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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 46 76
Rank change year-on-year -23 +30 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 862 968 875
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.69% 5.86% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 6.30% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 631 450 651
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,700 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%

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 19,177 15,355 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.02% 93.03% 87.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,861 8,958 14,299
10th Percentile £34,674 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,106
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 8 (0.93%) CMS
2 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.58%) Camunda
3 5 (0.58%) IIS
3 5 (0.58%) nginx
4 3 (0.35%) DNN
4 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Kentico
4 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) JBoss
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 477 (55.34%) AWS
2 402 (46.64%) Azure
3 143 (16.59%) SaaS
4 140 (16.24%) GCP
5 97 (11.25%) Serverless
6 91 (10.56%) GitHub
7 77 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 63 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (6.84%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (5.68%) Azure Service Bus
12 47 (5.45%) Amazon S3
13 42 (4.87%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
15 35 (4.06%) Azure AKS
16 33 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (3.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (2.90%) PaaS
19 24 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (2.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.18%) Broadband
2 7 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.81%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) Network Security
3 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.35%) Firewall
4 3 (0.35%) Modbus
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (25.52%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 134 (15.55%) Elasticsearch
4 104 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (8.12%) SQL Server
6 46 (5.34%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.10%) MySQL
8 33 (3.83%) Relational Database
9 29 (3.36%) Redis
10 20 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.39%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.93%) Metadata
13 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.23%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 73 (8.47%) Git
2 47 (5.45%) TeamCity
3 31 (3.60%) GitLab
4 26 (3.02%) Cypress.io
5 18 (2.09%) JUnit
6 17 (1.97%) Maven
7 16 (1.86%) Claude Code
7 16 (1.86%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.86%) Mockito
8 9 (1.04%) JIRA
8 9 (1.04%) Selenium
9 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.46%) NUnit
11 3 (0.35%) Jasmine
11 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.23%) MLflow
12 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (21.00%) Finance
2 152 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 99 (11.48%) Law
4 93 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.51%) Retail
6 74 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 71 (8.24%) Legal
8 66 (7.66%) Banking
9 45 (5.22%) Back Office
10 44 (5.10%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.52%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.25%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.02%) Games
14 17 (1.97%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.86%) Marketing
16 9 (1.04%) Local Government
17 8 (0.93%) Advertising
17 8 (0.93%) French Language
18 7 (0.81%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 409 (47.45%) Developer
2 187 (21.69%) .NET Developer
3 184 (21.35%) Senior
4 177 (20.53%) Software Engineer
5 173 (20.07%) Lead
6 106 (12.30%) Architect
7 102 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 91 (10.56%) Senior Developer
9 52 (6.03%) Lead Developer
10 47 (5.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 41 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (4.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (4.06%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.83%) Technical Leader
15 30 (3.48%) Java Developer
16 27 (3.13%) Java Engineer
16 27 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (3.13%) Team Leader
17 26 (3.02%) C# Developer
17 26 (3.02%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (41.07%) .NET
2 267 (30.97%) Node.js
3 238 (27.61%) React
4 182 (21.11%) .NET Core
5 178 (20.65%) ASP.NET
6 154 (17.87%) ASP.NET Core
7 149 (17.29%) Vue
8 125 (14.50%) Terraform
9 118 (13.69%) AngularJS
10 100 (11.60%) Blazor
11 93 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 90 (10.44%) REST
13 77 (8.93%) RESTful
14 75 (8.70%) Spring
15 68 (7.89%) .NET Framework
16 51 (5.92%) Spring Boot
17 42 (4.87%) Kafka
18 36 (4.18%) CSS
19 33 (3.83%) gRPC
20 31 (3.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 220 (25.52%) Cloud Native
2 119 (13.81%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (8.47%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.55%) Video\Live Streaming
7 20 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.09%) Over-the-Top Content
9 15 (1.74%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.62%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.04%) Blog
12 9 (1.04%) IoT
12 9 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 8 (0.93%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.70%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
16 5 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.68%) Linux
2 24 (2.78%) Windows
3 17 (1.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (55.45%) Agile
2 443 (51.39%) CI/CD
3 341 (39.56%) Full-Stack Development
4 326 (37.82%) Software Engineering
5 259 (30.05%) DevOps
5 259 (30.05%) Mentoring
6 198 (22.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 179 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
8 172 (19.95%) Event-Driven
9 164 (19.03%) Scrum
10 158 (18.33%) AI
11 146 (16.94%) Coaching
12 143 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
13 140 (16.24%) TDD
14 138 (16.01%) Test Automation
15 126 (14.62%) Clean Code
16 121 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 120 (13.92%) Containerisation
18 118 (13.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 111 (12.88%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 370 (42.92%) C#
2 261 (30.28%) JavaScript
2 261 (30.28%) SQL
3 211 (24.48%) TypeScript
4 209 (24.25%) Java
5 125 (14.50%) Python
6 33 (3.83%) Ruby
7 29 (3.36%) Go
8 23 (2.67%) Scala
9 19 (2.20%) Bash
10 15 (1.74%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.62%) Bicep
11 14 (1.62%) PHP
12 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.46%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) Rust
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.66%) Degree
3 64 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.93%) CISSP
8 7 (0.81%) CISM
8 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (12.41%) QA
2 23 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.20%) GDPR
4 16 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.93%) NIST
8 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.46%) NCSC
8 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.46%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.35%) IFRS
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 234 (27.15%) Docker
2 8 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 245 (28.42%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.61%) Grafana
3 17 (1.97%) Ansible
3 17 (1.97%) Argo
4 13 (1.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) MIIS
6 1 (0.12%) Consul
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 230 (26.68%) Microsoft
2 34 (3.94%) Google
3 27 (3.13%) Oracle
4 18 (2.09%) Typelevel
5 13 (1.51%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.51%) SAP
6 9 (1.04%) Databricks
7 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.58%) Splunk
8 4 (0.46%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.46%) Epicor
8 4 (0.46%) Facebook
8 4 (0.46%) IFS
8 4 (0.46%) Infor
8 4 (0.46%) Instagram
8 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.46%) TikTok
9 3 (0.35%) Okta
9 3 (0.35%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.35%) Palo Alto