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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 52 32
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 523 885 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 5.42% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 5.74% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 400 552 1,466
10th Percentile £52,490 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £92,625 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £108,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% +3.21% -12.10%

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 13,689 15,415 23,848
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.83% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,688 9,091 19,584
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 17 (3.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (2.29%) JBoss
3 11 (2.10%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.96%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.76%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.25%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Actimize
3 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Quorum
3 1 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 309 (59.08%) AWS
2 280 (53.54%) Azure
3 123 (23.52%) GCP
4 120 (22.94%) SaaS
5 111 (21.22%) Serverless
6 79 (15.11%) GitHub
7 70 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.31%) Amazon S3
11 32 (6.12%) Power Platform
12 31 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (5.16%) Azure Service Bus
14 27 (5.16%) PaaS
15 20 (3.82%) Azure App Service
15 20 (3.82%) OCI
16 17 (3.25%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.10%) Broadband
2 1 (0.19%) AMQP
2 1 (0.19%) DHCP
2 1 (0.19%) DNS
2 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 75 (14.34%) PostgreSQL
3 68 (13.00%) NoSQL
4 65 (12.43%) SQL Server
5 32 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.59%) MySQL
8 22 (4.21%) Power BI
9 17 (3.25%) DynamoDB
9 17 (3.25%) Tableau
10 13 (2.49%) Redis
11 12 (2.29%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.38%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 82 (15.68%) Git
2 44 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.78%) TeamCity
4 24 (4.59%) JIRA
5 21 (4.02%) GitLab
6 19 (3.63%) Cypress.io
7 17 (3.25%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (2.10%) Selenium
9 10 (1.91%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.72%) CircleCI
11 8 (1.53%) git-flow
11 8 (1.53%) JUnit
11 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.96%) JMeter
13 4 (0.76%) Postman
13 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.57%) Mockito
14 3 (0.57%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.38%) NUnit
15 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 165 (31.55%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.96%) Finance
3 50 (9.56%) Banking
3 50 (9.56%) Law
4 36 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (6.88%) Retail
5 34 (6.50%) Financial Institution
6 32 (6.12%) Back Office
7 28 (5.35%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.29%) Legal
10 11 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.91%) Billing
12 8 (1.53%) Advertising
13 7 (1.34%) Marketing
14 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.96%) Esports
15 5 (0.96%) Front Office
15 5 (0.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 187 (35.76%) Developer
2 156 (29.83%) Senior
3 120 (22.94%) Software Engineer
4 85 (16.25%) Architect
5 79 (15.11%) Lead
6 63 (12.05%) .NET Developer
7 54 (10.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (8.60%) Senior Developer
9 37 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
10 34 (6.50%) Lead Developer
11 33 (6.31%) Java Engineer
12 24 (4.59%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.59%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (4.21%) Java Developer
14 22 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
15 21 (4.02%) C# Developer
16 19 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (36.33%) .NET
2 155 (29.64%) React
3 125 (23.90%) RESTful
4 86 (16.44%) Node.js
5 72 (13.77%) Spring
6 70 (13.38%) .NET Core
7 69 (13.19%) Kafka
8 66 (12.62%) AngularJS
9 57 (10.90%) ASP.NET Web API
10 56 (10.71%) REST
10 56 (10.71%) Spring Boot
11 47 (8.99%) .NET Framework
11 47 (8.99%) ASP.NET
12 38 (7.27%) Entity Framework
13 34 (6.50%) gRPC
13 34 (6.50%) HTML
14 29 (5.54%) ASP.NET MVC
14 29 (5.54%) OAuth
14 29 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
15 27 (5.16%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 158 (30.21%) Cloud Native
2 81 (15.49%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (11.66%) Enterprise Software
4 55 (10.52%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.49%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.49%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.10%) DataPower
9 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.72%) Over-the-Top Content
11 9 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.34%) PKI
13 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.15%) IoT
15 5 (0.96%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.06%) Android
2 15 (2.87%) Linux
3 8 (1.53%) Windows
4 7 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.38%) VMS
6 1 (0.19%) CentOS
6 1 (0.19%) Debian
6 1 (0.19%) Fedora
6 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (49.71%) CI/CD
2 240 (45.89%) Agile
3 211 (40.34%) DevOps
4 205 (39.20%) Software Engineering
5 165 (31.55%) Full-Stack Development
6 143 (27.34%) Mentoring
7 113 (21.61%) Event-Driven
7 113 (21.61%) Test Automation
8 111 (21.22%) Containerisation
9 104 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 104 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (18.36%) AI
11 88 (16.83%) Computer Science
12 85 (16.25%) Clean Code
13 80 (15.30%) Coaching
14 79 (15.11%) Architectural Patterns
15 74 (14.15%) TDD
16 72 (13.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 70 (13.38%) Technical Leadership
18 65 (12.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 188 (35.95%) Java
2 187 (35.76%) C#
3 137 (26.20%) SQL
4 126 (24.09%) JavaScript
5 114 (21.80%) Python
5 114 (21.80%) TypeScript
6 44 (8.41%) Go
7 19 (3.63%) Shell Script
8 17 (3.25%) PL/SQL
9 15 (2.87%) Ruby
10 10 (1.91%) Scala
11 9 (1.72%) C++
12 8 (1.53%) PHP
13 6 (1.15%) Delphi
13 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.96%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.76%) Bicep
15 4 (0.76%) C
16 3 (0.57%) Erlang
17 2 (0.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 94 (17.97%) Degree
2 74 (14.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (8.41%) AWS Certification
4 43 (8.22%) Security Cleared
5 40 (7.65%) Azure Certification
6 39 (7.46%) SC Cleared
7 36 (6.88%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (5.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.44%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.72%) CISSP
12 8 (1.53%) CISM
13 5 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.56%) QA
2 16 (3.06%) GDPR
3 15 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.72%) NIST
7 8 (1.53%) NCSC
8 4 (0.76%) WCAG
9 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 120 (22.94%) Docker
2 15 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 143 (27.34%) Kubernetes
2 92 (17.59%) Terraform
3 40 (7.65%) Grafana
4 17 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.87%) Ansible
6 9 (1.72%) Argo
7 6 (1.15%) Kibana
8 5 (0.96%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.57%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 116 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.74%) Oracle
3 14 (2.68%) Google
4 10 (1.91%) Guidewire
5 9 (1.72%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.15%) Databricks
7 5 (0.96%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.96%) Facebook
7 5 (0.96%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.96%) Nokia
7 5 (0.96%) YouTube
8 4 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.38%) SAP
10 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
10 2 (0.38%) Solarflare
10 2 (0.38%) Sparx
10 2 (0.38%) VMware