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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 49 77
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 857 926 850
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 5.74% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 6.18% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 626 416 606
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 £61,853
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +13.17% -17.53%
75th Percentile £88,148 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 19,241 14,993 20,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.86% 92.96% 87.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,875 8,634 13,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £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 5 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 (0.82%) 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
6 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 475 (55.43%) AWS
2 398 (46.44%) Azure
3 141 (16.45%) GCP
3 141 (16.45%) SaaS
4 94 (10.97%) Serverless
5 91 (10.62%) GitHub
6 76 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (8.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 61 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 45 (5.25%) Amazon S3
12 42 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 31 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 25 (2.92%) PaaS
17 24 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.20%) Broadband
2 7 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
3 4 (0.47%) HTTP
3 4 (0.47%) 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 (25.67%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 134 (15.64%) Elasticsearch
4 102 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (7.82%) SQL Server
6 43 (5.02%) MySQL
7 41 (4.78%) NoSQL
8 33 (3.85%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.27%) Redis
10 18 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.40%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.93%) Metadata
13 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.58%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.47%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.23%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 73 (8.52%) Git
2 48 (5.60%) TeamCity
3 30 (3.50%) GitLab
4 26 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.22%) JUnit
6 18 (2.10%) Maven
7 17 (1.98%) Mockito
8 16 (1.87%) Jenkins
9 15 (1.75%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.05%) Selenium
11 8 (0.93%) JIRA
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
13 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.47%) NUnit
14 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
15 2 (0.23%) Jasmine
15 2 (0.23%) MLflow
15 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 183 (21.35%) Finance
2 149 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.67%) Law
4 96 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 83 (9.68%) Retail
6 75 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (8.28%) Legal
8 67 (7.82%) Banking
9 47 (5.48%) Back Office
10 45 (5.25%) Financial Institution
11 37 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.27%) Legal Technology
13 27 (3.15%) Games
14 17 (1.98%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.87%) Marketing
16 9 (1.05%) French Language
16 9 (1.05%) Local Government
17 7 (0.82%) Advertising
18 6 (0.70%) Telecoms
19 5 (0.58%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 407 (47.49%) Developer
2 187 (21.82%) .NET Developer
3 186 (21.70%) Senior
4 176 (20.54%) Lead
5 174 (20.30%) Software Engineer
6 107 (12.49%) Architect
7 101 (11.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 91 (10.62%) Senior Developer
9 51 (5.95%) Lead Developer
10 47 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
11 41 (4.78%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 36 (4.20%) Technical Leader
14 35 (4.08%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.50%) Java Developer
16 29 (3.38%) Technical Architect
17 27 (3.15%) Java Engineer
17 27 (3.15%) Team Leader
18 26 (3.03%) Lead Architect
19 25 (2.92%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (40.26%) .NET
2 268 (31.27%) Node.js
3 236 (27.54%) React
4 179 (20.89%) .NET Core
5 176 (20.54%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.85%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (17.39%) Vue
8 127 (14.82%) Terraform
9 117 (13.65%) AngularJS
10 100 (11.67%) Blazor
11 93 (10.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 89 (10.39%) REST
13 76 (8.87%) Spring
14 75 (8.75%) RESTful
15 65 (7.58%) .NET Framework
16 51 (5.95%) Spring Boot
17 43 (5.02%) Kafka
18 35 (4.08%) CSS
19 31 (3.62%) gRPC
19 31 (3.62%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 216 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 118 (13.77%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (8.52%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
7 20 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.10%) Over-the-Top Content
9 16 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.05%) Blog
14 8 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
14 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
15 7 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.82%) IoT
16 6 (0.70%) Data Structures
17 5 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
17 5 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.60%) Linux
2 24 (2.80%) Windows
3 16 (1.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (55.19%) Agile
2 438 (51.11%) CI/CD
3 339 (39.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 318 (37.11%) Software Engineering
5 261 (30.46%) Mentoring
6 251 (29.29%) DevOps
7 199 (23.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 179 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (19.95%) Event-Driven
10 161 (18.79%) Scrum
11 153 (17.85%) AI
12 149 (17.39%) Coaching
13 143 (16.69%) Technical Leadership
14 139 (16.22%) TDD
15 138 (16.10%) Test Automation
16 125 (14.59%) Clean Code
17 118 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 117 (13.65%) Infrastructure as Code
19 114 (13.30%) Containerisation
20 111 (12.95%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 362 (42.24%) C#
2 257 (29.99%) JavaScript
3 255 (29.75%) SQL
4 211 (24.62%) Java
5 210 (24.50%) TypeScript
6 121 (14.12%) Python
7 33 (3.85%) Ruby
8 29 (3.38%) Go
9 23 (2.68%) Scala
10 19 (2.22%) Bash
11 15 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.63%) Bicep
13 11 (1.28%) PHP
14 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.47%) 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 85 (9.92%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.70%) Degree
3 65 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.93%) CISSP
8 7 (0.82%) CISM
9 6 (0.70%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.35%) CCSP
12 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.25%) QA
2 21 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.22%) GDPR
4 17 (1.98%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.93%) NIST
8 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.47%) NCSC
8 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS
9 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 233 (27.19%) Docker
2 8 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 244 (28.47%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.77%) Grafana
3 17 (1.98%) Ansible
3 17 (1.98%) Argo
4 13 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) MIIS
6 1 (0.12%) Consul
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 228 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.97%) Google
3 27 (3.15%) Oracle
4 18 (2.10%) Typelevel
5 14 (1.63%) SAP
6 13 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.05%) Databricks
8 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.58%) Splunk
9 4 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.47%) Epicor
9 4 (0.47%) Facebook
9 4 (0.47%) IFS
9 4 (0.47%) Infor
9 4 (0.47%) Instagram
9 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.47%) TikTok
10 3 (0.35%) Alterian
10 3 (0.35%) Foundry
10 3 (0.35%) Sitecore