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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 747 1,110 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 7.16% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 7.58% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 555 551 1,585
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £41,250
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 £88,148 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -13.97%

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 16,563 14,642 30,856
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.97% 94.49% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,008 8,523 23,828
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 June 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 6 (0.80%) JBoss
2 5 (0.67%) CMS
3 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Camunda
4 2 (0.27%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) IIS
4 2 (0.27%) nginx
4 2 (0.27%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.13%) DNN
5 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.13%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (0.13%) Kentico
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.13%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 462 (61.85%) AWS
2 360 (48.19%) Azure
3 159 (21.29%) GCP
4 133 (17.80%) SaaS
5 108 (14.46%) Serverless
6 73 (9.77%) GitHub
7 69 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (6.43%) GitHub Copilot
11 43 (5.76%) Amazon SQS
12 42 (5.62%) Amazon S3
13 38 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
14 37 (4.95%) Azure AKS
15 36 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
16 33 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (3.61%) PaaS
18 25 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 17 (2.28%) Azure Event Grid
19 17 (2.28%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (8.57%) Broadband
2 7 (0.94%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.94%) Internet
3 6 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.80%) DNS
3 6 (0.80%) Firewall
4 5 (0.67%) DHCP
4 5 (0.67%) MQTT
5 4 (0.54%) Network Security
5 4 (0.54%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.40%) Modbus
7 2 (0.27%) AMQP
8 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (23.56%) MongoDB
2 106 (14.19%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (13.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 86 (11.51%) Elasticsearch
5 72 (9.64%) NoSQL
6 49 (6.56%) SQL Server
7 45 (6.02%) MySQL
8 26 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 23 (3.08%) Redis
10 20 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.94%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.80%) Metadata
13 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.67%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.54%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.40%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (8.17%) Git
2 44 (5.89%) GitLab
3 42 (5.62%) TeamCity
4 24 (3.21%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.68%) Jenkins
6 16 (2.14%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.47%) JUnit
7 11 (1.47%) Maven
8 10 (1.34%) JIRA
9 9 (1.20%) Mockito
10 8 (1.07%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.94%) Selenium
12 6 (0.80%) NUnit
13 5 (0.67%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.40%) Jasmine
15 3 (0.40%) JMeter
15 3 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 180 (24.10%) Finance
2 125 (16.73%) Social Skills
3 82 (10.98%) Public Sector
4 72 (9.64%) Banking
5 69 (9.24%) Retail
6 68 (9.10%) Law
7 53 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.76%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.49%) Back Office
10 37 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (2.01%) Marketing
12 12 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.61%) Games
13 11 (1.47%) Legal
14 10 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.67%) Aviation
16 5 (0.67%) Publishing
17 4 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 298 (39.89%) Developer
2 198 (26.51%) Software Engineer
3 146 (19.54%) Lead
4 144 (19.28%) Senior
5 135 (18.07%) .NET Developer
6 97 (12.99%) Architect
7 86 (11.51%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (8.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 47 (6.29%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.76%) Lead Developer
11 35 (4.69%) .NET Software Engineer
11 35 (4.69%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.42%) C# Developer
12 33 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
14 31 (4.15%) C# Software Engineer
14 31 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (4.02%) Scala Engineer
16 28 (3.75%) C# .NET Developer
17 27 (3.61%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (33.20%) .NET
2 198 (26.51%) Node.js
3 197 (26.37%) React
4 133 (17.80%) .NET Core
5 120 (16.06%) ASP.NET
6 114 (15.26%) Vue
7 103 (13.79%) ASP.NET Core
8 91 (12.18%) RESTful
9 89 (11.91%) AngularJS
10 73 (9.77%) REST
11 70 (9.37%) ASP.NET Web API
11 70 (9.37%) Spring
12 57 (7.63%) Blazor
13 55 (7.36%) .NET Framework
14 52 (6.96%) gRPC
15 50 (6.69%) Spring Boot
16 41 (5.49%) Kafka
17 39 (5.22%) CSS
17 39 (5.22%) HTML
18 27 (3.61%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 218 (29.18%) Cloud Native
2 124 (16.60%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (9.24%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.16%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.02%) Over-the-Top Content
6 25 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.95%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.20%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.94%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.94%) PKI
14 6 (0.80%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.67%) IoT
15 5 (0.67%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.16%) Linux
2 20 (2.68%) Unix
3 17 (2.28%) Windows
4 3 (0.40%) Android
4 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.13%) CentOS
5 1 (0.13%) Debian
5 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (50.20%) CI/CD
2 356 (47.66%) Agile
3 315 (42.17%) Software Engineering
4 280 (37.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 253 (33.87%) DevOps
6 208 (27.84%) Mentoring
7 161 (21.55%) Containerisation
8 156 (20.88%) Coaching
9 152 (20.35%) Test Automation
10 148 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 143 (19.14%) Event-Driven
13 134 (17.94%) Clean Code
14 132 (17.67%) Scrum
15 129 (17.27%) AI
16 114 (15.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 114 (15.26%) TDD
17 108 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
18 102 (13.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 82 (10.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 245 (32.80%) C#
2 223 (29.85%) SQL
3 213 (28.51%) JavaScript
4 204 (27.31%) Java
5 169 (22.62%) TypeScript
6 153 (20.48%) Python
7 53 (7.10%) Go
8 47 (6.29%) Scala
9 26 (3.48%) Ruby
10 14 (1.87%) Bash
10 14 (1.87%) Bicep
10 14 (1.87%) PHP
11 12 (1.61%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.07%) Rust
14 7 (0.94%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.40%) C++
16 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.13%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 70 (9.37%) Security Cleared
2 68 (9.10%) Degree
3 51 (6.83%) SC Cleared
4 29 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.01%) CISSP
8 14 (1.87%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.34%) CISM
12 7 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.67%) GIAC
13 5 (0.67%) ISACA
13 5 (0.67%) SANS
14 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.69%) QA
2 22 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.54%) GDPR
4 17 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.01%) NIST
6 10 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.94%) NCSC
7 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.40%) IFRS
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.40%) WCAG
10 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
10 2 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 228 (30.52%) Docker
2 12 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Firmware
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 218 (29.18%) Kubernetes
2 115 (15.39%) Terraform
3 54 (7.23%) Grafana
4 28 (3.75%) Ansible
5 16 (2.14%) Argo
6 12 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.40%) Kibana
8 2 (0.27%) MIIS
8 2 (0.27%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.27%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 167 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.02%) Typelevel
3 28 (3.75%) Google
4 20 (2.68%) Oracle
5 14 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.07%) Databricks
7 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.80%) Cisco
8 6 (0.80%) F5
8 6 (0.80%) Juniper
8 6 (0.80%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.67%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.67%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.67%) Okta
10 4 (0.54%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.54%) SAP
10 4 (0.54%) Splunk
11 3 (0.40%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.40%) Foundry
11 3 (0.40%) ServiceNow