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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 60 46
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 507 874 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 4.45% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 4.92% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 411 525 993
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,698 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%

All Process and 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 13,869 17,760 19,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.80% 90.35% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,747 10,711 16,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 November 2025.

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 14 (2.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.58%) JBoss
3 7 (1.38%) Confluence
3 7 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.18%) nginx
5 5 (0.99%) CMS
6 4 (0.79%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.79%) IIS
7 3 (0.59%) Apache
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (2.76%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Quorum
3 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 287 (56.61%) Azure
2 267 (52.66%) AWS
3 100 (19.72%) SaaS
4 95 (18.74%) GCP
5 76 (14.99%) Serverless
6 73 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (12.82%) GitHub
8 34 (6.71%) Azure Service Bus
9 29 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (5.33%) Power Platform
11 26 (5.13%) Amazon S3
12 24 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (4.73%) PaaS
13 23 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (4.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (3.35%) OCI
16 15 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
17 14 (2.76%) Azure App Service
17 14 (2.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
2 2 (0.39%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (17.95%) MongoDB
2 79 (15.58%) SQL Server
3 76 (14.99%) NoSQL
4 65 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (9.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 35 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (5.13%) MySQL
8 19 (3.75%) Power BI
9 18 (3.55%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.35%) Redis
11 14 (2.76%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.76%) Tableau
12 10 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.58%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
18 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
18 2 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 93 (18.34%) Git
2 44 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.93%) JIRA
4 18 (3.55%) GitLab
5 14 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (2.76%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.37%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.17%) Selenium
8 8 (1.58%) git-flow
8 8 (1.58%) JUnit
8 8 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 8 (1.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (1.58%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.38%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.99%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.79%) JMeter
12 4 (0.79%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.59%) Mockito
13 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.68%) Finance
3 37 (7.30%) Law
4 32 (6.31%) Banking
5 29 (5.72%) Retail
6 22 (4.34%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.75%) Back Office
9 18 (3.55%) Billing
9 18 (3.55%) Financial Institution
10 16 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.56%) Front Office
12 11 (2.17%) Legal
13 10 (1.97%) Advertising
14 8 (1.58%) Marketing
15 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (41.22%) Developer
2 136 (26.82%) Senior
3 96 (18.93%) Software Engineer
4 83 (16.37%) .NET Developer
5 76 (14.99%) Architect
6 63 (12.43%) Lead
7 46 (9.07%) Senior Developer
8 40 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
9 31 (6.11%) Lead Developer
10 30 (5.92%) C# Developer
11 28 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.13%) Software Developer
13 25 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
14 23 (4.54%) Java Engineer
15 21 (4.14%) Java Developer
15 21 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (3.94%) Applications Engineer
16 20 (3.94%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (3.35%) Technical Architect
18 16 (3.16%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (42.60%) .NET
2 141 (27.81%) React
3 131 (25.84%) RESTful
4 82 (16.17%) .NET Core
4 82 (16.17%) AngularJS
5 67 (13.21%) Kafka
5 67 (13.21%) Node.js
6 65 (12.82%) ASP.NET Web API
7 61 (12.03%) .NET Framework
7 61 (12.03%) REST
8 60 (11.83%) Spring
9 59 (11.64%) ASP.NET
10 54 (10.65%) Entity Framework
10 54 (10.65%) Spring Boot
11 52 (10.26%) HTML
12 39 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
12 39 (7.69%) CSS
13 37 (7.30%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (7.10%) Vue
15 33 (6.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 143 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 65 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (9.07%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (9.07%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.37%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.97%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.58%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.38%) DataPower
11 7 (1.38%) IoT
12 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.18%) Derivative
12 6 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.99%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.14%) Linux
2 18 (3.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.78%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (53.25%) Agile
2 227 (44.77%) CI/CD
3 211 (41.62%) DevOps
4 169 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 146 (28.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 125 (24.65%) Mentoring
7 95 (18.74%) Event-Driven
8 93 (18.34%) Containerisation
9 90 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (17.55%) AI
10 89 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 86 (16.96%) Test Automation
12 83 (16.37%) TDD
13 78 (15.38%) Clean Code
14 72 (14.20%) Scrum
15 64 (12.62%) Computer Science
15 64 (12.62%) MVC
16 62 (12.23%) Design Patterns
17 61 (12.03%) Coaching
18 60 (11.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 227 (44.77%) C#
2 167 (32.94%) Java
3 163 (32.15%) SQL
4 127 (25.05%) JavaScript
5 109 (21.50%) TypeScript
6 107 (21.10%) Python
7 32 (6.31%) Go
8 15 (2.96%) Shell Script
9 14 (2.76%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.97%) Ruby
11 9 (1.78%) PHP
12 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
13 6 (1.18%) C++
13 6 (1.18%) Delphi
14 4 (0.79%) Bicep
14 4 (0.79%) C
15 3 (0.59%) Bash
15 3 (0.59%) Elixir
15 3 (0.59%) Erlang
15 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 72 (14.20%) Degree
2 55 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (7.50%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.11%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.34%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (3.94%) Master's Degree
10 18 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.18%) CISM
11 6 (1.18%) CISSP
12 4 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.64%) QA
2 21 (4.14%) GDPR
3 12 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.78%) NIST
5 7 (1.38%) HIPAA
5 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.59%) WCAG
8 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 121 (23.87%) Docker
2 11 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 131 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 56 (11.05%) Terraform
3 35 (6.90%) Grafana
4 14 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.97%) Ansible
7 6 (1.18%) Argo
7 6 (1.18%) Kibana
8 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 121 (23.87%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.72%) Oracle
3 16 (3.16%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.37%) Google
5 7 (1.38%) Facebook
5 7 (1.38%) YouTube
6 6 (1.18%) Databricks
7 5 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.79%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.79%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.79%) Nokia
9 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.59%) Sage
9 3 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.59%) Trayport
10 2 (0.39%) SAP
10 2 (0.39%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.39%) VMware