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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 46 32
Rank change year-on-year -24 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 565 925 1,857
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.49% 5.92% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 6.24% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 421 605 1,633
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 £113,750 £113,979 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £74,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.03% +10.37% -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 13,968 14,831 25,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.17% 94.86% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,052 8,817 21,328
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.13% -7.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -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 16 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 (2.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (2.30%) JBoss
3 11 (1.95%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.88%) 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 (0.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.35%) 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
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
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 16 (2.83%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.53%) 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
1 345 (61.06%) AWS
2 299 (52.92%) Azure
3 147 (26.02%) GCP
4 129 (22.83%) SaaS
5 113 (20.00%) Serverless
6 76 (13.45%) GitHub
7 67 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
10 34 (6.02%) Amazon S3
11 31 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (5.49%) Power Platform
12 27 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (4.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 27 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (4.60%) PaaS
14 19 (3.36%) OCI
15 18 (3.19%) Azure App Service
16 17 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.35%) AMQP
2 2 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (0.35%) DHCP
2 2 (0.35%) DNS
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) MQTT
3 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.04%) MongoDB
2 84 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (13.27%) NoSQL
4 63 (11.15%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.49%) MySQL
6 26 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.72%) Power BI
9 16 (2.83%) Tableau
10 15 (2.65%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.48%) Redis
12 12 (2.12%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.95%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
16 2 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.35%) Looker
16 2 (0.35%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 79 (13.98%) Git
2 42 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 33 (5.84%) TeamCity
4 24 (4.25%) GitLab
5 23 (4.07%) JIRA
6 19 (3.36%) Cypress.io
7 16 (2.83%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.77%) Selenium
9 8 (1.42%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.42%) git-flow
10 7 (1.24%) JUnit
10 7 (1.24%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.71%) JMeter
11 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.53%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.53%) Postman
12 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.35%) Mockito
13 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 170 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 155 (27.43%) Finance
3 62 (10.97%) Law
4 60 (10.62%) Banking
5 47 (8.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (7.96%) Retail
7 43 (7.61%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.26%) Public Sector
9 39 (6.90%) Back Office
10 24 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
11 22 (3.89%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.12%) Legal
13 9 (1.59%) Marketing
14 8 (1.42%) Billing
15 7 (1.24%) Advertising
15 7 (1.24%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.88%) Esports
17 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 190 (33.63%) Developer
2 165 (29.20%) Senior
3 147 (26.02%) Software Engineer
4 85 (15.04%) Architect
5 82 (14.51%) Lead
6 61 (10.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 59 (10.44%) .NET Developer
8 50 (8.85%) Java Engineer
9 49 (8.67%) Senior Developer
10 42 (7.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (6.37%) Lead Developer
12 33 (5.84%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (4.42%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.25%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.25%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.25%) Software Developer
15 23 (4.07%) Applications Engineer
16 22 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (32.92%) .NET
2 153 (27.08%) React
3 130 (23.01%) RESTful
4 86 (15.22%) Node.js
5 82 (14.51%) Spring
6 76 (13.45%) Kafka
7 66 (11.68%) .NET Core
8 64 (11.33%) Spring Boot
9 62 (10.97%) AngularJS
10 61 (10.80%) REST
11 50 (8.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 47 (8.32%) .NET Framework
13 45 (7.96%) ASP.NET
14 41 (7.26%) gRPC
15 36 (6.37%) Entity Framework
16 32 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
17 31 (5.49%) HTML
18 29 (5.13%) OAuth
19 26 (4.60%) Vue
20 25 (4.42%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 183 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 91 (16.11%) Distributed Systems
3 64 (11.33%) Product Ownership
4 62 (10.97%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.19%) Over-the-Top Content
5 18 (3.19%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.83%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.95%) DataPower
10 10 (1.77%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.42%) PKI
13 7 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.01%) Linux
2 16 (2.83%) Android
3 7 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Windows
5 2 (0.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Fedora
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (50.97%) CI/CD
2 249 (44.07%) Agile
3 241 (42.65%) Software Engineering
4 226 (40.00%) DevOps
5 169 (29.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 159 (28.14%) Mentoring
7 135 (23.89%) Test Automation
8 131 (23.19%) Containerisation
9 120 (21.24%) Event-Driven
10 112 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
11 109 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (18.41%) Coaching
13 99 (17.52%) AI
14 96 (16.99%) Clean Code
15 89 (15.75%) Computer Science
16 83 (14.69%) Architectural Patterns
17 82 (14.51%) TDD
18 77 (13.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 69 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
20 65 (11.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 216 (38.23%) Java
2 180 (31.86%) C#
3 138 (24.42%) SQL
4 127 (22.48%) Python
5 124 (21.95%) JavaScript
6 112 (19.82%) TypeScript
7 51 (9.03%) Go
8 19 (3.36%) Scala
9 18 (3.19%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.83%) PL/SQL
11 14 (2.48%) Ruby
12 9 (1.59%) PHP
13 8 (1.42%) C++
14 7 (1.24%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.06%) Delphi
16 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
17 4 (0.71%) Bicep
17 4 (0.71%) Rust
18 3 (0.53%) C
18 3 (0.53%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 100 (17.70%) Degree
2 73 (12.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (8.67%) Security Cleared
4 45 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 44 (7.79%) AWS Certification
6 41 (7.26%) Azure Certification
7 36 (6.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.95%) CISSP
12 9 (1.59%) CISM
13 6 (1.06%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.35%) ISACA
16 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.67%) QA
2 17 (3.01%) GDPR
3 16 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.95%) NIST
5 11 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.53%) WCAG
8 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.35%) GRC
8 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.35%) SEPA
8 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 138 (24.42%) Docker
2 14 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.35%) vSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 165 (29.20%) Kubernetes
2 98 (17.35%) Terraform
3 53 (9.38%) Grafana
4 19 (3.36%) Ansible
5 16 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.59%) Argo
7 8 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.24%) Kibana
9 4 (0.71%) Puppet
10 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 111 (19.65%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.49%) Oracle
3 18 (3.19%) Google
3 18 (3.19%) Typelevel
4 7 (1.24%) Databricks
4 7 (1.24%) Guidewire
5 6 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.88%) Ericsson
6 5 (0.88%) Mavenir
6 5 (0.88%) Nokia
6 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.71%) Facebook
7 4 (0.71%) Revolut
7 4 (0.71%) YouTube
8 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.35%) Cisco
9 2 (0.35%) Juniper
9 2 (0.35%) SAP
9 2 (0.35%) VMware