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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 65 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 511 832 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 4.25% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 4.78% 6.42%
Number of salaries quoted 415 478 999
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,228 £49,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,991 £89,426
90th Percentile £116,500 £102,500 £108,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Process and 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 13,987 17,399 20,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.56% 88.82% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,773 10,336 16,477
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 November 2025.

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 11 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.57%) Confluence
3 7 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.37%) JBoss
4 6 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.98%) nginx
6 4 (0.78%) Apache
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.78%) CMS
6 4 (0.78%) IIS
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 11 (2.15%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 287 (56.16%) Azure
2 266 (52.05%) AWS
3 99 (19.37%) SaaS
4 96 (18.79%) GCP
5 72 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
5 72 (14.09%) Serverless
6 65 (12.72%) GitHub
7 33 (6.46%) Azure Service Bus
8 30 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (5.09%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.89%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (4.89%) Power Platform
11 24 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (4.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 22 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
12 22 (4.31%) PaaS
13 14 (2.74%) OCI
14 13 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (2.54%) Azure App Service
14 13 (2.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
2 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 2 (0.39%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.42%) MongoDB
2 78 (15.26%) SQL Server
3 77 (15.07%) NoSQL
4 63 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (9.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 36 (7.05%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (5.09%) MySQL
8 19 (3.72%) DynamoDB
9 17 (3.33%) Redis
9 17 (3.33%) Relational Database
10 16 (3.13%) Power BI
11 11 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (2.15%) Tableau
12 8 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
13 6 (1.17%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.39%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 98 (19.18%) Git
2 41 (8.02%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.50%) JIRA
4 19 (3.72%) GitLab
5 14 (2.74%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (2.15%) Selenium
7 10 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
7 10 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.57%) git-flow
8 8 (1.57%) JUnit
9 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.37%) MSBuild
10 6 (1.17%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.78%) JMeter
11 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.59%) Mockito
12 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 140 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 112 (21.92%) Finance
3 38 (7.44%) Law
4 34 (6.65%) Banking
5 31 (6.07%) Retail
6 26 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.72%) Back Office
8 19 (3.72%) Billing
9 18 (3.52%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.33%) Front Office
11 15 (2.94%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.96%) Advertising
13 9 (1.76%) Legal
14 8 (1.57%) Marketing
15 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (41.49%) Developer
2 131 (25.64%) Senior
3 98 (19.18%) Software Engineer
4 84 (16.44%) .NET Developer
5 75 (14.68%) Architect
6 61 (11.94%) Lead
7 43 (8.41%) Senior Developer
8 41 (8.02%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (6.65%) C# Developer
10 29 (5.68%) Lead Developer
11 28 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (5.28%) Java Engineer
13 25 (4.89%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.70%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
15 22 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.52%) Technical Architect
17 17 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
17 17 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (43.25%) .NET
2 137 (26.81%) React
3 124 (24.27%) RESTful
4 82 (16.05%) .NET Core
5 81 (15.85%) AngularJS
6 70 (13.70%) Kafka
7 69 (13.50%) REST
8 67 (13.11%) Spring
9 65 (12.72%) Node.js
10 63 (12.33%) ASP.NET Web API
11 61 (11.94%) .NET Framework
11 61 (11.94%) ASP.NET
12 59 (11.55%) Spring Boot
13 57 (11.15%) HTML
14 55 (10.76%) Entity Framework
15 44 (8.61%) CSS
16 39 (7.63%) ASP.NET MVC
16 39 (7.63%) RabbitMQ
17 36 (7.05%) Vue
18 32 (6.26%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 136 (26.61%) Cloud Native
2 65 (12.72%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.81%) Product Ownership
4 42 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.50%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.15%) Algorithms
9 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.57%) IoT
10 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.17%) BYOD
12 6 (1.17%) DataPower
12 6 (1.17%) Derivative
13 5 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.98%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.31%) Linux
2 20 (3.91%) Windows
3 8 (1.57%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (52.64%) Agile
2 229 (44.81%) CI/CD
3 219 (42.86%) DevOps
4 172 (33.66%) Software Engineering
5 140 (27.40%) Full-Stack Development
6 122 (23.87%) Mentoring
7 99 (19.37%) Containerisation
8 91 (17.81%) Event-Driven
9 90 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (17.03%) AI
10 87 (17.03%) TDD
11 86 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 80 (15.66%) Test Automation
13 74 (14.48%) Clean Code
14 73 (14.29%) Scrum
15 67 (13.11%) Design Patterns
16 65 (12.72%) Code Quality
16 65 (12.72%) MVC
17 60 (11.74%) Roadmaps
18 59 (11.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 235 (45.99%) C#
2 173 (33.86%) Java
3 169 (33.07%) SQL
4 129 (25.24%) JavaScript
5 106 (20.74%) TypeScript
6 104 (20.35%) Python
7 30 (5.87%) Go
8 12 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.96%) PHP
11 9 (1.76%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.76%) Ruby
12 6 (1.17%) C++
12 6 (1.17%) Delphi
13 4 (0.78%) Bicep
13 4 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.59%) Erlang
14 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (12.92%) Degree
2 50 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (7.05%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.85%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.07%) SC Cleared
6 26 (5.09%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (3.91%) Master's Degree
8 20 (3.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.17%) CISM
10 6 (1.17%) CISSP
11 3 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.35%) QA
2 25 (4.89%) GDPR
3 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.96%) NIST
5 8 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.59%) WCAG
8 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 130 (25.44%) Docker
2 10 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 139 (27.20%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.76%) Terraform
3 34 (6.65%) Grafana
4 12 (2.35%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.96%) Ansible
7 6 (1.17%) Argo
7 6 (1.17%) Kibana
8 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.39%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 117 (22.90%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.89%) Oracle
3 17 (3.33%) Guidewire
4 13 (2.54%) Google
5 7 (1.37%) Facebook
5 7 (1.37%) YouTube
6 6 (1.17%) Databricks
6 6 (1.17%) Trayport
7 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.78%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.78%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.78%) Nokia
8 4 (0.78%) Sage
8 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.39%) SAP
10 2 (0.39%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.39%) Splunk
812 hybrid/remote Microservices jobs