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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 46 31
Rank change year-on-year -26 -15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 568 896 1,856
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 5.93% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 6.24% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 409 603 1,634
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £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 £113,750 £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 14,117 14,367 25,565
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.85% 95.11% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,164 8,762 21,237
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
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 £105,000 £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 26 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 (2.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (2.29%) JBoss
3 11 (1.94%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.88%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.53%) CMS
6 3 (0.53%) Confluence
6 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.35%) Apache
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%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (2.64%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Quorum
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 351 (61.80%) AWS
2 295 (51.94%) Azure
3 159 (27.99%) GCP
4 129 (22.71%) SaaS
5 112 (19.72%) Serverless
6 73 (12.85%) GitHub
7 63 (11.09%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (7.57%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (6.16%) Amazon S3
11 34 (5.99%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 28 (4.93%) Power Platform
13 27 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (4.23%) PaaS
16 19 (3.35%) Azure Event Grid
17 18 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (3.17%) OCI
18 17 (2.99%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.28%) Broadband
2 4 (0.70%) DHCP
2 4 (0.70%) DNS
3 3 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.53%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) MQTT
4 2 (0.35%) AMQP
5 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (14.44%) MongoDB
3 76 (13.38%) NoSQL
4 61 (10.74%) SQL Server
5 30 (5.28%) MySQL
6 21 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (3.35%) Power BI
9 15 (2.64%) Redis
9 15 (2.64%) Tableau
10 13 (2.29%) DynamoDB
11 12 (2.11%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.94%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.70%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
17 2 (0.35%) CouchDB
17 2 (0.35%) Electronic Patient Records
17 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 80 (14.08%) Git
2 45 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.99%) TeamCity
4 27 (4.75%) GitLab
5 22 (3.87%) JIRA
6 21 (3.70%) Cypress.io
7 15 (2.64%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.76%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.58%) Selenium
10 8 (1.41%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.41%) git-flow
11 7 (1.23%) JUnit
12 6 (1.06%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.53%) Claude Code
14 3 (0.53%) JMeter
14 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.35%) Mockito
15 2 (0.35%) NUnit
15 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 173 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 155 (27.29%) Finance
3 65 (11.44%) Law
4 62 (10.92%) Banking
5 48 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 45 (7.92%) Retail
7 44 (7.75%) Public Sector
8 43 (7.57%) Financial Institution
9 39 (6.87%) Back Office
10 23 (4.05%) Telecoms
11 22 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.11%) Legal
13 10 (1.76%) Marketing
14 7 (1.23%) Billing
14 7 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.06%) Advertising
15 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 191 (33.63%) Developer
2 169 (29.75%) Senior
3 151 (26.58%) Software Engineer
4 84 (14.79%) Architect
5 81 (14.26%) Lead
6 63 (11.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 53 (9.33%) .NET Developer
8 50 (8.80%) Senior Developer
9 49 (8.63%) Java Engineer
10 45 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 36 (6.34%) Lead Developer
12 34 (5.99%) Java Software Engineer
13 26 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 25 (4.40%) C# Developer
14 25 (4.40%) Software Developer
15 24 (4.23%) Java Developer
16 23 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
17 21 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
18 20 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (31.16%) .NET
2 151 (26.58%) React
3 126 (22.18%) RESTful
4 84 (14.79%) Node.js
5 82 (14.44%) Spring
6 77 (13.56%) Kafka
7 64 (11.27%) Spring Boot
8 60 (10.56%) REST
9 58 (10.21%) .NET Core
10 54 (9.51%) AngularJS
11 50 (8.80%) gRPC
12 44 (7.75%) ASP.NET Web API
13 43 (7.57%) .NET Framework
14 40 (7.04%) ASP.NET
15 32 (5.63%) Entity Framework
15 32 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (5.46%) HTML
17 30 (5.28%) OAuth
18 26 (4.58%) CSS
19 24 (4.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 182 (32.04%) Cloud Native
2 97 (17.08%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (11.62%) Product Ownership
4 61 (10.74%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (4.75%) Over-the-Top Content
5 27 (4.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.94%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.94%) DataPower
10 10 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.58%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.23%) PKI
14 5 (0.88%) IoT
14 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.99%) Linux
2 16 (2.82%) Android
3 7 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.88%) Windows
5 3 (0.53%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) 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
1 294 (51.76%) CI/CD
2 247 (43.49%) Software Engineering
3 241 (42.43%) Agile
4 226 (39.79%) DevOps
5 165 (29.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 158 (27.82%) Mentoring
7 144 (25.35%) Containerisation
8 138 (24.30%) Test Automation
9 126 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (21.30%) Event-Driven
11 115 (20.25%) Coaching
12 111 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (17.96%) Clean Code
14 101 (17.78%) AI
15 89 (15.67%) Computer Science
16 82 (14.44%) Architectural Patterns
17 78 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 77 (13.56%) TDD
19 70 (12.32%) Technical Leadership
20 64 (11.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 213 (37.50%) Java
2 171 (30.11%) C#
3 136 (23.94%) Python
4 130 (22.89%) SQL
5 124 (21.83%) JavaScript
6 111 (19.54%) TypeScript
7 61 (10.74%) Go
8 27 (4.75%) Scala
9 17 (2.99%) Shell Script
10 16 (2.82%) Ruby
11 15 (2.64%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.41%) PHP
13 7 (1.23%) C++
14 6 (1.06%) Delphi
15 4 (0.70%) Bicep
15 4 (0.70%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.70%) Rust
16 3 (0.53%) Erlang
17 2 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 103 (18.13%) Degree
2 71 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (9.33%) Security Cleared
4 47 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 41 (7.22%) AWS Certification
6 40 (7.04%) Azure Certification
7 35 (6.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.46%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.11%) CISSP
12 8 (1.41%) CISM
13 7 (1.23%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.88%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.70%) GIAC
15 4 (0.70%) ISACA
15 4 (0.70%) SANS
16 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.98%) QA
2 15 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.29%) GDPR
4 12 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.11%) NIST
5 8 (1.41%) NCSC
5 8 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.35%) GRC
6 2 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 2 (0.35%) SEPA
6 2 (0.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (26.94%) Docker
2 15 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.35%) vSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 167 (29.40%) Kubernetes
2 96 (16.90%) Terraform
3 55 (9.68%) Grafana
4 23 (4.05%) Ansible
5 15 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.58%) Argo
6 9 (1.58%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.41%) Kibana
8 3 (0.53%) Puppet
9 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
10 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 102 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.28%) Oracle
3 27 (4.75%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.52%) Google
5 7 (1.23%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.06%) Databricks
6 6 (1.06%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.88%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.88%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.88%) Nokia
8 4 (0.70%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.70%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.70%) Okta
8 4 (0.70%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.70%) Revolut
9 3 (0.53%) Cisco
9 3 (0.53%) F5
9 3 (0.53%) Facebook
9 3 (0.53%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.53%) YouTube