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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -22 -19 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 561 910 1,846
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 5.87% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 6.19% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 415 604 1,621
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £113,979 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%

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 14,111 14,711 25,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.01% 94.87% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 9,178 8,824 21,297
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,904
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
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 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,675 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 20 February 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 16 (2.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (2.32%) JBoss
3 11 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.71%) Confluence
6 3 (0.53%) CMS
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Actimize
3 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.18%) Quorum
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 343 (61.14%) AWS
2 296 (52.76%) Azure
3 149 (26.56%) GCP
4 129 (22.99%) SaaS
5 114 (20.32%) Serverless
6 76 (13.55%) GitHub
7 67 (11.94%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (6.24%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.70%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (5.53%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (4.63%) PaaS
15 19 (3.39%) OCI
16 18 (3.21%) Azure App Service
17 17 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.57%) Broadband
2 3 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (0.53%) DHCP
2 3 (0.53%) DNS
2 3 (0.53%) Firewall
2 3 (0.53%) MQTT
3 2 (0.36%) AMQP
4 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (14.44%) MongoDB
3 75 (13.37%) NoSQL
4 63 (11.23%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.53%) MySQL
6 21 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (3.74%) Power BI
7 16 (2.85%) Tableau
8 14 (2.50%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.50%) Redis
9 12 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 11 (1.96%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
14 2 (0.36%) Big Data
14 2 (0.36%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 81 (14.44%) Git
2 42 (7.49%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.06%) TeamCity
4 26 (4.63%) GitLab
5 24 (4.28%) JIRA
6 20 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.85%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.78%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.78%) Selenium
9 9 (1.60%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.43%) git-flow
11 7 (1.25%) JUnit
11 7 (1.25%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.71%) JMeter
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.53%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.53%) Postman
13 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.36%) Mockito
14 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 154 (27.45%) Finance
3 63 (11.23%) Law
4 61 (10.87%) Banking
5 47 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (8.02%) Retail
7 43 (7.66%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.31%) Public Sector
9 39 (6.95%) Back Office
10 23 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (4.10%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.14%) Legal
12 9 (1.60%) Marketing
13 8 (1.43%) Billing
14 7 (1.25%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.07%) Advertising
15 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (33.33%) Developer
2 167 (29.77%) Senior
3 148 (26.38%) Software Engineer
4 83 (14.80%) Architect
5 82 (14.62%) Lead
6 62 (11.05%) Senior Software Engineer
7 54 (9.63%) .NET Developer
8 49 (8.73%) Java Engineer
8 49 (8.73%) Senior Developer
9 43 (7.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (6.60%) Lead Developer
11 33 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
12 25 (4.46%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Java Developer
13 24 (4.28%) Principal Engineer
13 24 (4.28%) Software Developer
14 23 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.74%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (32.26%) .NET
2 152 (27.09%) React
3 128 (22.82%) RESTful
4 84 (14.97%) Node.js
5 81 (14.44%) Spring
6 77 (13.73%) Kafka
7 63 (11.23%) Spring Boot
8 61 (10.87%) REST
9 60 (10.70%) .NET Core
10 57 (10.16%) AngularJS
11 45 (8.02%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (7.84%) .NET Framework
13 41 (7.31%) gRPC
14 40 (7.13%) ASP.NET
15 33 (5.88%) Entity Framework
16 32 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
17 30 (5.35%) HTML
17 30 (5.35%) OAuth
18 25 (4.46%) CSS
18 25 (4.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.98%) Cloud Native
2 91 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (11.59%) Product Ownership
4 62 (11.05%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
5 18 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
6 17 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.96%) DataPower
10 10 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.25%) PKI
14 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
15 5 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.39%) Linux
2 16 (2.85%) Android
3 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.89%) Windows
5 3 (0.53%) Unix
6 2 (0.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Fedora
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 245 (43.67%) Agile
3 240 (42.78%) Software Engineering
4 226 (40.29%) DevOps
5 165 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 160 (28.52%) Mentoring
7 136 (24.24%) Test Automation
8 134 (23.89%) Containerisation
9 120 (21.39%) Event-Driven
10 114 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 106 (18.89%) Coaching
13 99 (17.65%) AI
14 95 (16.93%) Clean Code
15 90 (16.04%) Computer Science
16 83 (14.80%) Architectural Patterns
17 77 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (13.73%) TDD
18 70 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
19 63 (11.23%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 215 (38.32%) Java
2 174 (31.02%) C#
3 132 (23.53%) SQL
4 129 (22.99%) Python
5 122 (21.75%) JavaScript
6 110 (19.61%) TypeScript
7 51 (9.09%) Go
8 19 (3.39%) Scala
9 18 (3.21%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.85%) PL/SQL
11 15 (2.67%) Ruby
12 9 (1.60%) PHP
13 8 (1.43%) C++
14 7 (1.25%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.07%) Delphi
16 5 (0.89%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.89%) Rust
17 4 (0.71%) Bicep
18 3 (0.53%) C
18 3 (0.53%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 103 (18.36%) Degree
2 73 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (8.91%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 42 (7.49%) AWS Certification
6 40 (7.13%) Azure Certification
7 35 (6.24%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.85%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.96%) CISSP
12 8 (1.43%) CISM
13 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.53%) GIAC
16 3 (0.53%) ISACA
16 3 (0.53%) SANS
17 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.91%) QA
2 16 (2.85%) GDPR
3 15 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.96%) NIST
6 10 (1.78%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.43%) NCSC
8 3 (0.53%) WCAG
9 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.36%) SEPA
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 139 (24.78%) Docker
2 15 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (29.77%) Kubernetes
2 97 (17.29%) Terraform
3 54 (9.63%) Grafana
4 21 (3.74%) Ansible
5 16 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.60%) Argo
6 9 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.43%) Kibana
8 4 (0.71%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 106 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.53%) Oracle
3 19 (3.39%) Google
4 18 (3.21%) Typelevel
5 7 (1.25%) Databricks
5 7 (1.25%) Guidewire
5 7 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.89%) Ericsson
6 5 (0.89%) Mavenir
6 5 (0.89%) Nokia
6 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.71%) Revolut
8 3 (0.53%) Cisco
8 3 (0.53%) F5
8 3 (0.53%) Facebook
8 3 (0.53%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.53%) Juniper
8 3 (0.53%) Okta
8 3 (0.53%) YouTube