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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 52 35
Rank change year-on-year -25 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 502 867 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 5.28% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 5.63% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 401 541 1,220
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
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 £90,000 £86,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -9.68%

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 13,245 15,409 20,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.44% 93.79% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,423 9,065 16,344
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,781 £47,000 £45,000
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 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 (3.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (1.99%) JBoss
3 9 (1.79%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.20%) Confluence
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.60%) nginx
6 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.39%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
2 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Quorum
2 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 294 (58.57%) AWS
2 278 (55.38%) Azure
3 105 (20.92%) SaaS
3 105 (20.92%) Serverless
4 103 (20.52%) GCP
5 77 (15.34%) GitHub
6 66 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (6.37%) Amazon S3
9 29 (5.78%) Amazon SQS
9 29 (5.78%) Power Platform
10 28 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
11 26 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (4.98%) PaaS
13 20 (3.98%) Azure App Service
13 20 (3.98%) OCI
14 17 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
15 15 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) AMQP
1 2 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (17.53%) MongoDB
2 76 (15.14%) NoSQL
3 74 (14.74%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 38 (7.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (4.98%) MySQL
8 22 (4.38%) Power BI
9 18 (3.59%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.39%) Tableau
11 13 (2.59%) Redis
12 12 (2.39%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.40%) PostHog
17 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 83 (16.53%) Git
2 46 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.18%) JIRA
4 20 (3.98%) GitLab
5 18 (3.59%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.39%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (3.19%) TeamCity
8 12 (2.39%) Selenium
9 10 (1.99%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.59%) git-flow
10 8 (1.59%) JUnit
10 8 (1.59%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.00%) JMeter
12 4 (0.80%) Postman
13 3 (0.60%) Mockito
13 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.60%) Storybook
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
General
1 162 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 127 (25.30%) Finance
3 41 (8.17%) Law
4 37 (7.37%) Banking
5 26 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 26 (5.18%) Retail
6 24 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.98%) Back Office
8 20 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (2.59%) Billing
10 13 (2.59%) Legal
11 10 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.79%) Advertising
13 7 (1.39%) Marketing
14 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Esports
15 5 (1.00%) Front Office
16 3 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 187 (37.25%) Developer
2 143 (28.49%) Senior
3 105 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 79 (15.74%) Architect
5 76 (15.14%) Lead
6 68 (13.55%) .NET Developer
7 48 (9.56%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 36 (7.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (6.37%) Lead Developer
11 27 (5.38%) Java Engineer
12 24 (4.78%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.78%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 21 (4.18%) C# Developer
16 20 (3.98%) Java Developer
17 19 (3.78%) Azure Developer
17 19 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (38.05%) .NET
2 156 (31.08%) React
3 131 (26.10%) RESTful
4 85 (16.93%) Node.js
5 74 (14.74%) Kafka
6 73 (14.54%) .NET Core
7 69 (13.75%) AngularJS
7 69 (13.75%) Spring
8 61 (12.15%) ASP.NET Web API
9 57 (11.35%) Spring Boot
10 51 (10.16%) REST
11 49 (9.76%) .NET Framework
11 49 (9.76%) ASP.NET
12 40 (7.97%) Entity Framework
13 36 (7.17%) HTML
14 33 (6.57%) ASP.NET MVC
15 30 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (5.78%) Vue
17 28 (5.58%) OAuth
18 26 (5.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 148 (29.48%) Cloud Native
2 75 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (11.95%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (9.96%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.99%) Data Structures
6 15 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.79%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.59%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (1.99%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.79%) DataPower
11 9 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (1.79%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.20%) IoT
13 5 (1.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.00%) PKI
14 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.60%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.99%) Android
2 14 (2.79%) Linux
3 9 (1.79%) Windows
4 6 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (50.20%) Agile
2 244 (48.61%) CI/CD
3 208 (41.43%) DevOps
4 182 (36.25%) Software Engineering
5 164 (32.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 141 (28.09%) Mentoring
7 111 (22.11%) Event-Driven
8 102 (20.32%) Containerisation
8 102 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (19.32%) Test Automation
10 96 (19.12%) AI
11 91 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (16.33%) Computer Science
13 78 (15.54%) TDD
14 76 (15.14%) Architectural Patterns
15 75 (14.94%) Clean Code
16 69 (13.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 67 (13.35%) Coaching
18 65 (12.95%) Scrum
19 63 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 194 (38.65%) C#
2 176 (35.06%) Java
3 143 (28.49%) SQL
4 128 (25.50%) JavaScript
5 118 (23.51%) TypeScript
6 107 (21.31%) Python
7 36 (7.17%) Go
8 19 (3.78%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.39%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.79%) Ruby
11 9 (1.79%) C++
12 8 (1.59%) PHP
13 6 (1.20%) Delphi
14 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
15 4 (0.80%) C
15 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.60%) Elixir
16 3 (0.60%) Erlang
17 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (17.13%) Degree
2 72 (14.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (8.37%) AWS Certification
4 40 (7.97%) Security Cleared
5 38 (7.57%) Azure Certification
6 36 (7.17%) SC Cleared
7 33 (6.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.39%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.20%) CISM
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
12 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.56%) QA
2 14 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.79%) GDPR
3 10 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.39%) NIST
6 6 (1.20%) NCSC
7 5 (1.00%) WCAG
8 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 114 (22.71%) Docker
2 13 (2.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.40%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 137 (27.29%) Kubernetes
2 80 (15.94%) Terraform
3 33 (6.57%) Grafana
4 17 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.59%) Ansible
6 10 (1.99%) Argo
7 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.20%) Kibana
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 117 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.98%) Oracle
3 13 (2.59%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.39%) Google
5 6 (1.20%) Databricks
5 6 (1.20%) Facebook
5 6 (1.20%) YouTube
6 5 (1.00%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.00%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.00%) Nokia
7 4 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.40%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.40%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.40%) Sparx
9 2 (0.40%) VMware