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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 49 32
Rank change year-on-year -22 -17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 560 903 1,838
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 5.88% 6.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 6.19% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 416 603 1,620
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 £116,875 £114,850 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -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 14,088 14,578 25,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.94% 94.86% 92.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,167 8,804 21,405
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 21 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 15 (2.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (2.32%) JBoss
3 11 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.71%) Confluence
6 3 (0.54%) CMS
6 3 (0.54%) nginx
6 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) 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
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.68%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.36%) 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
1 341 (60.89%) AWS
2 296 (52.86%) Azure
3 149 (26.61%) GCP
4 130 (23.21%) SaaS
5 114 (20.36%) Serverless
6 75 (13.39%) GitHub
7 65 (11.61%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
12 30 (5.36%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (4.64%) PaaS
15 18 (3.21%) Azure App Service
15 18 (3.21%) OCI
16 17 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (3.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.57%) Broadband
2 3 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (0.54%) DHCP
2 3 (0.54%) DNS
2 3 (0.54%) Firewall
2 3 (0.54%) MQTT
3 2 (0.36%) AMQP
4 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (14.46%) MongoDB
3 76 (13.57%) NoSQL
4 64 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.54%) MySQL
6 21 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 21 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.57%) Power BI
8 15 (2.68%) Tableau
9 14 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 14 (2.50%) Redis
10 12 (2.14%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
15 2 (0.36%) Big Data
15 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (14.29%) Git
2 41 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.07%) TeamCity
4 26 (4.64%) GitLab
5 23 (4.11%) JIRA
6 20 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.79%) Selenium
9 9 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.43%) git-flow
11 7 (1.25%) JUnit
11 7 (1.25%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.71%) JMeter
12 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
13 3 (0.54%) Postman
13 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.36%) Mockito
14 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 153 (27.32%) Finance
3 63 (11.25%) Law
4 61 (10.89%) Banking
5 47 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (8.04%) Retail
7 43 (7.68%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.32%) Public Sector
9 39 (6.96%) Back Office
10 23 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (4.11%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.14%) Legal
12 9 (1.61%) Marketing
13 8 (1.43%) Billing
14 7 (1.25%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.07%) Advertising
15 6 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 188 (33.57%) Developer
2 166 (29.64%) Senior
3 147 (26.25%) Software Engineer
4 83 (14.82%) Architect
4 83 (14.82%) Lead
5 61 (10.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 55 (9.82%) .NET Developer
7 49 (8.75%) Java Engineer
7 49 (8.75%) Senior Developer
8 44 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
9 37 (6.61%) Lead Developer
10 33 (5.89%) Java Software Engineer
11 25 (4.46%) C# Developer
12 24 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 24 (4.29%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.29%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.93%) Applications Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (3.75%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (32.50%) .NET
2 151 (26.96%) React
3 127 (22.68%) RESTful
4 84 (15.00%) Node.js
5 81 (14.46%) Spring
6 77 (13.75%) Kafka
7 63 (11.25%) Spring Boot
8 62 (11.07%) REST
9 60 (10.71%) .NET Core
10 57 (10.18%) AngularJS
11 45 (8.04%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (7.86%) .NET Framework
13 41 (7.32%) ASP.NET
13 41 (7.32%) gRPC
14 33 (5.89%) Entity Framework
15 32 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (5.54%) HTML
17 29 (5.18%) OAuth
18 26 (4.64%) CSS
19 25 (4.46%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 184 (32.86%) Cloud Native
2 92 (16.43%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (11.79%) Product Ownership
4 61 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.21%) Over-the-Top Content
5 18 (3.21%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.96%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.96%) DataPower
10 10 (1.79%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 10 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.43%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.25%) PKI
13 6 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.39%) Linux
2 16 (2.86%) Android
3 7 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.89%) Windows
5 3 (0.54%) Unix
6 2 (0.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) CentOS
7 1 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.18%) Fedora
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (51.25%) CI/CD
2 244 (43.57%) Agile
3 238 (42.50%) Software Engineering
4 225 (40.18%) DevOps
5 165 (29.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 159 (28.39%) Mentoring
7 135 (24.11%) Test Automation
8 134 (23.93%) Containerisation
9 120 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 115 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (18.75%) Coaching
13 98 (17.50%) AI
14 95 (16.96%) Clean Code
15 90 (16.07%) Computer Science
16 83 (14.82%) Architectural Patterns
17 77 (13.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 76 (13.57%) TDD
19 70 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
20 65 (11.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 214 (38.21%) Java
2 175 (31.25%) C#
3 132 (23.57%) SQL
4 128 (22.86%) Python
5 123 (21.96%) JavaScript
6 111 (19.82%) TypeScript
7 51 (9.11%) Go
8 19 (3.39%) Scala
9 17 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.68%) Ruby
11 9 (1.61%) PHP
12 8 (1.43%) C++
13 7 (1.25%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.07%) Delphi
15 5 (0.89%) PowerShell
15 5 (0.89%) Rust
16 4 (0.71%) Bicep
17 3 (0.54%) C
17 3 (0.54%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 103 (18.39%) Degree
2 73 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.04%) SC Cleared
5 42 (7.50%) AWS Certification
6 40 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 35 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.86%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.96%) CISSP
12 8 (1.43%) CISM
13 7 (1.25%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.54%) GIAC
16 3 (0.54%) ISACA
16 3 (0.54%) SANS
17 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.93%) QA
2 16 (2.86%) GDPR
3 14 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.96%) NIST
5 9 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.43%) NCSC
7 3 (0.54%) WCAG
8 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
8 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 140 (25.00%) Docker
2 15 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (29.82%) Kubernetes
2 96 (17.14%) Terraform
3 54 (9.64%) Grafana
4 21 (3.75%) Ansible
5 15 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.61%) Argo
6 9 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.43%) Kibana
8 4 (0.71%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 105 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.36%) Oracle
3 19 (3.39%) Google
4 18 (3.21%) Typelevel
5 7 (1.25%) Databricks
5 7 (1.25%) Guidewire
5 7 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 5 (0.89%) Ericsson
6 5 (0.89%) Mavenir
6 5 (0.89%) Nokia
6 5 (0.89%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.71%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.71%) Revolut
8 3 (0.54%) Cisco
8 3 (0.54%) Facebook
8 3 (0.54%) ForgeRock
8 3 (0.54%) Juniper
8 3 (0.54%) Okta
8 3 (0.54%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.54%) YouTube