21.58%) Finance
2 152 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 101 (11.72%) Law
4 96 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.74%) Retail
6 77 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (8.24%) Legal
8 70 (8.12%) Banking
9 49 (5.68%) Back Office
10 47 (5.45%) Financial Institution
11 41 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.25%) Legal Technology
13 27 (3.13%) Games
14 18 (2.09%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.74%) Marketing
16 9 (1.04%) French Language
17 8 (0.93%) Local Government
18 7 (0.81%) Advertising
18 7 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 406 (47.10%) Developer
2 190 (22.04%) Senior
3 187 (21.69%) .NET Developer
4 175 (20.30%) Lead
5 173 (20.07%) Software Engineer
6 109 (12.65%) Architect
7 100 (11.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 92 (10.67%) Senior Developer
9 51 (5.92%) Lead Developer
10 47 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (4.29%) Technical Leader
13 35 (4.06%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.60%) Java Developer
15 30 (3.48%) Technical Architect
16 27 (3.13%) Java Engineer
16 27 (3.13%) Lead Architect
16 27 (3.13%) Team Leader
17 25 (2.90%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (39.68%) .NET
2 267 (30.97%) Node.js
3 235 (27.26%) React
4 179 (20.77%) .NET Core
5 176 (20.42%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (17.29%) Vue
8 129 (14.97%) Terraform
9 118 (13.69%) AngularJS
10 100 (11.60%) Blazor
11 93 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 90 (10.44%) REST
13 77 (8.93%) Spring
14 74 (8.58%) RESTful
15 64 (7.42%) .NET Framework
16 52 (6.03%) Spring Boot
17 43 (4.99%) Kafka
18 35 (4.06%) CSS
19 31 (3.60%) WPF
20 30 (3.48%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 220 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.57%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
7 20 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.97%) Over-the-Top Content
9 16 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.74%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.04%) Blog
12 9 (1.04%) Mobile App
13 8 (0.93%) IoT
13 8 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
15 5 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.57%) Linux
2 24 (2.78%) Windows
3 16 (1.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (55.10%) Agile
2 439 (50.93%) CI/CD
3 338 (39.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 320 (37.12%) Software Engineering
5 267 (30.97%) Mentoring
6 254 (29.47%) DevOps
7 198 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (19.84%) Event-Driven
10 159 (18.45%) Scrum
11 155 (17.98%) AI
12 150 (17.40%) Coaching
13 144 (16.71%) Technical Leadership
14 141 (16.36%) Test Automation
15 139 (16.13%) TDD
16 124 (14.39%) Clean Code
17 116 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 116 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 113 (13.11%) Architectural Patterns
19 112 (12.99%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 360 (41.76%) C#
2 260 (30.16%) SQL
3 255 (29.58%) JavaScript
4 217 (25.17%) Java
5 209 (24.25%) TypeScript
6 124 (14.39%) Python
7 33 (3.83%) Ruby
8 28 (3.25%) Go
9 22 (2.55%) Scala
10 19 (2.20%) Bash
11 15 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.74%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.62%) Bicep
13 11 (1.28%) PHP
14 7 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.46%) C++
16 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.23%) Rust
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 71 (8.24%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.77%) Degree
4 32 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.93%) CISSP
8 7 (0.81%) CISM
8 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.18%) QA
2 21 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.20%) GDPR
5 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.93%) NIST
8 7 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.46%) NCSC
9 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) WCAG
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 232 (26.91%) Docker
2 9 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 245 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 60 (6.96%) Grafana
3 17 (1.97%) Argo
4 16 (1.86%) Ansible
5 13 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 227 (26.33%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.94%) Google
3 27 (3.13%) Oracle
4 17 (1.97%) Typelevel
5 14 (1.62%) SAP
6 13 (1.51%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.04%) Databricks
8 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.58%) Splunk
9 4 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.46%) Epicor
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) Okta
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.46%) TikTok
10 3 (0.35%) Optimizely