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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 47 31
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 573 852 1,898
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 5.87% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 6.16% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 413 593 1,672
10th Percentile £50,625 £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 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +11.11% -12.90%

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 14,292 13,831 26,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.60% 95.29% 92.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,323 8,657 21,745
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,547
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 £104,549 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £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 5 March 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 14 (2.44%) JBoss
1 14 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (1.92%) WebSphere
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.70%) CMS
5 3 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.52%) nginx
5 3 (0.52%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Camunda
6 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.17%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.17%) Actimize
4 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Quorum
4 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 353 (61.61%) AWS
2 295 (51.48%) Azure
3 162 (28.27%) GCP
4 131 (22.86%) SaaS
5 113 (19.72%) Serverless
6 71 (12.39%) GitHub
7 59 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (6.46%) Amazon S3
10 35 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
11 29 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
12 27 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (4.71%) Power Platform
13 25 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.84%) PaaS
15 21 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (3.32%) Azure Event Grid
17 17 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 17 (2.97%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.24%) Broadband
2 4 (0.70%) DHCP
2 4 (0.70%) DNS
2 4 (0.70%) MQTT
3 3 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (0.52%) Firewall
4 2 (0.35%) AMQP
4 2 (0.35%) Modbus
4 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (14.31%) MongoDB
3 79 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 62 (10.82%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.41%) MySQL
6 21 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (3.14%) Power BI
9 16 (2.79%) Redis
10 14 (2.44%) Tableau
11 13 (2.27%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.09%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.92%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.05%) Data Lake
16 5 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.52%) NonStop SQL
17 3 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 2 (0.35%) CouchDB
18 2 (0.35%) Looker
Development Applications
1 79 (13.79%) Git
2 44 (7.68%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.93%) TeamCity
4 28 (4.89%) GitLab
5 22 (3.84%) Cypress.io
5 22 (3.84%) JIRA
6 14 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.57%) Selenium
9 8 (1.40%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.40%) git-flow
10 7 (1.22%) JUnit
11 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.70%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.52%) JMeter
13 3 (0.52%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.35%) Mockito
14 2 (0.35%) NUnit
14 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (30.02%) Social Skills
2 155 (27.05%) Finance
3 64 (11.17%) Law
4 62 (10.82%) Banking
5 49 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (8.03%) Retail
7 43 (7.50%) Financial Institution
7 43 (7.50%) Public Sector
8 39 (6.81%) Back Office
9 24 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (4.01%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Legal
12 11 (1.92%) Marketing
13 9 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.22%) Advertising
14 7 (1.22%) Billing
14 7 (1.22%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.87%) Esports
Job Titles
1 192 (33.51%) Developer
2 169 (29.49%) Senior
3 156 (27.23%) Software Engineer
4 86 (15.01%) Architect
5 81 (14.14%) Lead
6 63 (10.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 53 (9.25%) .NET Developer
8 50 (8.73%) Java Engineer
9 49 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 49 (8.55%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (5.93%) Lead Developer
12 28 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (4.54%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.36%) C# Developer
15 24 (4.19%) Software Developer
16 23 (4.01%) Principal Engineer
16 23 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (3.84%) Senior Java Engineer
18 20 (3.49%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (31.59%) .NET
2 149 (26.00%) React
3 128 (22.34%) RESTful
4 85 (14.83%) Node.js
5 82 (14.31%) Spring
6 77 (13.44%) Kafka
7 64 (11.17%) Spring Boot
8 61 (10.65%) .NET Core
8 61 (10.65%) REST
9 53 (9.25%) AngularJS
10 52 (9.08%) gRPC
11 44 (7.68%) .NET Framework
12 42 (7.33%) ASP.NET Web API
13 41 (7.16%) ASP.NET
14 34 (5.93%) HTML
15 32 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (5.41%) Entity Framework
17 29 (5.06%) CSS
17 29 (5.06%) OAuth
18 24 (4.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 187 (32.64%) Cloud Native
2 99 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (11.52%) Product Ownership
4 61 (10.65%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (4.71%) Over-the-Top Content
5 27 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.79%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.92%) DataPower
10 10 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.75%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.40%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.22%) IoT
13 7 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.22%) PKI
14 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.79%) Android
2 15 (2.62%) Linux
3 7 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.70%) Windows
5 3 (0.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.17%) Fedora
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (51.48%) CI/CD
2 256 (44.68%) Software Engineering
3 239 (41.71%) Agile
4 223 (38.92%) DevOps
5 165 (28.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 156 (27.23%) Mentoring
7 148 (25.83%) Containerisation
8 138 (24.08%) Test Automation
9 125 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (21.47%) Event-Driven
11 112 (19.55%) Coaching
11 112 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (18.15%) Clean Code
13 100 (17.45%) AI
14 85 (14.83%) Computer Science
15 81 (14.14%) Architectural Patterns
16 80 (13.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (13.61%) TDD
18 70 (12.22%) Technical Leadership
19 67 (11.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 213 (37.17%) Java
2 175 (30.54%) C#
3 137 (23.91%) Python
4 132 (23.04%) SQL
5 126 (21.99%) JavaScript
6 109 (19.02%) TypeScript
7 61 (10.65%) Go
8 27 (4.71%) Scala
9 17 (2.97%) Ruby
10 16 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 14 (2.44%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.75%) PHP
13 8 (1.40%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.22%) C++
15 6 (1.05%) Delphi
16 5 (0.87%) Rust
17 4 (0.70%) Bicep
17 4 (0.70%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.52%) Erlang
19 2 (0.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 99 (17.28%) Degree
2 68 (11.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 47 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.98%) AWS Certification
6 39 (6.81%) Azure Certification
7 34 (5.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (4.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.09%) CISSP
11 11 (1.92%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.40%) CISM
13 7 (1.22%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.70%) GIAC
15 4 (0.70%) ISACA
15 4 (0.70%) SANS
16 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
17 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.08%) QA
2 15 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.09%) GDPR
4 12 (2.09%) NIST
5 8 (1.40%) NCSC
5 8 (1.40%) 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%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.35%) SEPA
6 2 (0.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 154 (26.88%) Docker
2 14 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.52%) Firmware
4 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (29.49%) Kubernetes
2 94 (16.40%) Terraform
3 56 (9.77%) Grafana
4 23 (4.01%) Ansible
5 14 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.57%) Argo
8 8 (1.40%) Kibana
9 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.35%) Puppet
10 1 (0.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 100 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.24%) Oracle
3 27 (4.71%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.49%) Google
5 7 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.05%) Databricks
6 6 (1.05%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.87%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.87%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.87%) 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 (0.52%) F5
9 3 (0.52%) Facebook
9 3 (0.52%) Juniper
9 3 (0.52%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.52%) YouTube