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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +20 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 877 1,094 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.08% 6.66% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 7.14% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 638 534 1,138
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,740 £70,000 £63,609
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +10.05% -15.19%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,938 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +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 17,786 15,322 27,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 93.26% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12,956 9,066 20,494
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £34,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,888 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.47% +3.43% -8.71%

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 18 July 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 (0.91%) CMS
2 5 (0.57%) IIS
2 5 (0.57%) nginx
3 4 (0.46%) JBoss
4 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.34%) Camunda
4 3 (0.34%) Confluence
4 3 (0.34%) DNN
4 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (0.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 498 (56.78%) AWS
2 420 (47.89%) Azure
3 168 (19.16%) GCP
4 146 (16.65%) SaaS
5 101 (11.52%) Serverless
6 93 (10.60%) GitHub
7 76 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (7.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 58 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 42 (4.79%) Amazon S3
13 40 (4.56%) Azure AKS
14 39 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (3.99%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (3.42%) PaaS
18 19 (2.17%) Azure Functions
18 19 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.30%) Broadband
2 7 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.80%) Internet
3 6 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.68%) DNS
3 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.57%) DHCP
4 5 (0.57%) MQTT
5 4 (0.46%) Network Security
5 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) Modbus
7 1 (0.11%) AMQP
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.77%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 128 (14.60%) Elasticsearch
4 114 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.53%) NoSQL
6 62 (7.07%) SQL Server
7 51 (5.82%) MySQL
8 31 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.19%) Redis
10 20 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.91%) Metadata
12 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.80%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.57%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 62 (7.07%) Git
2 47 (5.36%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.68%) GitLab
4 23 (2.62%) Cypress.io
5 21 (2.39%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.05%) Claude Code
7 13 (1.48%) Maven
8 12 (1.37%) JIRA
8 12 (1.37%) JUnit
9 10 (1.14%) Mockito
10 5 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.57%) Selenium
11 4 (0.46%) NUnit
12 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 193 (22.01%) Finance
2 135 (15.39%) Social Skills
3 98 (11.17%) Law
4 89 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 88 (10.03%) Retail
6 72 (8.21%) Banking
7 67 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (6.73%) Legal
9 45 (5.13%) Back Office
9 45 (5.13%) Financial Institution
10 37 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.19%) Legal Technology
12 18 (2.05%) Marketing
13 17 (1.94%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.82%) Games
15 10 (1.14%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.03%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.57%) Advertising
18 5 (0.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 404 (46.07%) Developer
2 200 (22.81%) Software Engineer
3 189 (21.55%) .NET Developer
4 183 (20.87%) Senior
5 168 (19.16%) Lead
6 100 (11.40%) Architect
7 93 (10.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 82 (9.35%) Senior Developer
9 55 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 50 (5.70%) Lead Developer
11 44 (5.02%) Java Engineer
12 43 (4.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 41 (4.68%) Lead Software Engineer
14 35 (3.99%) C# Developer
15 32 (3.65%) .NET Software Engineer
15 32 (3.65%) Java Software Engineer
16 31 (3.53%) C# .NET Developer
16 31 (3.53%) Software Developer
17 30 (3.42%) Scala Engineer
17 30 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (38.77%) .NET
2 249 (28.39%) Node.js
3 231 (26.34%) React
4 174 (19.84%) .NET Core
5 170 (19.38%) ASP.NET
6 152 (17.33%) ASP.NET Core
7 146 (16.65%) Vue
8 115 (13.11%) AngularJS
9 96 (10.95%) ASP.NET Web API
10 91 (10.38%) RESTful
11 87 (9.92%) Blazor
12 75 (8.55%) REST
13 74 (8.44%) .NET Framework
14 67 (7.64%) Spring
15 53 (6.04%) gRPC
16 51 (5.82%) Spring Boot
17 42 (4.79%) CSS
18 41 (4.68%) Kafka
19 40 (4.56%) HTML
20 25 (2.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 233 (26.57%) Cloud Native
2 138 (15.74%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.55%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 31 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.80%) Blog
13 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.80%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.80%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.68%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.68%) IoT
15 5 (0.57%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.59%) Linux
2 22 (2.51%) Windows
3 20 (2.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (53.36%) Agile
2 447 (50.97%) CI/CD
3 363 (41.39%) Software Engineering
4 341 (38.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 265 (30.22%) DevOps
6 232 (26.45%) Mentoring
7 200 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 199 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (19.61%) Scrum
10 170 (19.38%) Coaching
11 161 (18.36%) Test Automation
12 156 (17.79%) Containerisation
13 154 (17.56%) Event-Driven
14 149 (16.99%) AI
15 146 (16.65%) Clean Code
16 141 (16.08%) TDD
17 125 (14.25%) Technical Leadership
18 121 (13.80%) Infrastructure as Code
19 104 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
19 104 (11.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 345 (39.34%) C#
2 279 (31.81%) SQL
3 256 (29.19%) JavaScript
4 210 (23.95%) Java
5 208 (23.72%) TypeScript
6 159 (18.13%) Python
7 53 (6.04%) Go
8 49 (5.59%) Scala
9 26 (2.96%) Ruby
10 17 (1.94%) PHP
11 16 (1.82%) Bash
11 16 (1.82%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.60%) Bicep
13 11 (1.25%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.91%) Rust
15 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.34%) C++
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Perl
18 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (8.78%) Security Cleared
2 67 (7.64%) Degree
3 57 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.48%) CISSP
6 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 12 (1.37%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 8 (0.91%) CISM
8 8 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.57%) GIAC
9 5 (0.57%) ISACA
9 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.57%) SANS
9 5 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (11.63%) QA
2 24 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.39%) GDPR
4 13 (1.48%) NIST
5 12 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.57%) NCSC
8 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.46%) WCAG
10 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.34%) IFRS
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.34%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 249 (28.39%) Docker
2 13 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 240 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 112 (12.77%) Terraform
3 64 (7.30%) Grafana
4 28 (3.19%) Ansible
5 17 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.82%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 228 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.13%) Typelevel
3 33 (3.76%) Google
4 26 (2.96%) Oracle
5 15 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.03%) Databricks
7 6 (0.68%) Cisco
7 6 (0.68%) F5
7 6 (0.68%) Juniper
7 6 (0.68%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.68%) SAP
8 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.57%) Okta
8 5 (0.57%) Splunk
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow